Jedox vs. SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jedox
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Jedox is a Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management solution. According to the vendor, their solution’s unified planning, analysis and reporting empowers decision makers from finance, sales, purchasing and marketing. Additionally, the vendor says this solution helps business users work smarter, streamline business collaboration, and make insight-based decisions with confidence. The vendor also says 1,900 organizations in 127 countries are using Jedox for real-time planning…N/A
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Score 7.6 out of 10
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The SAP BPC software is designed to help users plan and achieve a faster, more accurate close. The SAP BPC software aims to help users spend more time growing their business and less time closing books. The vendor’s value proposition is that their software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. This, in turn, enables them to easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with…N/A
Pricing
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
9.1
4 Ratings
12% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
8.3
3 Ratings
0% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
7.9
3 Ratings
4% below category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
5.6
3 Ratings
30% below category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)5.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
8.8
3 Ratings
1% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
7.4
3 Ratings
8% below category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
8.4
4 Ratings
1% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
7.6
37 Ratings
9% below category average
Long-term financial planning7.04 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Financial budgeting9.04 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Forecasting9.04 Ratings7.736 Ratings
Scenario modeling7.04 Ratings6.632 Ratings
Management reporting10.04 Ratings7.536 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
9.5
3 Ratings
16% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
7.8
36 Ratings
3% below category average
Financial data consolidation10.03 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Journal entries and reports7.02 Ratings7.828 Ratings
Multi-currency management10.02 Ratings8.325 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations10.03 Ratings7.828 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting10.02 Ratings7.930 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails10.02 Ratings8.227 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings6.820 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
9.3
4 Ratings
12% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
8.0
36 Ratings
3% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting9.04 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Management Reporting9.04 Ratings8.036 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting10.04 Ratings7.635 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting9.04 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
9.7
4 Ratings
19% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
8.4
32 Ratings
4% above category average
Personalized dashboards9.04 Ratings8.921 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards10.03 Ratings8.919 Ratings
KPIs9.03 Ratings8.430 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis10.03 Ratings8.726 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting10.03 Ratings8.723 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data10.02 Ratings7.018 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Jedox
9.0
4 Ratings
8% above category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
7.0
35 Ratings
17% below category average
Flat file integration9.04 Ratings7.132 Ratings
Excel data integration9.04 Ratings7.834 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources9.04 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Best Alternatives
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Small Businesses
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Centage
Centage
Score 9.6 out of 10
Centage
Centage
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Score 8.2 out of 10
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(8 ratings)
7.8
(37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(36 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
JedoxSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Likelihood to Recommend
Jedox AG
Best suited for financial consolidation and / or as a highly customized and compact EPM / BI solution (up to 100 CCU) with individual workflows, planning and reporting functionalities, with moderate number of users (no restrictions for any industry, all industries are covered well). It also has advanced reporting & data analysis requirements and provides an integration and reporting layer of imported data from different external systems (via ETL). It can help with migrating your legacy Excel-based business models to the Web. It is not well suited for Enterprise BI applications with expecting >500 CCU (users at the same time working with the system) - this may cause serious performance issues, as all data is kept in RAM. Jedox is also less suited for applications with heavy document management requirements (document management is not an out of the box functionality in Jedox and rather requires custom development through custom widgets etc.).
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SAP
SAP BPC is well suited for complex planning and consolidations needs where the underlying transactional system is SAP ECC. It suits well if the organization has separate teams with BPC, ABAP, BW, Basis, Hana skillset. SAP BPC is less appropriate for organizations using Agile methodology. It is not suitable for organizations in a hyper-growth cycle as the installation and implementation is time-consuming. It will not work for organizations where the planning and budgeting needs keep changing frequently. The UI of SAP BPC is not very intuitive and very difficult to set up a dynamic dashboard for senior executives and officials of CxO.
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Pros
Jedox AG
  • Using the Excel add-in means that our team was almost instantly productive, being able to use a familiar interface to present and manipulate data.
  • Allows us to quickly do analysis and comparison of current and historic data.
  • Really good to produce meaningful management reporting that can be adapted responsively to business requirements.
  • Implementing Jedox in our budget cycle dramatically reduced the time and complexity of the process, while making it more transparent.
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SAP
  • SAP BPC is real time data. You can send information into the system and see it reflected in your reports immediately. Other systems may require a manual push into a reporting system.
  • SAP BPC is a shared reporting tool, so multiple users can be working in a model/environment at the same time, real time. This is especially helpful if your workbooks incorporated multiple processes requiring multiple users to get into the same model.
  • SAP BPC is a powerful tool designed to help all facets of the company, from cash flow to capital expenditures to headcount management to financial planning to consolidation.
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Cons
