--- title: "Board Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Board. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Board is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/1931-BOARD/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Demand Planning Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/scm/demand-planning-software-comparison/) / [Board](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/1931-BOARD/) / Board Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/1931-BOARD/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/1931-BOARD/alternatives/) # Board User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 138 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 84 reviews (61%) - 4 stars: 52 reviews (38%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (1%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Its all-in-one approach combines business intelligence (BI), performance management, and planning into a single platform, making it highly versatile. - Board is a very flexible planning tool, that allows you to build every planning process you can imagine. - Board International provides powerful data visualization and reporting capabilities. ### Most mentioned cons - Performance can lag with large datasets. - I don't have much perspective on the solution yet but I would say that managing the format by line by line is tedious. - The difficulty of using it in the absence of a consultant. ## Board customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 138 (page 1). ### Versatile and robust BI platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sally April W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Semiconductors - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Board lets you connect and prepare data for analysis, making it easy to create visually pleasing dashboards and reports. Ensures effective management of metrics, which drive performance and productivity. It has excellent analytical and predictive functions, easy and has a lot of potential. Significantly improves decision making and guarantees optimal results. #### Cons Board needs to incorporate more customization options to create dashboards and reports. --- ### With Board, coordinating logistics is much easier - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Helene V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Public Relations and Communications - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use this software to coordinate in a simple but effective way, all the logistics of shipments, routes and freight of our products to different customers nationwide. It has a tracking system that allows us to know the exact location of the cargo in real time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The program sends real-time alerts of the entire route of the goods and the entire supply chain, notifying the arrival of the goods, if there is any delay or mishap. It has a fleet management tool, where we can organize and control the entire fleet of trucks, those that are on the route, those that are about to leave, their location and many other important details. It also allows a complete tracking of drivers, to know their history, mileage, location and determine the safety of the load. #### Cons Real-time updates on the location of the parcel do not load properly without a stable internet connection. The signature capture and barcode reader sometimes does not work, so we must restart the application and even the cell phone to read it. I would like the integrations to be simpler. A lot of configuration is needed for the programs I need to work correctly within the software. --- ### I can't do my job without Board - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Valentina A. - Industry: Chemicals - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros For me Board is a very friendly tool, one of the most lovely aspect is very the easy of use, not only from the administrator side but also from the user side #### Cons One of the positive aspect is absolutely the flexibility but it is linked to the structure created in the first phase of implementation --- ### Outstanding Product that has become a critical tool for managing, monitoring and operating our biz. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brian Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Numerous... can better manage our biz to ensure optimal decisions are made for both tactical and strategic problems and opportunities. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros -- Extremely easy to set up and use. It's easy to train new users and integrate with new data sources. -- Powerful capabilities to "slice and dice" data, analyze different datasets, create KPIs and broadcast reports to others. We utilize Board beyond the financials... use for operational, sales, logistics, customer service and environmental applications. -- Excellent support from Board on both "how-to" questions and any internal IT issues that may arise. They take recommendations and act on them. They connect customers to share best practices. -- Frequent new releases that extend capabilities. Board stays ahead of the curve and provides new features to address their customers' potential needs in the future. -- Good price point with several license types for different user profiles. --- ### Helpful software! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Adele S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Board is what you need to soar higher. A complete package which handles the data competently while managing the performance metrics and boosting the sales with the aid of it multipurpose budgeting features that gives a user analysis from all aspects of the firm. