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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
HQ Location
Chiasso, Ticino
Twitter
@BoardSoftware
27,832 Twitter followers
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871 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
+41 91 697 54 10
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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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Chris C.
CC
Financial and Business Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Board?

The flexibility of creating reports and then related charts and exporting and using it in excel. The data is clean and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The complexity of building some reports will take a little programming training and understanding. It is not so intuitive for complex reports for even a power user. You have to get the training and then it is easier. Their helpdesk is always friendly and supportive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

For the price and product features, it is definitely worth considering its use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Budgeting, Forecasting, and all types of financial reporting and drill through to transaction level detail or pivoting on multiple variables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods
AC
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Board?

I really like the ability to compare multiple databases at times, while being able to make easy to read capsules for end users. I really enjoy that I am able to make data readers using SQL, as I come from a heavy SQL background. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Procedure performance sometimes takes too long with large nightly batch updates. This makes testing very hard to do in a timely fashion at work. Some features can seem buggy at times, but seem to be improved per new version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Make sure you have a a strong understanding of your current databases, without having knowledge of these data-sources you will highly struggle with creating reports. T Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reporting for our company gives our entire company the data they need immediately. They are able to then pull apart the data after the fact to best fit their needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is its flexibility and adaptability to transform complex business logic and processes into models that a non technical person can use for decision making up in UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Its flexibility can be a problem when the scope and reach is not clearly defined Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Drivers based PL&L, balance sheet and cash flow at Client, Country and Region levels Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

BOARD allows me to be consistent with my reports and saves me so much time. Reports are always accurate and I can share them daily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

I wish other employees in my company would use the application too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reporting, forecasting, budgeting and financial statements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

Board allows processing of large volumes of data and quick manipulation including drill down and drill through (to source data). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Error messages are vague and often the reason a process doesn't work is very unclear. This can be frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reporting and forecasting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

The easy and comprehensible set-up that allows the analysis side of business to be clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

When I've used the multi-cube approach in Board, it was a bit confusing at first and took some getting used to. Overall, however, I think its is a comprehensible set-up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Building data models and storing documents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bryan Z.
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Junior Solutions Consultant
Banking
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

Modelling and designing both application as well as user friendly and efficient interfaces which are nice to look at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Debugging and technical installation and connections Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Ease of use for end users, quick and easy accessible visuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Budgetting Planning and strategic forecasting related Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Executive Office
UE
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

The layout is perfect and if you have any issues at all, the community and staff are always there to help! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

There was a minor issue with reports displaying different amounts than expected, but the troubleshooting guide helped immensely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

It's definitely one to go for! Would recommend without a doubt! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's an excellent place for viewing analytics and drives the business forward, truly assisting us help out clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RG
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
What do you like best about Board?

Ease of use and initiative report writing and ad hoc analysis

Able to retrieve data into Excel and other office products

Data entry

Self service access to data across the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Nothing really. Our initial implementation was difficult due to the structure of our underlying data and understanding of source systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Transparency of information has bee=come real time in meetings to fact check figures and claims

Merging data from several software systems for reconciliation and complex stock costing requirements (ie volume and production data merged with payroll and Financial GL costs to get $ per hour and $ per kg KPIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

The ability to use the excel add-in to create reports quickly and accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Often clunky interface to add new entities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ability to lock versions and block users from access to certain areas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.