Board Pros and Cons

The modular system of Board allows for highly flexible customization, which is particularly beneficial for Assortment Planning and Merchandise Financial Planning. The speed at which changes can be implemented during the project is impressive, as adjustments can be made quickly and efficiently. The support is also a highlight, being consistently responsive and highly knowledgeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially, a downside was the lack of direct data integration, which led us to implement a middleware solution. However, Board has since improved in this area, offering better integration options. Additionally, many exciting AI features have been added that weren’t available at the time of our initial implementation, making the software even more compelling for future projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Board boasts a powerful combination of flexiblity to develop anything that you'd like in regards to financial processes in a user-friendly application. The ability to start from scratch, setting up a data model with procedures and data readers (data ingestion) without much hassle or technical knowledge is such a pleasure. It allowed us to quickly create dynamic applications such as a reporting and budgeting tool or a financial consolidation application. Board can also easily be used as a replacement of other reporting platforms, as it does reports and visualisations also out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Board is not easy to learn for beginners, requiring quite the introduction to get started. Although offered as a low-code tool, the technical (and analytical) knowledge required is quite present. Building something from scratch can be quite the challenge, often requiring expert guidance in the progress.

The licensing model is quite costly also, making it a choice wort considering before diving fully into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to drill everywhere, to build your own reports and the possibility to read from several data sources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's becoming expensive because of the rising fee Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BOARD main advantage is that it's not code so easy the implementation of new models as well as friendly and easy to use for the users. In terms of flexibility, it could cover the main aspects of the business and financials purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The management of the licenses and users authorizations is not immediate also the integration with other systems is almost manual Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of use and implementation of processes and reporting to support the corporate decision-making process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

in these years of use I have not found anything to report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use for both the users and builders of the solution. Board is no coding, where most of the other solutions do use code. In addition, all functionalities including integrated planning, financial consolidaiton, analytcs and Internal and external reporting (ESG/IFRS16) are there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As the solution is very flexibel, you have to be clear in the design and analysis per project or phase to make sure you deliver the expected functionality within time and budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) There is no need for coding experience which makes is really easy to learn for new users.

2) Board academy is really helpful for new users.

3) the program is really versatile which allows us to build much more than just finance budgeting, forecasting and consolidation.

4) the board community days are amazing

5) Board and partners are really engaging with us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I do not like:

1) in the data reader it shows how many items are discarded but not which items (using 12.3 on BFC 11)

2) when using the logs in cloud administration it is hard to see what exactly has happened. You can only make a more educated guess Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extreme easyness of use: perfect even for non technical personnel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new licensing policy results in too high costs for SME Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to use and to implement, the integration and the connection to different ERP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the price SAP connectors and Broadcasting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to transform Sales, Operations, and Merchandising, all from the same platform. Once the discovery process is over, the platform is super-easy for end-users to get their daily plans for how they will buy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data Hierarchies are confusing for non-technical people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.