QlikView vs TIBCO Jaspersoft comparison

Qlik and TIBCO are both solutions in the Reporting category. Qlik is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.3, while TIBCO is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.2. Qlik holds a 3.9% mindshare in RT, compared to TIBCO’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Qlik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

QlikView

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4,822 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

TIBCO Jaspersoft

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3,123 Views
2,436 Comparison Views

82% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

QlikView and TIBCO Jaspersoft compete in the business intelligence (BI) tools space. QlikView appears to have an edge in terms of real-time insights due to its associative data model, while TIBCO Jaspersoft is valued for its scalability and cost-effective solutions, especially in enterprise environments.

Features: QlikView offers advanced data visualization, robust analysis, and integration with platforms like Salesforce. It utilizes a scripting language for high customization and features an associative data model for real-time insights. TIBCO Jaspersoft provides strong reporting capabilities with options for visual customization and the ability to embed reports. Its enterprise scalability is notable, though it employs some older technology features.

Room for Improvement: QlikView's scripting complexity and lack of intuitive query building are drawbacks, alongside needs for improved PDF generation and hybrid environment support. TIBCO Jaspersoft should enhance user experience with better big data support and integration, and improved documentation. Both platforms could benefit from streamlined interfaces and enhanced self-service features for non-technical users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both QlikView and TIBCO Jaspersoft support flexible deployment across on-premises and cloud environments. QlikView often requires consulting partners, leading to varied support experiences. TIBCO Jaspersoft provides satisfactory technical support, primarily managed through partners, offering potentially more customized support based on the region. Both platforms maintain community forums for problem-solving and user support.

Pricing and ROI: QlikView's pricing includes higher costs related to licenses and infrastructure but can yield a high ROI through time savings. It is considered expensive for small deployments. TIBCO Jaspersoft offers a cost-effective tiered pricing model with a free community version, appealing to enterprises, and provides significant cost savings in reporting efficiency across wide implementations.

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QlikView vs. TIBCO Jaspersoft

June 2026

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.4

QlikView ROI appears through time savings, decision-making improvements, and efficient deployment, despite licensing complexity impacting perception.

Sentiment score

4.5

TIBCO Jaspersoft optimizes resource allocation and enhances efficiency, offering time savings and affordable licensing for broad organizational use.

The biggest return on investment is the time saving for the customer.

Morne Ayres

Managing Director at Hurricnae

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.1

QlikView's customer support is highly rated, with quick responses, a helpful community, and generally strong availability despite geographic factors.

Sentiment score

4.7

User experiences with TIBCO Jaspersoft support vary; some praise responsiveness, others cite delays, affecting overall satisfaction levels.

I would rate the customer support a solid 10.

Morne Ayres

Managing Director at Hurricnae

I am totally satisfied with technical support from Qlik.

Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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TIBCO Jaspersoft's customer support is basically non-existent.

Shaina Munoz

Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Customer support for TIBCO Jaspersoft is good and very helpful whenever I need assistance.

AmandeepSingh4

Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.0

QlikView scales well with efficient resource management, but superior scalability features are found in Qlik Sense, requiring robust infrastructure.

Sentiment score

6.9

TIBCO Jaspersoft offers scalability for large data but requires optimization for high demands and improved handling of data bursts.

If you want better performance with a larger volume of data, you can simply add an additional server.

Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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TIBCO Jaspersoft is not very scalable.

Shaina Munoz

Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is very good and easy to use in daily work, providing convenient solutions to client requirements and delivering the best results.

AmandeepSingh4

Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Users rate QlikView's stability highly, with issues mainly due to infrastructure or large data, resolved with hardware tweaks.

Sentiment score

7.7

TIBCO Jaspersoft is generally stable, with performance varying due to large datasets, browser issues, and internet connectivity.

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TIBCO Jaspersoft is very unstable.

Shaina Munoz

Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

QlikView needs a more intuitive interface, better scalability, integration, predictive analytics, and cost-effective licensing for improved user experience.

Jaspersoft requires interface upgrades, better customization, improved stability, and enhanced support for integration, big data, and mobile usability.

AI features are already available in Qlik Sense, so you would need to migrate to that platform.

Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

In QlikView, I believe the improvement that should be made is to bring the costs down, as you'll have to be competitive with Power BI, aiming for at least a 30% reduction to stop the hemorrhaging to Power BI.

