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Board vs OneStream XF comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Board
Ranking in Business Performance Management
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (23rd), Reporting (20th)
OneStream XF
Ranking in Business Performance Management
8th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Financial Close Software (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 5.5%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneStream XF is 4.5%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Performance Management
 

Featured Reviews

Wiboon Thabsuwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2024
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.
DarpanBhansali - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 18, 2023
Easy-to-setup product with efficient data integration
We use OneStream XF for our organization's consolidation, planning, and budgeting The product's most valuable feature is extensibility. Data integration is another best feature, where you can integrate rest API files. It is complicated to download the metadata when we have to make changes. We…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"The support from the BOARD team and their consultants is great. Whenever I use technical support, they are good."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"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."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"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."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"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."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"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."
"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."
"We should be able to download the data in the same format we upload it."
"AI is where I see the most innovation and progress, but it's not fully developed yet."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."
"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."
"Find a partner who will take responsibility for the implementation, and be available for support."
"​In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."
"The product has a license by the user. They're on par with other competitors."
"The licensing is expensive."
"They price it by the user. Before discounting, it is 2,500 or something like that."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
Educational Organization
18%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

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...
What do you like most about Board?
All the reports are prepared automatically.
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...
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.
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.
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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