Board vs OneStream XF comparison

Board International and OneStream are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Board International is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.7, while OneStream is ranked #9 with an average rating of 10.0. Board International holds a 6.2% mindshare in BPM, compared to OneStream’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Board International users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OneStream users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Board and OneStream XF compete in the business performance management category. OneStream XF generally has an advantage with its advanced features, although Board may be more suitable for smaller organizations due to its cost-effectiveness.

Features: Board provides predictive analytics, integrated BI, and performance management capabilities that facilitate data exploration for strategic decision-making. In contrast, OneStream XF is recognized for unified finance operations and analytics. Its advanced functionality, particularly in financial consolidation and reporting, attracts organizations requiring comprehensive finance solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board offers cloud-based deployment, enabling easy implementation and configuration, alongside robust support options for onboarding. OneStream XF has a more involved deployment process due to its on-premise capabilities and extensive features, but offers detailed implementation support and strategic advisory services, ensuring effective deployment in complex financial settings.

Pricing and ROI: Board generally requires lower initial investment with rapid ROI realization, thanks to its straightforward deployment and minimal maintenance resources. Although OneStream XF involves higher initial costs due to its extensive features and customized implementation, it delivers significant ROI for organizations utilizing its broad functionalities. The long-term benefits may justify the higher investment for those needing detailed financial management.

To learn more, read our detailed Board vs. OneStream XF Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (23rd), Reporting (20th)

OneStream XF

Ranking in Business Performance Management

9th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Close Software (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 6.2%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneStream XF is 4.4%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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AndyJorgensen

Chief Revenue Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Combines consolidations, planning, and forecasting into a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple products and streamlining data management

There's always stuff on the drawing board, and there's an arms race going on in the AI space. It's too soon to pick a winner between OneStream and Oracle. OneStream's smaller, so maybe they're more nimble, but Oracle has more resources. AI is where I see the most innovation and progress, but it's not fully developed yet. The other thing is that there are probably little things in the UI and overall processes that could be made easier to use. But there's nothing so consequential that it ruins your experience. It's more about tweaking and streamlining certain processes within the system.

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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

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

"It has definitely saved us time, especially in our budget and planning processes."

"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."

"It is very easy to use. It has got what they call a toolkit, which is a no-code development environment. You can develop a whole solution with it because it is a complete platform. There is a lot of online material that can be used as a reference. You can help yourself while developing a solution. There are some prebuilt applications in the platform environment. You can very easily customize and integrate these applications. It also has flexible scaling of machine resources, which is really great."

"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."

"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."

"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."

"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 offers great ease of use. This impacts not only the end-user experience but also the administrator's, which affects the total cost of ownership."

"The product's most valuable feature is extensibility."

"We were with Oracle previously. With Oracle, you have to buy a different piece of software for every business process. If you want to do budgeting, that's a product. If you want to do consolidation, that's a product. If you want to do BI type of work, that's yet another product. So, you end up buying a lot of software from Oracle. With OneStream, it is a little different. It is a platform where you can do all those things, and you can do them with just one software purchase and then you just pay for users on it."

Cons

"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."

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

"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."

"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "

"It can have more functionality for narrative reporting. They should also improve their training courses, which are currently very lightweight. When you get into more complex things, it is quite difficult to figure out what you're supposed to do, and you have to look at a lot of videos before you actually understand, which is a bit frustrating. Their training can be more comprehensive."

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

"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."

"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."

More Board cons

"Currently, they only support one browser, and it would be good if you could use it on Chrome, Firefox, etc. It is a little frustrating that you can only use a certain Microsoft browser. They're pretty tightly aligned with Microsoft. So, I can see the reasons for it."

"AI is where I see the most innovation and progress, but it's not fully developed yet."

"We should be able to download the data in the same format we upload it."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The solution is quite expensive, if it is made cheaper then we can have more clients. I rate it four out of ten."

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."

"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."

"They price it by the user. Before discounting, it is 2,500 or something like that."

"The licensing is expensive."

"The product has a license by the user. They're on par with other competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

20%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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?

Some of my company's customers are interested to see the predictive analytics part of the tool. Some customers would like to leverage or prioritize predictive analytics as the main feature, but som...

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

I advise you to try OneStream. This is a very good platform focused on reporting, consolidation and budgeting & forecasting.

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What do you like most about OneStream XF?

It offers great ease of use. This impacts not only the end-user experience but also the administrator's, which affects the total cost of ownership.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OneStream XF?

The product has a license by the user. They're on par with other competitors. One thing to consider is their relationship with Microsoft. They often push customers towards Azure, and Azure can get ...

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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

Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting
Automate the financial close; reduce time waiting for data loads and refreshing of reports throughout the month. Access accurate and secure financial and operational information from any data source.

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Sample Customers

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

Fruit of the loom, Melrose, AAA, Valeo Foods

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