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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.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/zF/oP/BKAWHUGFX1X2.JPEGBoard InternationalAn Affordable solutions with many possibilities2019-04-16T16:06:35.785ZWe brought this into the utility department to help managers and the director in making management decisions. We have provided instant access to reports and data that they need to manage their job and staff. We have expanded the software to use for budgeting and forecasting and have plans to expand to other uses and areas in the department.
The city has just purchased BOARD to start using in the budgeting process for the city. They also have plans to expand to help provide reports to other departments and City Council.,Financial Reports: In the past it would take us about 1 1/2 days to prepare manager financial reports and then several hours to provide the detail as needed. These reports were only issued monthly. Currently staff have the ability to run financials any time they need them and then drill down to see the detail of the expenses. This has freed up around two days of work for financial staff.
Budget forecasts and projections. We have the ability to pull financial reports for several years to review the expenditures and revenues. This has aided in better projections and forecasts and we can then monitor budget to actual during the year. In the past this was done by downloading data by year to excel spreadsheets.,We have limited staff and training has been very limited. During the time of installation the City was going through financial troubles and many of the training times were cancelled due to mandated meetings and training. Better user manuals would be helpful,10,We have found great savings in time. Also we have better decision making abilities with updated data,10,9,Having a single place to collect all data and then to pull reports is very beneficial for the City. And the ability to apply the same process to building the reports helps to avoid human errors. Getting away from large excel spreadsheets help maintain the data accuracy,William RiggsBest BI and reporting system2018-12-13T21:47:52.383ZIt is used across our organization to serve as a group reporting system. We also implemented some interfaces with other legacy systems to collect data and calculate business KPI.,Flexible
Easy to use for the end users
Easy to integrate with other systems,Management of the licenses is too rigid and too expensive
Improvement to move on a SaaS base,8,Positive impact, because it allowed us to eliminate a set of Excel-based reporting
Increased the speed to get data from the different companies of the group in a standardized way,9,9,Because it's easier to maintain one system, to use the same platform to create reports. It's also easier for management persons to know that everything can be found on one platform. This last point probably is considered low value, but in my opinion is a good advantage.,QlikView,Salesforce CPQ (formerly SteelBrick), Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MS SharePoint, Moodle, JIRA SoftwareVerified UserBOARD BI & CPM TOOL2018-09-25T15:55:43.964ZBOARD as the name suggests is a blank canvas. One can use it for traditional BI/MI reporting or to implement workflow driven corporate performance management. Here at L&Q we have been using it for a number of years primarily for our BI needs. However, recently we have started realizing its true potential with its CPM capabilities.,Easy to use procedures for workflow implementation.
Quick rollout time.
Attractive looking dashboards.,Smaller community compared to competition.
ETL function is not as strong as compared to other tools.,7,BOARD has played a vital role in automation within our organisation. All our stat accounts and management accounts are fully automated.
Helped business to move away from multiple spreadsheet culture to a single version of truth.,8,6,Users need not to learn multiple platform to use system effectively.Centralised data centre.Management - Its much more easier to manage one system the two different systems. Cost effective.,,Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM), SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) PlatformGaurav SuriBoard is a robust CPM & BI tool...Tech Savvy Required.2018-09-12T20:19:14.858ZBoard is currently being used to deploy a suite of dashboards that analyze and dissect manufacturing, sales and other operational data. In addition to that, we are also working on implementing all of our financials P&L, BS within a new board capsule/dashboard. We are automating this process to allow for less manual intervention and have ongoing financials and avoiding using spreadsheets.,Board has some nice visuals and has an interesting way of working with its data model
The CPM portion where Board allows you to enter data and store it is particularly useful
Board also has a nice online web based user interface,Board's data readers and data model are somewhat more complex than advertised as "out of the box" to implement. You need more training than other tools such as PowerBI and Tableau
Board's training materials (on demand video) are well put together but costly and don't address all the details you'd like them to. The social blogs also address some topics but don't cover materials particularly well.
The look and current feel for Board on the desktop version looks a bit outdated (Office 2007 themed). I'm aware this will change in the coming months.,8,We've been able to provide and update our sales numbers with ease and enhance overall operational efficiency
We will have sizeable time cost savings once our P&L and BS are standardized and fully automated.
