We performed a comparison between Board and Google Data Studio 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."It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"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."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation."
"The solution is free so that is a good feature."
"The ability to design complex data models and equations."
"I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility."
"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."
"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues."
"This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves."
"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"Some of our users are still using an MS Office add-in for Excel for certain calculations, and when they export from Board, some of the values, some of the totals and column names, are not coming through into Excel."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"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 initial setup was very complex for us."
"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."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."
"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."
"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."
"The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI."
"Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base."
"Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs."
"When you physically install a product on one machine instead of the cloud, you have a better visibility, best icon quality, etc.. It's more of an issue with how we are adapting to the transition. We are still in the early moments of using this tool, and we need to go deeper to discover some improvements."
"It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool."
Board is ranked 20th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Google Data Studio is ranked 14th in Reporting with 8 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Google Data Studio is rated 7.6. 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 Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, Microsoft Power BI and Databricks. See our Board vs. Google Data Studio report.
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