We performed a comparison between Board and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 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 reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"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."
"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."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"With the combination of 24/7 global support and their community, there was great customer service, tech support, and community support."
"The features which the solution has been awesome. The way the data is fetched from the database, and the queries are executed, is unique using the Universe of Business Objects. That makes it unique and we could not find another solution that functions in a similar way. It's has a great way of receiving and executing queries."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
"The solution is stable."
"Ease of report development is a key feature."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"If I were to compare it with Power BI and I wanted to build proper well-formatted reports, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence does that much better. Power BI is just getting into that space. They've concentrated more on visualization, which is what the SAP Lumira does. With Web Intelligence, you are able to build reports that users can interact with. They can also do a lot of querying themselves. It is robust in terms of security and integration. It is also quite scalable."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
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"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"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."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"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."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
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Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. 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 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Planful, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy. See our Board vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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