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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrightGauge

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ABrightGauge is a BI tool from ConnectWise that puts essential information in one place, providing visibility for more informed decisions. The user can customize BrightGauge dashboards and sync other business tools in its BI dashboard software for ultimate visibility. Users can also display data with embeddable gauges on public sites.

    $325

    per month

    Jaspersoft

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AJaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.N/A
    Pricing
    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $325
    per month
    Enterprise
    $449
    per month
    Enterprise+
    $635
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$499 one-time feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSet up fee is waived for Enterprise+ customers. A discount is offered for annual billing.Jaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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    Community Pulse
    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
    Considered Both Products
    ConnectWise
    No answer on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    8.1
    14 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.210 Ratings7.687 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.814 Ratings7.588 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.113 Ratings7.886 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    7.7
    14 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.414 Ratings7.289 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.513 Ratings7.397 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages4.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.213 Ratings7.781 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    7.9
    14 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Publish to Web9.410 Ratings7.176 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.414 Ratings8.799 Ratings
    Report Versioning5.07 Ratings7.759 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.214 Ratings7.582 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.44 Ratings7.562 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    5.9
    12 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.012 Ratings8.472 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.26 Ratings7.153 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining2.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    8.7
    14 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.614 Ratings8.194 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.313 Ratings8.192 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.313 Ratings8.588 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.35 Ratings7.773 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    6.8
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.56 Ratings7.959 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.01 Ratings5.528 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.86 Ratings8.141 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of BrightGauge and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    7.4
    8 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    REST API8.26 Ratings7.981 Ratings
    Javascript API9.62 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    iFrames10.02 Ratings7.754 Ratings
    Java API6.01 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)3.53 Ratings6.558 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.03 Ratings7.760 Ratings
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    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
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    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (14 ratings)
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightGaugeJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ConnectWise
    BrightGauge lets us know when we have critical issues that need solving. A massive influx of tickets all at the same time triggers an investigation. Usually, it is tied to a server going down, which we can address. It would not be helpful for a small MSP or IT department with just a few daily tickets. The stats are better used to track a large amount of clients.
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    Jaspersoft
    It is well suited for the fact of scalability itself and the breadth of features this application has in order to make the migration from legacy systems to the newer different versions more seamless and effective. Data integrity and security are the main aspects of this tool which does not lose their value when doing day-to-day operations for data mapping.
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    Pros
    ConnectWise
    • SQL queries can be presented in many different ways to illustrate the data. They can be used in lists, graphs, meter, etc.
    • The datasets frequency of updates can be customized to from 5 minutes to annually. It's very granular in this respect.
    • It allows dashboards to be shared outside your organization with clients, partners, and vendors to maximize collaboration and reporting.
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    Jaspersoft
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft allows you to embed reports into your own application, which gives users the feeling they are using a single product.
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio allows for more advanced report development, such as adding subreports, drilldown to detail reports, images, page headers, page footers, maps, and more.
    • TIBCO's Jaspersoft Domain Designer is very easy to use and navigate.
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    Cons
    ConnectWise
    • Annual or more than annualized data is desperately needed for MSPs to show trends, current limitation is previous 240 days for ConnectWise tickets
    • Alerts when datasets do not sync properly, I have to rely on my team to notice vs get an automated alert from BrightGauge
    • Small thing, but it would be nice to have more options on the report scheduler to enable a start date. If you wish to do it quarterly, you have to start the schedule exactly 3 months from the next run.
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    Jaspersoft
    • One of the issues we found during our implementation was that the reporting software would work faster for certain data sources and not the others. Extracting CSVs and XML was slower in comparison to JSON in our experience.
