We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 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."It is very easy to use. It has got what they call a toolkit, which is a no-code development environment. You can develop a whole solution with it because it is a complete platform. There is a lot of online material that can be used as a reference. You can help yourself while developing a solution. There are some prebuilt applications in the platform environment. You can very easily customize and integrate these applications. It also has flexible scaling of machine resources, which is really great."
"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."
"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."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"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."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"It is a stable solution."
"We can create quality reports in real time."
"We were able to embed the report builder within our internal proprietary systems, improving our reporting capabilities."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is known for its robust security features."
"We get good support from Microsoft."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"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."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"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."
"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. "
"We have had issues with the refresh interval since we have too many reports scheduled. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is also expensive."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"The solution's interface is old."
"Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services needs to improve performance."
"It doesn't have quite the flexibility of a Tableau or something like that. Many users are more comfortable with Tableau and I'm not quite sure why that is right now, but it seems to be the case."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"I would like the solution to add the scheduling feature for reports."
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Board is ranked 20th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 12 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.8. 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 SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers valuable data extraction from Microsoft sources, scalability, and effective customer support". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with Tableau, TIBCO Jaspersoft, Microsoft Power BI, SAP Crystal Reports and Oracle OBIEE. See our Board vs. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report.
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