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Why we compare BI and reporting tools on these topics
| Topic | BI Book | Control.dev |
|---|---|---|
| 01 The work around the report | Reports in the browser, models in Power BI Desktop BI Book’s admins and editors edit standard reports in the browser, while changes to the data and model views need Power BI Desktop1, and additional ordered services are billed by the hour2. | Your team changes it, or asks Claude Your finance team edits the functional P&L, its allocation keys and a layout per audience, AI suggests the account mapping for the team to accept, and Claude drafts a dashboard you apply or discard, with no consultants to pay. |
| 02 When the second ledger arrives | Group reporting, or reporting on a consolidation tool BI Book describes group reporting with drill-down across the group, and connectors to the consolidation tools AARO, Clausion FPM and Tiego3. | Eliminations in their own column, CTA kept apart Control.dev consolidates the ledgers each entity keeps, calculates Currency CTA and Elimination CTA apart from the eliminations, your AI client lists the intercompany pairs that do not match, and every figure opens to its entries. |
| 03 Planning on the same numbers | A planning add-on with balance sheet and cash flow BI Book Planning generates balance sheet budgets and cash flow forecasts from the P&L budget, with scenarios across dimensions4, and is sold as an add-on5. | A budget from a prompt, versions you can lock The P&L, balance sheet and cash flow are planned together, every version keeps its history and a locked one refuses every write, and your AI client drafts values with a reason on every cell. |
| 04 AI on the numbers | BI Book AI with MCP servers With BI Book AI activated, MCP servers open the reports and raw data to the AI model you choose6, for a base fee of EUR 100 a month that includes EUR 50 of AI credits7. | Claude, ChatGPT or Codex on the consolidated group They work over MCP with the user’s own role in every plan, and that MCP is built and tested for group accounting. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger: it finds what needs attention and traces it to the entries. It also reviews a month’s bookings on request and drafts the board pack, and Control.dev’s own AI chat processes data in the EU. |
| 05 Time to live, and how you leave | Under two weeks to set up, from EUR 19 a month, one month’s notice BI Book’s experts set a company up in under two weeks8, prices start from EUR 19 a month5, and its terms run until terminated with one month’s notice unless agreed otherwise9. | Live in under two hours for most companies, no setup fee, billed monthly Our team sets up the integrations and the mapping and most companies have live data in under two hours, the prices are public with no setup fee and no multi-year contract, the notice period starts from one month, billing is monthly and the free trial runs 30 days. |
Control.dev consolidates the ledgers a group already runs into one group view with eliminations.
Where BI Book is the better choice
When teams look at Control.dev
From what finance teams have told us about the moment they started looking. We name no customers.
- The hours went into the work around the report, not into the report itself. Mapping, budget imports and checks happened in spreadsheets before the numbers reached the dashboard.
- A new subsidiary arrived on another ledger. The group needed consolidation, and the board pack had to look the same as before.
- The eliminations and the budget master lived in workbooks that were imported every round.
Which fits your finance team
Choose BI Book if you want Power BI reports across finance, HR, sales and operations from one vendor, or the lowest entry price.
Choose Control.dev if you want your own consolidated view across entities and ledgers from the first week, with the three-statement plan and AI on the same numbers, and reports your team changes.
30 minutes on your ledgers and your first question.
Working with Control.dev
- Live in hours or days, not months Our team sets Control.dev up with you. Most companies have live data in under two hours from the first call, a larger group takes days, the hardest a few weeks, and there is no setup fee at any size. The comparison hub shows how long each vendor says its own rollout takes.
- Prices on one page, nothing billed on the side EUR 249, 499 and 999 a month excluding VAT, on the pricing page, with no multi-year contract and a notice period from one month. Support, user changes and settings changes are in the price, and nothing is billed per ticket or per request.
- Close support from the people who build the product Your questions go to the team that builds Control.dev, most are answered within minutes and almost all the same day, and we work through accounting and group-structure questions with you, not only software questions.
- Your AI client on a structure built for group accounting Claude, ChatGPT or Codex works on Control.dev over an MCP built and tested for group accounting. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger: it finds what needs attention and traces it to the entries, within the access your role allows.
