Board vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Board
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
BOARD is a business decision-making platform for organizations of any size. BOARD hosts several business modeling, planning, and analysis all in one cloud-based platform.N/A
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a solution that helps users model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales, streamline the financial close process. Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Platform is a framework of the technical and functional components shared among Cloud EPM processes.
$250
per user/per month
Pricing
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
EPM Standard
$250
per user/per month
EPM Enterprise
$500
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing per user varies by component within the Oracle EPM Cloud solution. Please see pricing information for the EPM Cloud components on cloud.oracle.com or contact Oracle Sales at +1.800.633.0738.
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Community Pulse
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Considered Both Products
Board
Chose Board
I have used Oracle Cloud EPM in a different company and I can say Board is better in many ways. From ease of integration to offering the best features, Board wins in different aspects. I also find Board more capable.
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.7
94 Ratings
18% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
5.6
3 Ratings
36% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.781 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.794 Ratings4.43 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.787 Ratings4.43 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.7
99 Ratings
21% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
9.2
23 Ratings
11% above category average
Drill-down analysis6.797 Ratings9.722 Ratings
Formatting capabilities5.995 Ratings9.521 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.767 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.490 Ratings8.419 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.1
91 Ratings
14% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
9.0
19 Ratings
9% above category average
Publish to Web6.780 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.588 Ratings8.919 Ratings
Report Versioning6.781 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.579 Ratings9.015 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.2
74 Ratings
6% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
5.9
3 Ratings
25% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.773 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.467 Ratings6.83 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.565 Ratings5.13 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
75 Ratings
16% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
9.2
24 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.573 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.470 Ratings9.323 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.773 Ratings8.920 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.270 Ratings9.321 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.7
78 Ratings
18% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
7.2
2 Ratings
10% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access5.973 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Mobile Application5.858 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.969 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
80 Ratings
12% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
8.8
38 Ratings
6% above category average
Long-term financial planning7.375 Ratings9.230 Ratings
Financial budgeting7.579 Ratings9.738 Ratings
Forecasting6.776 Ratings8.937 Ratings
Scenario modeling8.272 Ratings8.635 Ratings
Management reporting7.578 Ratings7.833 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.2
75 Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
9.1
20 Ratings
12% above category average
Financial data consolidation8.171 Ratings9.817 Ratings
Journal entries and reports6.572 Ratings9.714 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.462 Ratings8.913 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.463 Ratings8.914 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.457 Ratings8.612 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting6.769 Ratings9.716 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails6.666 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.0
78 Ratings
16% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
8.4
34 Ratings
2% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting7.473 Ratings9.629 Ratings
Management Reporting6.777 Ratings7.932 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting6.774 Ratings8.430 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting7.471 Ratings7.828 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing6.651 Ratings8.519 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.3
80 Ratings
10% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
7.7
25 Ratings
4% below category average
Personalized dashboards7.579 Ratings8.225 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.475 Ratings7.73 Ratings
KPIs6.777 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis7.473 Ratings6.74 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting7.572 Ratings8.124 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data7.463 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
78 Ratings
12% below category average
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
9.1
36 Ratings
9% above category average
Flat file integration7.477 Ratings9.634 Ratings
Excel data integration7.476 Ratings9.632 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.472 Ratings8.228 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
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
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(100 ratings)
8.9
(46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(7 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
6.8
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(3 ratings)
8.2
(16 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BoardOracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Board International
Board is a useful tool with a great set of features. We migrated from human apps to board and we find it relatively fast in search results and better-managed threads and forums. There are some areas, such as UI and interactions which could be improved but overall a great product. The learning section is also pretty good.
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Oracle
It is well suited in a geographically distributed environment where you have various key participants in multiple time zones providing input and necessary explanations on performance and measured success It is less appropriate where you have a single office environment with a single finance department working together. It is also less suited when the GL is NOT an Oracle product and the interface between the GL and the reporting software needs to be implemented with utmost care and handling.
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Pros
Board International
  • The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate
  • You don't need programming knowledge to create dashboards which is a great flex for non-technical users
  • You can seamlessly convert large, raw, and complex data to meaningful reports to visualize better and plan to act accordingly
  • The financial forecasting that Board provides post-analysis is truly reliable
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Oracle
  • Account Reconciliation CLoud Services provides tight integration with Oracle R12 and 11i . Provides drillback capability. It is flexible and provides rich functionality to users.
