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What is Board?

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.

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BOARD is a versatile software that has been used by users across various departments and industries to meet their business intelligence, …
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Board review

6 out of 10
January 30, 2023
Business problems that Board addresses in my organisations are: Difficulty in managing and tracking multiple projects and tasks at the …
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Board detailed review.

6 out of 10
January 25, 2023
Board is a really functional online forum to have any kind of discussion and threads, which is pretty organized. You get to meet people …
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Great Financial Planning Tool

10 out of 10
October 10, 2022
We have mainly used the Board application to get insight and perform some financial planning in my institution. I find it to be very …
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Simple and efficient BI tool

7 out of 10
September 19, 2022
Board is a great BI solution that help us in many situation like monitor, plan and summarize financial or economic view of a enterprise.<br…
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Great solution for BI and CPM!

9 out of 10
August 24, 2022
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 …
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Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (90)
    7.4
    74%
  • Customizable dashboards (94)
    6.6
    66%
  • Drill-down analysis (97)
    6.6
    66%
  • Formatting capabilities (95)
    5.8
    58%

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What is Board?

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.

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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

6.6
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

6.6
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.2
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

7.4
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

6.6
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

7.4
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

7.1
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

6.9
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.3
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

7.3
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Board?

Board is a Decision-Making platform that aims to empower people from more than 2,000 companies worldwide to have a transformative impact on their business by deploying Planning, Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence applications on a single unified platform. Board allows companies to explore and leverage their data to produce a complete view of business information, gain actionable insights, and achieve full control of performance across the entire organization. With Board, organizations can manage and control their entire decision-making process from goal setting down to operational execution through the ability to analyze, simulate, plan, and predict.

The vendor states that global enterprises such as H&M, BASF, Burberry, Toyota, Coca-Cola, KPMG, and HSBC have deployed end-to-end decision-making applications at a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Board International was founded in 1994 and has now 25 offices around the world and a global reseller network. Board has been implemented in over 100 countries.

Board Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features

  • Supported: Long-term financial planning
  • Supported: Financial budgeting
  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Scenario modeling
  • Supported: Management reporting

Consolidation and Close Features

  • Supported: Financial data consolidation
  • Supported: Journal entries and reports
  • Supported: Multi-currency management
  • Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
  • Supported: Minority Ownership
  • Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
  • Supported: Detailed Audit Trails

Financial Reporting and Compliance Features

  • Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
  • Supported: Management Reporting
  • Supported: Excel-based Reporting
  • Supported: Automated board and financial reporting
  • Supported: XBRL support for regulatory filing

Analytics and Reporting Features

  • Supported: Personalized dashboards
  • Supported: Color-coded scorecards
  • Supported: KPIs
  • Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
  • Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
  • Supported: Benchmarking with external data

Integration Features

  • Supported: Flat file integration
  • Supported: Excel data integration
  • Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Board Screenshots

Screenshot of PlanningScreenshot of Sales PlanningScreenshot of ProfitabilityScreenshot of GeomapScreenshot of ForecastScreenshot of Financial PlanScreenshot of Executive StrategyScreenshot of Board Financial Consolidation

Board Video

Customer Ivan Evstatiev, Senior Manager, Planning & Performance Management at Coca-Cola European Partners, shares his experience of bridging the gap between Finance and Operations through the implementation of driver-based planning and forecasting. Learn more here: https://www.board.com/en/coca-cola-eu

Board Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Supported CountriesAmericas, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Italian, German, French

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik, Anaplan, and OneStream are common alternatives for Board.

Reviewers rate Scenario modeling and Financial data consolidation and Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Board are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Board Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)30%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)70%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

BOARD is a versatile software that has been used by users across various departments and industries to meet their business intelligence, reporting, and planning needs. Users have found BOARD to be a valuable tool for consolidating data, generating reports, and making better-informed business decisions. It has been effective in a range of use cases, such as traditional BI/MI reporting, CPM capabilities, financial calculations, budgeting, forecasting, and sales analysis.

