We performed a comparison between Board and IBM Planning Analytics 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."What is very valuable is the ability to customize. We didn't see a solution out there that really matched exactly what our functional requirements would be. So we were able to work with New Brain, our integrator, and we were able to build from the ground up what we wanted, and I think that's pretty unique to BOARD."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"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."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"The ease of use is valuable. The fact that it's plugged into Excel spreadsheets is also valuable. It provides additional functionality where you can slice and dice the information in a way that you can't do with spreadsheets"
"The product's stability is good."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The tool is flexible."
"A lot of the platform is in-memory, so Planning Analytics can run calculations quite fast. It also offers several user interfaces. And in the newest version of Planning Analytics, there is a new one called the Planning Analytics Workspace. Maybe it could be useful for the business side."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6. 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 IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI and CCH Tagetik, whereas IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and CCH Tagetik. See our Board vs. IBM Planning Analytics report.
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