Due to the complexity of implementation, we are currently still facing an uphill learning curve.,7,7,Using a single integrated platform is ultimately what led us to choose to use Board. Having the ability to analyze data and also create new data entry points from a CPM standpoint was the biggest and most compelling reason to choose this system. Using the two features, allows for greater operational efficiency.,,Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Office 365Carlos Artieda, MBAToday the use of BOARD is so extensive and pervasive, that the only limit is imagination2018-09-26T16:01:57.153ZIn the company we use BOARD to analyze multiple aspects of the business. In particular I'd highlight how we use it to control sales and margins. We're able to perform this analysis using things stats from each day, such as point of sale, article, card, promotion and historical product return of the article; or the control of all the KPI of the logistics department (warehouse entries, preparation of exits, transportation, service level, personnel costs, saturation of vehicles and warehouses, KM carried out, costs per KM, points of sale served, etc.); or the control and management of store inventories.
With the new version of BOARD we will build an analysis of a single receipt as far back as 3 years, which means several million records.,Purchasing analysis (supplier performance analysis and buyer by area, department, product, merchandise). In this way, we have the corrective measures necessary to improve and speed up our results.
Management of variances analysis on the cash & carry budget
Marketing analysis (incidence of sales promotions and margins)
Implementation speed of analysis.
Flexibility and speed of analysis
Possibility to read more data sources and combine them
Easy to use. In order to be able to manage and develop new applications, you don't need to have too much skill,Charts. Obviously waiting to be able to use the new version of BOARD (11)
In some cases I need some help creating a data reader
Exports to Excel as charts, and not as reports
Databases do not communicate with each other
You need to have very powerful servers,10,I assume that the sales and margins analyzes are very useful, but I cannot quantify,9,8,The benefits can be many; in the first place the possibility of mixing data and numbers coming from the two parts. The key to success is to understand how effective your business processes are. This helps keep every goal on track, meaning everything from project management to distribution and sales can reach their peak efficiency. And all of this with completely reduced lead time.,,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Managementdavide bruzzoneBOARD - CPM&BI in a unique customizable platform2018-09-24T14:11:34.480ZBOARD is the unique platform for sales, cost and investment monitoring and planning. It solve the problem to unify various platform and to centralize the data management into controlling department. It is used as CPM and BI, in terms of CPM we speed up the processes of budget, forecast and 3-years plan in the 3 dimensions (economic-patrimonial-financial). The best enforcement is made by the split & splat logic and by the possibility to plan by scenarios.,Data visualization and data entry one single screen.
Split & splat data entry with hierarchical logic.
Lots of data retrieved from different sources in little time.
Workflow easy and robust in terms of confirmation and monitoring.,Data security - i.e. As of today is not possible to define "only read" a portion of a cube.
Definition of password by the end-user for restricted access to some screen or execute some procedures.
Self-retrieval of data from different database (as of now it is mandatory to extract cube from database 1 and re-load to database 2).,9,Less time to retrieve data and means more time to analyze it.
Standardization of report means much more time to make comments.
Many planning environments allows more attention to planning.,10,9,First af all, is possible to see actual and historical data into the same screen where the end user makes the data entry of the planning data. The second point is that is possible to make a comparison analysis in real time without back and forward with another software. At the end, when the logic and the report are the same in planning and data analysis, people are more happy to collaborate in respect to separate environments.,Talentia CPM,SAP Business One, Talentia CPM, IBM CognosPietro Di CinoBOARD... a critical tool for our biz.2018-09-11T15:05:08.181ZIt is being used as the front end to our ERP system. It is primarily being used by Finance, Sales and Logistics, but we are constantly finding new applications for it as it allows for quick reporting and analysis on various data sets.,Ease of use- Can very easily set up a new data set and "slice and dice" it with visuals, KPIs, and dashboards.
Ease of implementation- we were set up in 2 weeks for all of our financial data.
Great support- Board provides quick turns on requests and listens to feedback for future releases.,Nothing of note... occasionally have some questions for when we utilize BOARD in Excel.,10,Big impact... allowed us to stay on an old ERP to address the reporting shortcomings
Significant value add to other departments by being able to quickly turn new reports and analyses,10,10,BOARD has been institutionalized in our company as a result of the value add that has been provided through analytics, dashboards, and reports. This allows for consistency and buy-in from various stakeholders on the KPIs and metrics that are monitored to help manage our business.,Brian ZolkosGood product, for a large range of usages and users.2018-09-25T16:29:02.669ZBOARD is used in several countries.
In France, BOARD is mainly used by the most important BU.
