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."All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"I think it's flexible. I chose this solution because, even though it wasn't out-of-the-box, you can customize it, and the long-term growth potential of the software is where I see the value."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"The product's stability is good."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"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"
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"A lot of the platform is in-memory, so Planning Analytics can run calculations quite fast. It also offers several user interfaces. And in the newest version of Planning Analytics, there is a new one called the Planning Analytics Workspace. Maybe it could be useful for the business side."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"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."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"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."
"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."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 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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