Jedox vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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

"The solution is very versatile."

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

"The EPM is the most valuable feature."

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

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

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

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

"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."

"The standard BI visualization capabilities are great."

"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."

"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."

"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."

"What I liked most about the tool is that we can use text queries to create projects and modify columns according to our needs. There are hundreds of YouTube courses on how to use it."

"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."

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

"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."

"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."

"Jedox should improve the design and server issues."

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

"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."

"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."

"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."

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

"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."

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

"Microsoft BI typically connects to a database, often SQL Server, but it's also capable of connecting to multiple databases, pulling data from them, and allowing for data consolidation. You can then aggregate and generate dashboards and reports from this combined data. Personally, I wouldn't claim to have the expertise to suggest significant changes or additional features, as it functions quite well as is."

"The solution struggles with large amounts of data."

"The solution's documentation needs improvement."

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Microsoft Power BI has reasonable pricing."

"My company needs to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product."

"Once the trial period for the BI service is over, the cost is approximately $10 USD per user, per month, so it's quite reasonable."

"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive."

"Downloading Power BI Desktop is free."

"The license is on a yearly basis."

"The price of the license can be better."

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