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What is Board?

Board is the Enterprise Planning Platform. The Board Enterprise Planning Platform powers financial and operational planning for more than 2,000 organizations worldwide. Industry leaders trust Board to turn complex data into better decisions with AI, analytics, and tailor-made solutions for enterprise-grade challenges. Partnering with Board, global enterprises such as H&M, BASF, Burberry, Toyota, Coca-Cola, KPMG, and HSBC have deployed end-to-end planning applications at a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Founded in 1994, and now with 25 offices worldwide, Board is recognized by leading analysts including BARC, Gartner, and IDC. For complete details, and to request your personalized demo, visit www.board.com.

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Board International is a global leading provider of unified BI and CPM solutions.

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Board enables companies to drive digital transformation across planning, analysis, and forecasting activities by bringing together strategy, finance, and operations in a single platform. Unlike standalone software solutions, Board's Intelligent Planning approach empowers users to use, monitor, and manage Integrated Business Planning and analytics applications without the need for multiple software packages, license contracts, or reliance on IT specialists.


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Chiasso, Ticino
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871 employees on LinkedIn®
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Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform delivers solutions that help over
,000 organizations worldwide plan smarter — enabling actionable insights and better outcomes. Board helps leading enterprises discover crucial insights which drive business decisions and unify strategy, finance and operations through more integrated and intelligent planning to achieve full control of performance. Board International has long been recognized by leading analysts and subject matter experts including Gartner, Nucleus, and Dresner. Board International is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.


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Filippo P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Perfect BI tool"
We've finally had the opportunity to SEE all our request in one platform. Data analysis came true and graphical representations support daily decision
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Luca S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Board is a very flexible tool"
Board is a very flexible tool when it comes to data management. Because of this, it can be adapted to many areas within the company. Implementati...
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Board 14 is the latest release of the Board's Enterprise Planning Platform, designed to enhance and accelerate your planning and decision-making for the enterprise.
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Board 14 is the latest release of the Board's Enterprise Planning Platform, designed to enhance and accelerate your planning and decision-making for the enterprise.
What’s the story with Board? Board is a planning solution, an enterprise platform, and a promise of partnership. To help organizations plan smarter and succeed faster.
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What do you like best about Board?

The best feature is we can have all the sales and customers in one single pane.

User interface is at its best, able to understand how the business can is grown with the help of this tool

Able to see margins and profits that make life easy and gives an opportunity to analyse to make better margins and profit in future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Cost of support and software is a bit high on that front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enhance the Business by tracking sales and customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

In my company, we use the software both at the user level and at the administrator level, it has been of great help when implementing digital transformation in the Industry 4.0 we are experiencing. It is fast at executing algorithms and cleans up the clutter and what is not relevant when making feasibility reports. The reports are clean and error-free and can always be saved for future reference. I totally recommend it to both large and medium-sized companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Some interfaces are somewhat cumbersome, and if you are not used to this type of software, you might fall into the trap of boredom. For everything else, it is the best business intelligence management software I have tried in recent years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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is the best software to have everything under control in a medium and large company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

financial report above all, although the dashboards on performance provide a large amount of information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Our company was one of BOARD’s earliest customers and we've used their product in our business for many years. BOARD is very easy to use and has helped us improve our general business practices. It has saved our development team countless hours and now reports can easily be generated on the fly. The dashboard functionality is also very helpful, and it's deep integration with Excel means that reports can be made right in the tools you already use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Sometimes users have to repeat a formula multiple times if you want to update multiple reports. Also, we wish they had a Mac version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to manage our business more efficiently because we're making data driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

-Amazing customer service; they attended to all of our needs and questions and made sure we were comfortable with everything.

-Extensive range of reports and data visualization available

-Really easy to learn, and therefore we roll out projects in record speed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The dashboards could be a little more user friendly, but this is a flaw that I expect to be fixed quickly with new updates. BOARD has a great thing going and as always growing companies will have growing pains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

BOARD is very easy to use and has really smoothed out our business processes.Our team saved so much invaluable time using this incredible software. Customer service was excellent too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

The interface is pretty easy to use and one can easily get used to it within a day or two. Also the UX is great, everything is within reach I can switch over to different reports within few clicks. Everything is organized and accessible for the same window.

