Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The solution is very versatile."

"I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."

"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."

"We encourage end users to use Power BI because it's quite easy for them to interact with the menus and the navigation bar. Even for ordinary users, they can create their own dashboard using Power BI."

"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."

"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."

"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."

"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."

"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."

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

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

"There is not much training for Jedox."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The upgrade process could be improved."

"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."

"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."

"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."

"An area for improvement is data refresh functionality"

"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."

"Although there are many visualizations, most of them are paid separately because they have been developed by private developers. The visualizations that come off the shelf are quite few."

"It's not really complicated, but I didn't find the things I was looking for. The ones I used to work with within Dash are more open, and there are more choices. But with Power BI, there are only limited types of plots that I can use. For example, when I wanted to put the plots in Power BI, there was no extendable space. You have a limited page where you can place a maximum of three plots in that, and you can't do more than that on a single page. You have to create a new page, a different page for that. That made it a bit annoying, and the filtering part is limited, with basic functions. If you want to make custom filtering or custom functions, you can't do that."

"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."

"Excellent value for money."

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

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

"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."

"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

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

"Power BI premium is really expensive for our market. A lot of small and medium companies would like to purchase it, but they can't afford it."

"The premium capacity is very costly in respect of the market in Egypt, amounting to $5,000 monthly."

"The cost of this product is very low, at approximately $8 or $9 per month for a developer."

"Power BI is cheaper than Tableau and Cognos."

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

"It is free."