One of the key advantages of BOARD is its ability to import raw data and run insightful analysis, allowing users to generate well-structured reports. This enables teams to build interactive dashboards for a better understanding of the data and cater to non-technical users. The software also offers easy planning around the generated reports, saving time and aiding in better decision-making.

Another notable feature of BOARD is its integration with other marketing platforms, allowing users to collect multiple data insights effortlessly. The powerful data visualization tools offered by BOARD enable users to create visually appealing reports and quantitative analytics easily. Additionally, it serves as a front end for ERP systems and provides reliable analytics combination software.

Users have praised the ease of getting started with BOARD features and its user-friendly interface that simplifies various business operations. The software is highly regarded for its stability and quick workflow in generating visualizations. Its versatility makes it popular among different departments within an organization, including finance, sales, logistics, marketing, customer service, IT management, and human resources.

Overall, BOARD has proven to be an invaluable tool for organizations looking to consolidate their data, analyze performance metrics, create impactful reports and dashboards, streamline financial processes, enhance decision-making capabilities, automate tasks, forecast and budget effectively. With its comprehensive functionalities and user-centric approach, BOARD helps organizations improve productivity, optimize resource allocation, achieve business goals through improved business intelligence strategies.

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.

Smaller Community: Some users have mentioned that the community for this software is smaller compared to its competition, limiting opportunities for collaboration and support. They have expressed concerns about the availability of resources, forums, and user-generated content specific to this software.

Weak ETL Function: Several reviewers have stated that the ETL function of this software is not as strong as other tools in terms of performance and capabilities. Users have faced challenges in data extraction, transformation, and loading processes. They have reported slower processing times, limited functionality for complex transformations, and difficulties with handling large datasets.

Lack of Regular Updates: Many users have expressed their disappointment with the lack of regular updates from the software provider. This has led to a stagnant feature set and an inability to take advantage of new advancements in technology. Users have mentioned missing out on bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features that could enhance their experience with the software.

Users commonly recommend Board based on their experiences with the platform. Here are the three most common recommendations:

  1. Use the self-hosted version of Board instead of the cloud version, as it provides more control and flexibility in managing the platform.

  2. Before making a purchase decision, try out the trial version of Board to get acquainted with its features and assess its suitability for your specific needs.

  3. To effectively use Board, leverage the available videos and guides provided by the platform to learn how to maximize its functionalities.

Overall, users find Board to be a valuable tool that offers flexibility, functionality, and affordability. They appreciate its ability to centralize data, automate processes, generate reports, and create dashboards that executives find useful. Whether for budgeting, data analysis, or decision-making, Board is recommended by users across a range of industries and company sizes.

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January 25, 2023

Board detailed review.