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is user friendly, fast, tech savvy and requires minimal assistance to grasp the analytics behind this all-in-one software. Board not only helps you with metrics but gives you an analysis with respect to all levels and integrates well with SQL to give a complete picture of where the firm is standing. Its toolkit is unique and offers a versatile range of features to give you a unified view of a project. #### Cons Technical support is poor as the response is too slow. --- ### Powerful CPM and BI - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Semiconductors - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Board offers the advantage of presenting and interpreting data and metrics with the most attractive reports in a unified way and with visually attractive dashboards, with information updated in real time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has an intuitive user interface and the preparation of reports and graphs is really easy to share. It provides a rich set of predefined data connectors ready to be used. Accessing the different data sources is easy, without complications that interrupt data management. #### Cons They can improve the response time of customer support and on the other hand, more documentation is needed to deepen the use of their functions. --- ### Agile and robust data analysis - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sthefany B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Investment Banking - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Board is a robust and effective tool that provides effective data analysis and very attractive reports to develop the best strategies that help make the best decisions for our organization. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is very easy to use, no programming knowledge is required to use it fully. Data analysis can be based on time, facilitating its contextualization. It allows us to customize the data pipelines to adapt it to our needs. The display and design options are excellent. #### Cons Customer support does not respond within the expected time frame, although their responses help to effectively resolve any issues that arise. --- ### Easy to implement & to deploy new project - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Eugenio P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I've started to use Board in 2007, with 6.0 version. In this 11 year of use Board continue in develop easy to use and easy to develop Environment. I like most the support, in particular when they give not only solve to the problem, but give develop solution. Another issue I like is Board in "ALL IN ONE", so you don't need another tool to make your CPM environment . I think that this tools to give to customer the best quality price Ratio (CPM Product) #### Cons I really don't have anything to say in this box, but if I must say something, the documentation could be improved. --- ### Board has helped us trim time off our monthly close process and engage more with stakeholders - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Max P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Faster reporting with more flexibility, more reports, more engagement from stakeholders due to increased communication around pertinent and timely information. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Board is great at merging useful data from multiple outside sources including Accounting software, Payroll, time and attendance, and even scheduling software. Through relationship management we have been able to analyze data that wasn't previously available to us. #### Cons With every flexible system there is a degree of maintenance and Board is no stranger to that maintenance. Unless you keep up with it, it can become overwhelming. --- ### Very good product, easy to use and to implement, with great functionalities useful for business - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Barbara M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. I can produce data for analysis in a easiest way and faster. I made the user independent in its own job for control and planning and gave to the management the visibility of the trend of business with simple dashboards #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It was easy and fast to create a lot of dashboard and reports with a very large amount of data so that final users can do analysis of the business in few time. All new requests can be performed without trouble. #### Cons I appreciate very much this software and I didn't find any big issue till now. There's only one thing I have noticed: in a dashboard containing a summary table it's not possible to place the sum of the columns in the first row but only at the end and this is not helpful in case of a large number of rows. --- ### BOARD A Trusted Platform For Financial Solutions - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Emmanuel N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered BOARD has simplified my work by making financial processes simple and fun to work on. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros BOARD is an intuitive and simple to implement platform that makes financial processes seam easy. It has a user-friendly interface. #### Cons I haven't seen any dislike with BOARD at all. --- ### Our company uses BOARD as Management information System tool combining it's BI capabilities with CPM - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Very flexible software that can be setup in a couple of days - User can setup it's own reports either in BOARD directly or in the Excel/Powerpoint environment - The smaller size of the vendor allows a good relationship with consultants, technicians and marketing experts from the headquarter - Good working interface to SAP, CRM MS Dynamics and Cognos TM1 - Very logical setup of the database structure #### Cons - Limited performance of the Excel addin causes some crashes - When purchasing the software as a BI tool it has to be considered the need of a datamart. --- ### Review Board - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Marco F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I very much like it and it really helps getting rid of a million excel files and in having one source of truth. Would recommend it! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Clean and powerful concepts behind, easy to set up new data pools, reports, screens and share it with the users #### Cons UI is web, but does not make use of modern technology. Obiously needed documentation (e.g. for syntax) is not available or accessible. Features are sometimes at different places on the UI where you don't expect it. Would need a cleaner concept --- ### BOARD is amazing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered from my own experience I recommend BOARD to users #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The framework can be adjusted to address hierarchical issues.I like the fact that it can work with existing information and have the possibility to provide us with reports. The inferface is very practical even for beginners. #### Cons So far the BOARD is working well for me, I have no complications with the application. --- ### Substitute for Excel as a Controlling Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nina H. - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use it every day as our controlling tool. As i am a Developer I am able to build procedures, but I want to be better in doing that by visiting trainings in a regular period of time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - less error-prone than Excel (more stable) - clear demonstrative grafics - you are able to limit someones rights to change anything #### Cons - sometimes shuts down without a reason - the wording is not always clear - the need of an additional software for presentations (convertion into Power Point as a Picture is not the best solution) - Export into Excel destroys the whole formatting --- ### Since several years Board MIT provided the Tools for reporting, budgeting, planning and analysis. