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Board Overview

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.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

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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Year Founded
1994
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Chiasso, Ticino
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@BoardSoftware
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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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Lorenzo L.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Ideal solution for improving business performance"
Board is a versatile platform that can be easily integrated with external sources. All employees can use it without specific training to perform an...
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Board Group Consolidation and Reporting is more than your conventional financial consolidation software. Configurable data collection processes and workflows, automatic reclassifications, and out-of-the-box statutory reports are unified with powerful planning capabilities for maximum impact on yo...
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Harness the Board Intelligent S&OP solution for flawless supply chain orchestration and gain competitive advantage in a dynamic marketplace. Seamlessly integrate and collaborate with sales, operations, and finance to optimize inventory levels, minimize disruptions, and maximize profitability.
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Board offers the capability to manage real time changes to models, data allocation across dimensions and hierarchies, and data calculation and aggregation.
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’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.
Board Group Consolidation and Reporting offers a streamlined solution for finance transformation: replacing disjointed consolidation and reporting activities.
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Board Group Consolidation and Reporting offers a streamlined solution for finance transformation: replacing disjointed consolidation and reporting activities.
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What happens when you bring finance and operations together? 
✔Silos disappear. 
✔Decisions get smarter. 
✔And planning races ahead powered by real-time insights. 
 
Hear from Board customers who make it happen every day.
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What happens when you bring finance and operations together? ✔Silos disappear. ✔Decisions get smarter. ✔And planning races ahead powered by real-time insights. Hear from Board customers who make it happen every day.

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Latanya P
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

Very trustable site, easy to use and customer service is excellent! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Could use more reviews on they’re website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helping us budget with our travel plans for 2019 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Real Estate
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

Oncve understood, BOARD is so simple to create new models on and it inspires confidence to really try to create something that does not yet exist.

The versatility of the software means that complex models can be created which provide users with the ability to enter their own data, stored in the OLAP db but also saved to the RDB. This makes available all of the data from one system in another system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

I initially disliked the learning curve of the software, but it was really worth it. Once it is understood how BOARD works and why, modelling becomes intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Identify your actual needs and discuss thoroughly with the BOARD sales team how BOARD will benefit you. Ensure that you have a BI team to work alongside the consultants to ensure that the knowledge share takes place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

BOARD software has given us the ability to provide our external clients with tools for them to manage and view their own property holdings. With it, they can identify EPC work, identify leases that are approaching renewal, calculate future rental income and identify individuals to discuss up coming business and points with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Board is a really simple and effective tool to gather data and represent them through powerful dashboards filled with KPIs charts. It is a really outstanding solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

I have no cons to point out, it is really effective and a very mature platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Invest in an initial project to thoroughly define the key performance indicators and define the operating model to collect data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With BOARD we were able to automatize our data collection and improve decision making process, which used to be totally manual, demanding a lot of human effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

The ability to design multiple data models with flexibility and add additional components in a simple and user-friendly way. The ability to modify and change the data model entails a perfect solution for every market need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

It is not a simple tool. Given its robustness and complexity, a period of acclimatization is necessary to be able to use it correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Help gather the necessary information for different market studies both for your own company and for the companies you work for, it is an interesting tool for conducting business studies and establishing oneself in the market. Account bases and planning are other very useful tools of this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pablo V.
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What do you like best about Board?

We were introduced to BOARD after many years of experience using alternative budgeting, planning, and multidimensional reporting solutions.

While many of BOARD's competitors have come and gone, BOARD has demonstrated both a commitment to supporting performance management and a significant commitment to innovation. We use the product for several of our subsidiaries and offer solutions for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The initial commitment to the product is slightly different from other approaches and it takes a little time to re-educate oneself to its methods, but once the reasons why BOARD chose this way are understood, it becomes clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Keep it up! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it won't disappoint you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RS
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

BOARD provides in-depth insight to enable our users in their decision making process. Taking data and making it easily readable/ready-to-use makes it so powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The initial learning curve for less-techy users was slightly higher. But after the initial period, it provides the customization we require. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Make sure you speak with their teams to understand the customization and features you require for your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easily analyzing business information, and making presentation metrics simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Chemicals
IC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

It is very easy to get into and so it allows a great self service BI. Users can just jump in. Most of it is self explaining. That's quite the exception when it comes to BI tools.

More complexity is still possible and allows for a differentiation of reports. This is always important as people will, in time, want to have some standard reports that provide more/better displayed data than what can be achieved with basic knowledge. And here is where the great community comes in; support on the board pages by board users is excellent.

It is also very easy to set up data input. This could solve many cases where otherwise Excel reports are sent accross the organisation just to fill in data with the difficulty that the format needs to be maintained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

It seems that many of the newer features are developed as islands. Sometimes they lack integration with the rest of the system. What comes to mind is the for computations of data there are "column algorithm", "nexel formulas", "rules", "analytical functions" just for the data display. One needs to be knowledgeable when to use what and they have sometimes unexpected interactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Ensure you know the needs of the users. Do you have many users that would like to get off Excel? Is there a need to standardise current Excel reports? Then Board is a perfect choice keeping costs and necessary knowledge low.

If you expect your users to analyse data themselves and adapt existing reports to current needs then also Board is a very good choice.

Board would be the wrong choice when it comes to pixel perfect reports. If your users don't need to modify the report layout or quickly drill down into deeper levels, then maybe Board is not necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

At this stage we mostly review sales data. Board allows for much easier drill down functionality than what would be possible with Excel based reports. In comparison to bigger suites such as from IBM Cognos or Microsoft (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS) development is much quicker to get first results to the screen and the decision makers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

I love how easily i can create reports, and get a clear data analysis, all with just a click of a finger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

There's nothing i dislike. Its so simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data analysis, build interactive dashboard and create reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

With board, you can have everything necessary to control your company's activity in a single tool. In this tool, you can manage the financial aspect as well as the warehouse part, with a user-friendly and visually pleasing environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

What I like least about the Board tool is the limited ability to restrict functionalities to different company profiles as well as the need for new functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Tool with a user-friendly environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Board, we achieve better tracking of the company's economic activity and marketing control, being able to locate the sites where to act to improve the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrea M.
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Medical Practice
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What do you like best about Board?

With very little experience, on Board it is possible to create impressive and feature-rich dashboards that go far beyond what I have seen with many other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

There are still some aspects of Board that need work, such as GUI improvements that would simply provide a better user experience. Many of the limitations, such as chart customization features, have been addressed in the most recent versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As with most companies, data visibility and the encouragement of proper analysis are the main objectives. The use of Board allows for a consolidated global view of the customer base without the need for huge Excel spreadsheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.