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."It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"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."
"The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"The product's stability is good."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"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"
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"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."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"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."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"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."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"It's highly competitive right now, and all the vendors are in a race to put out new versions with additional features. IBM comes out with new versions too often, and it has an impact on quality."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 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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