Item: Board
Rating: 10
Author: Bob Gill

Overall Satisfaction with BOARD

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cognos TM1, Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, Adaptive Suite and Budget Maestro

We chose BOARD over other options because it was something we could configure and extend internally. Other tools were too complicated and expensive to maintain, or not flexible enough for us to change on our own. From a visual perspective, BOARD was very appealing too. It doesn't require much effort to make something look good in BOARD, whereas it was more difficult with some of the other tools we reviewed.

Other Software Used

Salesforce App Cloud, Camtasia

Likelihood to Recommend

For companies looking to collaborate across multiple people and groups, or standardize reporting, BOARD should be a good fit. There needs to be strong leadership and engagement from senior leadership to make sure the priorities are set correctly, and the first uses are focused. A clear road map of where it should be used and how will make sure resources are used effectively.

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BOARD delivered on our expectations, on time and on budget