3 Most Exciting Features Of Jasper Reports

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The JasperReports Library is the world's most popular open source reporting engine. It is entirely written in Java, it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word.

At Mindfire we have a good team of experts working in Customize Jasper reports. The JasperReports team at Mindfire has been working in building applications using JasperReports for more than 2 years now. Over the years we have developed expertise in all the various stages of BI as well. This overall understanding coupled with the technical expertise in using the tool makes us a good partner to work with. You can check the Jasper Reports development to know more about Mindfire’s expertise in JasperReports.

Having worked for so long we often come across clients who want to know why they should be using JasperReports & not any other tool. In the article below I have listed some important ...
... features which make it a preferable tool to use (source jaspersoft.com).

The three most important features of JasperReports are Interactive reporting, Pixel perfect reporting and Ad hoc reporting. We will take up each one of these & list the features.


Interactive Reporting

Highly interactive reports provide online sorting, filtering, and column format changes that can be saved for re-use

Report snapshots deliver rapid response time to user interactions reducing query impact to underlying source systems

Unlimited interactive viewer license allows embedding interactive reports inside web applications or distribution in email for large deployments

Pixel Perfect Reporting

Highly formatted reports containing interactive charts, images, sub-reports, expressions, and more

Create reports from any data source including Big Data, JDBC, XML, CSV, Hibernate, POJO

Reports published in PDF, XLS, XLSX, XML, HTML, XHTML, CSV, DOC, ODT

Ad Hoc Reporting

Drag-and-drop report designer builds crosstabs, tables & chart-based reports using a standard browser or iPad device

Build reports from relational and non-relational sources including Hadoop, MongoDB, etc

Metadata layer manages data security while simplifying it’s underlying structure for non-technical users

Benefits of using JasperReports
JasperReports is useful to all stakeholders,i.e developers, IT, End user.


Benefits for Developers

Support the most complex report designs with powerful authoring environment

Reduce impact to application environment with standards-based, lightweight, easy-to-embed reporting library

Engage users with interactive reports including drill down, filtering, sorting, column formatting, animated charts/maps

For IT

Unify & simplify data access with single integrated metadata layer

Secure report and data access with integrated single sign on solution

Offload designing interactive reports with easy to use Ad Hoc Reporting tool

For End Users

Build your own custom interactive reports without waiting for IT using an intuitive browser interface

Consume information when and how you want through a browser or mobile device

Find new insights with interactive reports using drill downs, parameters, and filters, sorting, moving or hiding columns, and more

Hope this article was useful to you and helped you in getting an overall idea about the product and its important features and benefits of using it.