Board vs. Pigment

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Board
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Board is presented as an enterprise planning platform, offered as a solution to accelerate business performance and enable continuous planning with greater forecast accuracy to drive confident, aligned decisions.N/A
Pigment
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Pigment is an enterprise-grade business planning platform that provides users with a 360° view of the business, updates its financial models in real-time, and allows users to run what-if scenarios at the click of a button. Pigment aims to enable FP&A and revenue teams to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase internal efficiency, and align financial and operational plans, all while scaling reporting and data management.N/A
Pricing
BoardPigment
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BoardPigment
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BoardPigment
Features
BoardPigment
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.8
91 Ratings
11% below category average
Pigment
7.9
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.678 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.891 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.884 Ratings6.85 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.8
96 Ratings
17% below category average
Pigment
7.5
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Drill-down analysis6.894 Ratings7.86 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.192 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.864 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.587 Ratings7.66 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.1
88 Ratings
14% below category average
Pigment
8.0
6 Ratings
2% below category average
Publish to Web6.877 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.285 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Report Versioning6.878 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.676 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.3
71 Ratings
5% below category average
Pigment
7.4
5 Ratings
4% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.870 Ratings7.75 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.664 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.662 Ratings7.75 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.31 Ratings7.25 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.5
72 Ratings
13% below category average
Pigment
7.9
5 Ratings
8% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.671 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.467 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.870 Ratings7.75 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.367 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Board
6.9
75 Ratings
9% below category average
Pigment
7.2
5 Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access6.170 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Mobile Application6.156 Ratings6.65 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.167 Ratings7.75 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.5
77 Ratings
9% below category average
Pigment
7.9
7 Ratings
4% below category average
Long-term financial planning7.572 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Financial budgeting7.576 Ratings7.87 Ratings
Forecasting6.673 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Scenario modeling8.269 Ratings7.77 Ratings
Management reporting7.675 Ratings7.97 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.3
72 Ratings
8% below category average
Pigment
6.9
6 Ratings
14% below category average
Financial data consolidation8.268 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Journal entries and reports6.869 Ratings6.15 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.559 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.560 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.554 Ratings6.35 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting6.666 Ratings7.15 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails6.863 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.1
75 Ratings
12% below category average
Pigment
7.5
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting7.570 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Management Reporting6.874 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting6.871 Ratings6.75 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting7.568 Ratings7.76 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing6.848 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.4
77 Ratings
8% below category average
Pigment
7.9
7 Ratings
2% below category average
Personalized dashboards7.676 Ratings8.47 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.572 Ratings7.46 Ratings
KPIs6.874 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis7.670 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting7.669 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data7.360 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Board
7.3
75 Ratings
13% below category average
Pigment
7.6
6 Ratings
9% below category average
Flat file integration7.374 Ratings7.65 Ratings
Excel data integration7.373 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.369 Ratings7.56 Ratings
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
BoardPigment
Likelihood to Recommend
6.2
(97 ratings)
7.8
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.7
(5 ratings)
7.5
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BoardPigment
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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Pigment
Planning, financials, and even sales tracking are greatly helpful for project planning. This makes product planning easy; you can simply see what the industry is demanding and what should be produced more in coming quarters. If you have really huge data, then this sometimes crashes.
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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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Pigment
  • Helping organizations assess the impacts of various business decisions effectively​
  • Seamlessly integrates with multiple data sources
  • Collaboration with other teams and teammates
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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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Pigment
  • Its not that stable, need some improvements in stability of the product. Gets crashed sometimes
  • There is learning curv for script as pigment have its own logic things
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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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Pigment
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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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Pigment
Overall most of Pigment is self-service and meant to be used by the business users. It usually doesn't require reaching out to a technical or IT resource to make changes to reports or the models we have setup.
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Performance
Board International
very fast and no integration problems
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Pigment
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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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Pigment
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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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Pigment
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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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Pigment
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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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Pigment
Pigment has a lot of the same self-service capabilities but offers a more robust infrastructure to plan and report on more than just the financial data. It allows for more extended planning and the reporting and dashboard capabilities are very strong.
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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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Pigment
  • Capacity to anticipate better (forecasting accuracy improved)
  • Single source of truth for internal and external financial KPIs
  • Agility to compare scenarios and making decisions based on that
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ScreenShots

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