Board vs Yellowfin comparison

Board International and Yellowfin are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Board International is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.3, while Yellowfin is ranked #35. Board International holds a 1.0% mindshare in BIT, compared to Yellowfin’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Yellowfin users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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650 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Board and Yellowfin compete in the business intelligence and analytics space. Board has a comparative advantage in pricing and customer support, while Yellowfin stands out with superior features.

Features: Board provides comprehensive analytics, scenario planning, and forecast modeling, offering a versatile tool for integrated business planning. Yellowfin focuses on data visualization, collaborative dashboards, and advanced reporting functions, highlighting its strength in real-time collaboration and interactive reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board offers flexible deployment options, including on-premise and cloud solutions, supported by robust customer service. Yellowfin provides straightforward cloud-based deployment with extensive training resources and a focus on integration, ideal for those seeking quick implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Board is generally more cost-effective, offering significant ROI through lower setup costs and comprehensive planning features. Yellowfin has a higher initial investment but delivers considerable ROI by maximizing the value of advanced features and analytics capabilities. Pricing details are not specified.

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

22nd

Ranking in Reporting

17th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (7th)

Yellowfin

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

35th

Ranking in Reporting

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (24th), Embedded BI (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Board is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Board	1.0%
Yellowfin	0.8%
Other	98.2%

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reviewer2645016

Manager, Software Delivery at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Offers flexibility in design and saves time in budgeting and forecasting processes

I find Board to be simple and easy to use. It offers significant flexibility in designing solutions. The system overall is very useful, with many capabilities that provide flexibility. Our budgeting and forecasting processes support around three hundred twenty users who would otherwise rely on Excel, making Board invaluable for saving time.

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Alex Chu

‎IS Executive at SAINS

It is a central source of up-to-date data and information, but needs more charting capabilities

Management information Reporting Statistics Data analysis It reduces sending copies of different report/spreadsheet versions over email, which makes it difficult to access the right report. It is also able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout. All management…

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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

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

"Where it used to take me three days at the beginning of the year to create the new financial statement, now it is a matter of minutes because all the data is in the system."

"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."

"All the reports are prepared automatically."

"The most valuable features are the reporting and the charts. The reporting functionality is handy for aggregation, when it comes to planning. That ability is fascinating and our users are very happy with it. The charts and the reporting allow our users to see all the data and to see how things are going this year or in the COVID situation. They're seeing everything. Instead of having to check data line by line, they're seeing it in a graph and they're seeing it in charts."

"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."

"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."

"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."

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"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."

"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."

"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."

Cons

"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."

"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."

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

"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."

"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 better relationships with the partners."

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

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

More Board cons

"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."

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."

"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."

"In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

11%

Transportation 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

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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.

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Yellowfin offers a business intelligence (BI) platform that allows users to interact with big data in a variety of ways. Yellowfin works to provide big data access to companies of all sizes, from small business to billion-dollar enterprises. It is designed for providing data quickly and allowing users to filter for specific results, maximizing gain from big data. Yellowfin has a variety of dashboards so the user can filter, drill to detail, and have data analysis in the same browser. The data can also be easily shared with others via email, wiki embed, and reports. There is a mobile app as well, which works automatically with the desktop dashboards to allow users to access their data on the go, and alerts can be set up to notify a user via email or push to a mobile device if the data is indicating a critical event taking place. Yellowfin also can map data to locations, providing not only the what of data, but also the where. Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust provides its community in England with mental health and community care services. Using Yellowfin's mobile business intelligence capabilities to deliver reporting and analytics to approximately 6000 clinicians, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was able to greatly improve the quality of its patient care. Yellowfin allowed the Trust to access and share independent data from mobile devices as well as create a Balanced Scoreboard to quickly gather and report information on the company's performance to its executives, management, and directors.

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Sample Customers

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

NCS, Universitat Konstanz, AT&T, PG&E, SingTel, InternetStores

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