Board vs OneStream XF comparison

Board International and OneStream are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Board International is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while OneStream is ranked #7 with an average rating of 9.5. Board International holds a 5.5% mindshare in BPM, compared to OneStream’s 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OneStream users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Board and OneStream XF compete in the business performance management category. OneStream XF generally has an advantage with its advanced features, although Board may be more suitable for smaller organizations due to its cost-effectiveness.

Features: Board provides predictive analytics, integrated BI, and performance management capabilities that facilitate data exploration for strategic decision-making. In contrast, OneStream XF is recognized for unified finance operations and analytics. Its advanced functionality, particularly in financial consolidation and reporting, attracts organizations requiring comprehensive finance solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board offers cloud-based deployment, enabling easy implementation and configuration, alongside robust support options for onboarding. OneStream XF has a more involved deployment process due to its on-premise capabilities and extensive features, but offers detailed implementation support and strategic advisory services, ensuring effective deployment in complex financial settings.

Pricing and ROI: Board generally requires lower initial investment with rapid ROI realization, thanks to its straightforward deployment and minimal maintenance resources. Although OneStream XF involves higher initial costs due to its extensive features and customized implementation, it delivers significant ROI for organizations utilizing its broad functionalities. The long-term benefits may justify the higher investment for those needing detailed financial management.

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st), Reporting (17th)

OneStream XF

Ranking in Business Performance Management

7th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Close Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 5.5%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneStream XF is 4.8%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Board	5.5%
OneStream XF	4.8%
Other	89.7%

Business Performance Management

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Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Easy to use and requires less time to learn or understand its features

I think the product is good in terms of ease of use. The interface looks really nice and very easy to use. Every command appears in the icon. It looks like you don't have to understand everything about the command. You do not necessarily have to know more, or I would say that there is less time for our study about the products. Functionality-wise, it is quite easy to use and requires less time to understand or learn about the product. I am a software vendor, so I do not use the tool myself. I use it for my clients. My clients mostly use it for budgeting and timing purposes. I would say that's really less maintenance at all because they can do everything by themselves. It is good in terms of ease of use.

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Andy Jorgensen

Chief Revenue Officer at MindStream Analytics

Customer satisfaction and data integration shine in multinational consolidations

The best features of OneStream XF are threefold. The first is Extensible Dimensionality, which allows for different levels of detail depending on the task. When budgeting for 2026, Extensible Dimensionality enables detailed breakdowns of supplies into specific items such as printer paper and magic markers. When actuals arrive, that level of detail isn't necessary. This flexibility in collecting and reporting data is a significant advantage. OneStream XF is advantageous because it provides one product that can do everything. Users do not have to purchase separate products for consolidation, planning, and reporting, which saves time and money in training and setup. OneStream XF shows a strong commitment to customer success. While 100% satisfaction is unrealistic, OneStream XF puts in substantial effort to ensure clients are successful, which contrasts sharply with experiences from companies such as SAP. OneStream XF's data integration capabilities with ERP and HCM systems are excellent, thanks to its history. The founders of OneStream XF were the creators of Upstream, which specialized in data integration. When they developed OneStream XF, they implemented that expertise, making it excel at data integration.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"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."

"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."

"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."

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

"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."

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

"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."

More Board pros

"We were with Oracle previously. With Oracle, you have to buy a different piece of software for every business process. If you want to do budgeting, that's a product. If you want to do consolidation, that's a product. If you want to do BI type of work, that's yet another product. So, you end up buying a lot of software from Oracle. With OneStream, it is a little different. It is a platform where you can do all those things, and you can do them with just one software purchase and then you just pay for users on it."

"It offers great ease of use. This impacts not only the end-user experience but also the administrator's, which affects the total cost of ownership."

"OneStream XF is advantageous because it provides one product that can do everything; users do not have to purchase separate products for consolidation, planning, and reporting, which saves time and money in training and setup."

"The product's most valuable feature is extensibility."

"OneStream XF's unified structure makes it easier for our financial consolidation and planning processes, though I would say we have a standardized way of using it and not that much forward-looking."

Cons

"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."

"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."

"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."

"It would be nice to have more connectors for other data sources. BOARD is a great tool to become the single source of the truth. Making it easier to connect data sources for niche software tools will make it easier to keep everything in one place."

"I would like to see a better Web client, where the controls work the same way as in the Windows client. I do think that the focus is now on the Web, so it should be improved upon."

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

"Board's integration could be a bit more robust, but what we have works. If the design isn't right, the flexibility of Board can negatively impact performance."

"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."

More Board cons

"We should be able to download the data in the same format we upload it."

"AI is where I see the most innovation and progress, but it's not fully developed yet."

"Currently, they only support one browser, and it would be good if you could use it on Chrome, Firefox, etc. It is a little frustrating that you can only use a certain Microsoft browser. They're pretty tightly aligned with Microsoft. So, I can see the reasons for it."

"It's okay for collecting information and setting it up, but for business support, we don't get much from it."

"There are longstanding challenges with OneStream XF, particularly around the technical aspects that require scripting skills, typically managed by finance departments."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not the cheapest product on earth, but you get so much. It provides good value for money."

"The solution is quite expensive, if it is made cheaper then we can have more clients. I rate it four out of ten."

"Find a partner who will take responsibility for the implementation, and be available for support."

"In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."

"They price it by the user. Before discounting, it is 2,500 or something like that."

"The licensing is expensive."

"The product has a license by the user. They're on par with other competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	8

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Questions from the Community

Is Board better than Anaplan as a Business Intelligence (BI) solution?

We've had several FP&A departments include Anaplan in their analytics discussions, and while BI information IS generated, the focus is generally on compiling input from various sources and simu...

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What do you like most about Board?

All the reports are prepared automatically.

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What needs improvement with Board?

Board's integration could be a bit more robust, but what we have works. If the design isn't right, the flexibility of Board can negatively impact performance.

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

I advise you to try OneStream. This is a very good platform focused on reporting, consolidation and budgeting & forecasting.

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What do you like most about OneStream XF?

It offers great ease of use. This impacts not only the end-user experience but also the administrator's, which affects the total cost of ownership.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OneStream XF?

The product has a license by the user. They're on par with other competitors. One thing to consider is their relationship with Microsoft. They often push customers towards Azure, and Azure can get ...

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Overview

BOARD International - headquartered in Switzerland - is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management into a single product, BOARD enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organization, and thus a single version of the truth.

BOARD provides seamless solutions for • Reporting & Analysis • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling & Optimization • Simulation & What-if-Analysis • Scorecarding & Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation. Based on visual modelling, BOARD has enabled global companies to deploy BI and CPM applications without a single line of code in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.

Board International

Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting
Automate the financial close; reduce time waiting for data loads and refreshing of reports throughout the month. Access accurate and secure financial and operational information from any data source.

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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, Puma, Desigual, Ricoh, KPMG, H&M, Groupe SEB

Fruit of the loom, Melrose, AAA, Valeo Foods

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