Pentaho Business Analytics vs TIBCO Jaspersoft comparison

Hitachi Vantara and TIBCO are both solutions in the Reporting category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.3, while TIBCO is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.9. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.1% mindshare in RT, compared to TIBCO’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Pentaho Business Analytics

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TIBCO Jaspersoft

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83% willing to recommend

Pentaho Business Analytics

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and TIBCO Jaspersoft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Pentaho Business Analytics vs. TIBCO Jaspersoft

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Pentaho Business Analytics

Ranking in Reporting

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Cloud Operations Analytics (4th)

TIBCO Jaspersoft

Ranking in Reporting

7th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Jaspersoft is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

Q&A Highlights

it_user107733

System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 02, 2016

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho. Which should we choose?

It's tough to suggest one or the other without more information on your architecture, who your end users are, and how you will be delivering analytics to your customers. Pentaho is a great solution for complex data integration and data blending (particularly in Big Data and NoSQL scenarios. They have deep native connectivity and job orchestration for Hadoop, NoSQL, and analytic databases). On the BI side, they have the full spectrum on analytics: static, enterprise reporting to interactive reporting and dashboards to data discovery and predictive analytics. Pentaho is a "jack of all trades". However, Pentaho is inferior to Jaspersoft in important elements dealing with the delivery, adoption, and value extracted from BI: Jaspersoft has a more robust JavaScript API for seamless embedding in web applications (a massive difference maker from a development standpoint if you plan on embedding a BI server in your app). Jaspersoft also has out-of-the-box multi tenancy support which is necessary if you plan on intelligently and securely serving analytics in your app to your clients. Pentaho's multi-tenancy requires manual configuration (again, a large investment on your dev team and it will delay your time to market)...

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Sayan König

Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up

The repository should be improved. There should be the possibility to have versioning, to make it combinable with some Git repositories or something like that, to check out the processes and make sure it has a traceable history. The solution could really be improved. There are too many bugs in our version.

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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

"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."

"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."

"Easy to use components to create the job."

"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"It is robust, offers market intelligence, and utilizes modules effectively."

"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."

"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."

"The designer is the most valuable feature."

"It's easy to use and maintain."

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

"We can set any property dynamically."

"I give the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."

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

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

"The growth time is the most valuable feature of TIBCO Jaspersoft."

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Cons

"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."

"Version control would be a good addition."

"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."

"Logging capability is needed."

"The repository should be improved."

"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."

"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."

"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."

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"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."

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

"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."

"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."

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

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

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

"The upgrades are not easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Free and commercial versions are available."

"Pentaho is expensive ."

"We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year."

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

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

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

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

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

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

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Comparison Review

it_user6978

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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Answers from the Community

it_user107733

System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 2, 2016

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho. Which should we choose?

2 out of 10 answers

it_user7578

Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Apr 24, 2014

Pentaho is better than Jasper, more active community. Full BI suite (reporting, olap, dashboards, an excellent ETL tool, best big data capabilities....)

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it_user8199

BI developer - (Jaspersoft/Pentaho/Pentaho C-Tools/Kettle/Talend/Data warehouse) at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 24, 2014

I can provide you with information regarding your questions. Contact me if you'd like to discuss.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pentaho Business Analytics?

For those starting to use this tool, there is a free version available which is beneficial. The company also finds the pricing to be good.

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What needs improvement with Pentaho Business Analytics?

The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java. The platform works with Java, and it has brought some issues to the company.

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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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What do you like most about TIBCO Jaspersoft?

We can set any property dynamically.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Jaspersoft?

I am sharing a scenario for pricing: for ten thousand users and a robust server, it may cost in the hundreds of thousands USD. However, TIBCO is more enterprise-focused and might have different pri...

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Overview

Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

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.

Sample Customers

Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.

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

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