Board vs Planful vs Prophix comparison

Board International and Planful are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Board International is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while Planful is ranked #15. Board International holds a 5.0% mindshare in BPM, compared to Planful’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planful users who would recommend it.

Board

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94% willing to recommend

Planful

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987 Views
839 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Prophix

Read 10 Prophix reviews

852 Views
605 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 5.0%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planful is 3.5%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prophix is 2.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Board	5.0%
Planful	3.5%
Prophix	2.6%
Other	88.9%

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reviewer2645016

Manager, Software Delivery at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Offers flexibility in design and saves time in budgeting and forecasting processes

I find Board to be simple and easy to use. It offers significant flexibility in designing solutions. The system overall is very useful, with many capabilities that provide flexibility. Our budgeting and forecasting processes support around three hundred twenty users who would otherwise rely on Excel, making Board invaluable for saving time.

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reviewer1110591

Financial Planning & Analysis - Finance Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve

The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools. The application that we use today for our BI tools is Tableau. That's how people absorb information. We don't really use the functionality or dashboards within Planful because of the robustness of Tableau. That's our single source of data. If Planful was better or more comparable in terms of features and functionality, we could probably leverage that in Planful.

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it_user287946

Managing Director at a tech services company

Easy to use and cloud-ready, helps me manage my business

Increased margin on products Easy to use Rich functionality Complete corporate performance management solution Based on modern technology Cloud-ready All of them allow me to manage my business. BI analytics Few related Ad Hoc Analyses in one window Sorting and filtering in Data View More…

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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

"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."

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

"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."

"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."

"We use it across our entire business; we use it for financial data, inventory data, sales data, and inventory transaction data, and it is performing very well."

"Without actually programming, you can develop a workflow and solutions for a lot of things."

"All the reports are prepared automatically."

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

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"I believe the ROI is very high."

"Planful has probably cut our time in half, given that we can now leverage the cloud-based services to interact with our subs for getting their forecast inputs."

"It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation. We don't have to do reporting in Excel anymore, which has cut down on the errors and the efficiency of our close time."

"The biggest achievement is that now we do not have to use spreadsheets"

"Customer Service: It's excellent."

"The time saved by building variables to drive accounts inside the budgeting system, along with balancing accounts to spread increases or decreases based on different accounts or versions, more than makes up for the pricing of the software."

"It has enabled us to cut the budgeting process by 50% as well as making the budgets more acute."

"The ability to budget on individual levels, i.e. by person for payroll, by vehicle for transportation, etc."

"I would say US$80K/year as it has automated the process and saved us from hiring a new analyst."

"Words can’t express how much our company benefited from using this product."

"Easy to use Rich functionality Complete corporate performance management solution Based on modern technology Cloud-ready All of them allow me to manage my business."

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Cons

"It needs improvement in the areas of sales, credit, and supply chain."

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

"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."

"Some of our users are still using an MS Office add-in for Excel for certain calculations, and when they export from Board, some of the values, some of the totals and column names, are not coming through into Excel."

"The Windows client is a different story. It's not scalable at all, so we decided to go with the Web."

"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 issues that we have with Board are small."

More Board cons

"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools."

"Some of the behind the scenes processing for the simulation engines has a learning curve to use in that there are certain changes that need to happen for the reporting to be "Live"."

"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results."

"BI analytics Few related Ad Hoc Analyses in one window Sorting and filtering in Data View"

"The process speed and integration with sources of transaction detail needs work."

"Areas where you load your CapEx still need a lot of improvements. The Excel add-in is not as good as Hyperions."

"With the report writing there are some issues."

"The user interface could be improved as it is not an intuitive product for every type of user."

"I think the mobile capabilities could be improved."

"At times, Prophix would crash if too many files were open."

"There were problems in a certain version with the speed, but they have fixed this in later versions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

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

"Right now, everything is on a three-year term contract, and that is our main cost."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Construction Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

24%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

11%

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	8

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

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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

You need a financial planning solution that meets the structured demands of standardized financial planning and reporting requirements and regulations. Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a complete cloud-based platform – giving your finance team control, consistency, and confidence in corporate financial plans.

Planful

Prophix Software is a leading developer of solutions designed to automate financial processes including budgeting, planning, reporting, analysis, and performance management for the mid-market. Thousands of finance leaders around the world use Prophix to empower their organization and gain greater insight into business performance. Prophix and its partners deliver the best value by combining high end functionality, low total cost of ownership, and the fastest implementations in its class.

PROPHIX

Sample Customers

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

Tandem Diabetes Care, Reed Exhibitions, SkyGolf, Zep Inc., Thule, Stylesight, Schumacher Group, Parsons Electric, Nextag, Groupon

Solarcentury, Swan Mill Paper Company, Interstates Companies, First Medical Health Plan, Community Physician Network, AAA Southern New England

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