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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Board

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Board is presented as an enterprise planning platform, offered as a solution to accelerate business performance and enable continuous planning with greater forecast accuracy to drive confident, aligned decisions.N/A

    Prophix

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.N/A
    Pricing
    BoardProphix
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BoardProphix
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    BoardProphix
    Considered Both Products
    Board International
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    Prophix Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    110 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    97 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    111 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    76 Answers
    Features
    BoardProphix
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    6.8
    93 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Prophix
    5.7
    16 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.780 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards6.993 Ratings5.415 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.986 Ratings6.615 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    6.9
    98 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Prophix
    8.5
    104 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Drill-down analysis6.996 Ratings9.1103 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities6.294 Ratings7.6101 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.966 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.689 Ratings9.098 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.2
    90 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Prophix
    8.3
    96 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web6.979 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.287 Ratings8.791 Ratings
    Report Versioning6.980 Ratings7.571 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.678 Ratings8.883 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.3
    73 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Prophix
    4.1
    39 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.972 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.664 Ratings4.139 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.5
    74 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Prophix
    8.9
    99 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.672 Ratings9.096 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.469 Ratings9.096 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.972 Ratings9.099 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.369 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.440 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    6.9
    77 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Prophix
    7.5
    52 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.272 Ratings7.552 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.257 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.5
    79 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Prophix
    8.6
    202 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Long-term financial planning7.674 Ratings9.0167 Ratings
    Financial budgeting7.678 Ratings9.1197 Ratings
    Forecasting6.775 Ratings8.1189 Ratings
    Scenario modeling8.371 Ratings7.8153 Ratings
    Management reporting7.677 Ratings8.9192 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.3
    74 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Prophix
    7.7
    163 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Financial data consolidation8.370 Ratings8.8133 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports6.871 Ratings9.181 Ratings
    Multi-currency management7.661 Ratings6.866 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations7.662 Ratings6.678 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.656 Ratings6.732 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting6.768 Ratings8.7116 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails6.965 Ratings7.696 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Prophix
    7.9
    193 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Financial Statement Reporting7.672 Ratings9.1175 Ratings
    Management Reporting6.976 Ratings8.8187 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting6.973 Ratings8.0171 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting7.670 Ratings8.5149 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing6.950 Ratings5.28 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.4
    79 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Prophix
    6.1
    169 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Personalized dashboards7.678 Ratings7.6156 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.674 Ratings5.3114 Ratings
    KPIs6.976 Ratings5.9124 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis7.672 Ratings5.8124 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting7.671 Ratings6.099 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data7.462 Ratings5.967 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Board and Prophix
    Feature
    Board
    7.4
    77 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Prophix
    8.5
    189 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Flat file integration7.476 Ratings9.0152 Ratings
    Excel data integration7.475 Ratings8.7166 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.371 Ratings7.8144 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BoardProphix
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score10 out of 10
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BoardProphix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.2
    (99 ratings)
    8.0
    (220 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (44 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (28 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (121 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.3
    (89 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    6.3
    (97 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (26 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (23 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (21 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BoardProphix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Board International
    Board is a useful tool with a great set of features. We migrated from human apps to board and we find it relatively fast in search results and better-managed threads and forums. There are some areas, such as UI and interactions which could be improved but overall a great product. The learning section is also pretty good.
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    Prophix Software
    If the budgeting is done with Excel spreadsheets, and your company is small to medium in size, Prophix is the system for you! Additionally, if your company is also doing monthly forecasting in Excel, Prophix will save you time and reduce errors. There are also many other worthwhile features, such as Account Reconciliation and consolidations.
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    Pros
    Board International
    • The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate
    • You don't need programming knowledge to create dashboards which is a great flex for non-technical users
    • You can seamlessly convert large, raw, and complex data to meaningful reports to visualize better and plan to act accordingly
    • The financial forecasting that Board provides post-analysis is truly reliable
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    Prophix Software
    • Reporting - single report that can be opened by multiple users, each will see only aspect specific to them based on their security access.
    • Budgeting - workflow driven budget data collection, visibility of its current status, ability to take action to ensure timely completion. Ability to snapshot budget data at a point in time. Ability to perform what-if scenarios.
    • Forecasting - as above with added benefit of either reusing budget level of grain or forecasting at high level.
    • Granular planning - ability to create unlimited number of subsidiary models to assist with the planning process. Non-financial data collected during budget/forecast process help with operation planning and variance analysis.
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    Cons
    Board International
    • Board BI tool has a steep learning curve and can be challenging for a new user to reach to board's full capacity.
    • We have to use a windows scheduler to schedule data import tasks; it would be great if Board could provide its own scheduler.
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    Prophix Software