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Board is a really functional online forum to have any kind of discussion and threads, which is pretty organized. You get to meet people who are experts in their fields to share their knowledge. The learning section is also really good, with multiple-level plans to ease the learning curve required to gain confidence on Board.
  • DIscussions Threads.
  • Notify if you receive response on your question.
  • Learning section.
  • The UI is really basic and can be improved.
  • It is really had to find right threads at times.
  • Ability to attach various documents to the threads.
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.
AC Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It helps our team do deep analysis and data quality refinement for the churn rate prediction in the High Networth Individual project. We can further do reporting and analysis and are able to do forecasting using Board for our refined data set. We further share these detailed reports with operations teams/customer relationship teams to retain our HNI customers by cross-selling them relevant products or offering them proactive solutions to prevent churn.
  • Standardisation of data from various disparate sources.
  • Depth of analysis and ability to drill down and up to get a high-level and low-level picture of analyzed data.
  • Variety and customisations in Reporting.
  • Quite challenging to work and place various different objects, even after using align for report designers.
  • Error messages are vague at times requiring additional efforts to find the root cause of the problem.
  • Learning curve for someone new to platform.
Most appropriate for the following nature of scenarios/business use-cases: Producing data for analysis in an easy and fast way. Creating management dashboards to provide visibility of the business trend or any specific visualization. Building accurate consolidated reports which allow for decisions to be made with future projections also accessible.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
Vishesh Koul | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Board is what you need to shoot up your business. A complete package that handles the data part which also leads to better performance metrics. For us, seeing the data with proper graphs/stats was an issue, which Board is able to solve in a very easy and efficient way. Also the dashboard is very powerful to display the data in the most informative form.
  • Presenting and interpreting data with reports and attractive dashboards.
  • UI UX is very good and easy to navigate which makes it easy or user-friendly.
  • Fast and stable, the performance of the board i.e. loading time is very smooth.
  • The app can be integrated with the web browser.
  • Overall customer experience can be improved by making it fast response and more available.
Board is best for the scenarios when your company has a lot of data and you want to visualize it, see it in attractive reports and make sense of that data. In such cases Board is very good. On the other hand, if you are dealing with less data or stats then Board will be less favorable because it has a certain learning curve.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • Reporting
  • Analytics
  • Data Management
  • Integration
  • Better Demos for Self Learning Online
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.
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our software company has been using Board to make smart decisions driven by historical data analysis, simulation, and forecasting. It has helped us quickly develop roadmaps for our products, identify the key market, time for product lunch, and most effective marketing channels to be used. Board gives complete visibility of our financial aspects in real-time with customizable and interactive reports in a single dashboard. It has allowed us to plan the budget efficiently, and run simulations against provided benchmark data and market trends. Its cloud-based service can easily import big data sets and generate insightful visualizations in no time.
  • Easy to import and map historical financial data
  • Comes with a fast and reliable cloud platform
  • Consolidated view of all the financial processes
  • Real-time dashboard with insightful visualization and interactive simulation
  • Board can improve on its documentation and tutorials for beginners
  • It should provide faster support to the tickets
  • Not suitable for government offices due to privacy concerns
Board is a cloud-based financial planning software suitable for growing companies that deal with retail customers. It can help any business plan its budget most effectively on the basis of its historical data. It also offers benchmark data and trends you can rely on to make product roadmaps and sales plans. It may not be suitable for small startups and organizations due to expensive licensing and a steep learning curve.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Board is used in many aspects of our organization. We are a higher education-based company and we use Board for learning, data management, student feedback, processes, and financial reporting process.
  • Board used for financial budgeting and forecasting of my organization and decision-making process
  • Board is used for making decisions on our services, such as student feedback, staff feedback, and how our service needs to be improved, calculated by the features using Board
  • Board is used for creating management reports.
  • Improve the user interface for more simple way.
  • Database designing is a bit hard so it's better to improve this part.
  • Better to improve the security features of the product such as role management.
Board is best suited for business intelligence and decision-making process and also for creating management reports.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Board helps to make better judgments regarding negotiations and issues that arose within our organization. It covers all aspects, including management control and finance. In addition, the software provides simple solutions without the need for external assistance - it is a comprehensive system. The software is also notable for its predictive analysis, benchmarking, trend indicators, and profitability analysis capabilities.
