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 is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"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."
"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."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"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."
"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."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"The most valuable features are the analytical application and the user story."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"Planning is the most valuable feature of the product because it's integrated and that means we don't need to rely on an independent planning environment."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The tool's most valuable features are the BI and planning functionalities. I value being able to integrate smart planning with BI for analysis. The solution is user-friendly."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"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."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"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."
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"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."
"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."
"Connection and integration with other applications have a lot of restrictions at the moment."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 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 MicroStrategy. See our Board vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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