We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"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."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"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 support from the BOARD team and their consultants is great. Whenever I use technical support, they are good."
"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."
"Technical support is quite good."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"Technical support has been great."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"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."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
Board is ranked 20th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting 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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