Board vs. Microsoft Power BI

Board

228 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Power BI

1,906 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Board	Score9 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Board is presented as an enterprise planning platform, offered as a solution to accelerate business performance and enable continuous planning with greater forecast accuracy to drive confident, aligned decisions.	N/A
Microsoft Power BI	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security.	$10 per month per user

Pricing

Board

Microsoft Power BI

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Pricing Offerings
Board	Microsoft Power BI
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Board	Microsoft Power BI
Considered Both Products	Board International Verified User Chose Board Board is much much easier to setup than compared to Azure Power BI. Power BI also has a lot of challenges around data refresh with their web interface. While talking to support, we were made aware that for full feature-set, we should use the desktop version. Clearly something … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Board We check previous reviews of the product and used a trial run of both products in a trial period. Most of our users voted for Board because of the features so our organization chose Board. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Board Board is a non-traditional reporting tool. It uses the latest data sciences advances to organize data. Board’s advanced In-memory Server Cluster architecture allows Board server workloads to be shared on a virtually unlimited number of nodes. This functionality ensures full … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Board These tools are handled for different purposed across the Product Groups however Board has an edge on the getting the best things upfront rather than becoming the jack of all trades. It has highly specific use cases for better Business Analytics and Decision making. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Board We selected Board for its broader capabilities for reporting, dash-boarding, and planning/forecasting as well as its ability to house alternative hierarchies within the tool. Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Artieda, MBA Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis in Finance and Accounting at Euclid Systems Corporation (Medical Device, 51-200 employees) Chose Board Again, we chose Board ultimately for the BI and CPM functionality. PowerBI and Tableau lack the CPM capability. PowerBI has better features from a dashboard standpoint (data load model, formatting distribution) while PowerBI is a lot easier to use. Tableau stacks in third due … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Wyatt Senior Business Data Analyst in Information Technology at GVA UK (Real Estate, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Board I have used Microstrategy, Cognos, SSMS WBI Stack, Infor BI. BOARD is fantastically more user-friendly. Capable of building a production model far quicker than any tool I've used previously and provides a complete solution where the others have separate applications, also … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Power BI Power BI stacks up robustly on a visuals standpoint. It has great slicer tools and visuals that are stunning. Content is fresh, easy to transmit and the design of a new dashboard is easy. Power BI is useful in identifying outliers in your data (even data integrity issues). … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Board

Microsoft Power BI

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 6.8 93 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.8 140 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	6.780 Ratings	8.5120 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	6.993 Ratings	10.0140 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	6.986 Ratings	8.0128 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 6.9 98 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.2 140 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	6.996 Ratings	7.0139 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	6.294 Ratings	9.0138 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	6.966 Ratings	8.0103 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.689 Ratings	9.0135 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.2 90 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 134 Ratings
Publish to Web	6.979 Ratings	8.0129 Ratings
Publish to PDF	7.287 Ratings	9.0122 Ratings
Report Versioning	6.980 Ratings	9.0102 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	7.678 Ratings	8.0104 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	00 Ratings	9.074 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.3 73 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.7 136 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	6.972 Ratings	9.0131 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.666 Ratings	8.0122 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.664 Ratings	9.0102 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	7.31 Ratings	9.01 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.5 74 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.6 127 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	7.672 Ratings	9.0121 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	7.469 Ratings	9.0102 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	6.972 Ratings	10.0111 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.369 Ratings	8.394 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 6.9 77 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.0 117 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	6.272 Ratings	8.0111 Ratings
Mobile Application	6.257 Ratings	7.793 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	6.268 Ratings	7.7112 Ratings

Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.5 79 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings
Long-term financial planning	7.674 Ratings	00 Ratings
Financial budgeting	7.678 Ratings	00 Ratings
Forecasting	6.775 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scenario modeling	8.371 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management reporting	7.677 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.3 74 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings
Financial data consolidation	8.370 Ratings	00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports	6.871 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multi-currency management	7.661 Ratings	00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations	7.662 Ratings	00 Ratings
Minority Ownership	7.656 Ratings	00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting	6.768 Ratings	00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails	6.965 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.2 77 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting	7.672 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management Reporting	6.976 Ratings	00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting	6.973 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting	7.670 Ratings	00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing	6.950 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.4 79 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings
Personalized dashboards	7.678 Ratings	00 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards	7.674 Ratings	00 Ratings
KPIs	6.976 Ratings	00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis	7.672 Ratings	00 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting	7.671 Ratings	00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data	7.462 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Integration features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board 7.4 77 Ratings	Microsoft Power BI - Ratings
Flat file integration	7.476 Ratings	00 Ratings
Excel data integration	7.475 Ratings	00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources	7.371 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Board and Microsoft Power BI
Feature	Board - Ratings	Microsoft Power BI 8.4 80 Ratings
REST API	00 Ratings	8.072 Ratings
Javascript API	00 Ratings	9.956 Ratings
iFrames	00 Ratings	8.055 Ratings
Java API	00 Ratings	8.046 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	00 Ratings	8.163 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	00 Ratings	8.444 Ratings

User Ratings
	Board	Microsoft Power BI
Likelihood to Recommend	6.2 (99 ratings)	8.5 (142 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (7 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.7 (5 ratings)	7.9 (58 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (53 ratings)
In-Person Training	7.3 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.2 (3 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	6.3 (89 ratings)	8.5 (82 ratings)
Data Sources	6.3 (97 ratings)	9.0 (81 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)