Jaspersoft VS BIRT

JasperReport and BIRT both are popular open source BI tools, can be used in eclipse as plugin and provide almost similar features for designing and generating report. But if compare the development over the period of time we see that Jasper as a project have developed a lot in comparison to BIRT project.  Jaspersoft Business intelligence suite community Edition includes JasperReports Server, JasperReports Library, Jaspersoft Studio and iReport Studio whereas BIRT only have designer. 

BIRT's continues to provide the strongest report development tool. BIRT's greatest strengths are in its ease of use and the completeness of features. If you are looking for a tool that allows report developers to create reports using a thick client application which will be deployed into an existing Java application framework, it is hard to beat BIRT. BIRT provides the easiest way to create reports that are focused on delivery over the web.BIRT has two main weaknesses. First, BIRT is primarily focused on reporting instead of analytics, if you are looking to work with OLAP data, BIRT will not be appropriate. Second, BIRT lacks an open source server component and therefore if you are looking for a complete web-based BI solution BIRT is not the best choice.

Jaspersoft Studio provides an outstanding and widely used report development tool that can easily be deployed either through the Jaspersoft Server community edition or through the JasperReports Library to an existing application. A particular strength of Jaspersoft is the way it works with data passed to the report as plain old java objects (POJOs). Jaspersoft is also the best product if your primary focus is to deliver printed reports.Jaspersoft's chart engine is significantly weaker than BIRT. Jaspersoft's Table Of Contents for large report navigation is also more difficult to use than either BIRT. Finally, we found Jaspersoft's SQL editor to be the least developer friendly.

BIRT is sponsored by Actuate along with contributions from IBM, and Innovent Solutions. BIRT is supported by an active community of users here at Eclipse.org  and at the BIRT Developer Center. BIRT also has a large, active and growing developer community representing all types of organizations. Major technology companies such as IBM, Cisco, S1 and ABS Nautical Systems have incorporated BIRT into their product lines. Later Actuate was acquired by OpenText Software in January of 2015. 

Jaspersoft was acquired by TIBCO Software in May of 2014. TIBCO Jaspersoft's public announcements indicate a continued support for Jaspersoft in its commercial and community editions as a stand-alone product.TIBCO manages Jaspersoft and Spotfire (TIBCO's data discovery and visualization tool).  Jaspersoft and Spotfire are extremely complementary, so you can expect, over time, one tool to help the other be even stronger in its primary category (Jaspersoft in embedded reporting and analytics and Spotfire in data discovery and visualization).

JasperReport VS BIRT

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