Consider InetSoft's Alternative to Open Source Reporting
Are you researching a commercial solution to replace an open source reporting one? Highly rated for customer service and ease of deployment, consider evaluating InetSoft. Free technical assistance is offered. More reasons to choose InetSoft:
InetSoft has been offering award-winning reporting software since 1996, serving over 5,000 enterprises and OEMs around the world.
InetSoft now offers its very mature, very extensible Web-based reporting tools at pricing options comparable to those of the open source vendors, Jaspersoft and Pentaho.
Style Report Enterprise is a Java-based reporting platform that provides production reports, interactive reports and ad hoc reports in a zero client, Web environment.
As a J2EE drop-in Web application, Style Report Enterprise not only integrates with the Web user interface, it also leverages the same application server platform as that of the embedding application.
General Reasons to Avoid Open Source Reporting Options
1. Lack of Warranty and Liability Indemnity
The free version of open source software comes with no warranty or other official guarantee or liability indemnity. When compliance requirements are rigid, this is a show stopper.
2. No Official Support
You have to reply on forums and the charity of others with no guarantee your particular problem will be solved.
3. Question of Survivability
There can be a higher chance of volunteer open source project going belly-up than a commercial software company that has a track record of business success.
4. No SaaS Solution
By definition a SaaS solution needs to be run and maintained by some entity that has costs to recover, so there cannot be a free open source SaaS option.
5. Harder to Learn
Open source teams don't have an incentive to invest time to make software easier to learn, nor are their on board services offered, so the learning curve will be steeper.
6. Inability to Preserve IP of Enhancements
When developers create their own enhancements on top of an open source solution, they are not able to protect their IP or competitive edge.
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