Tool Differnces b/w Jasper and Pentaho - Next post will teach in - detail differnces b/w the tools and features.

Hi Guys,
This post will talk about quick differences b/w leading open source BI softwares Jasper and pentaho community and enterprise.
Depending on your client/customer requirement you can go either of the software's or the both.


Read this blog (will update link once I done it) to know in-depth differences b/w the jasper & pentaho tools

SNO	Feature	Jaspersoft	Pentaho
1	Availability of Open Source	Community and Enterprise	Community and Enterprise
2	Enterprise Cost
3	Reporting Tools (These are stand alone desktop tools)	iReport(developed on Netbeans) Or Jasper Studio( developed on Eclipse plat form)	Pentaho Report Designer(PRD)
4	Dashboard Tools	CE- No dashboard designer available  EE – Yes, Built-in Dashboard feature is available	CE -Yes (Tools : CDE,CDA,CDF) EE- Yes (Tools : CDE,CDA,CDF) and/or PDD(Pentaho Dashboard Designer)
5	ETL	CE – Yes  JasperETL or Talend Open Studio for DI EE – Yes JasperETL or Talend EE	CE- Yes  (Tool Name : Kettle) EE- Yes (Tool Name : Kettle)
6	Analysis Developing Tool( or OLAP or Cubes or Mondian) Stand Alone desktop tool	CE- Yes  (Tool : Schema Work bench) EE – Yes(Tool : Schema Work bench )	CE- Yes (Pentaho Schema Workbench) EE – Yes(Pentaho Schema Workbench-)
7	Analysis Server Tools	CE – Jpivot View EE – Jpivot View	Analyzer or JPviot View Pivot4J Saiku Analytics
8	Ad-hoc Reporting	CE – NO ad-hoc reporting is available with CE EE – Yes You need to create domains and/or topics and then on top of them you will perform ad-hoc reporting	Saiku Analytics  Pivot4J  You need to create OLAP cubes and publish the schema to BA server. i.e., You will be developing multidimensional database and then performing ad-hoc reporting on it.
9	Date Mining	Tool/language : R	Tool: WEKA