We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle OBIEE 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."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."
"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"We can build reports super fast."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"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."
"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set up the automated delivery of reports."
"We have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"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."
"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."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"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."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"It can have more functionality for narrative reporting. They should also improve their training courses, which are currently very lightweight. When you get into more complex things, it is quite difficult to figure out what you're supposed to do, and you have to look at a lot of videos before you actually understand, which is a bit frustrating. Their training can be more comprehensive."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"I would like to see the data wrangling features enhanced."
"Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"One of the things that have been difficult with OBIEE during all the time that I've known it is that when something goes wrong, many times, the error messages are not specific, and you've got to spend a lot of time digging and digging and digging before you say, "Oh, okay. I figured out what it was." There should be more detailed error messages or troubleshooting messages."
"An area for improvement is that Oracle pushes more users to Oracle BI Publisher rather than emphasizing Oracle OBIEE for reporting. The pricing for Oracle OBIEE could be improved."
"While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use."
"Oracle products have a lot of complications...Oracle has a history of not really providing great support."
"Essbase integration needs to be worked on."
Board is ranked 20th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 154 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle OBIEE 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud. See our Board vs. Oracle OBIEE report.
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