We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"Where it used to take me three days at the beginning of the year to create the new financial statement, now it is a matter of minutes because all the data is in the system."
"What is very valuable is the ability to customize. We didn't see a solution out there that really matched exactly what our functional requirements would be. So we were able to work with New Brain, our integrator, and we were able to build from the ground up what we wanted, and I think that's pretty unique to BOARD."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"I think it's flexible. I chose this solution because, even though it wasn't out-of-the-box, you can customize it, and the long-term growth potential of the software is where I see the value."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"I liked the way that I felt as a user and administrator of it. There were a lot of clicks, drops, drags, etc. versus writing code."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"The product is intuitive and user-friendly."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"I like data modeling. You can connect with your database, which is quite useful for me. It is a good tool if you have a large amount of data and you want to gather different data and interconnect it. The Power Query functionality is quite an interesting feature. If you have a query in Excel, you can also copy your query and run it in Power BI. Its dashboard is also very nice and not complicated. You don't need to be a developer to be able to use it. I am not an IT guy, and it is quite easy to use for somebody who is not an IT person."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"Microsoft needs to do some more research and development to make it more stable."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"They can provide a user-friendly and easy way to use this tool for people who don't know about programming or technical things. It will be quite good if they can improve the look and feel and make it simpler to operate. They can make it easier to create some of the reports. They can also include predefined templates that you can directly use."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and CCH Tagetik, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Board vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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