We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle HFM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"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."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"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."
"Our data is now more structured. Between our data warehouse and BOARD, which are both brand new, we now have a more structured data view with more accurate, timely data."
"The tool is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a very user-friendly software."
"Financial consolidation and reporting tool with good built-in features such as currency exchange and elimination."
"You can bring in data from any source and from multiple sources, and you can consolidate that data in HFM."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility and ease of configuration in terms of testing and formula creation."
"The most valuable features are around consolidations, eliminations, conversions."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"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 are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"In terms of improvement, one challenge with Oracle HFM is the need for technical knowledge in writing SQL syntax for custom extensions."
"The complexity is okay. I don't see it as super complex. The solution could have more functionality to make it a little bit more flexible."
"Integration is an area where it lacks and can be improved."
"If there could be data integration between HFM and the accounting software that would be ideal."
"It's a difficult process to try to edit, configure, or change the business rules that exist and work within HFM."
"The intercompany reporting function in this tool needs improvement, particularly being able to run reports in batches, rather than one at a time."
"The solution has integration challenges. We need a simple tool that is fool-proof for the data that is submitted not only for consolidation purposes but also for performance management and reporting purposes."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle HFM is ranked 7th in Business Performance Management with 14 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle HFM is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle HFM writes "Offers flexibility and ease of configuration". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Oracle HFM is most compared with Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, OneStream XF, CCH Tagetik and Microsoft Power BI. See our Board vs. Oracle HFM report.
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