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What are the best open source reporting tools?

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Best open source reporting tools	Price	Last Updated
-- NextReports	-	Nov 20, 2018
-- ELK Stack	-	Feb 12, 2019
-- Seal Report	Free / paid	Jan 7, 2019
-- Jasper Reports	-	Oct 25, 2018
-- Pentaho	-	Mar 8, 2019

NextReports

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Cross platform

NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+. See More

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Could use Libreoffice .odt output

ConsiderateAsbolus's Experience

Very stable and easy to use See More

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Very stable

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Stability of the new version 9.1

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Supports exporting reports to different format

With NextReports you can design beautiful reports and you can export them to different formats of your choosing, for example pdf, excel and HTML are supported (there are also many other formats that are available). See More

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Easy to use

Reports can be easily designed using a grid layout similar to excel. See More

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Android app

There's a very good Android application called NextReports Sight which can be connected to the server and you can watch all the real time widgets from your phone. See More

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API which can be used to run Next reports

NextReports Engine is a very simple Java api which can be used to run Next reports. See More

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NextReports Server

NextReports Server brings security, centralization, dashboards, BI features, scheduling, monitoring and many other features. See More

ELK Stack

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Powerful

Deep search and data analytics and powerful data visualizations. See More

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Complex

Although well documented, installation and configuration can be daunting for beginners. Another easier option is using ELK as a service. See More

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The ELK Stack combines three open source solutions: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It is used by well known organizations like Microsoft and Facebook to monitor log data. There is also a Bitnami ELK Stack For Windows / Linux / MacOS. See More

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Windows

Although originating from the Linux world, Windows installation is also possible. See More

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Docker

Docker images available. See More

Jasper Reports

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Has many more output formats than Nextreports

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Geared towards Java programmers

Extremely slow to load See More

ConsiderateAsbolus's Experience

Very unstable in Ubuntu 18.04, freeze every time I tried to Edit text See More

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Easy to learn

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Eclipse-based report designer is fairly easy to use

Jasperstudio report designer is easy enough to grok. It is full of features for designing your reports in a wysiwyg manner. See More

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Can be run as a service (server version) that allows deep links to individual reports or embedded with your web app as a library

You may or may not want a server version with its own learning curve and API. With Jasper you have the option of server vs library. With either one you can whip up reports and make them available in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF or TXT format. It's not very difficult to do that with JasperReports. And there are many examples out there to learn from. See More

Pentaho

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ReportServer

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Active community

Questions on the community forum are usually answered very quickly. Developers are active there. See More

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Easy to use dashboards

Integrates user centric Dashboard components that allows for easy set up of Dashboards that highlighting the most important KPIs and reports. See More

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Powerful scheduler

ReportServer has a powerful built-in scheduler to run reports at recurring intervals. Custom scheduler targets (e.g. webservices or SFTP uploads) can be specified via scripting. See More

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Cross platform and web-based

ReportServer is a Java web application and can thus be installed on any OS supporting java. Being a web-app allows access to it from anywhere without the need to install additional client software See More

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Enterprise version with support available

Besides the open source version, there is also the commercial ReportServer Enterprise edition which adds additional functionality, in particular, support for scripting and Crystal. See More

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Provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting component

ReportServer's Dynamic List provides a very intuitive, yet powerful ad-hoc reporting component. See More

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Supports multiple reorting engines including JasperReports and Eclipse BIRT

ReportServer integrates several reporting engines including the popular JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT and Crystal. See More

Sharp Develop Reports

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Spago BI

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