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Add to SafariWhen comparing Jasper Reports vs NextReports, the Slant community recommends NextReports for most people. In the question“What are the best open source reporting tools?” NextReports is ranked 1st while Jasper Reports is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose NextReports is:
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
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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 Cross platform
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
Pro Very stable
Pro 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).
Pro Easy to use
Reports can be easily designed using a grid layout similar to excel.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro NextReports Server
NextReports Server brings security, centralization, dashboards, BI features, scheduling, monitoring and many other features.
Cons
Con Geared towards Java programmers
Extremely slow to load
Con Suspicious upvotes
Lot's of one-time votes from members that did not vote on anything else.
Con Official website changed
The link http://www.next-reports.com/ leads to a company called "Capone" now (does this sound a little suspicious?).
Con Could use Libreoffice .odt output
Con Stability of the new version 9.1
