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Pentaho Business Analytics vs TIBCO Jaspersoft comparison

Hitachi Vantara and TIBCO are both solutions in the Reporting category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.5, while TIBCO is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.0% mindshare in RT, compared to TIBCO’s 2.7% 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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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Pentaho Business Analytics and TIBCO Jaspersoft are two prominent platforms in the business analytics industry. TIBCO Jaspersoft has the upper hand with certain feature sets that make it more robust for specific functionalities.

Features: Pentaho Business Analytics offers robust ETL capabilities, a strong plugin architecture, and excellent data integration facilitated by Pentaho Data Integration. It is open-source, allowing extensive customization and community support. TIBCO Jaspersoft provides excellent ad-hoc and pixel-perfect reporting capabilities and is easy to embed within other applications, supporting large-scale deployments with secure data handling.

Room for Improvement: Pentaho Business Analytics needs improvements in user interface design and simplification of scheduling and dashboarding processes. Better support for the Community Edition is also required. TIBCO Jaspersoft could improve its user interface, enhance support structures, and streamline subreport implementation. More competitive pricing and better Community Edition documentation are also recommended.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both offer flexible deployment options, including on-premises and cloud setups. Pentaho relies on its strong community support, while TIBCO charges for technical support, which could be a barrier for smaller businesses. Jaspersoft's customer service has mixed reviews, potentially impacting user satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Pentaho Business Analytics is valued for its cost-effectiveness, especially with its free Community Edition, though the Enterprise Edition's cost is justified for certain use cases. TIBCO Jaspersoft's high enterprise pricing can be offset by its advanced features and quicker implementation time, providing good ROI for extensive applications.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Pentaho Business Analytics
Ranking in Reporting
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st), Cloud Operations Analytics (4th)
TIBCO Jaspersoft
Ranking in Reporting
10th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 1.0%, down from 1.3% 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.
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Q&A Highlights

it_user107733 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Featured Reviews

Sayan König - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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 were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"It is robust, offers market intelligence, and utilizes modules effectively."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It offers high processing power for report generation and is cost-effective."
"The designer is the most valuable feature."
"You can do quite a lot with it in terms of automated reports and dashboards."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...The deployment process of TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy."
"We can set any property dynamically."
"The end-user reporting is very handy and the standard reports that can be achieved by using Jaspersoft Studio are quite impressive."
"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."
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Cons

"The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java."
"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."
"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."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"The repository should be improved."
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"The upgrades are not easy."
"A better focus should be put on self-service reporting."
"I would like to see better support for big data."
"Currently, JSON format is the main format we use, however, in TIBCO Jaspersoft, XML format is the default and JSON did not work because TIBCO did not fix it."
"Jaspersoft should focus on user interaction features, and one should not expect it to suit every niche."
"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."
"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."
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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."
"I find the price to be reliable and not overly costly."
"The solution is a little bit expensive."
"The pricing is cost effective because it is based on servers rather than users."
"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."
"I give the cost of the solution a five out of ten."
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Comparison Review

it_user6978 - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 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...
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it_user7578 - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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
27%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
 

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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Also Known As

Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics
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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.

Hitachi Vantara

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

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