Its main uses are:
- track sales
- budgeting,Good look and feel.
Capability to broadcast reports using paramaters set IDs.
Mix data coming from several technical sources.
Entering data (simulation).,Difficult to find high level third parties.,8,Help sales and marketing department to understand business growth.
Adapt logistic to sales.,8,8,N/A,QlikView, IBM Cognos and Pentaho,SAP Business WarehousePhilippe NOMEZINEBoard BI2018-09-25T16:19:49.193ZBOARD is used across the whole organization, Sales, Finance and C/S.,Great tool for creating sales reports and dashboards. Customer support is very proactive.
BOARD is easy to setup and configure and not require lengthy project implementation timelines.
BOARD is able to empower the end users to create dynamic visualizations to support the needs of their business.,I have no dislikes of the product and am impressed by the improvements made to BOARD over the past years, as it shows they are future thinking in understanding what Businesses are after.,8,Ease to load data.
Visual presentations.
Drill-down capabilities.,8,8,One of most important strength of BOARD is the unified platform because offers all the functionalities needed to build any Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management application solution without the use of any programming.,IBM Cognos and QlikView,SAP Business One, Ivanti ITSM Service Desk, powered by Heat (formerly LANDESK Service Desk), Microsoft Office 2016pietro addamianoGreat exciting BI tool2017-05-23T18:35:13.919ZGVA uses BOARD to provide external clients with the ability to review their property portfolios. Users can review lease renewals, geographic locations, and financial summaries. Being programming language free, data models can be created very quickly and the design process can be very quick to visualize and implement. With powerful writeback and security features, it is possible to create user settings which persist after each session, meaning that such settings do not need to be reset on each successive login session. Also, this same ability allows for users to carry out forecast analysis by entering their own values to test without changing the global settings. The power of BOARD is now really starting to show itself and I'm very excited for what we will be building with it in the coming months.,Fast data modeling prototyping with data fast track.
Writeback allows for developers to create workflows and amazing security control which are quite a task for other BI software packages and usually require far more technical involvement and skill.
Geographic charting is fantastic. Being able to see the metrics and KPIs of properties in clusters on a map of the UK really allows the user to build a story.,The developer environment should be accessible from the internet. Developing on a desktop only to find visual issues online is quite time-consuming to rectify.,10,10,10,,Microsoft Power BI, Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server,1400Paul WyattBOARD review2018-10-04T18:48:47.266ZWe use it across departments and locations. We utilize BOARD to gather similar info from different systems so we can read and analyze the data. We are an international company, so you can imagine all of the data systems we utilize. Utilizing BOARD has been a time saver!! We do not have to manually upload information anymore, but can rely on BOARD to do all of that! It's great to see your data displayed all in one location. The front end users love it too, as they do not have to change their data platforms. Win-win!,Pulling info from different data systems
Easy to read
Friendly customer service,End-user displays in which you do not have to buy a license for them to see the data being analyzed.
So far we have been really pleased.,9,Data pull
Reduction in time. We aren't having to manually input/export data
Friendly visuals!,8,,Better analyzations and decision making! You no longer have to spend time making manual calculations or adjustments. So goodbye to the never-ending Excel data sheets. You can now get your information in graphs, charts, etc. You can slice and dice. You can really drill down to the source of a problem and actively understand the driving sources.,Tableau ServerVerified UserA flexible tool with capabilities beyond your scope2018-09-26T21:14:49.145ZCurrently, we use BOARD as our reporting tool for financial statements and KPIs. Shortly, we hope to use it for our planning platform as well.,Board is a very flexible tool
It allows multiple users to access information in real time
The Excel add-in is very helpful,Not enough training/certifications
Not as intuitive as one would hope. Really helps to be a software/IT person to fully understand BOARD's capabilities,8,Has helped us save time in monthly close, due to the fact that we can now report in the platform rather than Excel.