  • Board makes data summary easy - It makes comprehensive reports with great visuals.
  • Board makes navigation is easy for users - it has abundant training materials to help you get started.
  • With Board security is easy to set up and maintain for the organization - the support staff also provides great assistance for implementation and resolves other issues.
  • Database design is hard and needs more material to explain how to design [a] database step by step.
  • The online help should be updated with the latest versions (including full web) as well as an enhancement of the e-learning platform.
Board has the ability to process large files of unstructured data from internal/external sources. It provides advanced and professional analytics which helps data manipulation in various ways to get different types of impactful reports. Board BI is easy to integrate with spreadsheets, ERP, and other programs. Board is excellent software and does what the software promises - the Database can be made less complicated for enhancing the user experience.
Kelvin Gregory | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Board has been enabling easy business data analytics production for us and the tools are very responsive and powerful enough to handle any business data type. OLAP and even its ETL functionalities are the best and the data warehousing capability is excellent. Through Board reporting features, it is now simple to create the best and reliable operation reports and very easy to collect data results across multiple platforms.
  • Its performance management ability is fantastic.
  • Simple content management on Cloud services.
  • Visualizing of business data is excellent.
  • The deployment on Cloud to the new users.
  • Learning the advanced Board configurations.
  • The processing of large business data.
Board has effective Cloud tools reach with excellent capabilities for the various content creation and management via the Cloud services and the reports from the tools are profitable. The board interface is so friendly and clean looking in which accessing any tool and getting started is extremely easy. Data collection from other tools through Board data integration is excellent.
Vaishakh S | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There is a number of problems that Board addresses. Sales forecasting was one of the key areas we solved a lot of problems. Sales forecasting is a very complicated process that requires precision and accuracy. Board is significant in catering to providing business intelligence in this regard. This is also successful in enhancing the operational efficiency and implementation of quick and better decision-making.
  • We have been able to obtain a greater representation and a global standard of the reporting and a successive decrease of the realization times. We are now able to graphically represent even complex data, making them easily representable to the senior board with more clarity and analytical feedback.
  • We have been able to deliver real-time data to the staff which resulted in better communication and an amazing productivity increase. We have also been able to improve the organization of our data system with this system, which allows us to save a lot of time while generating reports.
  • The use of Drill is really excellent. This caters to our need for the conversion of all the reports that we had developed over a period to Board.
  • The documentation for modes in Data readers is inadequate and requires more work. There are several other areas where the documentation more work and more use case-related examples and their descriptions.
  • There are instances in which the changes in a single formula results in a massive mess. The formula feature could be improved to a greater level.
  • The error and the logging information could be improved and made more human friendly.
This product provides additional balancing support for our team, it has made our lives easier with demos and strategy discussions. This promotes decision-making and reporting processes, especially in the financial field. This results in a business vision broad performance of all staff and connects various departments in the same environment for the benefit of revenue.
Gauri Hiremath | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For our organization, Board has been implemented for overall business analytics which helps us to analyze metrics and optimize budget in various segments of the organization. The provision of predictive analysis has allowed us to make informed decisions and helped us minimize unforeseen challenges. The dashboard has extensive features that provide real-time updates.
  • It offers extensive tools for documents and reporting.
  • Easy to navigate different functionalities.
  • Data can be readily synced on the cloud.
  • For first time users, it be complicated to use in the initial period.
  • Is little expensive for small enterprises.
  • The learning curve is steep, training tools can be improved.
Users who aren't very familiar with programming can easily get their hands on it since it doesn't require prior advanced coding knowledge. It has flexible configuration and you add desired functionalities off the dashboard. It is best suited for marketing and business analytics and provides all the necessary tools for examining as well implementing strategies. For budget constrained organizations it might not be well suited to cater to their needs given the cost of the software.
Patrick Taiwo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Board is currently being used to quantify every stage of the business operations and improve company's and team's performance by contextualizing business numbers and turning them into actionable values. Predictive analytics are used to project the performance of marketing campaigns and potential product lines to steer the company toward a more profitable direction.
  • The extensive language capabilities facilitates multi-lingual reporting
  • Predictive analytics and data modeling
  • Turns numbers into charts, tables, maps, and graphics
  • It's a cumbersome task to drill down into layers of configuration
