Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

"The EPM is the most valuable feature."

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

"The ETL function simplifies many tasks."

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

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

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

"The customer porting is the most valuable feature."

"The data entry point is most valuable. The way we can customize our report or do data entry is very good."

"The product is stable."

"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."

"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."

"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."

"Microsoft Power BI is an easy tool for data analysis."

"The tool is very flexible so it allows creativity."

"We have found the product to be scalable."

"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."

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

"There is room for improvement in the scalability. It is a very massive tool. It's not easy to just build everything yourself."

"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."

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

"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."

"There is not much training for Jedox."

"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."

"Licensing could be improved."

"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."

"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."

"The dynamic browsing tables could be better in Microsoft Power BI."

"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."

"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."

"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."

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

"Excellent value for money."

"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."

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

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

"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 medium."

"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."

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

"The only other cost, besides the licensing fee, would be to cover support."

"It is somewhere in the middle in terms of price. Licensing is quite clear."

"From a cost point of view, it's competitive in the enterprise space, although it's not as competitive when you add up all of the additional costs. Things like integrations cost extra and it's probably where Microsoft makes more of the money."

"Both cost-wise and implementation-wise, this product is a good choice."

"We're charged a monthly subscription fee of 500 rupees per person."