We performed a comparison between Board and SAP Analytics Cloud 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."It has definitely saved us time, especially in our budget and planning processes."
"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."
"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"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."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is a very good tool. The feature that's most useful for me is the reporting as it can be done via Google Chrome. The solution is also very nice, user-friendly, and easy to build. It's very easy to use the features of SAP Analytics Cloud."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Technical support is helpful."
"I like the product's capabilities. The clarity and scenarios are the main features that allow us to forecast using machine learning algorithms and make decisions."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"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."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"One area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is incorporating Python into the coding. That functionality is available, but it's not as efficient, and it's a bit difficult sometimes to do it, so that could be improved."
"I would like to see reporting to the Analytics cloud directly."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"The integration with other vendors and solutions could be improved."
"There is no direct connector from SAP to Redshift, so we are required to use a third-party product that was recommended by SAP."
"There should be more features for the time series charts."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 61 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while SAP Analytics Cloud 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Board is most compared with Anaplan, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI and CCH Tagetik, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Salesforce Einstein Analytics. See our Board vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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