TrustRadius Insights for Board are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Easy to Use and Intuitive Interface: Users found the software to be highly intuitive and easy to use, with a user-friendly interface and quick access to reports. Many reviewers stated that the software was straightforward to navigate, making it easy for users of all levels of technical expertise.
Drag and Drop Feature for Data Analysis: The drag and drop feature was highly praised by users for making data analysis easier. Several reviewers mentioned that this feature allowed them to build complex dashboards without the need for extensive programming knowledge or coding skills.
Automation Capabilities: The software's automation capabilities were highly regarded by users as they saved time and improved efficiency. Many reviewers appreciated the automated functions for generating reports, which eliminated the need for manual processes and increased productivity.
Board is a great BI solution that help us in many situation like monitor, plan and summarize financial or economic view of a enterprise.
He is very powerfull because we can create some workflow to automate somes tasks.
Pros
Reporting
Powerfull analysis
Create your own dashboard
Cons
Customer support
Connecting to API
Likelihood to Recommend
We worked with Third Party consultant and build database, it was very easy to create every kind of report regarding revenues, cost, margin... With smart click you can trough the data and analyze every single feature. Furthermore, it's perfect for Budgeting and Forecasting."
VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We used to use a number of custom BI solutions in our sales department. That was a painful scenario, with lots of accesses to different data, ugly interfaces and data visualisations, every now and then it would have just not worked at all due to some disruption of service. Now, with Board, all of that is a thing of the past.
Pros
Great BI solution
Great, user-friendly, UI
Fast-loading solution
Cons
N/A, it just works!
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Board for all companies that want to scale up and move from custom BIs to the state of the art of business intelligence and corporate performance management.
I would not recommend it for companies below 50 employees or something like that, or companies with a GMV below 3-4 millions USD / year.
Board helps us look at all of the data and make better and more informed business decisions regarding our company's future. It allows us to consolidate in record time between all of our departments. That's the most important of this software if you ask me. Engineering, Marketing, and Finance all come together.
Pros
Consolidation between different sectors of the company.
Helps us plan for the future with clear data.
Our HR is using it to report on employee performance.
Cons
The UI could be more up to date.
Not as fast and smooth as they claim it to be. Still not that bad.
I don't think its features are as advanced as it claims to be.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's been very good when all departments of the company had to pitch in data/information for a specific business decision. My company had to have input from Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Customer Support, and accounting in order to decide on what kind of development was next needed for our platform.
The Board BI tool provides all the information about the needs of the company, which includes predictive analytics and data manipulation to make different types of reports that can be of great help for the company when making proactive decisions. Customer support is excellent; the support representative on site was very knowledgeable and had no difficulty integrating with our database. It has a great capacity to process large unstructured data files from internal/ external sources. Data can be manipulated in various ways to produce different types of powerful reports. The user-friendly interface made the visualization easy to create. The import of Masterdata from ERP was constant and seamless.
Pros
With Board, we have reduced the use of excel, ensuring more accurate and faster information.
Easier to streamline all of our logics and processes.
Board helps u to collect our internal numbers and create the reports required by management.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Board provides capsule dashboards for our users, customized by individuals. It also allows analysts to create live excel files for repeated reports. Productivity is improved because we are spending less time collating data and more time reviewing it. Board, we cannot delete entities. We have to go through a major expansion and restructure, so we have all these dead entities we are stuck with.
VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Board is a Business Intelligence tool with the help of which we configure and analyze our data to get market insights which helps tremendously in determining the organization's needs. We also use Board's different features like fetching reports which are to be sent to the counterparts and stakeholders for various meetings.
Pros
It has the ability to handle large amounts of data. Board provides the cloud database which ensures faster deployments and greater security.
The customers have both the choices either On-Premises or On Cloud since Cloud is more popular nowadays I would recommend Cloud to opt for.
The users can get along with Board quite easily because of it's easy to use UI and Drag & Drop features.
The complex calculations of reports is done so easily and quickly with the help of inbuilt functions.
Cons
There is less learning content about Board on free platforms which can be increased just like other products have currently.
The updates for On-Premise and Cloud should be in sync both should receive updates from time to time.
It has all the features and functionalities to make it a powerful tool, need to look into the pricing side of it.
Likelihood to Recommend
It has the ability to handle complex and heavy data, its built-in functions are capable to perform complex calculations with ease. The Drag and Drop feature makes it more user-friendly. The support base is also appreciable and approachable. The pricing part needs to be looked into to make it more affordable and competitive in the market. Also there should be easily accessible learning platform.