    • Prophix could improve on its dashboarding capability - it is very basic and we always present our graphs/visuals in Excel.
    • We would love it if Prophix could improve its line item detail reports. They are not great right after downloading and require a lot of manipulation in Excel.
    • It would be awesome if we could fully integrate our invoicing software with Prophix. This would allow us to view invoices within Prophix rather than having to go into another tool.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Board International
    Board is a fantastic product for swift BI solution delivery when compared with its peers. Ease of use, support and integration with Microsoft Office Addin open a wide horizon of opportunities for further enhancements to solutions. Easy bespoke app development capabilities make it a winner for us. BOARD is just like a white canvas, it lets you explore your creative side while designing and delivering a solution
    Incentivized
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    Prophix Software
    The system works well for us, and meets all of our needs. All of our future plans can and will be achieved within Prophix, so there is no need to pursue another product. Prophix has continuously proven to improve their product over the years, which provides an even higher level of confidence in this tool, and future developments
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    Usability
    Board International
    From a user perspective, Board is quite simple to use. You
    can evaluate the presentation of the data, the navigation, the configuration of
    the users, the selection of the data etc ... It would have a better rating if
    it were even more intuitive as regards the construction of a project, starting
    from the database, to the info-cubes, to entities, to data acquisition
    procedures from other servers.
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    Prophix Software
    I have used other reporting software over the years and so far this has been the simplest to set up, the most flexible to use and we have not yet used Prophix to its full capacity. Over the next year or so I can see us extending our use of Prophix to include any number of other functions.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Board International
    No answers on this topic
    Prophix Software
    The availability in Prophix is relatively good. We have occurred random outages in different versions that wipe out data, which can be brought back. Or we have ran into system wide slowness that impacts all users in the system, but we have been able to get more capacity to supply our performance.
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    Performance
    Board International
    very fast and no integration problems
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    Prophix Software
    Prophix has always performed consistently. We are using on-premise so many factors can contribute to slower than desired performance, most having nothing to do with Prophix itself. If we move to the web-client cloud based solution I believe performance will even be better.
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    Support Rating
    Board International
    The only time I needed assistance was due to a problem in
    the prints: the colors of the brochures as they were on the screen were not
    reproduced in the print, but a series of standard colors were reproduced. This
    fact made colored numbers on a colored background illegible. From the
    assistance they confirmed that it was a problem of version 10.2 that occurred
    when leaving the brochures with the default colors proposed by Board. To obtain
    the desired colors, they had to be personalized ... I didn't like the solution
    very much and the technician who recommended it didn't like me either, but they
    would have solved the problem with the following versions. In any case, the
    assistance was quick and effective even if not exactly efficient.
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    Prophix Software
    The Prophix staff is very helpful and quick to respond. I like that they teach me instead of doing it for me when possible, so I don't have to contact them as often! Never talked to anyone at Prophix that I didn't respect or think highly of! Very professional, great customer service!
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    In-Person Training
    Board International
    Board is fairly simple and straight forward. Advance training on workflows and procedures is a good one but the training content only touches through the interesting areas. training content needs to cover a few areas more in-depth
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    Prophix Software
    We worked with a consultant provided by the vendor for implementation. Training involved online and in person. The in person training was done throughout the implementation. It was very hands on training. As we worked through sections of the set-up, we were training on how to use various features within the product. It made learning the system very easy.
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    Online Training
    Board International
    No answers on this topic
    Prophix Software
    We used our system and created a test cube to work with our own data. We ran through the different functions of Prophix and covered alot of material. We did two sessions a week, with homework tasks assigned. We were able to ask questions and cover any questions during the followup sessions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Board International
    The problem of user profiling in our context is certainly
    quite complex. The complexity is given by the fact that the company is divided
    territorially into logistic points of sale, but at the same time they are
    virtually divided into divisions (or specific implementation areas) and points
    of sale of competence. The same operator can have access to data at different
    logistic sales points, sales points of competence and divisions.
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    Prophix Software
    Prophix Consulting should bring, in house, chargeable expertise in Oracle EBS table access for Drill Across and provide reasonable limits on dimension member combinations so there are no unreasonable expectations about the application of multi dimensional cubes to detail, such as revenue by product and customer.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Board International
    Board has been more complete when compared to Anaplan. Although I didn't participate in the buying decision of any of those products I have used both and by far Board just has more features. It's more than a CPM, it's BI and CPM put together. If I had to make a choice now it would be Board.
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    Prophix Software
    We felt Prophix was much more flexible than Briq and offered a more solid financial reporting and budgeting package. Briq is more custom built solution-focused. They build solutions to fit your specific needs. The primary reason we went with Prophix is that we wanted something we could tweak and design on our own after the initial build-out of the solution.
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    Scalability
    Board International
    No answers on this topic
    Prophix Software
    I gave Prophix a 10 on scalability because we currently deploy the solution to department heads across our entire organization and never have any issues with those individuals using or accessing the system to look at their financial information within premade templates . They currently enter budgets and review reports within the system currently. The only issue is they cannot typically use the ad hoc functionality because that would require higher level licenses that cost more and it is not worth it to give them more costly licenses since they really aren't working in the system quite like the robust finance users
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    Return on Investment
    Board International
    • Board facilitates proactive decision making - it gives all the insights of the company's needs, which includes predictive analytics and manipulation of data to make different types of reports.
    • Easy to use for non-programmer and integration with other software is seamless. It has [the] ability to handle large amounts of data.
    • It facilitates advanced decision-making.
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    Prophix Software
    • Prophix has made it possible to move away from some Excel reporting we were doing, which allows for 50% quicker reporting on a monthly basis.
    • Although it has saved us time, an improved PowerPoint feature that automatically updates our decks would save an additional 75% on top of what we already do.
    • Our Board Reporting has improved by 10 hours by moving our reports fully into Prophix.
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    ScreenShots

