We performed a comparison between Board and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"We can build reports super fast."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"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."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"In the early stage of an implementation, it not only helps decision making, but it allows people to have insight into problems with data so that they can go and get it corrected."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"The initial setup is relatively simple."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"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 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 nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"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 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."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"It is easy enough. I don't see any real substantial improvements that are needed. It is great as it is, but its interface could be a bit modern."
"Microsoft BI could improve by having better collaboration between developers working on the same dashboard. The developer platform is all done on a single laptop and it's difficult to have the same project files work. Two developers have to go back and forth. You have to have the project file on one developer's laptop making it difficult to co-develop."
"Right now, their premium pricing is keeping us out of the premium market. The premium price per user just doesn't make sense for us, but we haven't reached the limit of 500 users to justify the premium."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
Board is ranked 19th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting 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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