We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"I think it's flexible. I chose this solution because, even though it wasn't out-of-the-box, you can customize it, and the long-term growth potential of the software is where I see the value."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and the charts. The reporting functionality is handy for aggregation, when it comes to planning. That ability is fascinating and our users are very happy with it. The charts and the reporting allow our users to see all the data and to see how things are going this year or in the COVID situation. They're seeing everything. Instead of having to check data line by line, they're seeing it in a graph and they're seeing it in charts."
"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."
"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."
"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"I liked the way that I felt as a user and administrator of it. There were a lot of clicks, drops, drags, etc. versus writing code."
"The tool improves the organizational budgeting process in several ways. One significant aspect is the extensionable functionality it offers. To illustrate, consider a scenario where a company has factories in Mexico producing Volkswagen and Kentucky producing Ford."
"The product has a direct plugin to Microsoft Excel."
"The workforce, the cube database, is the most valuable feature where you do planning for your headcounts."
"It gives you an end-to-end solution from integrating data from the source system to reporting. So it's a highly recommended tool."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is ad hoc reporting."
"Beneficial analysis and easy to do management adjustments."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud are the many capabilities it provides."
"We previously used Oracle EDS, and when comparing it to this solution, this solution has a much better interface. There are lots of advantages of the new solutions. Having it on the cloud, we are able to forget about keeping them updated or taking care of the database. We have minimal maintenance."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"It can have more functionality for narrative reporting. They should also improve their training courses, which are currently very lightweight. When you get into more complex things, it is quite difficult to figure out what you're supposed to do, and you have to look at a lot of videos before you actually understand, which is a bit frustrating. Their training can be more comprehensive."
"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."
"Some of our users are still using an MS Office add-in for Excel for certain calculations, and when they export from Board, some of the values, some of the totals and column names, are not coming through into Excel."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"One potential improvement would be a more visual workflow, as the current method using a tax list is not as effective."
"The tool's interface is outdated. However, OneStream is easier to navigate."
"Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud could improve. There are times when the forms are slow in saving and calculating."
"There is middleware that we need to purchase for our use case that should be provided in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud. We should not have to purchase the additional solution and the integration should be seamless."
"For HR, the workforce planning out of the box is complicated. For most users, it's not easy, and it requires a learning curve. It's not very user-friendly. It can be improved."
"The FR recording studio that is used to build reports is clunky and awful to use. This could be improved a lot. The solution does have problems and limitations."
"Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud could improve by having better integration with some other modules that we would add to this solution."
"There are some issues with block creation in the memory. Sometimes, when we run a calculation and a new intersection is hit during the calculation, the memory block doesn't get created, which doesn't give the correct result."
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Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is ranked 3rd in Business Performance Management with 17 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is rated 8.2. 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 Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud writes " Budgeting scenarios and versions helps us migrate data, visualize data, and do variant reporting". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Pentaho Business Analytics, whereas Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is most compared with Oracle HFM, Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, IBM Planning Analytics and Adaptive Insights. See our Board vs. Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud report.
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