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ReportServer Reviews & Product Details

Powerful ad-hoc analysis coupled with support for OLAP and pixel-perfect reporting. With ReportServer you are not limited to one provider's solutions. ReportServer integrates Jasper, Eclipse BIRT, Mondrian and Excel-based reporting: choose what best suits your needs! On top, it comes with powerful admin tools and scripting capabilities that make integration into any environment easy. ReportServer Community Edition is freely available under the open source AGPL license. The feature extended ReportServer Enterprise Edition can be fully tested for 45 days. Just give it a try.

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InfoFabrik GmbH

Languages Supported

Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified), Maltese

Product Description

ReportServer is an open-source web-based business intelligence platform that comes with powerful ad-hoc analysis tools as well as with support for OLAP and pixel-perfect reporting. ReportServer integrates Jasper, Birt, Mondrian and Excel-based reporting and provides a wide range of admin tools to manage also large installations.

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Jan Albrecht

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ReportServer Enterprise Edition

1999

EUR

ReportServer Community Edition

Free

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ReportServer Media

ReportServer Demo - ReportServer Dashboards

ReportServer provides a flexible component for creating Dashboards in minutes.

It is time to tackle reporting in teams.

ReportServer offers a large variety of parameters to let users customize their reports.

The Dynamic List is ReportServer's flexible ad-hoc reporting component.

ReportServer Demo - Pixel-Perfect Reporting

Create pixel-perfect management reports with Eclipse BIRT, Jasper or Crystal.

ReportServer comes with translations into various languages.

ReportServer Reviews (25)

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Subgerente de Sistemas

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2018

"MS SSRS"

3.5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

Its simplicity and ease of use as a self-service tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

Complexity in the design of mid-level paginated reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexandre R.

Gerente de Projetos Sor.

Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/8/2017

"Excellent Option for BI"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

- Simple to learn.

- Low coasts.

- Community version.

- Eclipse BIRT integration.

- Crystal Reports integration.

- Export reports to Excel, CSV, PDF or HTML.

- Excel exports are perfect

- Scheduling reports very easily.

- Unlimited Users.

- Internationalization.

- Active community.

- You can start with ReportServer Community edition and then go to the commercial ReportServer Enterprise version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

- Do not have native AD integration.

- Do not have the possibility to embed a report in a email body.

- Poor layout. Common interfaces (like login screen) can be much better.

- Do not have a mobile app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ReportServer:

Make experiments on demo version in order to verify if all features that you need are present. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReportServer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It can solve most off BI needs of a medium company. Now we can create and publish reports to managers much faster. We are using ReportServer with Eclipse BIRT.

Your plan is start with ReportServer Community edition and then go to the commercial ReportServer Enterprise version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ken L.

Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/16/2017

"Likely Value Leader in Reporting Platforms"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

ReportServer, which first offers us a lifeboat away from Crystal Reports, and also provides us a path to JasperReports, BIRT, or even script based reports, at a reasonable price.

The idea of database “bundles”, which make it easy to use the same report for many clients or Organizational Units, as the engine automatically selects the correct database. This relieves us of two major issues – initial report distribution as well as distribution of updates, both of which are eliminated. The ability for technical users to create variants of existing reports is great, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

I feel that the documentation could be more complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReportServer solving and how is that benefiting you?

In developing our application, we looked at a few products. It was almost like Goldilocks….one product was far too complex, and required extended professional services engagement to get started. Another product had what seemed like excessive costs per client and per database connection. And neither of these could handle our collection of over 600 legacy Crystal Reports.

I find the infrastructure in this system to be impressive. It seems like whatever we need to do, there are script samples, and Java classes to handle it. We’re currently syncing teams and users from our production billing system into ReportServer. We are working on running reports directly from our softwarwe, without the user ever seeing ReportServer, using it as a pure replacement for Crystal Reports. I have to mention, too,

Overall, we think that ReportServer is the value leader in reporting, including for software developers, and especially for anyone who needs to access legacy reports on one of the supported platforms. Support has also been fantastic, so we are very happy with our decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/7/2017

"ReportServer a useful BI tool"

3/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

RS has integrated interface, which can show reports, static HTML and URL together. This provides multiple options for users to choose from.

Multiple dashboard gadgets (dadget) are supported. Multiple DBMS systems can be connected to ReportServer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

RS does not have built-in plotting tools. RS's reports are only table-based, which limits the visualization functionality of this product. In order to use visualization, third-party tools/libraries must be imported, which interface sometimes is difficult to integrate smoothly with the interface of ReportServer.

RS support exporting data into html, pdf, json, and csv format, but it does now allow users to customize the exporting format. E.g. the exported csv files uses semicolon (";") as separator instead of comma. Hopefully the exporting format can be customized in the future versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ReportServer:

If you are looking for a BI tool that is easy to use, ReportServer may be a good option for you.

