Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS
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TIBCO Jaspersoft: A Senior Quality Analyst’s Review of Capabilities and Challenges.
What do you like best about the product?
TIBCO JasperReports Server is an enterprise-grade reporting platform that offers advanced scheduling and distribution capabilities, enabling secure report delivery via email or SFTP in compliance with organizational and customer policies. The platform provides robust security features, including role-based access control and multi-tenancy, making it suitable for large-scale, multi-client environments. It supports multiple export formats such as PDF, CSV, and XLSX, facilitating flexible data utilization across business functions. With strong pixel-perfect reporting capabilities and configurable reports and dashboards through built-in editors, JasperReports Server is well suited for organizations requiring accurate, automated, and secure reporting.
From a visualisation perspective, Jaspersoft primarily delivers more traditional and static reporting. It does not yet offer the level of advanced interactivity, dynamic dashboards, drill-down capabilities, or exploratory analytics features that have become commonplace in modern business intelligence solutions.
From a visualisation perspective, Jaspersoft primarily delivers more traditional and static reporting. It does not yet offer the level of advanced interactivity, dynamic dashboards, drill-down capabilities, or exploratory analytics features that have become commonplace in modern business intelligence solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite its strengths, TIBCO JasperReports Server has several limitations that may affect overall user experience when compared with modern business intelligence and visualization platforms. The user interface is relatively dated and less intuitive, which can make report development and navigation challenging for non-technical users. Performance constraints may emerge when processing large datasets or complex reports, often necessitating additional backend optimization to achieve acceptable rendering and export performance. Furthermore, the platform’s visualization and interactive dashboard capabilities are limited, offering fewer self-service analytics features than tools such as Power BI or Qlikview. A steep learning curve and gaps in documentation can also slow user onboarding and issue resolution. Some times clients are fasing intrackable schedule email failer as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jaspersoft solves the problem of reliable, secure, and automated enterprise reporting by enabling organizations to design pixel-perfect reports and distribute them consistently through scheduled deliveries such as email and SFTP. It addresses key challenges around data access control, multi-tenancy, and compliance by providing strong role-based security and tenant isolation, which is especially valuable in customer-facing environments. For me, as a senior quality analyst, this has been beneficial in validating data accuracy, ensuring reports are delivered to the right users on time, supporting multiple clients with different access rules, and reducing manual effort through automation while maintaining consistent and auditable reporting outputs.
In addition, the JasperReports Server environment was upgraded from version 8.0.3 to version 9.0.0. This upgrade has received positive feedback from clients due to the introduction of enhanced features, including multi-select parameters and improved show/hide field functionality, which provide greater flexibility and usability in report interaction. The addition of favorites and improved folder management has also made it easier for users to quickly access critical reports across products. Overall, the upgrade to version 9.0.0 has addressed several limitations present in version 8.0.3 and has significantly improved the user experience.
In addition, the JasperReports Server environment was upgraded from version 8.0.3 to version 9.0.0. This upgrade has received positive feedback from clients due to the introduction of enhanced features, including multi-select parameters and improved show/hide field functionality, which provide greater flexibility and usability in report interaction. The addition of favorites and improved folder management has also made it easier for users to quickly access critical reports across products. Overall, the upgrade to version 9.0.0 has addressed several limitations present in version 8.0.3 and has significantly improved the user experience.
Scalable Reports & Perform the better optimized dashboard activities
What do you like best about the product?
Its capability to provide powerful, pixel-perfect reporting stands out, all while maintaining impressive flexibility and being straightforward to embed within other applications. The platform accommodates a broad array of data sources and allows for extensive customization thanks to its open and extensible architecture. Integration with Java and REST APIs is seamless, making it particularly reliable for producing high-quality documents, such as invoices, regulatory reports, and operational summaries, in enterprise settings.
What do you dislike about the product?
