Board vs Sigma comparison

Board International and Sigma Computing are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Board International is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.3, while Sigma Computing is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.2. Board International holds a 0.8% mindshare in BIT, compared to Sigma Computing’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sigma Computing 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 Jan 1, 2025

Board and Sigma are competing products in the business intelligence and analytics market. Sigma appears to have an advantage in analytics capabilities, while Board offers more comprehensive strategic planning and financial forecasting tools.

Features: Board is ideal for financial and strategic planning with its strong budgeting, forecasting, and planning features. It integrates these capabilities into a comprehensive financial solution. Sigma focuses on data exploration and real-time analytics, offering powerful data discovery features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board provides a structured deployment model, resulting in a robust integrated system after a longer onboarding process. It offers comprehensive support throughout deployment. Sigma promotes faster initial setup with agile deployment and provides responsive, interactive customer service emphasizing real-time troubleshooting.

Pricing and ROI: Board has a higher initial setup cost but delivers strong ROI due to its extensive strategic planning features. Sigma's competitive pricing model focuses on operational analytics, offering favorable short-term ROI for organizations that prioritize real-time data insights. Board may require a larger upfront financial commitment, with long-term benefits in financial consolidation potentially outweighing initial costs. Sigma emphasizes immediate data accessibility and flexibility.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

21st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (6th), Reporting (17th)

Sigma

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Board is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sigma is 1.7%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Sigma	1.7%
Board	0.8%
Other	97.5%

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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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Russell Rothstein

CEO at PeerSpot

Modern dashboards and reports enhance decision-making and presentations

I would love to be able to create my own reports in Sigma, as I can do in Salesforce. Either we are not using it properly, or the software is too complicated. It would be great if there was a way for me to create reports without relying on a data analyst. I'm interested in the upcoming AI co-pilot to enable natural language generation of visualizations and reports. Also, the marketing materials did not match what I feel we've received. Regarding pricing, Sigma's pricing doesn't allow more people to have the ability to create their own reports. We have very few admin or report creator licenses, while everyone else is on a view-only mode.

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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

"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."

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

"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."

"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."

"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."

"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."

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

"I think the product is good in terms of ease of use."

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"I find the collaborative features, such as commenting, to be very valuable."

"The most valuable aspect for me is having real-time data."

"Sigma is a great software for non-technical business users. If someone's familiar with pivot tables or Excel or Google Sheets, they should be able to pick up Sigma pretty quickly. There is a very low bar for onboarding."

"The most valuable feature of Sigma is the detailed reports."

"Sigma serves as the visualization and reporting front end."

"The most valuable feature of Sigma is the detailed reports."

"The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use."

"Sigma has excellent features, such as lookup tables where you can easily bring data that are not interrelated or at different granularity."

Cons

"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."

"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."

More Board cons

"Sigma could have better reports."

"The product's roadmap regarding introducing new features in the solution or new versions of the tool can be made better in the future."

"I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma."

"The only minor area for improvement lies in handling highly complex visualizations."

"Either we are not using it properly, or the software is too complicated. It would be great if there was a way for me to create reports without relying on a data analyst."

"The main improvement needed is in data modeling capabilities. If they add those features in the near future, it would be very helpful for us to implement the same or do the data cleansing part in the Sigma tool itself."

"Sigma lacks a versioning feature to track changes. There is a need for better structuring, like a folder system, to organize diagrams efficiently."

"Sigma could have better reports."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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 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."

"The retail price is set at one thousand dollars per creator per year."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

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 Sigma?

The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sigma?

The pricing of Sigma is a concern, as it restricts our ability to provide more users with report-creating capabilities due to the high cost of admin or report creator licenses. Most users have view...

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What needs improvement with Sigma?

As we are exploring multiple features in Sigma, I think Sigma can add more functionality. As Power BI gives multiple modeling options in its interface with the query editor, those features can be a...

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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

Sigma is the next-generation of analytics for cloud data warehouses with a familiar spreadsheet-like interface that gives business experts the power to ask any question of their data no matter the query.

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Sample Customers

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

Snowflake, Fivetran ,Autodesk, Flowspace, Super League Gaming, Zumper, Clover, Volta, Olivela

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