  • It's a vast and complex system therefore it involves a steep learning curve
  • Better manuals on how to use the program should be provided
All-in-one platform that combines predictive and business analytics, business intelligence, data discovery and performance management. Unifies data sources into one single logical view so that teams can make better decisions more efficiently.
Camilla Reiz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Board offered us to work efficiently in many departments, particularly those responsible for finance and sales, to monitor, [budget], and revenue. Risk management tasks what could happen in the future of the company. In addition, Board helped a lot [with] reporting, accounting, bookkeeping, and other financial calculations. Furthermore, the Board assigns a portion or dashboard to each department in the firm, which they use to contribute to the company's success. This aids in performance ownership and quick access to all financial data.
  • [The] connection between monitoring and reporting features, Enables for parallel activities between many chiefs or supervisors, who are responsible for both organizational outcomes.
  • Data management capabilities such as extracting and importing data, preparing different action models according to data, storing and diversifying data with special machine learning features.
  • Ability to work with large data without downfalls in software workload.
  • Effective customer support.
  • Ease of use seems confusing while working with different currencies [especially] during projects [in] different countries.
  • Moving to the Board was really hard, hope Board would develop integrations with emails and spreadsheets.
  • Bugs in [the] interface during remote control, during pandemic it made it hard to solve problems.
Board is a software that outperforms other operational programs in terms of cost control and revenue collecting. Furthermore, budgeting at a firm is tightly handled due to extensive research. The program includes a sales strategy that, when properly implemented, results in profits at the conclusion of the specified time period. Finally, the Board collaborates including all senior managers or leaders, who are all responsible for productivity.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Board focuses on planning, through the analysis of live data, and this boosts the cost controls and budgeting. Besides, Board brings different head players together, where they monitor performance through the reports, and this facilitates teamwork and data sharing. Further, each head (manager) has access to their specific dashboard, where they monitor their KPIs, and increases facilitate their staff to improve on their performance. Lastly, Board fosters sales through planning and cost evaluation.
  • The software fosters transparency, through significant cost evaluations, and analysis of revenue streams.
  • Also, decision-making is based on live data evaluation, through the advanced analytical base.
  • Board collects and merges data from diverse sources, and this leads to solid performance.
  • The training videos are quite inadequate, and they should be detailed enough to improve the business learning curve.
  • Board has many dimensions, which forces us to take longer to read and conceptualize a huge database.
  • Finally, Board support team takes slow moves to reach us when we contact them.
Board can turn out the most efficient analytical system, which accommodates all groups in the company, from the sales team, finance, and accounting. Furthermore, Board provides/serves firms with an articulate and updated version of analytical reports. Also, data collection or mining is well done by the software, which enables them to conduct self-services. Lastly, Board has digitized analytical capacity, and a suitable spreadsheet, which ensures users have a simpler time to learn the trend in the company.
Niloofar Keshvari Nia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In every negotiation, such as the pricing process for products and services, all the costs which exist or might emerge are covered with regards to these platforms, including: production, human resource, salaries and benefits and everything else that may arise in the future. Board is mostly used in our sales and R&D departments. We aim to use the best possible negotiation and pricing in the competitive market during the project implementation process with a view to maximizing profits.
  • The simplicity of the Board platform allows any employee to become proficient in the use and processing of data, and the reports generated by the Board platform save an organization time and money.
  • It is extremely efficient to integrate and transfer databases, as well as coordinate operations and generate reports.
  • Reviewing the archives of previous reports and comparing them with current information is also very useful.
  • This platform does have shortcomings in terms of mobile experience.
  • As it has many functions, learning the software will take some time for new users.
With the Board platform, users do not need to know anything about programming or the science of data processing and analysis, and all their reports are logical and transparent and they save the organization a lot of time and costs. Several ways of generating reports are extremely useful, including database transfer and coordination with other sources. Another way of generating reports is by analyzing previous reports and comparing them to current information.
March 05, 2020

BOARD BI & CPM TOOL

Gaurav Suri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  1. BOARD is amazing for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting.
  2. Implementing and managing scenario based calculations.
  3. Quick and easy to manage dashboards.
  4. Web and mobile capabilities.
Carlos Artieda, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Board is well suited for the build of a sales analysis dashboard where data feeds occur daily and slicing and dicing is required. Other functionality or use of the tool is to build a robust set of financials and or other operational reports that are needed. Standardized reports can be put together here.
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