Board vs Workiva Wdesk comparison

Board International and Workiva are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Board International is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.7, while Workiva is ranked #12 with an average rating of 6.8. Board International holds a 6.9% mindshare in BPM, compared to Workiva’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 71% of Workiva users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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71% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Board and Workiva Wdesk are competing in business management and reporting solutions. Workiva Wdesk has the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and robust integration capabilities.

Features: Board focuses on data visualization, dashboards, and performance management for financial planning and analytics. Workiva Wdesk excels in collaboration tools, real-time data management, and compliance features suitable for audit and risk management.

Room for Improvement: Board can improve by expanding integration options, enhancing its real-time data capabilities, and developing audit compliance features. Workiva Wdesk could improve its pricing model to appeal to smaller businesses, simplify initial setup, and enhance visualization tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Workiva Wdesk offers a cloud-based deployment model with easy access and regular updates, supported by responsive customer service. Board provides both on-premise and cloud options, requiring more setup but offering greater control.

Pricing and ROI: Board presents a lower upfront investment appealing to budget-conscious buyers. Workiva Wdesk, though with potentially higher costs, offers strong ROI through advanced features and scalability, providing long-term value for organizations seeking detailed financial reporting and compliance capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (23rd), Reporting (20th)

Workiva Wdesk

Ranking in Business Performance Management

12th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

GRC (4th), Financial Close Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 6.9%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workiva Wdesk is 3.0%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management

Featured Reviews

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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Phillip Gough

Partner, Financial Services at Deloitte TT

The solution is easy to deploy and enables collaboration, but it must improve its speed and enable users to create pivot tables

I rate the ease of setup an eight out of ten. The initial setup was straightforward. The solution is cloud-based. We deployed the product along with Wdata in six months. It was for a lot of use cases. To deploy the tool, we designed the use cases and developed them. Then, we went through unit tests, integration tests, and user acceptance tests. It was an Agile delivery cycle.

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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

"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."

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

"We can build reports super fast."

"It has definitely saved us time, especially in our budget and planning processes."

"Now, we have only one version of the truth."

"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."

"we are able to easily export data. When directors need financial information, we can go in the system and export the data, then send it out so they have it ready and available. If they are not in the office, we can email it to them. In addition, all the managers are now more on top of their expenses and their budget."

"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."

More Board pros

"The collaboration within the platform is valuable."

"It makes the compliance process more efficient and more effective."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet."

"Workiva Wdesk has a flow diagram that is standardized, making it easy for people to file documents on ECDAs, which are in HTML format."

"The cross-functionality between connectivity, whether through API connections between different software platforms or the connection of data collection to the actual written ESG report, is highly valuable. The connectivity of all these aspects significantly aids in data assurance, which I consider a bonus."

"Workiva Wdesk is pretty good in terms of getting the data from the system, automating the reporting schedules...It has a very good integration with ERP tools."

"It helps you to maintain a backup of your data, including the connectivity with the tables, which provides a user-friendly way to handle and access your files."

Cons

"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."

"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 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's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."

"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."

"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."

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

"The setup was a bit complex."

More Board cons

"The most critical issue is the need to shift between uppercase and lowercase."

"With this product, it's more about the integrated data model where you can have a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship between your policies and processes, risks, and controls. They need to showcase how you can put those pieces together."

"At this point, I don't see a compelling reason to invest in Workiva. It may be necessary for compliance and controlling the version of SCC, but not everyone needs its high-end capabilities."

"The tool's script encoding needs to be updated to make it more user-friendly and less of a manual process when changes are made to a company's program. Those changes happen frequently due to mandatory or voluntary reporting requirements, leading to lost linkage connections that must be manually reset each time a change is made. This aspect is not functional now, and I see it as an opportunity for improvement."

"One area where Workiva Wdesk could improve is by ensuring that its cloud-based system is fully compatible with the most current versions of PowerPoint and Excel."

"Regarding the solution, reporting has certain areas that can be considered for improvement."

"The speed must be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"Our clients in Asia think that the solution is too expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Educational Organization

11%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

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Small Business

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?

Some of my company's customers are interested to see the predictive analytics part of the tool. Some customers would like to leverage or prioritize predictive analytics as the main feature, but som...

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What do you like most about Workiva Wdesk?

The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workiva Wdesk?

Wdesk is affordable and as far as I'm aware, there were no additional costs beyond the standard license increase. We didn't have to make any other changes; it primarily involved accessing the platf...

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What needs improvement with Workiva Wdesk?

The tool's script encoding needs to be updated to make it more user-friendly and less of a manual process when changes are made to a company's program. Those changes happen frequently due to mandat...

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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

Wdesk is used across the enterprise to support hundreds of data collaboration, reporting, and compliance processes. Use Wdesk to:

Optimize your structured and composite reports
Improve trust in your data, reports, and presentations
Transform processes to enable insight

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