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Add to SafariWhen comparing Jasper Reports vs Datapane, the Slant community recommends Jasper Reports for most people. In the question“What are the best reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools?” Jasper Reports is ranked 6th while Datapane is ranked 11th.
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Pros
Pro Has many more output formats than Nextreports
Pro Easy to learn
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Open source integration
Report generation is open source and has integrations into the Python visualisation libraries
Pro Flexible report components
Has support for a lot of rich components (pivot table, drilldown, interactive maps, etc.) which allows some much more flexible reports
Pro Good for teams who use Python and SQL
Lets you do the typical BI and reporting bits in Python and SQL in your own environment
Pro API-first
You can use the API from your other data infrastructure (Colab, Jupyter, Sagemaker, etc.)
Cons
Con Geared towards Java programmers
Extremely slow to load
Con Not for teams who want drag-and-drop
Doesn't have a drag and drop component for building charts etc. - it expects you to do the analysis in Python and SQL.
