We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle HFM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"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."
"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility and ease of configuration in terms of testing and formula creation."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The tool is stable."
"You can bring in data from any source and from multiple sources, and you can consolidate that data in HFM."
"The most valuable features are around consolidations, eliminations, conversions."
"Financial consolidation and reporting tool with good built-in features such as currency exchange and elimination."
"It is a very user-friendly software."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"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."
"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."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"The intercompany reporting function in this tool needs improvement, particularly being able to run reports in batches, rather than one at a time."
"If there could be data integration between HFM and the accounting software that would be ideal."
"In terms of improvement, one challenge with Oracle HFM is the need for technical knowledge in writing SQL syntax for custom extensions."
"The complexity is okay. I don't see it as super complex. The solution could have more functionality to make it a little bit more flexible."
"It's a difficult process to try to edit, configure, or change the business rules that exist and work within HFM."
"The solution has integration challenges. We need a simple tool that is fool-proof for the data that is submitted not only for consolidation purposes but also for performance management and reporting purposes."
"Integration is an area where it lacks and can be improved."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle HFM is ranked 7th in Business Performance Management with 14 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle HFM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle HFM writes "Offers flexibility and ease of configuration". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Oracle HFM is most compared with Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, OneStream XF, CCH Tagetik and Microsoft Power BI. See our Board vs. Oracle HFM report.
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