Morne Ayres

Managing Director at Hurricnae

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The limitations include compatibility with some drivers where we do not have adequate JDBC drivers, and because of that, I am not able to make the connection pool.

Ashish-Sahu

Technical Manager at Bahwan CyberTek

In my experience with TIBCO Jaspersoft and Power BI, I find Power BI more user-friendly, especially in terms of adding visualizations.

Sandeep Kumar Muthyala

Senior Software Engineer at Xoriant

It would be nice if there was easier integration with other programming languages such as Python, which is where we were migrating to because of its versatility and big data capabilities.

Shaina Munoz

Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

QlikView pricing is variable and can be costly, but strategic planning can maximize ROI for organizations.

TIBCO Jaspersoft offers enterprise buyers cost-effective reporting features with server-based licensing, adding value for large-scale deployments.

The license cost per user or per year for QlikView is about 500 Euros annually.

Morne Ayres

Managing Director at Hurricnae

I would rate the pricing for QlikView as not cheap, but it is reasonable.

Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for TIBCO Jaspersoft is around 1 lakh per annum.

AmandeepSingh4

Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited

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Valuable Features

QlikView offers powerful data analysis with dynamic dashboards, intuitive interface, and rapid visualization for enhanced business performance and insights.

TIBCO Jaspersoft is a versatile, open-source BI tool offering drag-and-drop reports, integration, and robust data connectivity.

Building metrics using simple language, similar to what you have in Excel, is what I have found most valuable in QlikView.

Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best features in QlikView are rapid development, the fact that I can do what I want in QlikView, and full control along with ease of use.

Morne Ayres

Managing Director at Hurricnae

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The drag-and-drop feature helps me in my daily tasks by optimizing my time and providing more efficiency and faster results because there is no need to write manual codes.

AmandeepSingh4

Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited

The reports I prepare using TIBCO Jaspersoft are quite user-friendly, and the look and feel are much better compared to other report generation tools.

Ashish-Sahu

Technical Manager at Bahwan CyberTek

The best features TIBCO Jaspersoft offers are that it is open source, developer friendly, allows migration of reports from other reporting tools, and you can write expressions in a simple, understandable manner.

Sandeep Kumar Muthyala

Senior Software Engineer at Xoriant

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Categories and Ranking

QlikView

Ranking in Reporting

13th

Ranking in Embedded BI

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

163

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO Jaspersoft

Ranking in Reporting

11th

Ranking in Embedded BI

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of QlikView is 3.9%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Jaspersoft is 2.4%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO Jaspersoft	2.4%
QlikView	3.9%
Other	93.7%

Reporting

Featured Reviews

Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Daily invoice analytics has become streamlined and complex data modeling is now simplified

We are not using analytics features and possibly predictive analytics and forecasting features in QlikView, although they are available. QlikView is very flexible, but we are currently using only tabular presentation of data because that is what we need. Presenting a large volume of data in QlikView with graphics can be overwhelming for the majority of people who want to see a lot of information in one picture. It would be beneficial to have AI or ML features in QlikView. However, I think they will decommission QlikView, and AI features are already available in Qlik Sense, so you would need to migrate to that platform.

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Shaina Munoz

Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Legacy reporting has exposed limitations and now drives a gradual shift to modern analytics

Something that I wish would be improved is that TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio looks like something that was designed in the 1980s. The UI is not user-friendly. Finding things in the solution can be quite tedious, and the exported code does not really follow good programming standards. For example, the use of exceptions were not very descriptive. You would have something called exception one, two, three, post-grass exception one, two, three, nothing very descriptive as to what was going on. The files were very long and you would end up with a bunch of code that was not really being used. Helping the tool create more intuitive naming conventions would be better. Maybe implementing some sort of AI logic to clean up the code after it has been generated would help. It would be nice if there was easier integration with other programming languages such as Python, which is where we were migrating to because of its versatility and big data capabilities. Something like Scala and Hadoop would have made it easier for us to remain in Java. I would say to improve TIBCO Jaspersoft, integrate it with other programming languages and other big data tools and include AI functionality. I cannot even see what I need to see in the display box, so I would fix the AI. Another thing to note is that TIBCO Jaspersoft does not offer much in terms of documentation. There were only some wiki pages for some common errors. Customer support required you to have a license. It is not available to the general public. As for performance, working with Java 8 and 11 instead of the latest Java versions is also something that impacted our performance because we had some packages that were dependent on Java version 21 and up.

