TIBCO Jaspersoft vs TIBCO Spotfire comparison

The compared TIBCO Jaspersoft and TIBCO Spotfire solutions aren't in the same category. TIBCO Jaspersoft is ranked #8 in RT , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 2.8% mindshare in the category. TIBCO Spotfire is ranked #16 in BIT , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of TIBCO Jaspersoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of TIBCO Spotfire users who would recommend it.

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Featured Reviews

Carlos Larrad Salgado

Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre

Jul 27, 2022

Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department

I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality. The user experience is also very important. Cognos is not very easy to understand sometimes, especially when they change the layout but keep the functionality the same. The help is not very graphic and they have no examples. Cognos has to make a big effort to help with understanding the functionality by improving the documentation. There is a lot of documentation, but the examples are hard to find and they should make their help section easier to understand for non-technical users.

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Chan Sambopol

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

Jan 30, 2023

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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Fuad Mammadli

Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Unibank

Nov 8, 2023

A scalable tool to create dashboards for financial reporting

I use TIBCO Spotfire in my company for finance-related purposes. Basically, we use TIBCO Spotfire to create dashboards for financial reporting, and with the dashboard, we manage data mining and similar kinds of activities in our company The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the…

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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

"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."

"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."

"The solution's initial setup process is easy."

"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."

"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."

"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."

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

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

"The solution is standalone with the flexibility to use visualize.js to embed within the application."

"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."

"We can set any property dynamically."

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

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

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

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"The solution is an affordable one."

"R and automation services."

"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."

"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."

"It's scalable."

"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."

"Data discovery is very simple."

"This solution allows us to integrate data from across all client departments, for effective reporting via a single dashboard."

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Cons

"The charts and graphics are weak."

"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."

"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."

"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."

"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."

"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."

"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."

"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."

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"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."

"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."

"The reporting templates have room for improvement."

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

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

"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."

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

"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."

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"I would like more easy-to-implement analytical algorithms. At the moment they include things like forecasts and regressions. They need to add a lot more of these types of things to the product because not everyone is a data scientist."

"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."

"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."

"The data compression has room for improvement."

"The initial setup can be difficult."

"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."

"The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text."

"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is affordable."

"The cost of IBM Cognos it's more or less the same as most of the other solutions on the market. They're very competitive with the rest of the market and it is not the most expensive product."

"It's more expensive than similar solutions like Tableau and Power BI."

"IBM Cognos is priced reasonable. However, it is more expensive than Power BI and Tableau."

"Pricing should be improved."

"Cognos is super expensive compared to Tableau ($70/month) and Power BI ($20/month) — I think Cognos is roughly $200 a month."

"It is my understanding that the cost is very low. It's not very expensive."

"My company uses IBM Cognos with another IBM product, so I think only one license is used."

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"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."

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

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

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

"The cost is a few hundred dollars per user per year."

"The solution is affordable one."

"The price-point for this solution is negotiable depending on usage levels."

"This product carries a monthly licensing charge, with the amount depending on the features that are to be included. This costs also covers the use of technical support."

"The cost of TIBCO Spotfire could improve. It should be less expensive. It's the most expensive visualization tool in our company."

"The ROI is nearly impossible to calculate."

"I would describe TIBCO Spotfire as an averagely-priced product."

"The Tibco sales teams have been very difficult to work with - ignoring requests, misrepresenting level of demand, etc."

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Comparison Review

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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

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

57%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Energy/Utilities Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik ...

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What do you like most about IBM Cognos?

The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cognos?

I need improvements, particularly with the Framework Manager, which has an outdated user interface from older version...

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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 raje...

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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?

The solution is a little bit expensive. I rate the pricing a five out of ten.

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What do you like most about TIBCO Spotfire?

TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. Whi...

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

Spotfire is a bit costly in terms of money, but it is value for money if you are installing it and working with it. C...

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Spotfire?

The hierarchies or the maps to some extent may need some modifications. The layered features within Spotfire can make...

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Overview

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides a wide range of tools to help you analyze your organization's data. IBM Cognos BI allows businesses to monitor events and metrics, create and view business reports, and analyze data to help them make effective business decisions.

IBM Cognos applies techniques to describe, summarize, and compare data, and draw conclusions. This allows users to see trends and discover anomalies or variances that may not be evident by simply reading data. Data sources that contain information from different areas of a business can be stored in separate packages. Users can see only information that they have been granted access to, based on their group or role.

IBM Cognos BI consolidates the following business intelligence functions into a single web-based solution:

IBM Cognos Insight: Create personal and managed workspaces for data analysis. Using these interactive workspaces, you can share insight results with managers. Cognos Insight supports write-back, and you can also use these workspaces to capture and integrate management goals, commitments, and forecasts.
IBM Cognos Workspace: With IBM Cognos Workspace, you can create rich, interactive workspaces using IBM Cognos content as well as data from external sources. You can view and open your favorite workspaces and reports, edit content in your workspaces, and share your workspaces via email.
IBM Cognos Analytics: IBM Cognos Analytics utilizes built-in AI and intuitive searches which helps users to quickly create the visualizations and a wide range of reports. Cognos Analytics provides cognitive and managed self-service, enabling you to gain insights from controlled and trusted data.
IBM Cognos Report Studio and IBM Cognos Query Studio: Easily create structured and query reports. IBM Cognos allows users to create application and report templates. In addition, report authors can reuse report objects to apply filters, fields, and styles to reports. Users can set the language of the user interface and report content according to the user's native language.
IBM Cognos Event Studio: Receive notifications of events that occur within your organization in real time. Event Studio enables the creation of agents that detect the occurrence of business events, failures, or anomalies, based on the change of specific events or data conditions. Notification can be sent via email, publication in the portal, or by triggering reports.
IBM Cognos Connection: This is the Web portal for IBM Cognos BI and is the central area for accessing all the IBM Cognos functions. In the web portal, users can schedule and distribute reports, create tasks, administer the server and the access permissions, and more.

Reviews from Real Users

IBM Cognos stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its powerful analysis tool and its reporting capabilities.

Prasad B., a senior software engineer at a financial services firm, notes, “The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report. We can receive automated reports as well. They are easy to schedule on a weekly or monthly basis. It is very fast. I mean in means of report output, it's very fast compared to the actual clients involved.”

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 Spotfire is a versatile data analytics platform that can handle large datasets and be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Its dynamic reporting, easy creation of dynamic dashboards, and highly customizable tool make it a valuable asset for process data analysis, industrial performance dashboards, problem root cause analysis, business intelligence, and real-time analytics for IoT devices in the energy sector.

The solution also offers data science functions, map visuals, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas. Spotfire has helped organizations deliver projects more efficiently and cost-effectively, allowing for faster data analysis.

Sample Customers

More than 23,000 leading organizations across multiple industries use Cognos. Some examples of Cognos customers include BMW Financial Services, Quinte Health Care, Troy Corporation, Michigan State University, and GKN Land System.

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

Allergan, ASSS de Montreal, Avantium, Blue River, Bank of Montreal, Citibank, FrieslandCampina, Hellmann Logistics, Merck, Novartis

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