Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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

"The ETL function simplifies many tasks."

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

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

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

"The solution is easy to use."

"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."

"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."

"It provides easy integration with Office tools."

"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."

"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 have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."

"The user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly."

"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."

"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 not much training for Jedox."

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

"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."

"Creating dashboards could be easier."

"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. ​"

"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."

"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."

"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."

"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."

"We face multiple issues, and the connection drops off multiple times while integrating Microsoft Power BI with OAC and pulling in the data."

"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."

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

"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."

"Excellent value for money."

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis, but I am not sure."

"Our license is paid yearly and we have found that we have to be careful not to over-extend our usage in order to avoid upgrading our capacity plan."

"Its pricing is reasonable for the desktop stuff, but for enterprise-level, it is a little expensive."

"The license is on a yearly basis."

"We have premium licenses, but you can use it for free. You can share the content with anyone else, so you can use it for free."

"Microsoft BI is not expensive. Compared to the price of other BI products, the price is very fair."

"All in all, for the price, this is an excellent tool for helping your organization turn mounds of data into useful insights."

"We have a premium Power BI license in-house that's quite an expensive license. It's $10 a month for four users and then I think 35,000 at the premium rate."