    Board Screenshots

    Screenshot of PlanningScreenshot of Sales PlanningScreenshot of ProfitabilityScreenshot of GeomapScreenshot of ForecastScreenshot of Financial Plan

    Prophix Screenshots

    Screenshot of Prophix One Portal: One single point of entry into Prophix One through its portal simplifies access and authentication but also allows seamless movement between applications.Screenshot of Chart Insights, one of the AI Insights capabilities that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to provide enhanced business awareness.  Chart Insights extends the important details contained within dashboards, and analyzes the complete dataset behind the dashboard, automatically surfacing the data relationships not obvious in dashboard visualizations alone. It then provides a summary of key performance metrics found buried within Prophix charts.  It also summarizes the important insights in plain English.Screenshot of Prophix One Financial Planning & Analysis: Prophix's self-serve dashboards and visualizations are directly integrated with data, workflow tasks, announcements, and external URLs and databases. Dashboard Studio helps users to be informed and make better business decisions.Screenshot of Detailed interactive charts and graphs that Prophix offers to uncover insights. Prophix’s visual analytics are linked directly to data with transaction details.  There is no need to input the numbers.  Prophix does this tedious work, automatically.Screenshot of Prophix’s Workflow Manager, used to assign tasks to users and facilitate approvals across the business.  Stakeholder input can be captured directly with the ability to add comments and notes in a single unified database.Screenshot of Cell Comments, that allow users to add supporting details like notes and attachments to data.  Since comments are stored with the data, they can be viewed in any template along with their trailing history. Cell Comment Reports can also be generated to show all comments from any data view in one convenient report.