  • We have implemented ARCS on cloud and migrated planning and budgeting from On premise to PBCS and EPBCS. Functionality is onpar with onpremise. Provides regular updates monthly
  • We don't need to upgrades every year and saved a lot on Hardware.
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Cons
Board International
  • Board BI tool has a steep learning curve and can be challenging for a new user to reach to board's full capacity.
  • We have to use a windows scheduler to schedule data import tasks; it would be great if Board could provide its own scheduler.
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Oracle
  • The limitation of constrained out of the box dimensions that requires ripping the initial implementation to add the new dimensions is a major drawback.
  • Smartview interface is cumbersome for many.
  • The only financial adapter is available for integration for other modules we have to go with file-based uploads which is cumbersome and not real-time.
  • It is very costly in terms of licensing unlike other Oracle products.
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Likelihood to Renew
Board International
Board is a fantastic product for swift BI solution delivery when compared with its peers. Ease of use, support and integration with Microsoft Office Addin open a wide horizon of opportunities for further enhancements to solutions. Easy bespoke app development capabilities make it a winner for us. BOARD is just like a white canvas, it lets you explore your creative side while designing and delivering a solution
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Oracle
We have a pretty good userbase who are at the high level who gained value from this tool. Discontinuing this tool is prone to impact their day to day operations. Also the data in this tool cannot alter the source, which maintains the integrity of this tool. Smartview is a cool addition that gained lot of traction as well.
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Usability
Board International
From a user perspective, Board is quite simple to use. You
can evaluate the presentation of the data, the navigation, the configuration of
the users, the selection of the data etc ... It would have a better rating if
it were even more intuitive as regards the construction of a project, starting
from the database, to the info-cubes, to entities, to data acquisition
procedures from other servers.
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Oracle
EPM usability is good in some modules but needs some improvement in others
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Reliability and Availability
Board International
No answers on this topic
Oracle
EPM has been so far available all the time
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Performance
Board International
very fast and no integration problems
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Oracle
The product performance is so far very good
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Support Rating
Board International
The only time I needed assistance was due to a problem in
the prints: the colors of the brochures as they were on the screen were not
reproduced in the print, but a series of standard colors were reproduced. This
fact made colored numbers on a colored background illegible. From the
assistance they confirmed that it was a problem of version 10.2 that occurred
when leaving the brochures with the default colors proposed by Board. To obtain
the desired colors, they had to be personalized ... I didn't like the solution
very much and the technician who recommended it didn't like me either, but they
would have solved the problem with the following versions. In any case, the
assistance was quick and effective even if not exactly efficient.
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Oracle
Support from our implementation partner is a 10/10, but support from Oracle is awful. Case in point: recently over a 2-day period, there were a series of intermittent outages. Oracle actually asked US for the outage time-stamps. I would have thought that, since we were paying them, they should probably be able to tell us!
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In-Person Training
Board International
Board is fairly simple and straight forward. Advance training on workflows and procedures is a good one but the training content only touches through the interesting areas. training content needs to cover a few areas more in-depth
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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Board International
The problem of user profiling in our context is certainly
quite complex. The complexity is given by the fact that the company is divided
territorially into logistic points of sale, but at the same time they are
virtually divided into divisions (or specific implementation areas) and points
of sale of competence. The same operator can have access to data at different
logistic sales points, sales points of competence and divisions.
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Oracle
I suggest doubling the time to implement from the initial quote you get from the Sales team. That's always been the case for me for multiple EPMs now. The out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is pretty robust so I appreciate that and it really helped us get the ball rolling quickly.
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Alternatives Considered
Board International
Board has been more complete when compared to Anaplan. Although I didn't participate in the buying decision of any of those products I have used both and by far Board just has more features. It's more than a CPM, it's BI and CPM put together. If I had to make a choice now it would be Board.
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Oracle
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud fared very well against Adaptive, Anaplan, and Host Analytics. We ultimately decided on Oracle due to its reputation and strength of existing customers. We are happy with our decision.
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Scalability
Board International
No answers on this topic
Oracle
The product is scalable
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Return on Investment
Board International
  • Board facilitates proactive decision making - it gives all the insights of the company's needs, which includes predictive analytics and manipulation of data to make different types of reports.
  • Easy to use for non-programmer and integration with other software is seamless. It has [the] ability to handle large amounts of data.
  • It facilitates advanced decision-making.
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Oracle
  • Significantly reduced the amount of money we spent for the maintenance of in-house hardware.
  • We now need less employees to manage the configurations of Oracle EPM Cloud.
  • There have been many time savings as a whole to apply to more productive causes.
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ScreenShots

Board Screenshots

Screenshot of PlanningScreenshot of Sales PlanningScreenshot of ProfitabilityScreenshot of GeomapScreenshot of ForecastScreenshot of Financial Plan

Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Screenshots

Screenshot of Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in UsageScreenshot of Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise DeploymentScreenshot of Planning and Forecasting - Decision-Oriented Plans with Instant Feedback Loop - What-If Modeling and SandboxScreenshot of Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in UsageScreenshot of User Interface - Role-Based, Intuitive User Interface - Role-Based Navigation Flows - Microsoft Office InterfaceScreenshot of Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise Deployment