Allows our business partners to get real time analytics to make actionable decisions.,4,10,Having all your information in one place is very helpful and allows for a singular truth in the data. This is helpful for not only financial statements and forecasting, but also KPIs to help drive those efforts.,Prophix and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM),UltiPro, Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance ManagementVerified UserBoard BI helps us make better, data driven decisions2018-09-26T16:44:14.382ZBOARD is being used across the whole organisation with about 70 active users who would use it on a weekly basis at least. It is our main BI system and source for tracking company performance, KPI's for individuals as well as teams. It is also used for planning, budgeting,forecasting, inventory management and various other information sources.,Access of data from anywhere anytime with up-to-date information, making it easy for users to make decisions based on accurate information
Ability to drill through to the minute details to a transactional level
Flexibility of being able to read information from various sources whether it be our ERP, data warehouse or even an Excel spreadsheet.,Excel add-in is not very stable but is not a big issue as it's only used by finance team
Some procedures to update information do take long to run and update.,9,Very positive impact on our overall business objective. We haven't formally calculated the ROI but based on user feedback, I can confidently say that the payback was 2 years for the investment me made. Happy with the decision we made for selecting BOARD.,10,8,Single source of truth, cost effective and less training required due to the software having both BI and CPM capabilities.Verified UserPowerful but challenging2018-09-12T20:46:17.392ZWe purchased BOARD with an immediate need to have a system for budgeting and forecasting with hopes of expanding its use into other areas of the business. BOARD helped us improve our budgeting and forecasting builds.,The drag and drop reporting capability is great.
The database structure is flexible and easy to understand.,Training, training, training. They need ongoing user training available for all functions of the software. User manual is good but not enough.
Availability of consultants. They seem to be understaffed, and when you need to have some work done, you may need to wait.,6,As our prior method for budgets and forecasting was in Excel, we had no where to go but up.,8Verified UserBoard goes further2018-09-28T19:36:29.888ZBOARD is used by management, administrative office and sales forces. Through the BOARD, you have access to all historical sales data and to all historical statistics. It is used in the analysis and budget insertion phase as well as in the analysis of purchases. another important area of use is market analysis and management control.,Simplicity of use
Execution speed
Scalability on the query function,Web interface
Client interface
Improve graphic creation,10,A very high impact,10,10,Easy integration and management of information. resource savings in process management,SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform,Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM), Microsoft SQL Server, Talend Data Integration, SentinelOne, F-Secure Protection Service for Business, F-Secure Radar, Fortinet FortiGate, Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Microsoft Application Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), VMware ESXiVerified UserNew to Board, but can't wait to be a Pro2018-09-27T19:36:39.911ZWe are still implementing Board for our company - we intend to use it for all reporting, planning, and forecasting for the company which is done manually via Excel today.,It allows users to create their own reports based on their current needs
It has dash-boarding capabilities that allow for consistent reporting of key metrics at your fingertips
It provides us the ability to combine several sources of data into one reporting tool,We use a fiscal calendar and we continue to struggle to make that work seamlessly in Board.
We do not have strong IT support to launch this, which has proven a challenge with implementation as the tool is not intuitive to set up as a non-IT person.,6,We anticipated having it up and running within 4 months of purchase, but we are currently coming up on our 1 year anniversary and still have not been able to take advantage of the system as we originally anticipated.
We still believe it is the right tool for our company and hope to be able to launch it and use all its capabilities.,7,5,We are not far enough along in our implementation to rate this.,Tableau Desktop, Looker and Microsoft Power BIVerified UserBOARD is good!2018-09-25T16:02:26.417ZBOARD is used across the whole organization, mainly in Finance and Sales department but also in Supply Chain and Production.
We are using it mainly to monitor and analyze sales actual and forecast,The use of different dimensions of analysis that you can customize depending on the situation.
It's a fast tool that merges many different databases.
The reports can be easily customized.,The full database can't be downloaded but only appears in BOARD. It can't be exported in Excel for the users that don't use BOARD.,9,Very positive.,10,8,We are able to truck all at the same time.,SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation),SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Verified UserBOARD review2018-09-17T20:22:12.078ZIt is being used by every single department for reporting purposes, from finance to operations, and has been a great tool for budgeting. It really has given us a good outlook on our wins and losses.,It can connect to any database platform.
The HTML front end is improving.
It is easy to use.,The technical support has been very poor.
The mobile capabilities are nonexistent.
We have no been able to get broadcast emailing capabilities working, and technical support has not helped.,7,It's a great budgeting and measuring against tool.
