BSC Designer 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

BSC Designer

4.2

(21)

Pricing

Starting at $49.95 per month

About BSC Designer

BSC Designer is a professional strategy execution software. Users migrate to the product from a combination of spreadsheet and presentation softwares to automate their strategies.

The main workspace is a home for interconnected strategy and functional scorecards, that give various members of strategy team access to the organizational's strategy.

On the operational level, the scorecards combine business goals, risk definitions, KPIs, initiatives, and strategy maps, a more effective strategy execution possible.

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BSC Designer Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $49.95 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$49.95

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BSC Designer Features

Popular features found in Strategic Planning
Budgeting/Forecasting
Goal Setting/Tracking
Idea Management
KPI Monitoring
Milestone Tracking
Roadmapping
Scenario Planning
More features of BSC Designer
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Ad hoc Reporting
API
Charting
Commenting/Notes
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Document Management
Drag & Drop
Financial Analysis
Forecasting
Gantt/Timeline View
Modeling & Simulation
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Planning Tools
Prioritization
Progress Reports
Progress Tracking
Project Accounting
Projections
Project Planning
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting & Statistics
Sales Forecasting
Scorecards
Single Sign On
Status Tracking
Strategic Planning
Task Management
Task Planning
Task Progress Tracking
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Visual Analytics
"What If" Scenarios
Workflow Management

BSC Designer Integrations

Zapier

BSC Designer User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

33%

57%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.5

Chakib M.

Verified reviewer

Internet

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

Solved for us a major difficulty

It allowed us to process one of the hardest tasks which was implementing KPI system within our company

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- I liked how it was well linking KPIs with Business Objectives - How it automatically generate a map/graph of the relations between KPIs and Objectives - Easy to use interface - The ability to link the software with external sources like DBs and Excel files to import values - The ability to give users different access controls is really excellent feature - Generating reports is very good option - The ability to backup all the data is very fast

Cons:

- The way manually entering values for KPIs sometimes gives issues - Even though the interface is easy to use, but it would be better to have an improvement in the look and feel of the overall portal

Marcos Alberto U.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2024

A great tool for strategic planning

The platform is quite intuitive, with all the help content and its video tutorials any doubt you may have is solved, the collaborative work is quite good, so you can work with different areas quickly and efficiently, you can work with many strategic frameworks, taking into account either the default templates or the strategic assistant, so the creation of scorecards and indicators is quite simple and easy to follow, I think it is a very useful platform for all types of business, a great tool to develop and grow projects and businesses.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the way the tool automates everything, so that strategists can focus on making a good strategic planning and tracking performance, letting the tool take care of the calculations, strategic maps and graphs automatically, a great tool to plan and track the performance of scorecards, objectives and initiatives, a great opportunity for businesses to begin to develop their strategies automatically without complications with the help of the platform.

Cons:

The price may be considered high in certain regions, but I feel that you get what you pay for and it is a good investment.

ROWENA P.

Used weekly for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

Confusing at the beginning, but interesting and engaging

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The templates/matrices are adaptable and easy to fill so long as information/data are available. Data analysis is easy. All features of the software are equally important and are well placed to suit any organization.

Cons:

The software is quite expensive. As an individual user, I could not afford to purchase it given the cost. Similarly, my organization has no plans yet of purchasing such type of softwares. Hence, I used free trial to get aquainted with it.

Vendor Response

Thank you for trying the tool, we hope to see you as a user of our software soon! As for the pricing, there is a freeware product with basic KPI-only functionality (BSC Designer Light); the commercial subscription to the cloud-based BSC Designer Online or BSC Designer PRO for Windows starts at $49.95/month.

Replied December 2017

Luis L.

Verified reviewer

Management Consulting

51-200 employees

Used monthly for free trial

Reviewed July 2024

The best tool in the market

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The variety of tools integrated in one solution

Cons:

I don't have any complaints or bad opinion of the tool

Claudia Lorena P.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

BSC Designer Review

In general terms, the tool has been very supportive, has decreased manual errors and time in the consolidation of data for calculations, reports and graphs

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The application is technically adjusted to the methodology of the Balanced Score Card, allows to generate customized reports according to the needs of the organization. Previously, the Carvajal Foundation managed its strategic planning in Excel, susceptible to human errors in formulas and calculations. The application decreases this level of error.