Jedox AG
  • Diversity. Jedox can be applied to many different use cases from small to large deployments and from budgeting to enterprise class BI solutions. But rarely is one tool able to fulfill all of these requirements in one organisation. This value proposition can be complicated for prospective users.
  • Awareness. Jedox punches above its weight in capability and scalability, but not enough people have heard about it and therefore procurement processes can be drawn out as a result.
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SAP
  • Being from a law firm, the system needed a lot of custom tailoring in order to fit our full needs (although many companies could say the same thing). Although the ability to highly customize the system to the company's needs is a positive, it frequently results in the system responding in unexplainable and unrepeatable ways which negatively impacts and slows the budget process. Because of the sporadic nature and variety of the issues, we are unable to repeat them on cue and therefore cannot nail down a solution.
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Likelihood to Renew
Jedox AG
For a period of 5 years all our customers using Jedox have renewed their licenses.
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SAP
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Usability
Jedox AG
To me Jedox deserves 10/10 because it is a consistent one-in-all platform with a modern look and feel. It is intuitive to use and allows you to make intuitive applications integrating traditional business intelligence with performance management functionality. It certainly has a short
learning curve, especially for those that are familiar with MS Excel. An example: I've lost count but Jedox it is available in more than 25 languages. Another: Jedox does not require programming skills... it is developed to be used by the business.
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SAP
Unlike other SAP traditional products, SAP BPC was meant to be simple and familiar to financial users
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Reliability and Availability
Jedox AG
Jedox has
very few bugs. Reports are available through an Excel add-in, the web and/or
mobile device (IOS/Android). In my opinion, availability also means high
performance, not having to wait for the system to give you the required reports,
analysis, dashboards instantly.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Performance
Jedox AG
Jedox is the fastest OLAP tool on the market. It can use GPU cards to increase performance even more
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SAP
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Support Rating
Jedox AG
Jedox support in general is a professional and fast responding team. An easy-to-use ticketing system is in place. Bug-related questions are solved fast (responses come usually in a few hours after the question), but some questions / tickets, that are not Jedox-related bugs (for example some advanced questions about Jedox functionality), may be forwarded to Application Management team for further processing and then it may take several days or even weeks to get a response here -> there is room for improvement here.
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SAP
We need a big support team with various skillset like BPC, ABAP, BW, HANA, FICO etc
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In-Person Training
Jedox AG
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SAP
SAP BPC training content and trainers are very good. The training is structured and provides a very good understanding of the product features and functionalities. I attended 6 separate training sessions of week-long or more. I had very good experience in all the sessions. The training is organized very well.
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Online Training
Jedox AG
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SAP
SAP Training contents are very good, informative and exhaustive.
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Implementation Rating
Jedox AG
The implementation of SSO, SAML Authentication, HTTPS, Server splitting (Frontend / Backend servers) could be more standardized and made more user friendly to set up (e.g. via setup guide). Otherwise the implementation of Jedox is quick and simple when compared to other similar technologies.
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SAP
The implementation was carried out in two phases spread over a period of 4 years with 2 upgrades in between. We also had multiple upgrades to HANA.
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Alternatives Considered
Jedox AG
Calumo is similar product to Jedox. I have used it extensively in my previous role. It was a major contender when we evaluated a BI platform for NIDA. Calumo is a great product as well and it was a very close call. Where we found Jedox to be a better fit for NIDA was the ability to prepare dynamic reports with ease without the need to learn MDX which was used extensively by Calumo to make dynamic reports which expand or shrink based on the underlying data. Another major benefit we saw in Jedox was the whole ETL process could be managed within Jedox instead of doing it in SQL server which negates having a dedicated SQL specialist role when the scale expands.
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SAP
With Hyperion we struggled as it didn’t have integrated planning and consolidation, whereas BPC does have it. BPC is easier for reporting as it is Excel-based. Also BPC has prepackaged business process flows that helped a lot. Hyperion on the other hand has a faster response time for user queries or report generation.
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Scalability
Jedox AG
Scalability is often another word for speed. Given enough data, enough users or enough calculations, the tool becomes slower and slower. You will find that Jedox has a very high performance that can even be increased by the use of grafical cards. Other thaen that it does not only offer BI (looking back based on historical ERP data) but also allows you to look forward through integrated budgetting, planning, forecasting, workflow and collaboration. Not easy to find a tool that can support so much business functionality. So, also pretty scalable in that respect.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Jedox AG
  • Financial budgeting and Forecasting are done in a centralized fashion in Jedox now instead of a decentralized excel based approach. A lot of cost savings and improved reliability
  • Easy to use self-help Dashboards and detailed reports
  • Web-based reporting instead of excel based
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SAP
  • Office administrators are able to enter data directly, freeing up accounting staff.
  • Dependent expenses such as taxes and benefits are automatically calculated, saving time for accounting staff.
  • Single source of data for budget information ensures consistency of information when reporting to senior management.
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ScreenShots

Jedox Screenshots

Screenshot of Management Dashboard with Google Maps WidgetScreenshot of ABC Analysis (Procurement)Screenshot of Executive Sales ReviewScreenshot of Finance DashboardScreenshot of Sales DashboardScreenshot of Start

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Screenshots

Screenshot of SAP BPC Home ScreenScreenshot of SAP BPC Web ClientScreenshot of SAP BPC DashboardScreenshot of SAP BPC Web Report