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Vendor: Board International
4.2 out of 5
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Pros & Cons summary

Board provides comprehensive 24/7 global support and an active community, facilitating excellent customer assistance. It reduces KPI reporting time from weeks to a day and supports flexible data modeling with performance tracking. Users benefit from an easy data export for enhanced financial oversight. Customization is a highlight, though setup complexity and limited data source connectors present challenges. Improvements are needed in Excel export, stability, and scalability for large data volumes.

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PROS

Board offers efficient global support with great customer service and knowledgeable technical support.
By using Board, internal KPI reporting time is significantly reduced from a week to a day for two people.
Board allows for quick updates and maintenance without requiring programming help from IT.
The data modeling flexibility in Board allows specific line items and adaptations to the data model itself.
Board's dynamic reporting and version control offer efficient data management and export capabilities.

CONS

Setup complexity is noted as a significant issue for users.
There is a need for improved data source connectivity, especially for niche software tools.
More Excel export functionality is desired, as existing features are lacking.
Users encounter scalability limitations with handling large data sets.
Stability issues have been reported with newer version rollouts.
 

Board Pros review quotes

SN
Jan 13, 2021
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.
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CG
Dec 22, 2020
By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function.
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it_user858351 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
What is very valuable is the ability to customize. We didn't see a solution out there that really matched exactly what our functional requirements would be. So we were able to work with New Brain, our integrator, and we were able to build from the ground up what we wanted, and I think that's pretty unique to BOARD.
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BG
Jan 31, 2018
With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support.
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it_user858345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
Now, we have only one version of the truth.
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Wiboon Thabsuwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2024
I think the product is good in terms of ease of use.
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it_user857499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 17, 2018
Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently.
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it_user858327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
​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.
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it_user858348 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background.
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it_user858339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance.
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Board Cons review quotes

SN
Jan 13, 2021
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.
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CG
Dec 22, 2020
What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful.
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it_user858351 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
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.
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BG
Jan 31, 2018
The setup was a bit complex.
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it_user858345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use.
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Wiboon Thabsuwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2024
In terms of scalability, I would say that there are some limitations in the solution. It cannot handle data that is too big.
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it_user858327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
We would like to see better logging in the procedural world.
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it_user858348 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website.
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it_user858339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability.
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it_user858330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 18, 2018
If we could upload other data, e.g., pivot tables which can be done in BOARD already, that we have pre-existing and have that data distribute to more complex spreadsheets​, I would like that going forward.
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