It provides drill downs for more information to explain results.,7,6,It provides streamlining for information (one source of truth).,Verified UserReview2018-09-12T20:22:20.876ZBoard tool is used mainly for sales trend and margin analysis, budget and forecast process and to monitor the board users' activity.,Easy to use and flexible,ETL manager is poor,7,Board helps controllers and agents to get a picture of the company's health but it is hard to say how improved our business in terms of KPI.,5,,We find extremely convenient have both in one, the CPM + BI solution is used mainly for the budget and forecast process.,Business Objects SRC and QlikViewVerified UserBOARD delivered on our expectations, on time and on budget2018-01-31T16:35:48.051ZWe use BOARD to show our KPI scorecards for each business unit. Our finance team can control which KPIs are used for which business unit, change KPIs and update data without any help from IT. As we add other datasources, BOARD will be our single source of the truth. The numbers in BOARD will be managed by Finance to ensure the highest data quality.,One purchase many uses - By buying BOARD once, we can use it throughout the company for a variety of purposes. As more staff become familiar with it, they are starting to use it on their own, wherever they see a fit for it.
No programming - There is no need to understand any programming language. Everything is visual and easy to follow.
Mature product - BOARD has many well-respected brands using it already. We didn't want to be the first ones to try something new.
Easy drilling - Drilling is an out of the box feature. I don't need to setup anything special to see the details behind a given report.,Mobile - The mobile experience is not as slick as the desktop yet.
Financial Reporting Formats - Some of the formatting required to have pixel-perfect reporting is hard to do. I'd like to be able to setup a standard format for financial reporting that would apply across all our financial reports.
Tips - As a blank canvas, sometimes I'm not sure what add. It would be nice to have some kind of suggestion feature of what additional features I could add.,10,IBM Cognos TM1, Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, Adaptive Suite and Budget Maestro,10,10,Salesforce App Cloud, CamtasiaBob GillBOARD and Tavola Spa2017-05-24T16:36:04.825ZWe use BOARD for financial consolidation, selling and forecasting analysis.,User-friendly
Possibility to read and write data,Reporting needs improvement,8,Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft BI,9Valerio LupoCOO2014-10-07T14:37:17.502ZBoard Business Intelligence is being used for budgeting and data mining of revenue and projects.,Allows non technical people to find the results they are looking for
Speed of implementation
Multiple client choices web, apps office, and Client,None,10,,10,Company wide for consulting and executive,8,8,9,15,1,Budget
Corporate Performance
Reporting variable compensation,For Customers we have built inventory forecasting
Cash Flow Projections,performance reviews
resource planning,Yes,Price
Product Features
Product Usability,Consider cost of ownership. The cost to
run most products eclipses the initial cost to implement with previous products,10Mark BreznakWindows, Linux, Mac
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April 16, 2019
An Affordable solutions with many possibilities
We brought this into the utility department to help managers and the director in making management decisions. We have provided instant access to reports and data that they need to manage their job and staff. We have expanded the software to use for budgeting and forecasting and have plans to expand to other uses and areas in the department.
The city has just purchased BOARD to start using in the budgeting process for the city. They also have plans to expand to help provide reports to other departments and City Council.
The city has just purchased BOARD to start using in the budgeting process for the city. They also have plans to expand to help provide reports to other departments and City Council.
- Financial Reports: In the past it would take us about 1 1/2 days to prepare manager financial reports and then several hours to provide the detail as needed. These reports were only issued monthly. Currently staff have the ability to run financials any time they need them and then drill down to see the detail of the expenses. This has freed up around two days of work for financial staff.
- Budget forecasts and projections. We have the ability to pull financial reports for several years to review the expenditures and revenues. This has aided in better projections and forecasts and we can then monitor budget to actual during the year. In the past this was done by downloading data by year to excel spreadsheets.
- We have limited staff and training has been very limited. During the time of installation the City was going through financial troubles and many of the training times were cancelled due to mandated meetings and training. Better user manuals would be helpful
December 13, 2018
Best BI and reporting system
It is used across our organization to serve as a group reporting system. We also implemented some interfaces with other legacy systems to collect data and calculate business KPI.
- Flexible
- Easy to use for the end users
- Easy to integrate with other systems
- Management of the licenses is too rigid and too expensive
- Improvement to move on a SaaS base
September 25, 2018
BOARD BI & CPM TOOL
BOARD as the name suggests is a blank canvas. One can use it for traditional BI/MI reporting or to implement workflow driven corporate performance management. Here at L&Q we have been using it for a number of years primarily for our BI needs. However, recently we have started realizing its true potential with its CPM capabilities.
- Easy to use procedures for workflow implementation.
- Quick rollout time.
- Attractive looking dashboards.
- Smaller community compared to competition.
- ETL function is not as strong as compared to other tools.
