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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.

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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Board International
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Year Founded
1994
HQ Location
Chiasso, Ticino
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871 employees on LinkedIn®
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+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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What do you like best about Board?

Board BI tool gives all the insights of the company's needs, which includes predictive analytics and manipulation of data to make different types of reports which can be extremely helpful for the company in taking proactive decisions.

- Board is extremely effortless to set up and use.

- Easy to use for non-programmer and integration with other software is seamless.

- Ability to handle large amounts of data.

- Cloud, web-based deployment.

- What-If scenarios are impressive.

- Ad hoc analysis and reporting.

- Consolidation/Rollup feature.

- Drag and drop feature.

- Customizable dashboard.

- Access controls/permissions.

-Visual analytics.

-Qualitative/Quantitative analysis.

-24/7 customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

It has met most of our needs, Experienced some improvement barriers that were managed to overcome with the new version. Customer support is excellent, on-site support representative had been very knowledgeable, faced no difficulty in integration with our databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Working great so far, as per the expectations, easy to learn for a new user. Highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Board BI helped extensively to build the company's model for budgeting, planning, reporting, and alerts.

- Cash flow management.

- Customer support is excellent, on-site support representative had been very knowledgeable, faced no difficulty in integration with our databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Dashboarding and presentations for the management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

The fact that you need a consultant to set the structure of the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Information concerning product profitability to Board of Directors and managers of the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Easy setup and implementation

Integration and standardization of data from various sources

Each user is able to obtain all informations needed in autonomy

Depth of analyses, ability to drill down and track data between various the dimensions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Nothing of really important, may be printing options could be improved (but you can overcome with the office add-in) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Mobile version

Office add-in tool

Try a demo Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data quality

Deep analysis

Data normalization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

- marginale IT-Unabhängigkeit nach der Einführung, verständlich, flexibel, jederzeit verfügbar, Datenqualität Optimierung möglich, weniger/kaum fehleranfällig, ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

- Testsystem teuer, demnach Umsetzungen und Anpassungen direkt im Echtsystem

- Fehler in Nachtjobs nur schwer auszulesen

- Abgewiesen Datensätze eruieren ist umständlich Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Probleme lösen:

- Datenqualität des Vorsystems

- ausgewogene Hierarchien herstellen

- mit wenig Auwand ganz viele Empfänger bedient, die selbst jederzeit und unabhängig die Infos abrufen können

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- viele Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

- Ability to process large files of unstructured data from internal/external sources.

- Advanced and professional analytics.

- Data can be manipulated in various ways to get different types of impactful reports.

- Easy to integrate with spreadsheets, ERP, and other programs.

- Customization to give the dashboard a personal touch.

-User-friendly interface made the visualization easy to create.

- Importing Masterdata from ERP went steadily and perfectly.

- Compelling user experience on phone and tablet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Board BI tool has a steep learning curve, can be challenging for a new user to reach to Board's full capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Board:

Overall satisfied with Board implementation, meets the requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Sales forecasting.

- Incentive management.

- Planning of sales funnels and cash flows.

- Enhanced operational efficiency.

- Quick and better decision-making.

- Better coordination and relationship with suppliers and stakeholders.

- Helped with using spreadsheets to visualizing month-to-month reports for an effective budgeting process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

I like Board because it's really flexible and it's possible to design as many analysis as possibile Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

There are some functionalities to be designed but the last version Board 12 is really improving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reporting and budgeting/forecasting problems. We take less time in collecting numbers and design the report, more time for analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Flexible and individually adaptable to a wide variety of aspects / The ease of modifying the data model and layout Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Only small things - Currently the low adaptability of the screen (zoom possible in board 10) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Steering of the entire budget and forecast process

Mapping of the entire price and condition system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Board allows me to analyze and visualize data in a very quick way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

I don't have something which comes to my mind that I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am using Board for Project Controlling purposes and every day I am saving a lot of my time during the day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

Fast development

easy to use

easy to change afterwards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Not easy to read development from others

no export of the metadata Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

creating one version of the truth

building a business process to capture and validate data

easy for reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Board?

1. Data Modeling

2. ETL Process (it can be improved) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Board?

Pricing Model

Delivery

Project Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data Analytics and can be used for decson making Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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