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July 07, 2020

Jedox Review (developer)

Karolis Aušra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Karolis Aušra
Business Analytics
PwC (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Implementing BI and EPM applications based on Jedox for other clients.

Pros and Cons

  • Integration with Excel (Import from Excel, Export to Excel, Excel Add-in etc.)
  • Rapid Time-To-Market because of flexible and effective excel-like development environment (surpassing other vendors by far) -> one can develop a fully functioning application in weeks if a good concept is ready.
  • You can install and run Jedox on your server in literally less than 1 hour (hands down, no competition!)
  • Powerful ETL (extract, transform, load data) incl. UI for developer
  • Auditing out-of-the-box (see who changed what & when)
  • Supervision Server (create own custom silent processes behind the scenes)
  • Use PHP to develop own custom functions, if required (comparable to VBA in excel)
  • Embed any custom HTML & javascript widgets
  • Write your own custom ETL routines with groovy or javascript
  • Automated routines (e.g. "Backup database daily" or "Send a PDF of this report to a group of persons" etc.)
  • No CCU ratio licencing (anymore)
  • No integrated out-of-the-box debugging capabilities when developing applications (especially when developing specific functions with php macros)
  • Complex and not straightforward setup when working with two-tier architecture (separate backend and frontend servers) -> as this setup is very common in web development, this should be standardised and made more straightforward in Jedox
  • Security is (was) not a strength of Jedox and should be improved to the current standards (XSS, HTML injections etc.) (pentested in 2018!)
  • Comparably weak scaling capabilities when an application gets big (>100 CCU) - Jedox is not suitable for big Enterprise applications / BI!
  • It's not an actual disadvantage of Jedox, but just something to be aware of - Jedox is not a solution - it's a set of tools which empower you (or a developer) to build a desired CPM solution; so do not compare Jedox with solution providers like unit4 prevero (which is already an actual solution for planning and budgeting!)
  • No integrated version control

Likelihood to Recommend

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.).

Training Types Used

  • Online training

Support Rating

9
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.

Upgrade Process

Yes
An experienced Jedox developer can perform Jedox upgrade with minimal down time or no down time at all (for suitable environments). Please be aware, that merely installing new Jedox release on the server may not be enough for some cases, as there may be application-related changes required as well (especially if you use lots of php and other custom functions (like widgets) in your Jedox applications).
November 12, 2018

That was easy! Jedox tranforms our reporting experience.

Tobias Crush | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tobias Crush
Director of Finance
Piper Alderman (Law Practice, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currenty we use Jedox within our finance team to simplify the effort of monthly management reporting and our budgeting cycle. Jedox as a tool has given us the flexibility to update and quickly analyse at a high level our general ledger data on an ad-hoc basis as well as in more structured ways. Jedox was selected when our previous GL reporting tool went end of life. We haven't looked back since.

Pros and Cons

  • 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.
  • As a business user, it's hard to "discover" functionality so a bit like Excel we probably miss out on maximising capability.
  • The online knowledge base is not as informative as it could be to help explorers learn about functionality/use cases.
  • Marketplace is still maturing and it's not quite plug and play for some of the models available. This would be a huge gain.

Likelihood to Recommend

We've found Jedox's strength for us has been in our general ledger reporting and budgeting. We are starting to explore more areas where we can leverage the power of Jedox. Without a dedicated development team inhouse we have struggled to set up new reporting cubes, where some competing products are easier to do this with. Jedox is great for data that isn't needing to be "real time" in our experience. We haven't yet leveraged the prospective capabilities of Jedox. Most importantly maximising the use of the models that we have has been the standout as we haven't had to materially upskill the team to leverage the reporting capabilities of Jedox given the familiar spreadsheet interface.
August 11, 2016

Jedox Planning BI Suite - a powerful spreadsheet style solution that's as easy as 1-2-3

Steve Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Adams
General Manager
Mazepoint Ltd (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Within our own organisation, we use Jedox across the board for all planning purposes and operational reporting. This includes financial, sales and project management. We predominantly use Jedox with our clients across a large proposition of our client portfolio, ranging from performance management in the automotive manufacturer sector; through promotions management in the retail and FMCG sector, through service line reporting and patient level costing in the health sector to business intelligence reporting on an international scale in the public sector.