- Built with the finance teams that use it, at pace Our roadmap comes from our customers, demanding finance professionals, and a gap in a feature list is the best news we can get. A missing feature typically ships in days and a larger one in weeks. A ledger connector we would build anyway comes at no extra cost; today Control.dev connects Netvisor, Procountor, Easor (Talenom), Fortnox, Spiris (formerly Visma eEkonomi), Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo, Xledger and NetSuite, plus Stripe.
- A younger product, and who it is for Control.dev is built by Finata Oy in Helsinki since 2024, by a team from finance roles and finance systems. It fits a team that already works with AI tools, or wants to, and would rather not keep data engineers or system consultants for its reporting. If AI is not something your company wants to work with, we are probably the wrong partner, and where another tool covers more than Control.dev, the page above says so.
What switching looks like
- 1 Run both side by side for a period. Control.dev reads your ledgers with read-only access by default, so BI Book and your ledgers stay as they are while you compare the numbers. The 30-day free trial covers up to three integrations.
- 2 Send us screenshots of the three or four reports your board already knows, and we rebuild them in Control.dev first, so the first month looks familiar.
- 3 Your contract and notice period decide when you leave the current tool. Control.dev has no implementation fee and no multi-year contract, and its notice period starts from one month, so the parallel run can start well before then.
Questions
Is Control.dev an alternative to BI Book?
For multi-entity groups, often. If you need Power BI reports across finance, HR, sales and marketing, BI Book is built for that11. If you need the group consolidated from the ledgers every month, with the eliminations and CTA in view and the plan on the same numbers, Control.dev is built for that.
What do setup and later changes cost?
With Control.dev, our team sets up the integrations and the mapping with no setup fee, and most companies have live data in under two hours. Later changes to a mapping, a layout or a dashboard are made by your team or its AI client, with no consultants to pay. BI Book’s experts set a company up in under two weeks and can provide an interim data analyst8, Planning and extra connectors are add-ons5, and additional ordered services are billed by the hour2. Control.dev publishes its monthly prices, excluding VAT: EUR 249 for one entity and one integration, EUR 499 for consolidation with three integrations and EUR 999 with five, where a Stripe connection counts as one integration, with no implementation fee, no multi-year contract and a notice period from one month.
Can we use Claude or ChatGPT on our data?
Yes, with either product. With BI Book AI activated, BI Book provides MCP servers for its reports and raw data6, at a base fee of EUR 100 a month that includes EUR 50 of AI credits7. In Control.dev, Claude, ChatGPT and Codex work with the consolidated group, draft the budget with a reason on every value and draft dashboards you apply or discard, in every plan. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger. The product docs show how to connect each client.
Can we run Control.dev next to BI Book?
Yes. Control.dev reads each ledger through its official API with read-only access by default, so it runs next to BI Book without changing your books. Start with the 30-day free trial on up to three integrations.
Which ledgers does each connect to?
BI Book’s accounting connectors include Netvisor, Procountor, Fennoa, Talenom, Fivaldi, Heeros, Lemonsoft, Fortnox and more12, and its terms let customers build connectors of their own with BI Book’s tools13. Control.dev connects Netvisor, Procountor, Easor (Talenom), Fortnox, Spiris (formerly Visma eEkonomi), Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo, Xledger and NetSuite, plus Stripe for billing data, and German entities on DATEV come in as an export through an AI client. Singa consolidates three entities in different systems and currencies, without an ERP project.
Where is the data stored?
BI Book says its own service stores and processes data in the EU, and that AI prompts stay in the EU when only Azure OpenAI is enabled14. Control.dev’s data is hosted on Google Cloud in Hamina, Finland, encrypted in transit and at rest. Control.dev’s own AI features process data in the EU; an AI client you connect over MCP processes what it reads under your agreement with its provider.
What support do we get?
Close support on every plan. Your questions go to the team that builds Control.dev, most are answered within minutes and almost all the same day, and we work through accounting and group-structure questions with you, not only software questions. Support, user changes and settings changes are in the price, and Enterprise adds a dedicated Slack channel and priority support.