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Jun 10, 2013

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho – Which one to use & is there any need to purchase the commercial edition

Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Construction Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

15%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	76

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	19

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

I would rate the pricing for QlikView as not cheap, but it is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

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What is your primary use case for QlikView?

The primary use case involves analyzing data on a daily invoice level with QlikView. Building metrics using simple language, similar to what you have in Excel, is what I have found most valuable in...

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

The best and open source (No cost involved) solution for all BI requirements is Jaspersoft Open Studio. Refer to rajeshsirsikar.com for more information.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Jaspersoft?

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for TIBCO Jaspersoft is around 1 lakh per annum.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Jaspersoft?

TIBCO Jaspersoft sometimes lags when doing very heavy work, which is one area that needs improvement. The UI also needs improvement for better user experience. Whenever I switch from one report to ...

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Overview

QlikView enhances data analysis with its associative data model and rapid in-memory processing, providing dynamic dashboards and robust visualization, while efficient data integration allows connections to multiple sources.

QlikView offers powerful analytics and insight generation capabilities through its integration with Salesforce, enabling real-time sales data access. Its customizable dashboards are complemented by scripting for complex calculations and QVDs for performance optimization. Designed to be user-friendly, it supports ETL processes and diverse data browsing, allowing users to interact with data intuitively. However, there is room for improving licensing complexities, scalability, and self-service functionality. Additional enhancements are desired in visualization, integration with Qlik Sense, and predictive analytics support.

What are QlikView's key features?

Data Integration: Connects seamlessly with multiple data sources for diverse data access.
Associative Data Model: Enhances data discovery and analysis.
In-memory Technology: Offers rapid data processing for efficient analysis.
Customization Options: Allows personalized dashboards and visualizations.
Salesforce Integration: Provides real-time access to sales data.
Scripting Capabilities: Facilitates complex calculations and analytics.
QVD Performance: Optimizes data loading and processing speeds.

What benefits should you look for in QlikView reviews?

Enhanced Data Access: Seamless integration allows widespread data connectivity.
Rapid Insights: In-memory technology speeds up analysis.
Flexible Customization: Tools enable tailored visualizations.
User-friendly Interaction: Non-technical users can navigate data easily.

QlikView finds use in building business intelligence dashboards across sectors, integrating with Salesforce for analytics, supporting financial planning, and tracking sales. Its intuitive interface aids manufacturing companies in KPI monitoring and informs commercial decisions. The tool enhances reporting, ETL processes, and diverse data source integration, facilitating offline data access.

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TIBCO Jaspersoft provides comprehensive reporting and data analysis tools utilized across various sectors. Known for its versatility and low licensing costs, it supports both on-premises and cloud deployments.

TIBCO Jaspersoft is designed to meet diverse reporting needs with capabilities like drag-and-drop functionalities, multi-tenancy, REST API integration, HTML5 charts, and customizable reports. Its open-source nature allows for modifications, and the support for multi-language and dynamic formatting enhances data visualization. Despite robust features, there is potential to improve session management, data validation, and self-service reporting, aligning it better with competitors. Users find Jaspersoft beneficial in tasks such as revenue management and IT operations, where generating financial loan applications, integrating reports, and supporting learning management systems are crucial.

What are the key features of TIBCO Jaspersoft?

User Access Restrictions: Provides secure, role-based access to reports.
Drag-and-Drop Capabilities: Simplifies report creation with intuitive interfaces.
Standalone Flexibility: Operates independently or embedded within other applications.
Pixel-Perfect Reports: Delivers high-precision, professional-quality reports.
REST API: Facilitates seamless report distribution and integration.
HTML5 Charts: Enhances data visualization with modern graphical representations.

What benefits might users expect from TIBCO Jaspersoft?

Cost Efficiency: Offers low licensing costs, reducing financial burdens.
Open-Source Modifications: Allows for customization to fit specific needs.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies report creation for all users.
Versatile Connectivity: Integrates easily with numerous data sources.
Customizable Reports: Tailors reporting to specific organizational requirements.

Organizations employ TIBCO Jaspersoft in sectors like finance and IT for reporting and data analysis. These tools assist in crafting financial applications, reports integration, template design, and the generation of PDFs and Excel files. Deployments occur both on-premises and in cloud environments to support processes such as ETL, Java application integration, and learning management systems.

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Sample Customers

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

Mosaic, Vander University, Telesoft, Entrust, Ericsson, BT, Groupon, John Hopkins, Puma

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