Cons:

Due to the dynamics of the Carvajal Foundation, indicators must be adjusted. The tool does not allow to delimit that change. For example: if the change is made in the month of September, it changes retroactively in the previous months. In the reports tab to export in Excel there should be the option to generate them according to the month. The graphics thrown by the application could be exported to a file. As it is today, only screenshots can be taken. In the application you can only include the result of the indicator, I do not know if it is technically feasible that you can also generate the calculation just like Excel does. At this moment, the calculations are still made in this Office tool, to later migrate the results to the application.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your detailed review! Some comments from our side below. -- changing/not changing data retroactively: I believe this can be achieved by changing the "inheritance" for a selected indicator -- Calculations inside the software - agree, it depends on the leve of the calculations needed, sometimes it's easier to do it outside and import, sometimes you can do them inside using indicator formulas. -- Excel report improvement, and Export for the charts -- added to the wish list, thank you for suggesting!

Replied May 2019

Judith C.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed June 2015

Really enjoyable trip around BSC

The BSC Designer Software is an excelent alternative when you need to work with BSCs. It has a lot of functionalities that help you to organize your work. These are some experiences I had when using this tool. 1- Really easy to install and everything built in DB (you dont need to install aditional software). 2- The support is wonderful. In their websites they have a lot of information about BSC, they have online training programs and they give specialized and personalized attention to all its customers. 3- The development team is really fast and they are always listening all the customer or users suggestions to add more functionalities or adaptability to the software. (We need to configure the alert system using our enterprise email and they add this functionality in just weeks after I asked). 4- It has more functionalities that the average software I had review. Not just has a lot of freedom and flexibility in the KPI's definition (geographical location, types and sources) but a strong tool for Strategy Maps Visualization. You can set alerts for different changes in you KPIs and send automatical emails to their responsibles. You can define all the company information: Mission, Vission, Goals, indicators, etc. 5- The reports are really comprehensive, visually appealing and you can export them to different formats. 6- In comparison to other software with similar functionalities, BSC Designer is more affordable. The total cost of ownership for the desktop or web distribution is lower than other competitors. The BSC Designer is a great option for everyone that want to start to use the balanced scorecard strategic performance management tool in their enterprise. It is not only a great software but has a great community, services and documentation that will clear your way for applying this tool effectively.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Vendor Response

Judith, thank you very much for sharing your experience and for the detailed review.

Replied June 2015

José Ricardo Z.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Using BSC Designer not only for dashboards

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease to create a proper strategy map and all the functionalities to tune it up, also it becomes a great tool for scoring risk and in general to render averaged weighted outcomes to questionnaires designed to evaluate my researches and to probe companies

Cons:

Cascading was not a straight forward development, but the newer version makes it easier

Vendor Response

Thank you, Jose Ricardo!

Replied February 2020

Pedro R.

Used other for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

Easy to use! 1 less than an hour you are able to create your own BSC

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software provides the sure success to be able to create a Balanced Scorecard from scratch in less than an hour. Why? because it is user friendly, it provides great examples and videos, in 30 minutes you understand the product and you will be able to define your BSC in other 30 with objectives, KPIs and data to run your bsc. I have use the software to teach BSC to c-level people and the students with a challenge of two days (without before knowledge of bsc and the tool) they have been able to make their own bsc without a great dedication.

Cons:

The introduction of data is very slow as you have to enter the data value to value and date by date. It should be great to be able to enter all data in xls format directly in the tool.

Vendor Response

Pedro, thank you for your testimonials. As of December 2016, we have completely updated the way to enter data via Excel both in PRO and Online versions. It is now much more user friendly.

Replied December 2017

Verified

Reviewer

Food Production

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

First BSC software in the company

We would use excel only but there was a lot of room for human error, this makes it a lot easier and more trustable. I would recommend this to any small businesses trying to implement a BSC.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We had never used a BSC software and after a lot of research we found BSC Designer. The first thing we noticed is that there are unlimited view-only users, and thats what we were looking for. The software itself is fairly easy to learn to use, and the video guides help a lot. It offers plenty of customization options, it makes easy to set the KPIs behavior.

Cons:

After the free trial we had a problem with the payment and re validating the account, which was hard to solve due to the lack of contact information on the website but once we got a hold on Aleksey everything was good to go.

Vendor Response

Thank you for a detailed feedback! With a new Zendesk-powered help desk we will improve our response time even more!

Replied March 2019

Sussy W.

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

I enjoyed the training that came with the software. It was intense and straight to the point.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I appreciated most the cascading part of the software, learning that we cascade by objectives and not by measures, an error I have made over and over again. It was easy to populate the KPIs into the strategy map and see how the parent scorecard and the childscorecard were linked.

Cons:

I area of KPIs (after business goals and before the strategy map), where we have Performance Progress Value and Baseline. I think it could do with a little more clarity especially during the you tube explanation so that as they are populated, they are clear and are derived from data that is available to all employees

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