But if you are looking for a BI tool with fancy interface, it may require extra work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReportServer solving and how is that benefiting you?

I intended to use ReportServer visualize the data stored in DBMS in order to provide insights for business decisions. RS is easy to use, and solves most of my requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brad M.

Programmer Analyst

Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/2/2016

"ReportServer is everything we needed and more! "

5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

Offers a wide variety of options for reporting on relational databases and warehouses. Several open source reporting tools such as Jasper, BIRT and other systems are included as well as my favorite method, "Dynamic Lists" which are a way to create SQL reports directly through their web client. Using Bitnami's pre-made ReportServer package made server setup and config unnecessary and saved us a ton of time and headache! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

Currently, there appears to be no way to customize Dynamic List table styling, but apparently there are plans to add this functionality in the future. Also, ran into a few Java issues (incorrect version) with the Bitnami package that we implemented, but otherwise the process was relatively smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ReportServer:

Use the Bitnami stack for sure and definitely purchase ReportServer's training manuals (this supports the developers). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReportServer solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the process of implementing a new backend system, we realized that we were losing a proprietary reporting system during the migration, so we needed a cheap solution and fast. This exceeded both our needs and expectations and frankly shocked us at the fact that such a robust, capable system was completely free and open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Walter M.

Diretor de Tecnologia

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/8/2017

"Report Server as Port Dashboard"

5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

Scripting reports gives total freedom to create reports, charts and other kinds of informational panels. All the structure eases the development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

The translation to Portuguese isn't fine, but the team is receptive to contributions. The user interface needs a revamp, does not support mobile and is not responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James J.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/30/2017

"Software engineer"

3.5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

The dashboard on which can provide various bi reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

The license is very expensive and the internal database is not easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JOHN L.

COO

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/13/2017

"Impressive User Interface"

5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

Very simplistic design for beginner to intermediate database reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

I didn't find anything unlikable. Just decided to go with an alternative UI. RS is my second favorite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Agnaldo H.

Data Manager

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/8/2016

"Reportserver improved the way we produce and share reports in my organization"

4/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

The security and permission management, its very usefull where there are a lot of people with diferent roles using reportserver. Also the UI is very intuitive and friendly.

The possibility of creating hierarchies when adding new reports and data sources is helpfull, because i have diferrent departments in my institution , and i arrange the reports and datasource according to the organisational structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

It looks like , the only way to activate new users is via email. i do not like this option, i think it would be better if administrators could active new users whithout having to send them emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ReportServer:

if you are not satisfied with the tool that you use to produce, integrate and share reports, I recommend you try the reportserver, it is a very robust tool that easily integrates with several reports engines and easy to administer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReportServer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems:

decentralized sharing of reports.

large volume of reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karolina B.

Business Owner

Accounting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/11/2015

"Versatile BI system with excellent support"

5/5

What do you like best about ReportServer?

Flexibility - The system can be adjusted to needs of very different users: people who prefer self-service BI and ones that want predefined reports designed for them. This is particularly important for us as our company has many clients with diverse needs.

Support - The Team is present on the free forum. We have commercial support services and we are very happy about it, as if any problems arise, they are solved quickly. In this way we have immediate access to system and documentation updates.

Scripting and advances features - Many standard features can be extended through scripts written in Groovy. Script datasources allow to connect data coming from more than one database or to get data from websites, files etc. Script reports give unlimited possibilities - in terms of data processing and report lay-outs.

Templates - Dynamic list report allow to use jxls, velocity and xdocs templates. In this way we can create well-looking Excell reports (sometimes even with macros!), html reports with charts or serial correspondence in Word.

Automatically created reports' documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReportServer?

The documentation could be more extended (in some areas) and give more examples of potential use cases.

Would be nice to have more data visualisation options for users without programming skills.

Community involvement - would be nice to see how other people use the system, share our experience and inspire each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ReportServer:

I fully recommend the product and the technical support.

The Team is open for users' needs. For example, as a part of additional IT services, some of the system features were adjusted to our specific needs – for instance we have over 150 databases with the same structure and – thanks to the adjustment – we don’t need to create 150 reports of the same kind, each connected to one data source, but we can dynamically attach the datasource by the report’s parameters.

For advanced users: You may even write a small app and easily integrate it with the system. So far we have created 2 apps - one for automatic creation of yearly tax returns and another one to support automatic processing of purchase invoices. Both take data from many tables and / or datasources and produce complex XML file that are later imported to other programs. More apps, with extended data visualisation and simple data input interfaces, are on the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReportServer solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a small company providing accounting services, tax advisory, payroll and business consulting for small and medium enterprises. We use ReportServer for:

Creating regular financial reports for our clients and for our internal use, based mainly on data from our accounting system.

Monitoring of invoice processing in our company, based on data from our document management system

Support of automatic invoice processing

Support of yearly tax return preparation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.