We performed a comparison between Board and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 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."All the reports are prepared automatically."
"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."
"It is very easy to use. It has got what they call a toolkit, which is a no-code development environment. You can develop a whole solution with it because it is a complete platform. There is a lot of online material that can be used as a reference. You can help yourself while developing a solution. There are some prebuilt applications in the platform environment. You can very easily customize and integrate these applications. It also has flexible scaling of machine resources, which is really great."
"Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day."
"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."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"It has got great flexibility. As a reporting tool, it has a great deal of flexibility for numerous data resources that you can bring into it. It allows you to write your SQL query directly within the product. So, it allows you to do server-side joins instead of pulling all the data into Crystal Report to aggregate that data. It has great visualization. For the most part, it operates quite efficiently."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"Way of creating reports."
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"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"If we could upload other data, e.g., pivot tables which can be done in BOARD already, that we have pre-existing and have that data distribute to more complex spreadsheets, I would like that going forward."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"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."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"It is not simple to use."
"Technical support may not always be timely or effective."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
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Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. 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 BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Planful, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy. See our Board vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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