Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

"The ETL function simplifies many tasks."

"The solution is quick with analysis and calculation. The tool offers high digitalization which helps us to run the controlling department with less number of people. If the software wasn't there, I would need two to three people extra to run the department."

"The ETL itself was pretty useful and it's integrated in the tenant itself. So the Olap service technology was impressive to me. In order to extract that and load it in the tube in the same tenant or the same tool that was something magnificent because I actually missed this in SEB. SEB requires another tool, and you have to integrate all the tools together. But for Jedox, it was in the one tool."

"We can configure and have complete freedom while creating solutions."

"The solution is very versatile."

"The system is quite flexible. Based on our requirements, we create different cubes that can help us to do complete planning."

"The ease of reporting is one of Jedox's most valuable features."

"The Excel interface is designed to retrieve data from the database and send it back, which is a significant advantage."

"Microsoft Power BI is used extensively throughout the organization."

"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."

"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."

"Power BI pricing is generally considered more affordable than Tableau."

"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."

"There are some great automation elements in the product."

"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."

"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."

"Jedox should improve the design and server issues."

"Visualization is something they need to improve. We have already told them about this, and they should be working on it."

"I think it's the design of the report because the design and the UI for the report is standard and lame. When you see a Jedox report, it doesn't seem like it's from today, because the technology is something from the last decade. The scalability needs improvement."

"The solution needs to improve its support. The visualization in Microsoft BI is more modern and comfortable than Jedox's. I would expect something similar with the solution."

"There is not much training for Jedox."

"I don't find it particularly user-friendly."

"Being an analytical solution, it should have more visualization options like graphs. When we are putting it, it should have more options. The UI can be made more modernized based on today's market. Sometimes, when we are doing heavy reports or dashboarding, there is a bit of a performance issue because it is pulling up a huge amount of data. That can be improvised by buffer memory and getting some buffer memory feature into it. It is a bit complex because it is a CPM solution. It helps you to get the information based on the different tools that we are using, which is a bit of a complex thing. It is not as easy as Microsoft Power BI. It is also not that easy as an implementation piece. It takes time to convert the business requirement into the proper solutions in the tool, which is time-consuming. It took about eight months to do the complete implementation. We got some training from the partner and the Jedox team, which helped us later on in pulling things forward, but too much learning is required, and too many possibilities are there."

"The solution should enable a modern look and feel in the front end."

"We have used other solutions and the reporting functionality should be user-friendly and have a drag and drop feature should be available, but Microsoft BI doesn't have these features. When you are creating reports and you can't change as a user. Every time you need one developer or one technical person to make the changes."

"Spatial data support should be enhanced."

"The issue with the data refresh frequency in Microsoft Power BI is that it's not frequent enough."

"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."

"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."

"We need more integration capabilities."

"We face multiple issues, and the connection drops off multiple times while integrating Microsoft Power BI with OAC and pulling in the data."

"The formatting template could be improved."

"The solution's pricing is specific to your requirements."

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

"Excellent value for money."

"We paid a one-time fee, which included product purchase, licensing, and first-time implementation. We are paying for the maintenance regularly."

"The product’s pricing will not be suitable for setting up a small solution."

"If you are using SAP, then you will have to take an SAP Connector license. The license across the tool is paying for the people who are using it as an admin or as a normal user. They can work out those costs in a manner that can help. This can also be a point of improvement where they can work out the costing, and the developers have a specific licensing cost. The normal users, who are going to do probably data entry or just going to view the dashboard, can have a separate license cost."

"For my primary use case, i.e. teaching students, the free version of Power BI is adequate."

"Pricing is a big advantage that Power BI has over Tableau. Power BI is three or four times cheaper than Tableau. For my personal use, I will definitely prefer a $20 monthly fee of Power BI rather than a $70 monthly fee of Tableau. If you pay altogether for Power BI, they give you a discount, whereas, with Tableau, there is no discount. There are three versions of Power BI: Free, Pro, and Premium. The Premium version comes with a lot of things. There is no extra or hidden fee. You pay every month, and the software is with you. If you upgrade, there will be some extra charges."

"The solution is priced well for what they offer. However, the premium version is very expensive."

"You don't need a license for development, but if you want to publish to external users, you need a license. The licensing is very costly, but I think that since the advantages and benefits of Power BI are so high, people are willing to pay. I can't blame them."

"All of the licenses are on an annual basis, but Microsoft will amortize it to an extent. If it's five years, they'll include the possible interest they might have the following year. Ideally, their licensing scheme is an annual license, but they make it easier for some of our clients to take a five-year license but package everything inside for them to buy the license for five years."

"The solution is less expensive than other PowerBI tools, which is why most people go with it, although it does cost more than MSBI tools."

"Downloading Power BI Desktop is free."

"Pricing, that's where Microsoft beats Tableau. It is priced much cheaper."