Board vs XLCubed comparison

Board International and Fluence Technologies are both solutions in the Reporting category. Board International is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.3, while Fluence Technologies is ranked #33. Board International holds a 0.9% mindshare in RT, compared to Fluence Technologies’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Fluence Technologies users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Board and XLCubed are competitive products in the business intelligence and analytics space. Board provides a comprehensive feature set, making it appealing to those seeking an all-encompassing solution, while XLCubed's analytical depth appeals to data-driven users.

Features: Board's all-in-one approach includes planning, analytics, and reporting capabilities, allowing for streamlined operations. It offers a flexible deployment model and high scalability. XLCubed offers advanced Excel integration and customizable dashboards, providing precision in data handling. Its direct integration with enterprise tools makes it a practical choice for those looking for detailed insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board provides a flexible cloud-based deployment that is easily scalable, supported by notable customer service. Its cloud-native nature provides an advantage in deployment scalability. XLCubed's straightforward installation with on-premises flexibility is complemented by robust support services, ensuring reliability for users preferring on-premises deployments.

Pricing and ROI: Board's initial setup costs are generally higher, resulting from its extensive functionalities, yet it offers high ROI through its integrated solutions. XLCubed offers a more affordable entry point, delivering significant ROI for organizations heavily using Excel. Its affordability makes it an attractive option for businesses with specific needs centered around detailed data analysis.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Reporting

16th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Business Performance Management (8th)

XLCubed

Ranking in Reporting

33rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Board is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of XLCubed is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

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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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it_user1391316

Head of Finance Systems at NHS

Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals

In general, we're happy with the solution but we're always looking to see what else is out there. The thing we've struggled with is our partnership with Tagetik UK, the consultants, and the issue we had gaining access to consultants to develop the solution on our behalf. Thankfully we connected directly with XLCubed and now have a pretty close and good relationship with them so the earlier problem we had of actually getting resources to help us develop has now been solved. One of the things that we've been asking for and would like as an additional feature is a sort of benchmarking functionality. The ability to be able to benchmark, directly against the company digital corporate numbers. That said, there seems to be improved functionality within the latest release that could help us develop that further.

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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

"I find Board to be simple and easy to use."

"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 support from the BOARD team and their consultants is great. Whenever I use technical support, they are good."

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

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

"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."

"The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."

"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."

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"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."

"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."

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

"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "

"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 initial setup was very complex for us."

"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."

More Board cons

"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."

"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."

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."

"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."

"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."

"14,000 Pounds per year for licensing."

"I am still using the two-week trial, but at first sight, the price is reasonable."

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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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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

Produce insightful, interactive reports on, company-wide metrics for any business audience. Now all in Excel.
Pixel-perfect financial reporting with the skill sets you already have. No IT required.
Meet XLCubed: The data-connected Excel add-in for all your reporting needs.

Fluence Technologies

Sample Customers

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

Marshalls Ltd, BP Exploration and Production, Thorntons, Ted Baker, Bristol-Myers, Rank Group, ING Bank Genve, Cargill Value Investment, Chloride Power, Auchan, Erste, UEFA, Novartis, Porsche Informatik, Raiffeisen Bank International

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