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Pierfilippo A. - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. The ability to actually see what you want from empty table; there are no limitations to the application to build. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Open tool no limitations to what you want to do ; ability to see what is needed with no limitations. The time for development is short : you can rapidly see results Wide range of reports, tables and graphs can be made out of it Applications can be built, and modified several times without rewriting codes #### Cons Perhaps the lack of a program to load flat files: I could not find a pre-written tool for reading ascii files. --- ### Business Intelligence with Board - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Andrea F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Board is a program that allows you to upload, modify, insert data in any mode and from any source, ensuring a customization of the screen reading data, making the program easy to use and intuitive for users #### Cons there are no free courses online or in other formats. a community has been created in which every user can write down the problems he / she finds and others can provide solutions and compare themselves. --- ### Use of Sorftware - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verena U. - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use the Software for different Departments like: Controlling; Sales; Customer Service; Product Management; Development; Global Procurement, Production; Logistic; Planning #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros self service, easy to use, Overall function one Software for all Reporting / planning topics #### Cons Statistics function of the USER uses could be better; User Profile function could be better --- ### Board Value - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stephen M. - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Quickest implementation from start to finish for smaller to mid-size project needs. Large feature set for a low manageable cost. #### Cons Differentiated support for layouts and features comparing the web and client implementation. Distribution and updating of add-on's is manual and difficult to manage for virtual teams. --- ### BOARD, a great performance management solution - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Mark G. - Industry: Computer Software - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 #### Pros We were introduced to BOARD after many years of experience with using alternative multidimensional budgeting, planning and reporting solutions. While many of BOARD's competitors have come and gone, BOARD has shown both a commitment to support performance management and importantly a commitment to innovation. We use the product for a number of our subsidiaries as well as deliver solutions for our clients on it. #### Cons The initial engagement with the product is slightly different to other approaches and does take a little time to re-educate yourself to its methods, but once you do the reasons BOARD chose this way becomes clear. --- ### Too many functions - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very flexible software that can be setup in a couple of days, it was very easy to learn how to use this #### Cons There are too many functions and it was a little overwhelming at first really. I think too many hours can be invested just by trying to properly get this to function. --- ### Deviation Analysis and Budget Planning with Board - worldwide - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Ole H. - Industry: Public Relations and Communications - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Provides the consolidation of data and data structures of various source systems. - Standard reports are defined and simplifies the daily work, so that manual effort is no longer required. - The aggregated data allows ad hoc evaluations according to defined criteria across different data sources. - No programming skills are required for the user. - Budget planning based on past values is possible. #### Cons - Data quality is only as good as they are maintained in the source systems (obviously). - Data can be evaluated according to defined criteria only . - Graphical technology for column, line or pie diagrams could be more modern; though, guess that was done in version 9 (working with version 8.1.4 still). --- ### Boost your time - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Board components are very simple and provide immediate results regarding statistics. It also allows you to organize your work efficiently. #### Cons The platform works quite well, although I have sometimes noticed slight delays in the execution of tasks. --- ### Great product, great value. More than BI. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris C. - Industry: Philanthropy - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It connects to virtually any data source and easily will produce dashboards enabling great analysis! You are limited by what you can imagine. #### Cons There is a learning curve regarding the terminology and logic of the product, but that is more a result of changing the way you think about data. --- ### An easy to use drag ans drop solution ! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kevin R. - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Friendly user, flexible and pertinent for a huge range of different uses. Customer support easily reachable. #### Cons Maybe the absence of common page to share problems / questions / issues / best practices with other users. 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