Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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

"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."

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

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

"The EPM is the most valuable feature."

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

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

"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."

"PowerBI – Self-service BI."

"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."

"The data manipulation and data cleaning tasks are handled in the backend by Power Query in Microsoft Power BI."

"The stability is 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."

"The solution makes it easy for me to develop reports and publish them."

"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."

"Power BI is a complete ecosystem. It has an integrated ETL tool and good connectivity with applications such as Office 365 and SQL. There are also solutions for RPA, such as Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps. Power BI now has integration with Power Query, which has an AI feature for text analytics. Text analytics is a very good feature. This feature is also there in Tableau, but I like it in Power BI because you can write something like, "What is the total sale in the Eastern region?", and it will give you the answer. For example, when you have different types of user opinions, you just run one algorithm and you will have the output that provides the number of positive and negative responses. You can even have a dashboard with positive remarks. This feature has been introduced recently. Power BI supports the DAX and Power Query M languages. These languages are making Power BI very strong in data analytics, and you can do many types of analysis."

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

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

"Jedox should improve the design and server issues."

"More emphasis is needed on the availability of the learning aspect of the solution. Because unless you take up their course that enables you to be an expert in creating the report, you must seek help."

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

"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."

"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."

"There is not much training for Jedox."

"There are some other visuals that are available in the Microsoft marketplace, however, you need to use them via trial and error. There needs to be a write-up about how to use them with a quick guide describing the visual."

"I would like to see more visualization options."

"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."

"Real-time data integration is an area for improvement."

"The solution struggles with large amounts of data."

"Creating dashboards could be easier."

"In the future, Microsoft BI can be better by increasing user-friendliness"

"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."

"Excellent value for money."

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

"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."

"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."

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

"Regarding cost, the initial investment wasn't too high, but ongoing licensing could add up."

"The pricing is good. It's pretty competitive because I have worked on a few other tools as well, and Power BI is on the cheaper side."

"Microsoft BI is considered to be competitively priced when compared to other similar solutions in the market."

"MS BI comes with all the tools and it is, to the best of my knowledge, the most affordable solution."

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

"The license is on a yearly basis."

"Remove the cost of a licence to show a dashboard within SharePoint. Why should readers of a dashboard have to pay to view? ​"