We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft Power BI 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."The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well."
"It's a powerful platform."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"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."
"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 would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"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."
"From a scalability and performance perspective and based on my understanding and feedback from end users, there's room for improvement in data processing, scaling up, and leveraging the cloud. That could be an enhancement area for me to look into."
"It should be more user-friendly. There are very small or tiny icons that you need to move very carefully. If you go a little bit up and down, some of the values change. Its user interface should be improved. It should be like Tableau. Its performance is also slow and should be improved. I definitely feel some sort of speed issues with Power BI. The integration of Excel with Power BI would also be good."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools 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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