Jama Analyze (Discontinued) vs. Microsoft BI (MSBI)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Jama Analyze (formerly called Notion) was a solution for quickly creating shareable, custom dashboards. However, the product is no longer available. Jama Software sunset the Analyze product in 2019. Some of the benefits of Jama Analyze included the ability to: Create custom metrics across all teams with data from any source with the intuitive metric builder. Experience self-serve BI with no coding and no IT to get started making custom dashboards.…
$23
per month
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft BI is a business intelligence product used for data analysis and generating reports on server-based data. It features unlimited data analysis capacity with its reporting engine, SQL Server Reporting Services alongside ETL, master data management, and data cleansing.
$9.99
per user/per month
Pricing
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Editions & Modules
Starter Teams - 2 users
$23
per month
Small Teams - 5 users
$89
per month
Growing Teams - 10 users
$179
per month
Growing Teams - 15 users
$259
per month
Growing Teams - 20 users
$339
per month
Power BI Pro
$9.99
per user/per month
Power BI Premium
4,995
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)Microsoft BI (MSBI)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
9.3
1 Ratings
13% above category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.7
48 Ratings
7% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports9.01 Ratings9.041 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.01 Ratings8.048 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.01 Ratings9.046 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.7
48 Ratings
8% above category average
Report sharing and collaboration8.01 Ratings9.048 Ratings
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.043 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.038 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
7.0
1 Ratings
17% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
9.0
47 Ratings
8% above category average
Publish to Web7.01 Ratings9.043 Ratings
Report Versioning7.01 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.043 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.042 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
10.0
1 Ratings
23% above category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
9.0
47 Ratings
12% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings9.046 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.043 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.041 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
7.7
1 Ratings
10% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
9.0
48 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.01 Ratings9.045 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.01 Ratings9.042 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.01 Ratings9.045 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.027 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
6.5
1 Ratings
20% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.5
38 Ratings
7% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.01 Ratings8.035 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.01 Ratings10.035 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.026 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)
6.0
1 Ratings
27% below category average
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
8.8
20 Ratings
11% above category average
REST API6.01 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
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User Ratings
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(15 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(3 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Jama Analyze (Discontinued)Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama Software
The integration with JIRA is quite a handy tool to have. It allows for team progress to be easily tracked and visualized using the software while key metrics are brought to the forefront through the software's business intelligence. It makes presenting data and milestones achieved to non-technical management quite simple and can be extremely useful.
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Microsoft
Microsoft BI is well suited for Stream analytics, easy data integration, report creation and UI/UX designs (limited but what all available are great ones) Microsoft BI may be less appropriate for handling huge number of datasets and difficult queries. It may also be difficult for a company with heavy data.
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Pros
Jama Software
  • This allows us to keep track of our team's work by integrating with our product boards on JIRA.
  • It allows us to create visualized reports for our team's progress.
  • It allows us to gain insights about things that are going well in our product pipeline as well as potential areas of concern based on the data that is collected.
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Microsoft
  • Comparatively easy to use compared to other data analytics solutions, collaborating with other colleagues on data work is simple.
  • Using Visual Studio for database, ETL, reporting, and analytics development save time and money.
  • Transfer of data from one application to another via Excel and comparison of data attributes between applications
  • Dashboard functionality, as well as Python support, are available, allowing you to add additional charts and graphs.
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Cons
Jama Software
  • The service tends to be slow at times and working offline can be a pain.
  • It has a bit of a learning curve when you start out.
  • The price is quite high for the features it offers.
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Microsoft
  • The race to perfect gathering of Non-Traditional datasets is on-going; with Microsoft arguably not the leader of the pack in this category.
  • Licensing options for PowerBI visualizations may be a factor. I.e. if you need to implement B2C PowerBI visualizations, the cost is considerably high especially for startups.
  • Some clients are still resistant putting their data on the cloud, which restricts lots of functionality to Power BI.
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Likelihood to Renew
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft BI is fundamental to our suite of BI applications. That being said, Northcraft Analytics is focused on delighting our customers, so if the underlying factors of our decision change, we would choose to re-write our BI applications on a different stack. Luckily, mathematics are the fundamental IP of our technology... and is portable across all BI platforms for the foreseeable future.
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Usability
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
The Microsoft BI tools have great usability for both developers and end users alike. For developers familiar with Visual Studio, there is little learning curve. For those not, the single Visual Studio IDE means not having to learn separate tools for each component. For end-users, the web interface for SSRS is simple to navigate with intuitive controls. For ad-hoc analysis, Excel can connect directly to SSAS and provide a pivot table like experience which is familiar to many users. For database development, there is beginning to be some confusion, as there are now three tool choices (VS, SSMS, Azure Data Studio) for developers. I would like to see Azure Data Studio become the superset of SSMS and eventually supplant it.
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Reliability and Availability
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
The product has been reliable.
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Performance
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) can drag at times. We created two report servers and placed them under an F5 load balancer. This configuration has worked well. We have seen sluggish performance at times due to the Windows Firewall.
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Support Rating
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
While support from Microsoft isn't necessarily always best of breed, you're also not paying the price for premium support that you would on other platforms. The strength of the stack is in the ecosystem that surrounds it. In contrast to other products, there are hundreds, even thousands of bloggers that post daily as well as vibrant user communities that surround the tool. I've had much better luck finding help with SQL Server related issues than I have with any other product, but that help doesn't always come directly from Microsoft.
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In-Person Training
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
This training was more directed toward what the product was capable of rather than actual programming.
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Online Training
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I have used on-line training from Microsoft and from Pragmatic Works. I would recommend Pragmatic Works as the best way to get up to speed quickly, and then use the Microsoft on-line training to deep dive into specific features that you need to get depth with.
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Implementation Rating
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
We are a consulting firm and as such our best resources are always billing on client projects. Our internal implementation has weaknesses, but that's true for any company like ours. My rating is based on the product's ease of implementation.
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Alternatives Considered
Jama Software
Jama Analyze, as well as Asana, connect with JIRA to visualize milestone tracking and team progress. While Asana is cheaper, Jama Analyze provides better reports and visual data. Google Data Studio, through a bit of tinkering from your software development team, can achieve similar results, however, the charts and graphs leave a bit to be desired in terms of design. In all, Jama Analyze is great if you have few users and don't need to go for the licensing option. Otherwise, there are definitely cheaper options available but you may have to sacrifice on performance and look-and-feel.
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Microsoft
We have used the built in ConnectWise Manager reports and custom reports. The reports provide static data. PowerBI shows us live data we can drill down into and easily adjust parameters. It's much more useful than a static PDF report.
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Return on Investment
Jama Software
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
  • As a SaaS provider we see being able to provide self-service BI to our client users as a competitive advantage. In fact the MSSQL enabled BI is a contributing factor to many winning RFPs we have done for prospective client organisations.
  • However MSSQL BI requires extensive knowledge and skills to design and develop data warehouses & data models as a foundation to support business analysts and users to interrogate data effectively and efficiently. Often times we find having strong in-house MSSQL expertise is a bless.
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ScreenShots

Jama Analyze (Discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of An example of a Notion dashboard with custom team metrics, a variety of visualizations, and summaries of the data at the top of each card.Screenshot of The Notion directory is where metrics from all your data sources live, making it easy to compare and combine. Give your team a single source of truth for the metrics that matter most.Screenshot of You can also assign metric ownership to members of your team. They'll got automatic reminders to report the data.Screenshot of Build custom metrics and quickly change how they're visualized or the reporting interval.Screenshot of Every metric has built-in commenting to help you capture context around the data.Screenshot of One click reporting means it's easy to share important team or product performance data with key stakeholders.