Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

"The main strength of Jedox lies in mastering the navigation, especially the Excel add-in."

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

"The customer porting is the most valuable feature."

"We use the tool for performance management and planning."

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

"The ETL function simplifies many tasks."

"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 drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."

"It's a very easy-to-use solution."

"The stability is good."

"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."

"The scalability overall has been quite good."

"Deployment for Microsoft Power BI is easier than other tools, making it straightforward, and as an end-user tool, it has been going well since it doesn't require much involvement from a developer team, which releases some time for other development."

"Tech support is very helpful."

"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."

"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 tool has changed its pricing and it's now too expensive for small and medium organizations. I miss the open-source version which was free and we could do a lot of things with it."

"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."

"Jedox should improve the design and server issues."

"There is not much training for Jedox."

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

"Online pixel-perfect reporting is an aspect that has room for improvement."

"From a development perspective, there's room for improvement in the area called the designer, where you actually build your reports to make it easier to manage the process."

"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."

"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."

"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."

"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."

"I would like to see Machine Learning for Power Bi Pro users or an intermediate license to enable Machine Learning if you don't have access to a Premium account."

"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and configuration options, particularly for more advanced users."

"We found out that you can't share a report with others unless you have an additional package. That caught us off guard. It came as a program that somebody could go in, build a report, and show it, but you can't share it without having additional licenses."

"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."

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

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

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

"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."

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

"Excellent value for money."

"I rate the product pricing a ten."

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

"I would advise that Microsoft BI products are rightly priced and the licensing is easy to follow and to fulfill."

"The pricing for the solution is relatively higher compared to other alternatives."

"Price is the best feature of Power BI! You get a lot of value for the price. If you know how to use it, it's a great BI solution for your money."

"Power BI is subscription-based, and you have three options. The Pro edition, which is the standard one, is about $9 per user. The Premium edition, which provides AI and cloud capabilities but at a limited size, is for small to medium enterprises. It is about $20 per user. For large enterprises, such as manufacturing facilities, there is an option for the capacity. The capacity subscription is about $4,000 per capacity level. They also have an option for the on-premises version, but it is not common to see someone going for the on-premises version. The on-premises version requires a specific license that is attached to SQL Server. I believe it is about $17,000, but I'm not sure about it."

"Microsoft BI requires licenses."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."