Board vs Plotly comparison

Board International and Plotly are both solutions in the Reporting category. Board International is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.3, while Plotly is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.7. Board International holds a 0.8% mindshare in RT, compared to Plotly’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Plotly 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 Mar 4, 2025

Board and Plotly compete in the business intelligence and data visualization category. Board holds an advantage in pricing and customer support, whereas Plotly excels in feature set, justifying its higher price.

Features: Board focuses on integrating business intelligence with performance management, providing comprehensive analytics, reporting, and planning tools. It addresses organizations seeking an all-in-one solution with features like strategic planning and forecasting, financial consolidation, and budget management. Plotly targets users prioritizing data visualization capabilities and offers advanced data visualization, tool embedding, and interactive dashboards suitable for technical data analysis and custom visualization needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board uses a traditional deployment model with robust customer support that ensures seamless integration with existing systems. Its tailored services offer a more guided experience. Plotly employs cloud technology for a quicker deployment process. However, its support infrastructure is less comprehensive, emphasizing rapid implementation with reduced direct customer service engagement.

Pricing and ROI: Board is priced competitively, concentrating on long-term ROI to help organizations optimize investments in business intelligence solutions. Plotly's setup costs are higher due to its advanced features. Despite the initial cost, Plotly's visual analytics can drive substantial returns by enhancing data insights, appealing to those extracting additional insights from data.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Reporting

18th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st), Business Performance Management (8th)

Plotly

Ranking in Reporting

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Board is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plotly is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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VenkateshJuloori

Founder & CEO at Ira

A flexible tool that offers an open-source version

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten. In my company, there are around five resources that use the product. My company's clients use the product a lot on a daily basis. I use the product twice a week in my company before I get any call from our clients.

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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

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

"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."

"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."

"We can build reports super fast."

"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."

"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."

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

"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."

More Board pros

"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."

"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."

"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."

Cons

"The initial setup was very complex for us."

"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."

"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."

"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."

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

"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."

"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."

"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."

More Board cons

"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."

"I believe that the prices of the tool's paid services could be on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement."

"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."

"I only use the free tier of the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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What do you like most about Plotly?

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?

It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices are on the premium side. I rate the product price as five or six on a scale of one to t...

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What needs improvement with Plotly?

I believe that the price of the tool's paid services is on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement.

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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.

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Plotly creates leading open source tools for composing, editing, and sharing interactive data visualization via the Web.

Our collaboration servers (available in cloud or on premises) allow data scientists to showcase their work, make graphs without coding, and collaborate with business analysts, designers, executives, and clients.

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Sample Customers

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

Google, Goji, VIT, Smpl Bio, U.S. Air Force, C12 Energy, New York University

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