We performed a comparison between Board and Tableau 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."Where it used to take me three days at the beginning of the year to create the new financial statement, now it is a matter of minutes because all the data is in the system."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"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."
"The support from the BOARD team and their consultants is great. Whenever I use technical support, they are good."
"Our data is now more structured. Between our data warehouse and BOARD, which are both brand new, we now have a more structured data view with more accurate, timely data."
"We can build reports super fast."
"I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis."
"Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space."
"The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature."
"It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility."
"Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting."
"Tableau has comprehensive, insightful charts, which allow you to build stunning dashboards and enrich your support decision-making."
"The solution is being delivered to our customer, who appreciates the insights generated from the reports. It is easy for them to drill into the details and use interactive charts."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"I would like to see a better Web client, where the controls work the same way as in the Windows client. I do think that the focus is now on the Web, so it should be improved upon."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"The price could be better."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly."
"The data preparation could integrate better with Tableau."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"Firstly, the high cost of Tableau licenses makes it inaccessible for many mid-scale clients. Secondly, the server requires at least 128GB of RAM, which can be impractical for some systems. We need a dedicated system to use Tableau."
"In the cloud sometimes the performance is a little bit slow."
"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and OneStream XF, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Board vs. Tableau report.
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