Today the use of BOARD is so extensive and pervasive, that the only limit is imagination
September 26, 2018

Today the use of BOARD is so extensive and pervasive, that the only limit is imagination

davide bruzzone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BOARD

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.
  • 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
  • I assume that the sales and margins analyzes are very useful, but I cannot quantify
In my work experience I have not used any other BI software; I have however been able to monitor the use of other software and I think BOARD is very flexible in its use. I can also point out that even after a short time and with little practice, you can develop useful projects.
BOARD is a program that I think is particularly suitable for analyzing any aggregation of data, or to plan a precise and detailed budget; the ability to do this is thanks to the fact that you can use real starting data and be able to manipulate them according to the vision you have for your business.

Board Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
6
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
8