Knowage vs TIBCO Jaspersoft comparison

Knowage and TIBCO are both solutions in the Reporting category. Knowage is ranked #24, while TIBCO is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8. Knowage holds a 0.7% mindshare in RT, compared to TIBCO’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Knowage users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Knowage and TIBCO Jaspersoft are competing business intelligence platforms. Knowage appears to have the upper hand in pricing and customer support, while TIBCO Jaspersoft has an edge in feature richness and extensibility.

Features: Knowage offers advanced data visualization, integrated data mining tools, and support for comprehensive analytics. It is designed to appeal to users who need extensive data processing capabilities. TIBCO Jaspersoft provides robust embedded reporting, visualizations suitable for complex deployments, and strong extensibility, making it ideal for large-scale enterprise needs.

Room for Improvement: Knowage could enhance user interface intuitiveness, provide more seamless integration with non-open-source systems, and improve its documentation for new users. TIBCO Jaspersoft may benefit from reducing the complexity in customization, improving out-of-the-box features for basic reporting needs, and lowering initial setup costs to attract smaller enterprises.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Knowage offers a simplified deployment process with modular components and benefits from community support, allowing flexible integration for open-source environments. TIBCO Jaspersoft has a customizable deployment process backed by commercial support, which is advantageous for enterprise-level customization and extensive deployments.

Pricing and ROI: Knowage’s open-source nature provides lower initial setup costs and faster ROI due to minimal license fees. TIBCO Jaspersoft, while higher in initial investment, offers significant cost efficiency through deep feature sets and scalability, which justifies its ROI over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Knowage

Ranking in Reporting

24th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (33rd)

TIBCO Jaspersoft

Ranking in Reporting

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Knowage is 0.7%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Jaspersoft is 2.7%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

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AbdulshukoorMohammed

General Manager Information Technology & Enterprise Applications Manager at OXFORD HOLDING

Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable

The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills. When we come to the integration with the single sign-on facilities, that part is very challenging. In Power BI and other tools, it's very easy to integrate with active directory and single sign-on, and identity management is very easy in other business intelligence tools. However, when it comes to Knowage, it's a bit heavy, it's time-consuming sometimes, it's not very fast, and definitely not as fast as other business intelligence tools in terms of getting graphical reports. The solution could be cheaper.

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Chan Sambopol

Manager, Core Banking Office at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Easy to use with a nice design and good connectivity

TIBCO Jaspersoft has two versions. Version one is the enterprise version, The other one is the community version, and which allows us to use it for free. In the free version, we have to support ourselves. For the enterprise version, you have technical support if you need it. I wish that we had more support while in the portal, at least for the community version, or if we could talk to someone regarding issues, like how to configure or fine-tune would be helpful. We'd like to have help on how to solve some problems when we use the product and have some error or limitation. They need to, at the very least, improve the community. The Enterprise Edition has support, and we can force some tickets through the portal and then have an engineer support us in some cases. However, in terms of the subscription price, it's a bit high. Therefore, we'd like to see the community version offer a little bit more support and better documentation and we'd like the enterprise edition to have better pricing.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We can easily do our own customizations."

"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."

"The embedding feature is great."

"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...The deployment process of TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy."

"It offers high processing power for report generation and is cost-effective."

"It's easy to use and maintain."

"We find the access restrictions on different user groups valuable."

"With the online view, it's easier to create Ad Hoc reports. It has inbuilt reports so we can easily get data from the system and customize the fields."

"The feature that I like most is the drag and drop capability."

"The designer is the most valuable feature."

"You can do quite a lot with it in terms of automated reports and dashboards."

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Cons

"The dashboard components could be better."

"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."

"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."

"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."

"The reporting templates have room for improvement."

"The Ad Hoc Report Writer does not include as many features as Tableau and needs to be improved to meet expectations."

"A better focus should be put on self-service reporting."

"Customization is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement."

"TIBCO Jaspersoft would benefit from enabling you to run multiple reports in one file and incorporating more options related to multiple reports."

"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."

"I would like to see better support for big data."

"There might be some compatibility issues with the dashboard if we're using the latest version and some clients are using the older version. Some features might not be supported."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."

"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"I would rate the pricing as four out of five because it's expensive."

"I find the price to be reliable and not overly costly."

"The pricing is cost effective because it is based on servers rather than users."

"I give the cost of the solution a five out of ten."

"Since I checked last time, only one annual license costs about $25,000."

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Co-Founder at Helical IT Solution (Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Talend, Kettle, DWBI, ETL, Ctools, iReport, Jasper Report)

Jun 10, 2013

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho – Which one to use & is there any need to purchase the commercial edition

Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same…

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Government

16%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Hospitality Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

The best and open source (No cost involved) solution for all BI requirements is Jaspersoft Open Studio. Refer to rajeshsirsikar.com for more information.

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We can set any property dynamically.

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Also Known As

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Overview

Knowage (formerly SpagoBI) has a 14-years history. The actual release is the 6.3.

Knowage offers FULL ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES, with a special focus on big data analytics and comprehensive support to rich and multi-source data analysis. Knowage provides different modules, each one focused on a specific domain but mutually combinable (Big Data, Smart Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Location Intelligence, Performance Management, Predictive Analysis). Moreover, Knowage is an OPEN SOURCE solution: the source code is freely accessible, everyone is allowed to join the community and build the own business solution to ensure strategic decision-making and improved productivity.

Knowage suite is supported by Engineering Group, the leading Italian software and services company, with about 10,000 people and more than 50 offices worldwide. Maintenance and support services (such as trainings, migration support, proof-of-concepts, etc) are provided by Engineering Group (KNOWAGE Labs) under subscription.

Knowage

TIBCO Jaspersoft is a versatile BI tool used for creating and integrating reports, with added functionality for business intelligence such as ad hoc report writers, online report writers, and dashboard designers. It is used for various purposes such as employee performance, revenue management and billing reports, and IT operational reporting.

The solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, is user-friendly, with drag-and-drop report creation, access restrictions for user groups, and connectivity to multiple data sources. It has helped organizations fulfill their needs related to security and create reports quickly, with easy scheduling and report creation with different parameters.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital

Mosaic, Vander University, Telesoft, Entrust, Ericsson, BT, Groupon, John Hopkins, Puma

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