Pros and Cons

  • Self Service BI. With its familiar front end - both the Excel add-in and its web based spreadsheet portal - it is easy for new users to be up and running very quickly, writing reports and answering questions of their data.
  • Budgeting and Planning. At the core to Jedox is its In-Memory OLAP database that can be written to. The Excel like front end is then able to write back to this central database to take advantage of the ease of use of a spreadsheet system, but combine the power of a central database application.
  • Modelling. Jedox has very powerful but easy to use tools to model any business requirement, from simple KPI calculations, through inter- and intra- business unit cost allocations to complex Activity Based Costing and Budgeting.
  • Data Integration. Jedox has a a powerful and easy to use ETL for both reading from and writing to databases, ERP's, Salesforce and Qlikview applications, for example.
  • 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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Jedox is really good when being applied to a specific use case or scenario (such as a budget or planning process). Once embedded, users then start to really understand how it can be used in other, less well defined, areas of their business.

It is therefore not as easy to apply it on an enterprise-wide deployment from a "Big Bang" perspective. But very few tools / projects ever meet this goal.

Support Rating

9
The Jedox support team are highly knowledgeable about both the product and how it is used in real life. They also are typically proactive in resolving issues.
June 18, 2016

Be happy, use Jedox for BI & performance management

Steven Koelemeijer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steven Koelemeijer
Director
Celcus (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Celcus is a specialized consultancy company that helps companies and non-profit organizations meet their information challenges in 2 ways: we help to design, build and maintain applications to meet the needs for intelligence and steering within an organization and; we secure self-proficiency in the business by leveraging in-house capabilities in the area of business intelligence and performance management. We have used Jedox technology as a BI/EPM platform for over 20 customers: large multi-nationals, medium sized businesses, family firms, municipalities, universities and so forth. Most projects start with a focus on creating financial insight and steering. Often it is rolled out throughout the organization to meet all BI and EPM requirements like human resources, sales, procurement and risk. All our Jedox implementations are still being used; have led to 100% satisfaction, more users and more applications to address various common and specific business needs. In general, Jedox is accessible in terms of price, speed of implementation and ease of maintenance. It offers high quality and rich functionality for a reasonable price.

Pros and Cons

  • By now everybody has business intelligence, a logical starting point. However, traditional BI tools do not allow for write back functionality. Sharing expectations among each other in terms of budgets, forecasts, planning and associated comments including workflow and audit trail is not facilitated in BI tools. Jedox offers both BI functionality and such performance management functionality in one integrated platform.
  • It is easy. For many reasons. At the end of the day the proof of the pudding is in the eating. After an initial implementation and some training many of our Jedox customers have started to build their own BI and EPM applications. Be it reporting, dashboards or more complicated applications like cost allocations. Of course one has to keep in mind that this is all relative. Some solutions require a very high technical and business know-how & experience but compared to other tools Jedox is definitely easy.
  • It is fast. To implement but also in terms of (query) performance.
  • Quality/ price ratio is excellent.
  • Jedox has made an important step toward corporate disclosure management functionality but this could be improved/ extended.
  • In terms of visualization Jedox is up there with most well-known BI vendors. However, Jedox lacks the visualization data discovery features that some of these tools offer. Having said that, an analyst will not regard it as a showstopper.

Likelihood to Recommend

As with any selection process I would advise to talk to references and perform a proof of concept.

Support Rating

10
First of all, it is our experience that there are very few issues/ bugs that come with Jedox. If there are issues it is nice that a local Jedox Partner can take care of it for you. In the background they may require help from the Jedox supportdesk but issues are simply solved in the background and the customer has only one local contact point. The Jedox support desk works like clockwork.
February 01, 2016

Jedox the best of two worlds (BI+CPM)

Manuel Ramirez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manuel Ramirez
Director
SOLUTIAN CONSULTING (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a consulting firm that implements financial analytic solutions built with Jedox. Solutions include planning and budgeting, and cost management.

Pros and Cons

  • Write-back to the data repository
  • BI combined with CPM functionalities
  • License Pricing
  • Think Reporting can be improved to look like reporting leaders like Tableau

Likelihood to Recommend

Jedox's planning functionalities are extremely powerful compared to leaders like Cognos TM1, Hyperion and SAP BPC. We are now entering the predictive analytics and will see its level of response when big data come into the game.
June 03, 2018

An Overview of Jedox Premium

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company is a provider of tailored business intelligence solutions. We work with a number of BI technologies based on the specific requirements of our clients. We specialize in services around Power BI and the www.acterys.com solution. Particularly around integrated planning/budgeting, management dashboards and specialized solutions that require real time write back, concept driven modelling (i.e. business end users without IT skills can simulate changes of model structures e.g. dimensions hierarchies) and more complex calculations models.