September 12, 2018
Board is a robust CPM & BI tool...Tech Savvy Required.
Board is currently being used to deploy a suite of dashboards that analyze and dissect manufacturing, sales and other operational data. In addition to that, we are also working on implementing all of our financials P&L, BS within a new board capsule/dashboard. We are automating this process to allow for less manual intervention and have ongoing financials and avoiding using spreadsheets.
- Board has some nice visuals and has an interesting way of working with its data model
- The CPM portion where Board allows you to enter data and store it is particularly useful
- Board also has a nice online web based user interface
- Board's data readers and data model are somewhat more complex than advertised as "out of the box" to implement. You need more training than other tools such as PowerBI and Tableau
- Board's training materials (on demand video) are well put together but costly and don't address all the details you'd like them to. The social blogs also address some topics but don't cover materials particularly well.
- The look and current feel for Board on the desktop version looks a bit outdated (Office 2007 themed). I'm aware this will change in the coming months.
September 26, 2018
Today the use of BOARD is so extensive and pervasive, that the only limit is imagination
In the company we use BOARD to analyze multiple aspects of the business. In particular I'd highlight how we use it to control sales and margins. We're able to perform this analysis using things stats from each day, such as point of sale, article, card, promotion and historical product return of the article; or the control of all the KPI of the logistics department (warehouse entries, preparation of exits, transportation, service level, personnel costs, saturation of vehicles and warehouses, KM carried out, costs per KM, points of sale served, etc.); or the control and management of store inventories.
With the new version of BOARD we will build an analysis of a single receipt as far back as 3 years, which means several million records.
With the new version of BOARD we will build an analysis of a single receipt as far back as 3 years, which means several million records.
- Purchasing analysis (supplier performance analysis and buyer by area, department, product, merchandise). In this way, we have the corrective measures necessary to improve and speed up our results.
- Management of variances analysis on the cash & carry budget
- Marketing analysis (incidence of sales promotions and margins)
- Implementation speed of analysis.
- Flexibility and speed of analysis
- Possibility to read more data sources and combine them
- Easy to use. In order to be able to manage and develop new applications, you don't need to have too much skill
- Charts. Obviously waiting to be able to use the new version of BOARD (11)
- In some cases I need some help creating a data reader
- Exports to Excel as charts, and not as reports
- Databases do not communicate with each other
- You need to have very powerful servers
September 24, 2018
BOARD - CPM&BI in a unique customizable platform
BOARD is the unique platform for sales, cost and investment monitoring and planning. It solve the problem to unify various platform and to centralize the data management into controlling department. It is used as CPM and BI, in terms of CPM we speed up the processes of budget, forecast and 3-years plan in the 3 dimensions (economic-patrimonial-financial). The best enforcement is made by the split & splat logic and by the possibility to plan by scenarios.
- Data visualization and data entry one single screen.
- Split & splat data entry with hierarchical logic.
- Lots of data retrieved from different sources in little time.
- Workflow easy and robust in terms of confirmation and monitoring.
- Data security - i.e. As of today is not possible to define "only read" a portion of a cube.
- Definition of password by the end-user for restricted access to some screen or execute some procedures.
- Self-retrieval of data from different database (as of now it is mandatory to extract cube from database 1 and re-load to database 2).
September 12, 2018
BOARD... a critical tool for our biz.
It is being used as the front end to our ERP system. It is primarily being used by Finance, Sales and Logistics, but we are constantly finding new applications for it as it allows for quick reporting and analysis on various data sets.
- Ease of use- Can very easily set up a new data set and "slice and dice" it with visuals, KPIs, and dashboards.
- Ease of implementation- we were set up in 2 weeks for all of our financial data.
- Great support- Board provides quick turns on requests and listens to feedback for future releases.
- Nothing of note... occasionally have some questions for when we utilize BOARD in Excel.
September 25, 2018
Good product, for a large range of usages and users.
BOARD is used in several countries.
In France, BOARD is mainly used by the most important BU.
Its main uses are:
- track sales
- budgeting
In France, BOARD is mainly used by the most important BU.
Its main uses are:
- track sales
- budgeting
- Good look and feel.
- Capability to broadcast reports using paramaters set IDs.
- Mix data coming from several technical sources.
- Entering data (simulation).
- Difficult to find high level third parties.
September 25, 2018
Board BI
BOARD is used across the whole organization, Sales, Finance and C/S.
- Great tool for creating sales reports and dashboards. Customer support is very proactive.
