Board is a robust CPM & BI tool...Tech Savvy Required.
September 12, 2018
Board is a robust CPM & BI tool...Tech Savvy Required.
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with BOARD
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- The look and current feel for Board on the desktop version looks a bit outdated (Office 2007 themed).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.
- 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.
Again, we chose Board ultimately for the BI and CPM functionality. PowerBI and Tableau lack the CPM capability. PowerBI has better features from a dashboard standpoint (data load model, formatting distribution) while PowerBI is a lot easier to use. Tableau stacks in third due to its complexity to design dashboards and the fact that you need to manipulate the information before it loads to make it work properly.