We performed a comparison between Board and Workiva Wdesk 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."With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"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."
"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."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"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 tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"It makes the compliance process more efficient and more effective."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet."
"The collaboration within the platform is valuable."
"Workiva Wdesk has a flow diagram that is standardized, making it easy for people to file documents on ECDAs, which are in HTML format."
"Workiva Wdesk is pretty good in terms of getting the data from the system, automating the reporting schedules...It has a very good integration with ERP tools."
"It helps you to maintain a backup of your data, including the connectivity with the tables, which provides a user-friendly way to handle and access your files."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"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."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"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. "
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"With this product, it's more about the integrated data model where you can have a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship between your policies and processes, risks, and controls. They need to showcase how you can put those pieces together."
"At this point, I don't see a compelling reason to invest in Workiva. It may be necessary for compliance and controlling the version of SCC, but not everyone needs its high-end capabilities."
"Regarding the solution, reporting has certain areas that can be considered for improvement."
"The speed must be improved."
"One area where Workiva Wdesk could improve is by ensuring that its cloud-based system is fully compatible with the most current versions of PowerPoint and Excel."
"The most critical issue is the need to shift between uppercase and lowercase."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Workiva Wdesk is ranked 12th in Business Performance Management with 6 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Workiva Wdesk is rated 7.0. 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 Workiva Wdesk writes "A user-friendly tool useful for data consolidation and automating the reporting schedules". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Workiva Wdesk is most compared with AuditBoard, Oracle Hyperion, OneTrust GRC, RSA Archer and LucaNet. See our Board vs. Workiva Wdesk report.
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