JasperSoft BI Vs Pentaho business intelligence solutions

·         Reports :- Jaspersoft is known for its picture pixel perfect  reporting. Jasper uses ireport for designing the reports. Hence, for  having reports, Jaspersoft is the most ideal candidate. Pentaho uses  Pentaho Report Designer.

·         Dashboards :- Pentaho  provides much more capabililties, interactivity in terms of dashboards.  Dashboards designed in Pentaho are far more superior in functionality,  aesthetically as compared to Jaspersoft. Pentaho CE uses CDE/CDF,  Pentaho EE uses PDD . Dashboard functionality is present only in the  Enterprise edition of Jaspersoft.

·         Mobile BI compatibility :-  Jaspersoft scores higher than Pentaho here. They have BI for iOS,  Android platforms. Functionality wise and user interface wise Jaspersoft  mobile BI is better. They even have an opensouce Apple iphone  application. Pentaho users have to often rely on third party tools to  enhance mobile BI experience. But, Jasper provides native mobile API  hence helping developers to create mobile applications. Pentaho mobile  BI is only present in the enterprise edition.