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We performed a comparison between Board and Salesforce Einstein Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Board vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics Report (Updated: March 2024).
769,236 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful.""The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control.""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.""I liked the way that I felt as a user and administrator of it. There were a lot of clicks, drops, drags, etc. versus writing code.""Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance.""Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day.""It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT.""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."

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"Tableau CRM is a very capable solution. It is easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well.""The way Salesforce Einstein Analytics is structured in terms of the work assignments and the user profile is very good.""The most valuable feature of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is the reporting tools.""We have found the scalability to be very good.""The out-of-the-box features are good for companies that want to try analytics and data science interventions.""The fact that the solution is visually appealing because of its lightning interfaces can be considered one of its most valuable features""he most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of use.""It's scalable."

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Cons
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners.""The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement.""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.""​One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes.​""It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly.""I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical.""We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model.""We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."

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"The price of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is quite a bit expensive for the region of Mexico. I think the price of the product could be better.""The product is expensive.""If a user leaves your organization, you shouldn't lose the visibility of all of the records.""If I could improve Tableau CRM I would make it as powerful as Tableau. Tableau CRM is more integrated and it's on the web, but it has less functionality. It is lacking functionality at this time.""All of the timesheets and appraisal management I have not been happy with. There should be some improvements. For example, as a management team, our managers do not have access to see a summary report, such as who is on leave today or how many hours each person logged in. You have to get into individual users and see. You cannot see a summary report, the reporting is missing. There should improve the reports.""The product is natively integrated into the Salesforce ecosystem. You also need a CRM license. It should be more flexible with other platforms.""The product must be more transparent.""There are some offerings like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud that have very useful online learning options. There need to be more avenues for self-learning with this particular solution. That would be useful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "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."
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  • "Salesforce has a subscription-based licensing structure, where it's between $20 to $75 per month, per user."
  • "The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing. We ended up getting an enterprise licensing agreement(ELA). That took a lot of negotiations and a lot of pressure. We were able to receive a good price for the community licensing they bundled Salesforce Einstein Analytics. They bundled a lot of capabilities with us with the ELA."
  • "Although it was deemed slightly expensive and failed the cost analysis we conducted in our company, we proceeded with the purchase because we desired to have a leading CRM system in the industry."
  • "Price-wise, Salesforce Einstein Analytics is an expensive tool."
  • "I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "Salesforce Einstein Analytics can be considered somewhat expensive, depending on the company's needs. If they want the complete package with all the features, it's pricier. It all comes down to what the company requires from the platform."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:All the reports are prepared automatically.
    Top Answer:Sometimes, the data disappears from the product. We have had a few such cases. When I added my comments to the data, it disappeared. A technical specialist tried to restore it. It was not convenient… more »
    Top Answer:The tool is valuable. It's one of the greatest programs I'm currently working with, and I believe it will continue to be crucial in the next four to five years. It's the future of our operations… more »
    Top Answer:We use Service Cloud. We use it to classify the cases and get the escalation scores correctly. We also use it for knowledge management. We have multiple use cases.
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    Average Words per Review
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    8.7
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    Also Known As
    Einstein Analytics, Salesforce Wave Analytics
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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.

    Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a customer and business analytics platform that’s optimized for mobile use and brings flexible customer analytics to everyone in the company. It works with many types of data, from many data sources, and it can change the way your company answers critical questions. Einstein Analytics allows you to:

    • Connect directly to your CRM data and execute on insights directly in Chatter.
    • Automatically analyze millions of rows of data and get predictive analytics with Einstein Discovery.
    • Explore data quickly and automate actions with prebuilt apps.
    • Use mobile to act, whether you're on Android or iOS.
    Sample Customers
    Coca-Cola, Puma, Desigual, Ricoh, KPMG, H&M, Groupe SEB
    ADS Securities, Alstom Grid, American Express, Barclays Bank, Coca-Cola, CoderDojo, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, Financial Conduct Authority
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Government20%
    Healthcare Company20%
    Hospitality Company10%
    Pharma/Biotech Company5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Wholesaler/Distributor7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Healthcare Company20%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Government10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    University5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise40%
    Large Enterprise23%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise62%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Board vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Board vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    769,236 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is ranked 12th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 18 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Salesforce Einstein Analytics writes "Helpful consistent measurements, high availability, and scales well". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Salesforce Einstein Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, SAP Analytics Cloud and IBM Watson Explorer. See our Board vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics report.

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