We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day."
"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"The most valuable features in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"They asked you to pay if you want to synchronize more than eight times, you would have to go to a Power BI enterprise license, which is much more costly."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and CCH Tagetik, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE. See our Board vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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