I so much like BOARD is beacause it reduces the person's work. As before BOARD we would build reports on our own, I mean manually which now is easy to make with in few steps.

It has took BI to a new level and so happy with whole experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

There is nothing I could point out while using it. I can write few more points in favour but not againt it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

We have been using BOARD for a good time and I have experienced that it has helped us in various ways. From simple reports to predictive analysis it has proved itself an so I recommend everyone out there to use it. They also offer a free demo, go give it a try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

At Easesolutions Pvt. Ltd. we have to get insights of various data available which we used to do by creating reports manually. Now after BOARD this whole process in automated and we no more need to waste time in manually putting everything together but focus more on the insights and improve results. We use this for both us for and our clients. We also have recommended it to many of our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

This program allows us to generate in-depth reports, analyze our data, and work in a more streamlined and efficient manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

There have been a few glitches but nothing that couldn’t be solved with the updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

If you’re having trouble with glitching, try the updates! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

This has been an integral part of our business. I wouldn’t use any of their software to generate the data that we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

BI is a worldwide wonder. Organizations over the world are utilizing astute detailing instruments to stretch out beyond the opposition. As globalism turns into an expanding monetary pattern, organizations of all sizes will feel the provincial impacts BI has when a market is cornered. To stay aware of quickening change, many must enhance inside to contend with the unforeseen. At the point when experts approach the data they require, they're ready to center around enhancing their work, as opposed to getting occupied by irrelevant assignments. This is vital to how workers see their own execution, and it can help have a genuine effect on what is important most for their positions. Adopting an information driven strategy likewise opens up open doors for new motivating forces by compensating how representatives enhance all that really matters past desires. In profoundly focused positions, for example, deals, perceiving execution information along these lines gives top ability a chance to set objectives for their most extreme potential. A vital use for BOARD is to anticipate the consequence of a business activity. This rising pattern is called prescriptive examination, and the main path for BI to do this viably is to store enough recorded information to haul out key patterns from the past. The arrangement can either show past patterns for a specialist to base forecasts with or it can offer proposals for rehashing certain activities that prompted past progress. With BOARD, organizations can painstakingly track key measurements for examination. Instead of jumping carelessly into change, the organization can test changes precisely in a controlled domain so the information can demonstrate whether they were effective before they hurt the main issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The significant target of BOARD is to store past information about an association's arrangements and uncover it so that it licenses experts in basic leadership. On the other side, this data by and large adds up to a little part of what the organizations really require to work, other than its controlled worth. While in different circumstances, the client might not have enthusiasm for authentic information the same number of business sectors that the organization directs are in visit modification. Another impediment of BOARD could be its many-sided quality in usage of information. It tends to be intricate to the point that it can make business strategies unbending to manage. In the perspective of such preface, numerous business specialists have anticipated that these complexities can at last throttle any business. BOARD can make business settings end up being significantly more jumbled. Like every single enhanced innovation, business insight was first settled keeping in thought the purchasing skill of wealthy firms. Indeed, even today BOARD framework can't be managed by the majority of the organizations. In spite of the fact that, merchants in the previous couple of years have begun adjusting their administrations towards medium and little measured businesses, however the truth of the matter is that huge numbers of such firms does not view them as exceedingly fundamental, for its many-sided quality. Numerous organizations in the present quick paced mechanical situation are not sufficiently quiet to sit tight for the execution of BOARD in their association. It takes around year and a half for information warehousing framework to totally actualize the framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

You must use it !!! It is a software with an interface very intuitive that easy to use. Also you can ask for a demo and check that is a very useful software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

Board is a program that enables you to transfer, adjust, embed information in any mode and from any source, guaranteeing a customization of the screen perusing information, making the program simple to utilize and intuitive for clients. Also the dashboard application permits BOARD clients to make a completely adaptable ordeal, highlighting drill-down and bore through usefulness, and also a few unique kinds of information perception alternatives. By executing BOARD's information gathering and examination functionalities, organizations can see information pertinently that helps drive canny business choices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Gerente de finanzas
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What do you like best about Board?

