NextReports vs ReportServer

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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