We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can build reports super fast."
"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."
"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."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"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."
"Technical support is quite good."
"The stability is good."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"The solution is stable."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is real-time report tracking."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"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. "
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
Board is ranked 20th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting 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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