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"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."
"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 do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"we are able to easily export data. When directors need financial information, we can go in the system and export the data, then send it out so they have it ready and available. If they are not in the office, we can email it to them. In addition, all the managers are now more on top of their expenses and their budget."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"The embedding feature is great."
"We can easily do our own customizations."
"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"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 have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
Board is ranked 27th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Knowage is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 18 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Knowage 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 Knowage writes "Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Knowage is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Pentaho Business Analytics, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and TIBCO Jaspersoft.
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