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 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."

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

"We have found the solution to be stable."

"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."

"In my opinion, Microsoft BI is a low-cost solution, and it could be an interesting solution for a tourism company."

"We find the solution offers good stability."

"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."

"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."

"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."

"The solution is stable."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."

"The initial setup is a little bit technical."

"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."

"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."

"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."

"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"They have a free Power BI Desktop version, but it has limitations."

"Microsoft BI is free for the personal edition, but there is also a paid-for professional version."

"There are a few options available for purchasing a license. Typically the number of users you have will determine the price of the license. The more users you have the more you will pay."

"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."

"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."

"I have never worked on licensing, but I have heard that it is reasonable."

"We pay on a monthly basis which is approximately $10 per user on the Microsoft Power BI Pro license. At the moment we are still down at 400 users, but once we reach 500 users, we will move to the premium edition. The premium is $5,000 for unlimited users. Currently, with the 40 users, the cost is roughly $500."

"It is a cheap solution for our needs."