Board

Score9 out of 10

228 Reviews and Ratings

What is Board?

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.

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Scenario modeling
Financial or operational modeling of alternate future states and planning for each.
Category average: 8.4
Financial data consolidation
Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.
Category average: 8.3
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Category average: 8.6

Responsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Category average: 7.5
Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 7.2
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Category average: 7.4

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Board.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Manufacturing

26.6%

88 installations of 331

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

13.9%

46 installations of 331

#3 most frequent

Information

10.3%

34 installations of 331

Ellen Caroline Murphy Dixon View profile

Administrator in Finance and Accounting in Finance and Accounting at MD Financial Management | Gestion financière MD (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Board is being used as a tool for control, reporting, and planning in the finance and accounting department to improve all of our planning. Board is a tool that manages to improve our workflow with robust data monitoring. The reports are very intuitive and easy to read, which facilitates our performance.

Pros

Easy to read reports
Improves workflow and planning
Optimal integration for any scenario
Reliable data processing.

Cons

PDF export is not the fastest
Slow tech support response time

Return on Investment

Time optimization saves money
Planning is improved thanks to Board
Reports are easy to read

Other Software Used

Sage CRM

Geetika Chawla

Sales & Marketing Manager in Sales at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Board, teams can automate the planned tasks, activities such as creating, scheduling, assigning, task management, projecting, forecasting and budgeting. It provides analytics and reports. This BI tool is very good product that is user friendly and easy to use.

It has great features with a great service support. You can create reports so quickly with data visualization.

Pros

The Customer service support is exceptional.
The product understands & adapts your need so quickly.
Data models for business intelligence can be created quickly and easily with BOARD's BI solution
Works well for financial budgeting & goals setting

Cons

Works slow with heavy data.
formatting gets changes while exporting to excel.

Return on Investment

With the tool, data can be retrieved faster for reports and forms, increasing performance.

Md Khandoker Alif View profile

Founder in Information Technology at Maya Studio BD (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Board is the perfect package of our digital data maintaining platform for our business operation.We have millions of users data analysis program for marketing, financial ROI, accounting maintaining, financial due diligence purpose. We are using it for our business growth calculation according to our previous turnovers & loyal users of our own business satisfied clients. Board help us to reduce server cost because it has been integrated with cloud services.

Pros

Cloud data analysis services for business & corporate user's maintaining purpose
Data driving from one format to another format within a minutes without any data analysis experience.
Financial data validation process, analysis services, making the annual reports are providing according to our business operation demand.

Cons

Board Cloud services have to providing with multiple devices from local & multi Cloud environment zone with Shortest DNS record
Need to integrate with many other Microsoft 360 services with customaization data Model
I also missing the 2Mfa authentication security & own server configuration based software data syncing between Board room & AWS cloud services.

Return on Investment

Board give us the best quality smart planning according to our business operation demand with exclusive access process.
We are thinking about Board platforms security issue for our users data.
Board platforms is not very easy interface for first time user's maintaining purpose.
Need to provide Details tutorial support without any hassles.

Alternatives Considered

Navisite Productivity and Collaboration (Microsoft Office 365 and MDM) and Planview AgilePlace

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Adobe Advertising Cloud, ChatBot, Google Analytics 360

Gopi Krishna View profile

Senior Search Engine Optimization Analyst in Marketing at Ray Business Technologies Pvt Ltd (A CMMI Level 3 Company) (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Board helped us to get to discover very important insights that driven for a successful business decisions. We can drive the digital transformation. Our organization utilized the top features like performance management and business intelligence. We earlier face some of planning issues for the actionable items. After shifted to Board, we identified the difference. Thanks to it.

Pros

Smarter planning
Complexities simplification
unique solution provider

Cons

Pricing details should be provided according to the business
support team should be quick
Should be little affordable

Return on Investment

Financial planning ideas
faced some issues to resolve an issue
business outcomes

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Other Software Used

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, Attribution in Google Analytics, DataBlend

Christos Socratous View profile

Marketing and Branding in Marketing at AiCore (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Board helps us look at all of the data and make better and more informed business decisions regarding our company's future. It allows us to consolidate in record time between all of our departments. That's the most important of this software if you ask me. Engineering, Marketing, and Finance all come together.

Pros

Consolidation between different sectors of the company.
Helps us plan for the future with clear data.
Our HR is using it to report on employee performance.

Cons

The UI could be more up to date.
Not as fast and smooth as they claim it to be. Still not that bad.
I don't think its features are as advanced as it claims to be.

Return on Investment

Helped us save 30% of our engineering budget by giving us the data to realize that we didn't need to develop certain features.
Helped cut down on HR reporting time by at least 50%.
Has saved us a lot of time from unnecessary meetings between different departments.

Alternatives Considered

Anaplan

Other Software Used

Zapier, Mixpanel, Buffer

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What is Board?

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Board Key Features

Top Performing Features

Scenario modeling

Financial data consolidation

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Areas for Improvement

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Who Buys & Uses Board

Most Frequent Users

Manufacturing

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Information

Most Frequent Users

Small Businesses

Mid-sized Companies

Enterprises

Most Frequent Users

Finance

Engineering

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