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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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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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"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 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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✔And planning races ahead powered by real-time insights. 
 
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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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Chief Consultant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

It takes a small amount of time from the first steps in Board to the creation of the first report.

When I train new members of my team I insist on understanding the basics of Board, similar to bricks, and then little by little build their solution, but even after a day of learning the solution they can start seeing their first report.

But for more advanced users you can use a collection of basics to build a more complex solution that will support your activity, from financial management to sales forecast and plenty more.

The usage of Data trhough dimensions can help you crafting the report you need rather than using the report you have.

Compared to other solutions, your consultants are the one doing all the construction, from Data model to capsule, everything can be handled by one person without prior knowledge in any development language.

One element to keep in mind for a good design of a Board solution : always have a clear picture of the final product before starting development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The update process of Board is not aligned with other solutions. Rather than offering an updater, it requires a 2 steps action to uninstall and reinstall the solution.

Also, new functionalities are available in the Cloud version when the On-premise is not receiving them or at a later date.

Error messages in the application can be clarified to support a better understanding of the issues and maintenance of the solution.

Screen design can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are implementing a solution that will replace a large number of local reports. It will centralize all these reporting and activity documents in a single platform and will ease the follow-up for the top management.

Our reports are built to gather data coming from large S/4 systems and the integration with Board is smooth.

We are turning a complex reporting environment into a simplified system for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FM
Head of Controlling
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

Board is a BI solution that helps to monitor, plan and summarize the most important financial and economic aspects of the company. Board helps our controlling department in obtaining quick results and good performance in the presentation of data to the senior staff management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Sometimes the software is not so quick during the save and plug activities. Broadcasting service is optional. New function should be more intuitive and explained by a dedicated consultancy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

If you want to reduce your time in non value-added activities, if you want data updated promptly, if you want the planning process under control, use BOARD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Board helps us to obtain monthly P&L and BS within the 5th working day of the following month. All the results are published in a dashboard that is available to the managers for any kind of information needed. Furthermore, in the planning and forecasting process, every single user (who get access) can put the data and these are immediately available to the coordinator of the process. This permits to set deadlines for each activity, to approve or reject data, avoiding big mistakes and proliferation of mails with excels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As Finance we avoid to prepare the reporting in excel, the data are updated every day and they are available to the stakeholders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

at present I have nothing to underline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

avilable and accessible data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The tool is very easy to use and helpful the management to take the right decision about the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

For our company this kind of question is no applicable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The tool help the company with exhaustive info about the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Grace D.
GD
Campus Recruiter
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

Board is a highly effective instrument. It is simple to assemble and set up. There is no need to spend more time implementing this. It is also user-friendly. So that it is simple for new users to learn how to utilize, using this technology allows us to save more time. The board produced a report with a great deal of detail. So that users may rapidly obtain business information, innew version enhances the web page side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Board is a beneficial and trustworthy tool with a virtual user interface. Board is an excellent product, and I have no complaints about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We learn more about the information, and the Board helps us know how to predict problems and solve them before they happen. Since the analyses are correct, there aren't many mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has an intuitive and easy to use user interface.

Reporting and analytics handling is really helpful to process the performance of our employees.

The huge loads of data are impressive,

I can easily connect to multiple data sources including Excel, Office 365, Oracle, SQL, etc.

The data export is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

I really Board for its ease of use and efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Board is an effective platform for its ability to connect with multiple data sources. I currently use it synchronizing it with Salesforce to automate the processes of selection and hiring of new employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Flexibility - the tool is able to be configured to create reporting for any user purpose. We use the Office add in to allow users to aggregate data outside of the main capsules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Its blank canvas means you need to have good datawarehouse / SQL loading protocols and careful testing required to make sure it's working well. Some data validation protocols would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Ensure you have a good design for what you're trying to achieve with the project implementation and a structure for testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Board provides capsule dashboards for our users, customized by individual. It also allows analysts the opportunity to create live Excel files for repeated reportis. Productivity is improved because we're spending less time collating data and more time reviewing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KB
Software Developer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

You don't need advanced knowledge to use it as it has a very intuitive interface which makes it easy to use to create organized reports. It has a variety of functions that allow us to elaborate our work more fluidly since it provides us with all the necessary information effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

It has not been buggy to this day; we are grateful for the result thanks to its implementation in the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Board is indispensable for any organization as it offers an ideal and easy-to-use analysis service that allows its consumers to see the efficiency of its services in the current market and has a pretty qualified attention team to solve doubts as soon as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Board has allowed us to achieve our goals as an organization, which has made us stand out among similar companies in our area. It has been highly effective and functional because it has provided us with the necessary tools to analyze the performance of the services offered to our clients, thus allowing us to optimize our services to satisfy our users effectively. Thanks to BOARD, we can now easily customize reports, and its interface is quite fast, allowing us to merge different databases into a single account. Their technical support is quite attentive and has solved several doubts for us efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tiffany L.
TL
Headquarters Accountant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Board?

how quickly and easily you can drill into data. Also how quickly you can put a simple report together Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

That you cannot delete entities. We have gone through major expansion and restructure, so we have all these dead entities we are stuck with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hierarchy issues in your accounting system. It has show us where the holes are Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Chemicals
AC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Board?

- the multitude of provided sources for analyzing data (SAP, Excel, different Databases)

- easy report distribution

- many different possibilities to visualize data

- great customer support

- great early adopters program

- great update cycle for new features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Only thing I dislike is the fact that you have to use windows scheduler to schedule data import tasks, it would be great if Board could provide its own scheduler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

read the changelogs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Mostly sales and finance reporting and also group-wide reporting with different plants all over the world. Easy data entry, easy planning and easy collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.