- BOARD is easy to setup and configure and not require lengthy project implementation timelines.
- BOARD is able to empower the end users to create dynamic visualizations to support the needs of their business.
- I have no dislikes of the product and am impressed by the improvements made to BOARD over the past years, as it shows they are future thinking in understanding what Businesses are after.
April 29, 2018
Great exciting BI tool
GVA uses BOARD to provide external clients with the ability to review their property portfolios. Users can review lease renewals, geographic locations, and financial summaries. Being programming language free, data models can be created very quickly and the design process can be very quick to visualize and implement. With powerful writeback and security features, it is possible to create user settings which persist after each session, meaning that such settings do not need to be reset on each successive login session. Also, this same ability allows for users to carry out forecast analysis by entering their own values to test without changing the global settings. The power of BOARD is now really starting to show itself and I'm very excited for what we will be building with it in the coming months.
- Fast data modeling prototyping with data fast track.
- Writeback allows for developers to create workflows and amazing security control which are quite a task for other BI software packages and usually require far more technical involvement and skill.
- Geographic charting is fantastic. Being able to see the metrics and KPIs of properties in clusters on a map of the UK really allows the user to build a story.
- The developer environment should be accessible from the internet. Developing on a desktop only to find visual issues online is quite time-consuming to rectify.
October 04, 2018
BOARD review
We use it across departments and locations. We utilize BOARD to gather similar info from different systems so we can read and analyze the data. We are an international company, so you can imagine all of the data systems we utilize. Utilizing BOARD has been a time saver!! We do not have to manually upload information anymore, but can rely on BOARD to do all of that! It's great to see your data displayed all in one location. The front end users love it too, as they do not have to change their data platforms. Win-win!
- Pulling info from different data systems
- Easy to read
- Friendly customer service
- End-user displays in which you do not have to buy a license for them to see the data being analyzed.
- So far we have been really pleased.
September 26, 2018
A flexible tool with capabilities beyond your scope
Currently, we use BOARD as our reporting tool for financial statements and KPIs. Shortly, we hope to use it for our planning platform as well.
- Board is a very flexible tool
- It allows multiple users to access information in real time
- The Excel add-in is very helpful
- Not enough training/certifications
- Not as intuitive as one would hope. Really helps to be a software/IT person to fully understand BOARD's capabilities
September 26, 2018
Board BI helps us make better, data driven decisions
BOARD is being used across the whole organisation with about 70 active users who would use it on a weekly basis at least. It is our main BI system and source for tracking company performance, KPI's for individuals as well as teams. It is also used for planning, budgeting,forecasting, inventory management and various other information sources.
- Access of data from anywhere anytime with up-to-date information, making it easy for users to make decisions based on accurate information
- Ability to drill through to the minute details to a transactional level
- Flexibility of being able to read information from various sources whether it be our ERP, data warehouse or even an Excel spreadsheet.
- Excel add-in is not very stable but is not a big issue as it's only used by finance team
- Some procedures to update information do take long to run and update.
September 12, 2018
Powerful but challenging
We purchased BOARD with an immediate need to have a system for budgeting and forecasting with hopes of expanding its use into other areas of the business. BOARD helped us improve our budgeting and forecasting builds.
- The drag and drop reporting capability is great.
- The database structure is flexible and easy to understand.
- Training, training, training. They need ongoing user training available for all functions of the software. User manual is good but not enough.
- Availability of consultants. They seem to be understaffed, and when you need to have some work done, you may need to wait.
September 28, 2018
Board goes further
BOARD is used by management, administrative office and sales forces. Through the BOARD, you have access to all historical sales data and to all historical statistics. It is used in the analysis and budget insertion phase as well as in the analysis of purchases. another important area of use is market analysis and management control.
- Simplicity of use
- Execution speed
- Scalability on the query function
- Web interface
- Client interface
- Improve graphic creation
September 27, 2018
New to Board, but can't wait to be a Pro
We are still implementing Board for our company - we intend to use it for all reporting, planning, and forecasting for the company which is done manually via Excel today.
- It allows users to create their own reports based on their current needs
- It has dash-boarding capabilities that allow for consistent reporting of key metrics at your fingertips
- It provides us the ability to combine several sources of data into one reporting tool
- We use a fiscal calendar and we continue to struggle to make that work seamlessly in Board.
- We do not have strong IT support to launch this, which has proven a challenge with implementation as the tool is not intuitive to set up as a non-IT person.
