Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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

"The customer porting is the most valuable feature."

"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 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."

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

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

"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."

"Microsoft Power BI is used extensively throughout the organization."

"The user interface is easy to work with."

"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."

"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."

"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."

"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I have observed issues regarding stability."

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

"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."

"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."

"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."

"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."

"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."

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

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

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

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

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

"We have enterprise licenses and some of the other tools or features come as a package and others you have to purchase separately."

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

"I used the tool's free version."

"We pay for users who are publishing on the cloud. The desktop version is free. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"The solution's costs are quite reasonable given the range of features provided."

"Globally, we evaluated a number of products, including Salesforce's product, Microsoft won on the ground of simple functionally and cost."

"If you purchase a license for a server, for users, or the professional version, you might not have to. The free version I think it can satisfy many customers' needs."