We observed BOARD to be a simple to utilize and greatly adaptable instrument that has enhanced our business forms. As a developer who might spend innumerable hours creating reports to meet the regularly changing business prerequisites, I was overwhelmed in the POC by the easy to understand interface and the simplicity to make reports so rapidly on the travel to meet our whole business needs. I have not made another report program since, as BOARD can do everything. Not exclusively is it a great device for making reports and dashboards, yet the guaging and planning capacities that permits compose back to 3D squares and the running of situations, makes it an across the board BI device. One element throughout the years that our business has grasped is the Excel Add-in highlight, and because of its simple to utilize interface, clients can run reports in Excel themselves. When hoping to cooperate with a BI programming merchant, we had a couple of key abilities that we were searching for in an answer. These abilities included:

- The item should be anything but difficult to setup and arrange and not require extensive task usage courses of events

- the item should have the capacity to engage the end clients to make dynamic perceptions to help the necessities of their business

- Support for the examination must not require a multitude of engineers or specialized staff to keep up the application.

A considerable lot of our clients are mid-showcase organizations that can't manage the cost of huge costly revealing arrangements, yet at the same time require the quality and ease of use factors that clients get from the more costly off the rack items. BOARD gave the greater part of this thus considerably more. Our clients start acknowledging esteem very quickly following the underlying execution, representation their business in manners they have never possessed the capacity to through powerful intelligent dashboards and reports. The item likewise offers our clients with an approach to rapidly stay aware of their evolving business. With BOARD, as the business changes and new inquiries should be asked, the item furnishes the topic specialists with the capacity to progressively make important perceptions to discover their answers. No requirement for report essayists when you have a controller or back office client who knows the correct things to ask to influence the execution of the association. With this item, gone are the times of the specialized business expert endeavoring to intrude on the demand from the business, and rather the business is currently making precisely what they require with little contribution from IT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

BOARD is a vigorous device that requires a far reaching and appropriate setup. It doesn't indicate what neglects to stack in detail from the Board Data Reader log. It doesn't consider both field and segments perusing in the meantime. We ought to never need to knead/control any documents GL concentrates to stack into Board. It doesn't take into consideration exemption maps. On-line documentation and Knowledge Base is restricted. BOARD could utilize a couple of increasingly extra perceptions inside its containers as its rivals discharge new visuals continually through a crowdfunding system with control clients and designers. It ought to incorporate all Customer Case call goals and Server establishment prerequisites. Nexel is a decent begin, yet should be on Rows, other than Columns. Likewise, there's a bug with just perusing the first section. Next, we require designing in DataViews. Another open door is Dependency Reporting for dynamic DataView Reports demonstrating determined levels. Ultimately, Class Attribute Filtering estimations. Offering Advanced implementer preparing and accreditations would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

You only need a computer and a network connection. And don´t worry if you have any problem, the technical support will give you the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

Board gives me an extensive variety of Business Intelligence capacities, for example, announcing, multi-dimensional examination, impromptu questioning and dashboarding, coordinated with the capacity to oversee and track all execution arranging and control work processes including planning, arranging and anticipating to gainfulness investigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Fresh idea. Nicely built platform. Great user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Not much popular. Not to much content yet. Difficult to collaborate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

Buying sharing experience of multiple projects with 100s of users and getting inputs we have scaled very quickly and improved the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Easy to use and scalable platform to do business intelligence. With the on-board features, you can create a simple dashboard to show off all important information that you need, but require a little bit of development.

May require development to acquire all your needs and show only what you want. Customized by you, for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Not enough plugins or libraries available on the web. The user base is very limited and information can be sparse and can be found on the official forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

An great alternative to Salesforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Board solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data analysis and project scale reporting in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.