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Board pros and cons

Vendor: Board International

4.3 out of 5

37 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Board offers excellent 24/7 global customer and tech support. Users report significant time savings in reporting, benefiting from dynamic and customizable visualization. Board enhances budget management with flexible data modeling, though setup needs simplification. Export options are valued but lack Excel integration. Users face stability issues in newer versions, and outdated training materials affect user experience. Board's scalability is challenged with large data volumes, impacting performance and reliability.

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PROS

Board enhances efficiency by reducing KPI reporting time from a week to a day for two people.

It offers flexibility and customization, allowing users to build tailored functionalities.

Reporting is efficient and dynamic, enabling real-time data visualization and analysis.

Data management is streamlined with structured views and unified data sources.

Technical support and community resources provide robust user assistance.

CONS

The setup process for Board is considered complex.

Board would benefit from improved data source connectivity and support for niche software tools.

There is a need for better Excel export functionality, particularly in maintaining data integrity.

Board requires more comprehensive training resources and eLearning opportunities to improve user understanding.

Scalability and performance of Board can be limited, impacting its ability to handle large datasets efficiently.

Board Pros review quotes

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Principle Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 31, 2018

With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support.

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Consultant at a financial services firm

Apr 17, 2018

The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control.

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Business Transformation Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Apr 17, 2018

The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation.

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Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Apr 17, 2018

The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly.

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Manager Of Financial Planning And Analysis at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Apr 17, 2018

A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility.

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BI Developer at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Apr 18, 2018

Our data is now more structured. Between our data warehouse and BOARD, which are both brand new, we now have a more structured data view with more accurate, timely data.

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Financial Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

we are able to easily export data. When directors need financial information, we can go in the system and export the data, then send it out so they have it ready and available. If they are not in the office, we can email it to them. In addition, all the managers are now more on top of their expenses and their budget.

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VP of Professional Services at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 18, 2018

It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well.

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Manager MIS at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

It has definitely saved us time, especially in our budget and planning processes.

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Finance Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 18, 2018

We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance.

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Principle Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 31, 2018

The setup was a bit complex.

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Consultant at a financial services firm

Apr 17, 2018

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.

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Business Transformation Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Apr 17, 2018

I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical.

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Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Apr 17, 2018

We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD.

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CA

Manager Of Financial Planning And Analysis at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Apr 17, 2018

One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals.

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BI Developer at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Apr 18, 2018

We would like to see better logging in the procedural world.

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Financial Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

If we could upload other data, e.g., pivot tables which can be done in BOARD already, that we have pre-existing and have that data distribute to more complex spreadsheets, I would like that going forward.

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VP of Professional Services at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 18, 2018

One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes.

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Manager MIS at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem.

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Finance Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 18, 2018

We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability.

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