Board helped our organization to monitor the performance of our company. It helped us to create the required workflows that are needed for the satisfaction of the customers. It creates a great field for planning and analysis of performance management. We were able to track the budget and finances with Board. It gave us all the useful reports to maintain control of the organization.
Pros
Easy to deploy.
Real time tracking.
Visualization dashboards.
Analytics and performance tracking.
Integration with several CRM and ERP tools.
Cons
Customer service.
Tutorial for beginners.
Pricing
Likelihood to Recommend
Board comes in handy for organizations that have a lot of data to display. It helps with creating budgets and tracking finances. It converts complex data to understandable reports. It can also be integrated with several CRM and ERP tools easily.
As part of central Cloud Business Office(CBO), I handle FinOps and responsible for evangelising about public cloud optimisation to Engineering groups. We use Board as BI platform to aggregate cost data from all the major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS) and then do cost review with different business units. This tool helps us optimize our public cloud spend. Creation of org level reports is very easy and it is being used heavily to do forecasting and budgeting for the IT spend.
Pros
Data imports from various aggregators is super easy with easy roll-ups.
The UI is super simplistic and dashborad/report creation is very good.
Their customer support is really good and it's a Saas Platform with quick and easy deployment.
Recently we have started using their analytics feature for forecasting and making purchase decision for reservations. So far so good.
Cons
Data modelling is a bit of hassle and more documentation will be helpful.
It would be great to have actionables configured right of the dashboard. The idea is to look at report and take an action right there (eg: sending email or slack notification)
The integration with Office 365 leaves a lot to be desired.
Likelihood to Recommend
Board is well suited to get data from multiple data sources and create dashboards for quick forecasting and decision making. i.e. it's a BI platform and does a very good job of making data appear more coherent and easier to understand.
The product doesn't have its own intelligence or recommendation system. Hence if you have a specific use-case for it, you probably would like to consider other standard tools in market which do more than what a BI tool can.
Board has helped monitor and visualize performance of the organization on various metrics that are important for organizations growth. It helps create the workflow required to create application customized for the needs of the organization. It helps to maintain planning and analysis application that can measure various KPI required for companies performance management. It helps run predictive analytics algorithms that help forecast numbers, revenues and growth. It helps to set various business rules required for proper functioning of various business processes and even enter logics. It helps to create customizable dashboards and reports that can be tracked by senior level management to see performance of various business processes and take firm level business decisions as needed. Overall, it is ease to use, provides self service customized workflows for users to work on and visualize performance of various digital assets.
Pros
Predictive analytics and performance tracking
creating real time tracking and visualization dashboards
integrate with various CRM tools and ERP applications to upload data into its database
easy to deploy and install
low cost of maintenance
Cons
costly for low architectural complexity organizations
requires training to use model and use of functionality
connectors requires to connect to various data sources
Likelihood to Recommend
It helps to run advance business intelligence and ensure analytical insights are provided into performance of systems and business processes. It can be used to load data from Microsoft Dynamics, office 365, google drive to ensure various hierarchies, tables and codes are automatically discovered by Board. It provides holistic view of all visualization including charts, graphs, tables, timelines and spark lines for all metrics.
I got to use this Board as a consultant with a company. The UI for Board is really well done, and configuration is not too complicated if you are used to system configurations. You can quickly analyze types of files and get useful reports out of this. We helped implement this for the technology teams at an energy client, helping us get a clearer image on budget and spend. Overall, I would use this product again and recommend this to other customers. I found it more intuitive than other systems where you would have to manually create these reports with consultants.
Pros
Reporting
Analytics
Data Management
Integration
Cons
Better Demos for Self Learning Online
Likelihood to Recommend
I think this is a great platform that can supplement other enterprise platforms your company has. Board's strength is definitely in it's easy to use analytical capabilities, we found it's strength in users being able to adapt it quickly.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Board was used as we were searching for a platform to help my team and me analyze and forecast sales data to find the best avenue for investments. As a company that needs to fund hotels, I had to measure the variety of channels between bank loans, investment raising, and brand partnerships to see which was most feasible and yielded the best ROI.
Pros
HUGE data loads
I can throw files directly onto the page without needing to dig through the "open" search window
Analytics is displayed in great visual graphics
Cons
Initial implementation is tedious (I get its necessary, but still...)
Layout design is tricky too
My experience with customer service took forever
Likelihood to Recommend
As with any data analytics platform, you need to have large amounts of quantifiable and RELIABLE data for the system to make valid recommendations. I would suggest large-scale projects and analytics. If you want something smaller scale, there are probably better-suited platforms and applications. Having a dedicated team to solely manage the platform is best too. Not for the small team settings.
