Light vs Jedox
Jedox is an AI-driven FP&A and performance management platform. Its strength is planning: driver-based models, scenarios and simulations, workforce and sales planning, and an Excel add-in finance teams already know, plus a financial close and consolidation solution covering currency translation, intercompany eliminations and ownership calculations. It reads from ERP, HCM and CRM systems rather than being a ledger. Light is the agentic ERP where the ledger and the consolidation are the same system, and it budgets and forecasts directly on the posted books.
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Light and Jedox, compared
| Feature | Light | Jedox |
|---|---|---|
| General ledger and accounting system of record | ||
| Multi-entity consolidation | ||
| Budget, forecast and budget-vs-actual reporting | ||
| Accounts payable and accounts receivable ledgers | ||
| Corporate cards and spend management | ||
| Vendor payments on local rails | ||
| Consolidation posts continuously as transactions happen |
Consolidate at the source
Jedox consolidates data loaded from your ERPs. Light consolidates as transactions post, with drill-down from group figures to source documents.
Budget against the books
Light budgets and forecasts on the same keys as the ledger, with variance split into operational and FX. The report and the books cannot disagree.
Check the planning requirements
Jedox covers driver-based, scenario and workforce planning. Light budgets and forecasts on the ledger, and its own FP&A and Management Reporting apps are free with your Light plan. If you need those, Light also connects to dedicated planning tools such as Abacum and Drivetrain.
When to choose Light
Budget against the books
Budget and forecast on the same keys as the ledger, with variance split into operational and FX.
Close every entity at once
Consolidation and eliminations update as transactions post.
One product for all of finance
Ledger, cards, bills, billing and consolidation share one data model, so nothing moves between systems.
“We evaluated several vendors. Light won because it covers our full finance stack, revenue, AR, AP, expenses, and consolidation, without stitching together a patchwork of point solutions.”
TanjaDirector of Finance, Omnea
Built for the daily work
Bills through to payment
Capture invoices, route approvals and pay vendors from the same system.
Room to grow
One ledger built to handle billions of transactions across your business.
Trace every number
Open a report and drill straight into the transactions behind it.
Spending, under control
Expenses, vendors and cards connected to your ledger.
Expenses
Collect receipts, approve expenses and track spend as it happens.
Vendors
Keep supplier details, bills and approvals together. Apply your purchasing rules as work moves through.
Cards
Issue cards for employees and vendors. Pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. Send receipts through Slack, Teams or email.
Frequently asked questions
Is Jedox a general ledger?
No. It plans, consolidates and reports on data from connected systems.
Can Light replace our entity ERPs?
Light provides the ledger, payables, receivables, spend and consolidation in one platform.
When does Jedox fit?
When you need driver-based, scenario or workforce planning, or consolidate across ERPs you plan to keep.