September 25, 2018
BOARD is good!
BOARD is used across the whole organization, mainly in Finance and Sales department but also in Supply Chain and Production.
We are using it mainly to monitor and analyze sales actual and forecast
We are using it mainly to monitor and analyze sales actual and forecast
- The use of different dimensions of analysis that you can customize depending on the situation.
- It's a fast tool that merges many different databases.
- The reports can be easily customized.
- The full database can't be downloaded but only appears in BOARD. It can't be exported in Excel for the users that don't use BOARD.
September 17, 2018
BOARD review
It is being used by every single department for reporting purposes, from finance to operations, and has been a great tool for budgeting. It really has given us a good outlook on our wins and losses.
- It can connect to any database platform.
- The HTML front end is improving.
- It is easy to use.
- The technical support has been very poor.
- The mobile capabilities are nonexistent.
- We have no been able to get broadcast emailing capabilities working, and technical support has not helped.
September 12, 2018
Review
Board tool is used mainly for sales trend and margin analysis, budget and forecast process and to monitor the board users' activity.
- Easy to use and flexible
- ETL manager is poor
January 31, 2018
BOARD delivered on our expectations, on time and on budget
We use BOARD to show our KPI scorecards for each business unit. Our finance team can control which KPIs are used for which business unit, change KPIs and update data without any help from IT. As we add other datasources, BOARD will be our single source of the truth. The numbers in BOARD will be managed by Finance to ensure the highest data quality.
- One purchase many uses - By buying BOARD once, we can use it throughout the company for a variety of purposes. As more staff become familiar with it, they are starting to use it on their own, wherever they see a fit for it.
- No programming - There is no need to understand any programming language. Everything is visual and easy to follow.
- Mature product - BOARD has many well-respected brands using it already. We didn't want to be the first ones to try something new.
- Easy drilling - Drilling is an out of the box feature. I don't need to setup anything special to see the details behind a given report.
- Mobile - The mobile experience is not as slick as the desktop yet.
- Financial Reporting Formats - Some of the formatting required to have pixel-perfect reporting is hard to do. I'd like to be able to setup a standard format for financial reporting that would apply across all our financial reports.
- Tips - As a blank canvas, sometimes I'm not sure what add. It would be nice to have some kind of suggestion feature of what additional features I could add.
May 24, 2017
BOARD and Tavola Spa
We use BOARD for financial consolidation, selling and forecasting analysis.
- User-friendly
- Possibility to read and write data
- Reporting needs improvement
February 04, 2015
COO
Board Business Intelligence is being used for budgeting and data mining of revenue and projects.
- Allows non technical people to find the results they are looking for
- Speed of implementation
- Multiple client choices web, apps office, and Client
- None
Board Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About Board
BOARD
aims to be #1 decision-making platform for organizations of any size. Founded in
1994, BOARD International has enabled more than 3000 companies worldwide to
rapidly deploy Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and Predictive
Analytics applications on a single unified and programming-free platform.
According to the vendor, the BOARD platform allows companies to achieve a single, accurate and complete view of business information and a full control of performance across the entire organization, from strategic formulation down to operational execution. Global enterprises such as H&M, KPMG, Mitsubishi, Puma, Ricoh, and Toyota have deployed end-to end decision-making applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Headquartered in Chiasso, Switzerland, and Boston, MA, BOARD International has 21 offices around the world and a global reseller network. BOARD has been implemented in over 100 countries.
According to the vendor, the BOARD platform allows companies to achieve a single, accurate and complete view of business information and a full control of performance across the entire organization, from strategic formulation down to operational execution. Global enterprises such as H&M, KPMG, Mitsubishi, Puma, Ricoh, and Toyota have deployed end-to end decision-making applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Headquartered in Chiasso, Switzerland, and Boston, MA, BOARD International has 21 offices around the world and a global reseller network. BOARD has been implemented in over 100 countries.
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Board Integrations
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Board Competitors
CCH Tagetik, Tableau
Pricing
Does not have featureFree Trial Available?No
Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
Entry-level set up fee?No
Board Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% | |
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% | |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% | |
| Enterprises (> 500 employees) | 40% |
Board Support Options
| Free Version | Paid Version | |
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| Phone | ||
| Account Team | ||
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| Video Tutorials / Webinar |
Board Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
| Supported Countries: | Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific |
| Supported Languages: | English, Italian, German, French |