Jaspersoft is that its user interface can feel dated and less intuitive compared to modern BI tools, report design often has a steep learning curve—especially for non-technical users—performance tuning can be complex for large or highly dynamic reports, and advanced features or scalability typically require the commercial edition, which can increase cost and limit flexibility for some teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jaspersoft solves the problem of delivering reliable, highly formatted, and embeddable reporting from complex data sources, which benefits me by enabling the creation of pixel-perfect, production-ready reports (such as invoices, statements, and compliance documents) that integrate seamlessly into applications, support diverse data sources, and provide consistent, scalable reporting without having to build and maintain a custom reporting engine from scratch.
Robust Reporting Power with a Learning Curve
What do you like best about the product?
Jaspersoft offers powerful, flexible reporting with intuitive drag-and-drop design tools. Its strong embedding capabilities make it ideal for integrating analytics into web and mobile apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Jaspersoft can have a steep learning curve for new users, especially with complex report designs. Performance may lag with large datasets or poorly optimized queries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jaspersoft simplifies complex data visualization and reporting across multiple data sources. This helps us deliver real-time insights and embedded analytics to users efficiently.
The Jaspersoft we are using to generate crosstab reports
What do you like best about the product?
The support for Jaspersoft is excellent from Jasper and Cloud teams
What do you dislike about the product?
It would have been good if Jaspersoft can fetch data from data lakes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jaspersoft is helping us to build various kinds reports which helps our users to perform their duties on day to day basis
TIBCO Jasper Reports Server- A Product Manager’s Perspective After 4 Years of Real-World Use
What do you like best about the product?
I would like to highlight Jaspersoft’s flexibility and robust reporting capabilities, particularly following our recent upgrade from version 8.0.3 to 9.0.0. This upgrade introduces significant security enhancements, performance improvements, new features, and a redesigned user interface. These updates allow us to fully leverage a modernized layout, improved navigation, and enhanced usability for end users.
Jaspersoft continues to support complex, highly customizable reports across multiple data sources. Key features such as multi-tenancy and report scheduling significantly streamline operations and enable efficient report automation. In addition, functionalities like multi-select options and the ability to show or hide files within reports have been well received by our customers, enabling faster report usage and customization.
Overall, these enhancements and the platform’s adaptability make Jaspersoft a more user-friendly and effective reporting solution.
Jaspersoft continues to support complex, highly customizable reports across multiple data sources. Key features such as multi-tenancy and report scheduling significantly streamline operations and enable efficient report automation. In addition, functionalities like multi-select options and the ability to show or hide files within reports have been well received by our customers, enabling faster report usage and customization.
Overall, these enhancements and the platform’s adaptability make Jaspersoft a more user-friendly and effective reporting solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Jaspersoft’s adaptability and ongoing upgrades have improved usability and effectiveness, there are areas that present opportunities for further enhancement. The user interface, although functional, appears dated when compared to modern visual BI and report-building tools.
Additionally, performance and scalability challenges have been observed when working with very large datasets. Query execution and report generation times tend to increase significantly, and overall performance may lag behind in-memory analytics platforms such as Power BI or Qlik. Furthermore, scheduling high volumes of reports can place considerable strain on server resources if not carefully configured.
From a visualization standpoint, Jaspersoft offers more basic and static reporting capabilities. It lacks the advanced interactive dashboards, drill-down functionality, and exploratory analytics features that are now standard in contemporary business intelligence tools.
Additionally, performance and scalability challenges have been observed when working with very large datasets. Query execution and report generation times tend to increase significantly, and overall performance may lag behind in-memory analytics platforms such as Power BI or Qlik. Furthermore, scheduling high volumes of reports can place considerable strain on server resources if not carefully configured.
From a visualization standpoint, Jaspersoft offers more basic and static reporting capabilities. It lacks the advanced interactive dashboards, drill-down functionality, and exploratory analytics features that are now standard in contemporary business intelligence tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jaspersoft offers robust scheduling capabilities that enable the automated execution and distribution of reports through secure email delivery and SFTP transfers, ensuring compliance with customer security policies. These features support operational efficiency and reliable report dissemination.
Different teams and downstream workflows require reports in various formats—for example, PDF for legal and compliance purposes, CSV for analytics ingestion, and XLSX for finance teams. Jaspersoft addresses these needs by supporting multiple export formats, including PDF, CSV, XLSX, and XLSX (paginated), which have proven highly valuable to customers.