    • Jaspersoft Studio was the main IDE we used for development. Built atop the Eclipse IDE, we found that the tool was really resource intensive and generally take long time to initialize.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    JasperSoft has been amazing. It is well documented, fast, and transparent in how it functions. We have been very confident in JasperSoft in every aspect of our business and offerings where we've used it. On top of that, their improvements to the product have been fantastic. I am really looking forward to seeing where they take their product and how we can leverage that to please our clients
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    Usability
    ConnectWise
    Usability is BrightGauge's strength. Granting the ability of virtually any user to be able to create a dashboard is incredibly valuable. If an organization very simple and straight forward reporting needs then BrightGauge is a perfect fit for them. Connecting to the dataset we used was very quick and easy and I imagine it would be the same for any major data source you would like to pull from.
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    Jaspersoft
    I think it's a tool well suited for a software developer. Others with less coding skills could struggle somewhat with the tool. I find java a little unforgiving as a language for expressions and not very user friendly for the technically dis-inclined. Sometimes the numeric conversions cause issues (who knew that 0 and 0.0 would cause different things to happen). Previous experience with a reporting tool that used visual basic for its' expressions that I found much simpler to use. On the other hand, java is so widespread, you can easily google the syntax to accomplish what you need to do.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    We've never had an outage of the software itself. If it was unavailable, it was due to a network outage, not a problem with Jasper.
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    Performance
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    Complex reports on heavy data load may take considerable amount of time. We have experinced some latencies/misfires regarding to this.
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    Support Rating
    ConnectWise
    Anytime I have reached out to the BrightGauge support team they have been quick, responsive, and solved my issue. They go out of their way to be helpful!
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    Jaspersoft
    They have a great customer support ticketing system in which they always respond same-day. They offer conference calls with srcreensharing as well in order to better understand your issues.
    I wish that the lower level support access came with more than just 12 cases per year though as this makes us less likely to reach out for questions on things that we then instead try to solve ourselves which results in loss of time in trying to acquire new features and or solve a problem.
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    In-Person Training
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    It did the job of getting us to our deadline we set for ourselves for initial launch. The customer we launched the product for was also there to learn about it at the same in order to better understand the capabilities. This helped greatly so that the customer was on the same page on what was possible when using jaspersoft. I think most people would not want their customers aware the product they are using is third-party but in this case it was a new experience for us both and so as we learned more about jaspersoft, we both had better communication on what the future road map was for their business needs in BI.
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    Online Training
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    Resources available in the TIBCO Knowledge Base are covering almost everything. They are well organized, and covering almost every possibility. There is always the change to get back to the TIBCO support or to the dedicated Customer Success Manager whenever something very specific or bound to a customization is not covered.
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    Implementation Rating
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    Having just completed an upgrade to the latest version of Jaspersoft, I am happy to say their support was very good. There were a couple of small challenges which were not easily resolved, but they were primarily related to the fact that we had skipped updates for a couple of versions. The current update procedures assumed we were upgrading from the prior latest version (6.4) to to the new version (7.1).
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    Alternatives Considered
    ConnectWise
    I'm not aware of any other competitors to Bright Gauge that we selected. They seem to be very close to managed IT service providers and have been great at tailoring their support to the PSAs like ConnectWise, AutoTask, etc. I can see Bright Gauge getting more and more popular as time goes by
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    Jaspersoft
    When looking at the different features of these reporting engines, and what we were going to be using it for, the answer seemed clear. Jasper offered exactly what we were looking for, and did so for a price that we were happy with. For a scalable, feature-rich reporting engine that doesn't break the bank, Jaspersoft is the way to go.
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    Scalability
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Jaspersoft
    We haven't really started to explore the scalability of the product as yet, but in terms of existing deployments it has done what we need it to do.
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    Return on Investment
    ConnectWise
    • We were purchased by a large PE firm because we could easily show CSAT ratings.
    • The easily trackable stats are suitable for the C-Suite to see which division is the most profitable.
    • We won 60,000 MRR by displaying to potential customers how we track important issues with the gauges.
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    Jaspersoft
    • When we demo our Jaspersoft environment to potential clients, their eyes light up and they sit up in their chairs a bit more. A lot of our meetings have ended with with the client very interested in our product due to Jaspersoft.
    • Our existing clients have been very satisfied with the adhoc features of Jaspersoft. We've been able to provide them better access to their data on their terms instead of ours. Of course this turns into a huge win for us.
    • We've always used SQL Server Reporting Services to deliver our reports to our clients. Converting to Jaspersoft has allowed us to generate the reporting layer that our clients demand. They no longer feel like they are settling for what we offer.
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