Pros and Cons

  • integration into Excel
  • Strong Security down to cell level
  • Mobile device support
  • Limited data discovery features but integration with third party products
  • Complex projects require expertise of specialised consultants
  • Limited options for online training but extensive in person training available
  • Limited scalability. For systems with more than 50 users there are better solutions

Likelihood to Recommend

Jedox is particularly suited for small scale applications where users want to do write back, modelling and simulation in Excel
February 01, 2016

Jedox is a speed boat for controllers

Verified User
Consultant in Finance and Accounting
Management Consulting Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Review Source

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by all business units

Pros and Cons

  • Easy to deploy through web interface
  • Highly integrated in Excel, very familiar platform for end users
  • very short implementation at reasonable cost
  • Reporting of relational data is possible but not the strength of Jedox
  • For special requirements it is possible to use programming languages, but you have to learn Groovy, PHP or Java.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited for planning applications. It is less appropriate for a large data warehouse with millions of elements in a dimension: millions of products and customers and transactions.

Jedox Scorecard Summary

Feature Scorecard Summary

BI Standard Reporting (3)
91%
9.1
Pixel Perfect reports (4)
91%
9.1
Customizable dashboards (4)
91%
9.1
Report Formatting Templates (4)
91%
9.1
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
83%
8.3
Drill-down analysis (3)
82%
8.2
Formatting capabilities (3)
82%
8.2
Integration with R or other statistical packages (3)
85%
8.5
Report sharing and collaboration (3)
85%
8.5
Report Output and Scheduling (4)
79%
7.9
Publish to Web (3)
85%
8.5
Publish to PDF (3)
79%
7.9
Report Versioning (3)
70%
7.0
Report Delivery Scheduling (3)
82%
8.2
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
56%
5.6
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (3)
59%
5.9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization (3)
55%
5.5
Predictive Analytics (3)
56%
5.6
Access Control and Security (3)
88%
8.8
Multi-User Support (named login) (3)
88%
8.8
Role-Based Security Model (3)
88%
8.8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete) (3)
88%
8.8
Mobile Capabilities (4)
74%
7.4
Responsive Design for Web Access (3)
85%
8.5
Dedicated iOS Application (3)
70%
7.0
Dedicated Android Application (3)
70%
7.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile (3)
70%
7.0
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
100%
10.0
Long-term financial planning (3)
100%
10.0
Financial budgeting (3)
100%
10.0
Forecasting (3)
100%
10.0
Scenario modeling (3)
100%
10.0
Management reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Consolidation and Close (6)
95%
9.5
Financial data consolidation (3)
100%
10.0
Journal entries and reports (2)
70%
7.0
Multi-currency management (2)
100%
10.0
Intercompany Eliminations (3)
100%
10.0
Local and consolidated reporting (2)
100%
10.0
Detailed Audit Trails (2)
100%
10.0
Financial Reporting and Compliance (4)
100%
10.0
Financial Statement Reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Management Reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Excel-based Reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Automated board and financial reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Analytics (6)
85%
8.5
Personalized dashboards (3)
20%
2.0
Color-coded scorecards (3)
100%
10.0
KPIs (3)
90%
9.0
Cost and profitability analysis (3)
100%
10.0
Key Performance Indicator setting (3)
100%
10.0
Benchmarking with external data (2)
100%
10.0
Integration (3)
93%
9.3
Flat file integration (3)
100%
10.0
Excel data integration (3)
100%
10.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources (3)
80%
8.0

What is Jedox?

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 on the web, the cloud, and on any device.

The vendor’s value proposition is that Jedox empowers users to analyze historical data for meaningful insight, and to plan and forecast intelligently. In addition, the vendor says the powerful and intuitive write-back means users can streamline any business process, in any department, where they capture, calculate and present data.

Jedox Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features

  • Supported: Long-term financial planning
  • Supported: Financial budgeting
  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Scenario modeling
  • Supported: Management reporting

Consolidation and Close Features

  • Supported: Financial data consolidation
  • Supported: Journal entries and reports
  • Supported: Multi-currency management
  • Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
  • Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
  • Supported: Detailed Audit Trails

Financial Reporting and Compliance Features

  • Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
  • Supported: Management Reporting
  • Supported: Excel-based Reporting
  • Supported: Automated board and financial reporting

Analytics Features

  • Supported: Personalized dashboards
  • Supported: Color-coded scorecards
  • Supported: KPIs
  • Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
  • Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
  • Supported: Benchmarking with external data

Integration Features

  • Supported: Flat file integration
  • Supported: Excel data integration
  • Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

Jedox Screenshots

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Jedox Videos

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Why do customer choose Jedox?

Jedox Downloadables

Jedox Integrations

Jedox Competitors

  • Board
  • Qlik
  • Tableau
  • Corporate Planning

Jedox Pricing

Jedox Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, SaaS
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Jedox's best feature?

Reviewers rate Long-term financial planning and Financial budgeting and Forecasting highest, with a score of 10.

Who uses Jedox?

The most common users of Jedox are from Small Businesses and the Information Technology & Services industry.