TIBCO Jaspersoft Reviews

This software is one of the best choices to create reports if you are a Java developer. All you need to know about is Java and SQL for the queries. It integrates with many databases, and I personally have used it with PostgreSQL and it works well. The reports you create from scratch are fully customizable, and can include the elements you need: labels, tables, images, ... I like a lot the subreport element, as it allows to create even more complex / nested reports, in which you usually follow a master-detail model.
In addition, you can use the Java libraries to integrate Jasper reports into your Java application, either Desktop or Web, this will enable

Some features or properties are not too intuitive, which is understandable if we think this is a tool for developers. Even though, it would be nice to have a more intuitive GUI.

The ability to integrate with different databases and the ease with which I can easily connect makes it great for me using the software. It can also handle huge database record simultaneously.

The manual designing is a little difficult when you are trying to create different fields and more easier when you can use the XML. If you are not a programmer, it will take you some time to use the XML. Additionally, you need to deal with the unused columns or rows when you export your report to excel.

This software is very customizable in terms of the output formats. Scheduled report delivery is very easy to accomplish on their reporting server. It also has the ability to create HTML 5 charts.

The design interface for report creation is atrocious. Very clunky, not intuitive, and dated especially when compared to other tools available (MS Power BI, Tableau, etc.). It is maddeningly picky when it comes to formatting. Reports will function well on in Jaspersoft and not function on a server. The error output is cryptic and requires decoding. Exported reports will look excellent in one format and awful in another. Ineffective documentation from Tibco makes learning the software a challenge if you are not an explorer. Drillable datasets are impossible.

To make reports with relational data sources it is very versatile and useful. It has a series of components that allow you to make dashboards or reports in a simple way. Depending on the complexity of the query that is needed, it gives you several options to be able to generate it without using the SQL language.

It does not have native tools for connecting to non-relational data sources, such as APIs or NoSQL databases. Depending on the graph or table, the format of it can be very complicated. Date filters using reserved terms is not intuitive at all, and it is also very limited, since it only allows you to filter by day, weeks or months.

* Easy to use
* Flexible scenarios for report grouping
* No cost level available for simple deployment and use
* JasperServer has ability to automate delivery of reports.

* Hard to find support forums (as a community/free user)
* Custom data connectors present a challenge I haven't overcome for automated delivery (SQL reports are easy)

We've been using Jaspersoft in lieu of SSRS for several years now. The software is updated regularly, new features being added with every release. Jaspersoft supports a large number of data sources, including MongoDB. The support for their product is top-notch. We receive responses to our cases within minutes and most issues are solved shortly thereafter. On issues that we were not able to resolve, it was escalated to be fixed/included in the next software update.

Being a JAVA application, it was a bit tricky to embed into our .NET application. There's supposed to be easy ways to integrate, but none of those worked with our custom authentication. Unless you are using the approved and documented authentication methods, integration will be quite a bit of work, including custom JAVA classes, etc.

Ability to achieve highly customized reporting solutions without having to make concessions. Jaspersoft provides open source solutions for reporting and hosting of reports. (Along with premium versions with advanced analytics.)

It can be a bit quirky, and integration of the Java programming language is somewhat un-intuitive. It also has a fairly steep learning curve for new comers.

It is a pixel perfect report designing tool. It is very easy to design a descriptive report.
I like the spreadsheet page layout.

The learning curve is steep. It's platform is java based which can take a non expert a longtime to figure out.
Not a lot of chart options.

I like the most on this software is the ease of you. It is very easy to understand the user interface. With it you can easy understand the flow on how to use it especially when you have experience on using other reporting tool. Objects are dependable to display what you need. Filters is very flexible. it is also capable to connect to other many sql servers such as MSSQL, MySQL, posgres and many more as long you have a driver.

i don't like on this software is the looks. it is very corporate. This is because today's users are looking for fancy looking softwares.

The report designer is very easy to use
The tools provided in the GUI interface allows technicians to create in a fast way solutions end users analyze data.

In the version we use in our company (5.2) the Java usage is a con
Dashboard Designer is very limited.

JasperSoft is one thing that comes in mind when we require our Java application to export data in visualization and state of the art format. I provides lots of features you can think of. In short is ease the job of Java developers to create gorgeous reports. It also provide function to create template of the reports that can be filled by data obtain from the database on the fly by the Java Applications.

Well it's learning curve is very hard due to little documentation is present. Integration with the application is also difficult and if you integrate it than you can create many reports with minimum code.

Powerful features
Easy to jump between editing design or XML source
Preview within app works relatively well

Still finding sloppy bugs in designer years after release
Pricing is extremely high compared to more recently launched systems that are definitely stealing market share
Some long-requested features have gone unaddressed.

I was impressed by the software ability to give me detailed analytics that were actually useful daily.The software takes a bit of time to grasp how to use it to full functionality. I was very impressed with the help and support menu on this software. I had no compatibility issues with this software.

I think the menu layout could be adjusted to improve user productivity.

A quick get up and go reporting solution right out of the box. If you're turn around time is quick - this is a great option.

Once you start tinkering with parts of the package and removing features. Its very difficult to get back to square one.

I could build very complex reports quickly. There was a learning curve for sure but I integrated these with an application I was working on to produce reports used by the company.

Mostly the problem was the integration learning curve. I imagine this would happen with any software. I think their documentation could use improvement.

GUI based Tool supports to develop complicated reports, charts. especially 2-D reports which are growing the data for both horizontal and vertical.

There are chances to hang the tool when you open multiple reports.

This software always used the best in the industry business intelligence with latest reporting and solutions package always.

The support from the service needs improvements as all will not have the same knowledge on BI so some basic training also required.

provides good reports with a good interface, works perfectly for cross tab reports, easy to implement graphs and pie charts, learning information is available on the internet

it requires experience and lines are difficult to adjust, sometimes when you edit the report it does not show exactly on the web

its user friendly and smart and the user interface is neat,easy to learn and does not need too much experience,tutorials for it are easy to find on youtube

its too rigid,editing of lines and creation of cross tabs is difficult.it is also difficult to save work to folder of choice

This product has a lot of usefull tools and quite extensive opportunities to create report and add data sourses.

Frankly speaking this product is highly uncomfortable, it is not intuitively clear how to perform some features or where this features located.

I made reports here that I could not on any other platform, excellent

Maybe a little hard to get started, requires good training