The platform also provides a centralized repository for reports and dashboards, complete with version control and role-based permission management. Using Jaspersoft’s authoring tools, developers and analysts can create custom pixel-perfect reports, dynamic dashboards, and parameterized reports tailored to specific business requirements.
Overall, these capabilities enable our customers to effectively leverage Jaspersoft for enterprise reporting, internal audits, and performance analysis.
Different teams and downstream workflows require reports in various formats—for example, PDF for legal and compliance purposes, CSV for analytics ingestion, and XLSX for finance teams. Jaspersoft addresses these needs by supporting multiple export formats, including PDF, CSV, XLSX, and XLSX (paginated), which have proven highly valuable to customers.
The platform also provides a centralized repository for reports and dashboards, complete with version control and role-based permission management. Using Jaspersoft’s authoring tools, developers and analysts can create custom pixel-perfect reports, dynamic dashboards, and parameterized reports tailored to specific business requirements.
Overall, these capabilities enable our customers to effectively leverage Jaspersoft for enterprise reporting, internal audits, and performance analysis.
Jasper studio and server - reports, dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
1. Easy to navigate and customize reports.
2. 9.0 upgrade makes our requirements very easy
3. Integrated Dashboards Helpful for visualizing and comparing data trends at a glance.
4. Handles large data volumes effectively (e.g., 100k+ records).
5. Dashboard charts help in quick decision-making.
6. Show multiple column filter is very useful in handling report columns.
2. 9.0 upgrade makes our requirements very easy
3. Integrated Dashboards Helpful for visualizing and comparing data trends at a glance.
4. Handles large data volumes effectively (e.g., 100k+ records).
5. Dashboard charts help in quick decision-making.
6. Show multiple column filter is very useful in handling report columns.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Large reports sometimes take a long time to generate
2. Takes long time to export
2. Takes long time to export
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Supports large data validation and automated scheduling, reducing manual effort
Empowers stakeholders to make data-driven decisions
simple and easy to handle n number of columns
Empowers stakeholders to make data-driven decisions
simple and easy to handle n number of columns
Hands-on with JasperReports
What do you like best about the product?
The best part is the ability to design custom reports using Jaspersoft Studio with dynamic parameters and expressions. It integrates well into Java applications and supports fine-grained control over layout and data formatting.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Jaspersoft is powerful, the learning curve can be steep, especially when working with complex report designs or custom expressions in JasperReports. The UI in Jaspersoft Studio can also feel a bit outdated and occasionally slow, particularly with larger templates. Additionally, debugging issues in report rendering isn’t always straightforward
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jaspersoft helps solve the challenge of generating dynamic, data-driven reports from various sources in a highly customizable format. It allows us to automate report creation, reduce manual effort, and deliver professional, multi-format outputs (PDF, Excel, HTML) to stakeholders. This improves efficiency, ensures consistency in reporting, and supports better decision-making with real-time data visibility
Effective tool for my reporting needs
What do you like best about the product?
Love the integration and customizable nature of the tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, the UI and UX needs a refresh and dashboarding capabilities can be made better but maybe the UI refresh may help
While executing a report multiple times it consumes more memory of server leading to slowness in report rendering.
Also the fact that there does not seem to be queuing for scheduled jobs which are executed at same time and it hangs the server
While executing a report multiple times it consumes more memory of server leading to slowness in report rendering.
Also the fact that there does not seem to be queuing for scheduled jobs which are executed at same time and it hangs the server
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Jaspersoft for letting customers build their own reports with the data we have exposed
Excellent customizable reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Experienced good support from Jaspersoft analysts. Reports are highly customizable and supports many formats with good control of layout and data presentation
What do you dislike about the product?
As a Product owner, it is less intuitive than some other reports available in the market, and has a bit of learning curve. The UI could be better and more modern.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving customized reporting needs for our customers
Jasper provides extensive report related to all type of workflow and give good insight about usage
What do you like best about the product?
It is comprehensive report with multiple combination which helps user to query quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
Some time face slowness due to huge data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jasper provides customer query feature which helps us to build our own query and another good feature is filter option both solves many problem from user point of view
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