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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Board

    Score9 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

    Salesforce Spiff

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Salesforce Spiff is a commission software that combines the familiarity of a spreadsheet with automation at scale. It is designed to streamline workflows, enable easier communication, and instill a high level of trust across all stakeholders.

    $900

    per year per user

    Pricing
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Spiff
    $75
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    Considered Both Products
    Board International
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    56 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    228 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    126 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    227 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    109 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    96 Answers
    Features
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    6.8
    91 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.778 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards6.991 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.984 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    6.9
    96 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis6.994 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities6.292 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.964 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.687 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.2
    88 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web6.977 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.285 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning6.978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.676 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.3
    71 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.970 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.664 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.662 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.5
    72 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.671 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.970 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.367 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    6.9
    75 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.256 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.5
    77 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting7.676 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting6.773 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling8.369 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting7.675 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.3
    72 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation8.368 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports6.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management7.659 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations7.660 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.654 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting6.766 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails6.963 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.2
    75 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting7.670 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting6.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting6.971 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting7.668 Ratings00 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing6.948 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards7.676 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs6.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis7.670 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting7.669 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data7.460 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    7.4
    75 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Salesforce Spiff
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration7.474 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration7.473 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.369 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Board and Salesforce Spiff
    Feature
    Board
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Spiff
    8.1
    218 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Sales compensation plan creation00 Ratings7.7167 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting00 Ratings7.5149 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation00 Ratings9.1195 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance00 Ratings7.3122 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting00 Ratings8.6191 Ratings
    Incentive modeling00 Ratings9.1137 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy00 Ratings7.9115 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility00 Ratings7.3110 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Everstage
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.2
    (97 ratings)
    8.9
    (234 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (223 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    4.5
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.3
    (87 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    6.3
    (95 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BoardSalesforce Spiff
    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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    Salesforce
    Spiff can serve well organizations that regularly pay OTE and performance-based incentives as it takes away the pain for users to track their OTE pay. It is also very convenient to access past reports for comparison or whatever purpose you may need it for. The build-in ticketing system also allows users to easily raise inquiries and for admins to have a single inbox for inquiries that they need to address.
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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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    Salesforce
    • It syncs with your internal systems to show how much you have sold during the current period.
    • It tells you how much you should expect to get paid based on your sales.
    • It keeps track of how you have performed over the course of the year and tells you when you are in accellerators.
    • It also details your organizations sales rules and payout rules so that you just have one place to go for all questions commission related.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Although reporting has been improved, it's an area that I feel could use more development (which they are doing).
    • Exports are good but to make them great, being able to customize the formatting and data that shows and which data doesn't show would be a great improvement.
    • The backend can be somewhat confusing with statements and obligations and which should be used when and so on, just as one example. With that being said they are very willing to teach and also just do the updates for you if needed, but if it was a little more intuitive without that help would make it better.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    I enjoy using it and it is easy to see where you stand, the issue is still no live tracking, or at the very least, twice daily updates. You have the update in the morning, but I would like to see where I stand at the end of the day as well
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Overall, the use cases of Spiff have been helping us to address important problems when it comes to commission calculation: (1) Accuracy of the commission calculation, (2) Transparency over how the commission is calculated, (3) Automation of commission calculation, which in turn saves us significant amount of time and energy and allow us to focus more on more important tasks
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    Reliability and Availability
    Board International
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    In all my time using Spiff, I only recall it being unoperational (outside the times when there is scheduled maintence. During those times, Spiff does a good job at communicating when their services will be offline and why). The times when I do get a small error, 9 times out a 10 a simple refresh of the browser will fix the issue.
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    Performance
    Board International
    very fast and no integration problems
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    Salesforce
    Pages load quickly, dashboards update numerous times throughout the day, and the integrations are seamless and operate without a hitch. On occasion, commissions will be delayed in calculating corrctly by a day or so, but that is quite rare. I don't find that delay to be a huge hinderance anyways.
    Incentivized
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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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    Salesforce
    I needed my account to be set up and there seemed to be some technical issues with onboarding and a customer service rep made herself immediately available to liaison with our IT department to get me up and running. I did not expect them to tend to our request with such urgency.
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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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Board International
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    The training was conducted by our Spiff Account Manager and they would even create recorded videos we could send to the sales team so when they log in, they would understand how to use Spiff. Account managers at Spiff are a huge reason why I like that company.
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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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    Salesforce
    I wasnt invovled but I heard it went smoothly!
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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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    Salesforce
    It is a night and day difference between Sheets and Excel. The fact that it is integrated with Salesforce and calculates commission as you close deals make it super transparent and efficient when it comes to tracking your performance and commission. Spiff takes the manual work out of the equation. Reduces human error and increases collaboration.
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    Scalability
    Board International
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    We have a fairly large Enterprise sales team (200+ people and growing). Back when I first started at my organization this number was actually around 100 people. We've doubled in size since then and we have had zero problems adding these additional users.
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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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    Salesforce
    • increased transparency, allows me to share with my boss where i am at, i dont have to create a separate document tracking this information myself
    • Reassurance on payout and accuracy, i know what is in Salesforce Spiff is already approved and directly translates to the payout of my goals
    • reduction in errors and improved/less communication with the finance team for payouts. no other conversation needs to happen
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Board Screenshots

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

    Salesforce Spiff Screenshots

    Screenshot of real-time commission statements.Screenshot of customized plans in Spiff's Designer tool.Screenshot of the Spiff experience within Salesforce.Screenshot of multi-step approval workflows to expedite statements getting approved and finalized for payroll.Screenshot of Commission Estimator for improved visibility and behavior for sellers and managers, which in turn, drives more revenue.Screenshot of With Spiff’s Mobile App you can understand how much you are making, how much you have the potential to earn, and progress toward goals, from anywhere!