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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Board and Jedox are competing products in the enterprise performance management category. Board is favored for its comprehensive feature set, while Jedox impresses with streamlined deployment and cost-effectiveness, offering a compelling value for the price.

Features: Board offers customizable processes, easy multidimensional analyses, and powerful decision-making tools. Jedox delivers robust data integration, intuitive real-time insights, and dynamic report generation leveraging seamless data integration across multiple systems.

Room for Improvement: Board can enhance its deployment process and simplify its extensive feature set for easier adoption. Additionally, it could improve the learning curve for newcomers. For Jedox, increasing the flexibility and customization capabilities along with offering more advanced data visualization options would be beneficial. More preconfigured solutions could also expand its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Board's complex deployment process can impact time to value. Customer support, however, is responsive and helpful. Jedox excels with a simpler setup and strong customer service, enabling quicker adoption and reducing initial hurdles. This highlights Jedox's emphasis on smoother deployment processes.

Pricing and ROI: Board has a higher initial setup cost, but offers significant long-term value through its extensive features. Jedox provides a more affordable entry point with a faster return on investment due to lower initial expenses, focusing on lower upfront costs and quicker ROI compared to Board's long-term value strategy.

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Board vs. Jedox

July 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Reporting (16th)

Jedox

Ranking in Business Performance Management

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Board is 6.6%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jedox is 5.3%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management

Featured Reviews

Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Easy to use and requires less time to learn or understand its features

I think the product is good in terms of ease of use. The interface looks really nice and very easy to use. Every command appears in the icon. It looks like you don't have to understand everything about the command. You do not necessarily have to know more, or I would say that there is less time for our study about the products. Functionality-wise, it is quite easy to use and requires less time to understand or learn about the product. I am a software vendor, so I do not use the tool myself. I use it for my clients. My clients mostly use it for budgeting and timing purposes. I would say that's really less maintenance at all because they can do everything by themselves. It is good in terms of ease of use.

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Riyaz Halani

Financial Controller at Zalando SE

Powerful BI tool for analyzing financial performance and stable performance

I would rate the scalability of Jedox a seven out of ten. There is room for improvement in the scalability. It is a very massive tool. It's not easy to just build everything yourself. So that's where the main improvements lie—making it easy for people to not depend on just technical finance teams. There are almost 50 to 60 users using Jedox in our organization.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I liked the way that I felt as a user and administrator of it. There were a lot of clicks, drops, drags, etc. versus writing code."

"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."

"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."

"The support from the BOARD team and their consultants is great. Whenever I use technical support, they are good."

"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."

"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."

"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."

More Board pros

"The solution is quick with analysis and calculation. The tool offers high digitalization which helps us to run the controlling department with less number of people. If the software wasn't there, I would need two to three people extra to run the department."

"The Excel interface is designed to retrieve data from the database and send it back, which is a significant advantage."

"The ETL function simplifies many tasks."

"The ease of reporting is one of Jedox's most valuable features."

"We use the tool for performance management and planning."

"The data entry point is most valuable. The way we can customize our report or do data entry is very good."

"The EPM is the most valuable feature."

"The system is quite flexible. Based on our requirements, we create different cubes that can help us to do complete planning."

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Cons

"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."

"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."

"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."

"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."

"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."

"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."

"The initial setup was very complex for us."

"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."

More Board cons

"I don't find it particularly user-friendly."

"The solution should enable a modern look and feel in the front end."

"There is not much training for Jedox."

"I think it's the design of the report because the design and the UI for the report is standard and lame. When you see a Jedox report, it doesn't seem like it's from today, because the technology is something from the last decade. The scalability needs improvement."

"Jedox should improve the design and server issues."

"The solution needs to improve its support. The visualization in Microsoft BI is more modern and comfortable than Jedox's. I would expect something similar with the solution."

"More emphasis is needed on the availability of the learning aspect of the solution. Because unless you take up their course that enables you to be an expert in creating the report, you must seek help."

"Online pixel-perfect reporting is an aspect that has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not the cheapest product on earth, but you get so much. It provides good value for money."

"Find a partner who will take responsibility for the implementation, and be available for support."

"In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."

"The solution is quite expensive, if it is made cheaper then we can have more clients. I rate it four out of ten."

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."

"Excellent value for money."

"The product’s pricing will not be suitable for setting up a small solution."

"The solution's pricing is specific to your requirements."

"We paid a one-time fee, which included product purchase, licensing, and first-time implementation. We are paying for the maintenance regularly."

"Jedox was a bit cheaper compared to Calumo."

"If you are using SAP, then you will have to take an SAP Connector license. The license across the tool is paying for the people who are using it as an admin or as a normal user. They can work out those costs in a manner that can help. This can also be a point of improvement where they can work out the costing, and the developers have a specific licensing cost. The normal users, who are going to do probably data entry or just going to view the dashboard, can have a separate license cost."

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Computer Software Company

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Retailer

Computer Software Company

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Retailer

13%

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Questions from the Community

Is Board better than Anaplan as a Business Intelligence (BI) solution?

We've had several FP&A departments include Anaplan in their analytics discussions, and while BI information IS generated, the focus is generally on compiling input from various sources and simu...

What do you like most about Board?

All the reports are prepared automatically.

What needs improvement with Board?

Board's integration could be a bit more robust, but what we have works. If the design isn't right, the flexibility of Board can negatively impact performance.

What do you like most about Jedox?

The ease of reporting is one of Jedox's most valuable features.

What needs improvement with Jedox?

There is not much training for Jedox. There was no training available in the beginning at all. I had to reach out to them so they would give us something. I think they're getting better, though. Th...

What is your primary use case for Jedox?

We use the solution on the cloud, and Jedox hosts it. I'm the admin at my company, and we do corporate planning and management, including all the budgeting and forecasting. We also do a lot of repo...

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Overview

BOARD International - headquartered in Switzerland - is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management into a single product, BOARD enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organization, and thus a single version of the truth.

BOARD provides seamless solutions for • Reporting & Analysis • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling & Optimization • Simulation & What-if-Analysis • Scorecarding & Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation. Based on visual modelling, BOARD has enabled global companies to deploy BI and CPM applications without a single line of code in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.

Board International

Integrated Corporate Performance Management software provides reliable data, insights, and guidance to everyone in your company. Jedox delivers it all: Self-service budgeting, planning, and forecasting combined with intuitive analytics and BI dashboards in one integrated software platform. Users across the enterprise in any department from Finance to Sales, HR, and Procurement create integrated plans and reports based on the same data model and business logic. Integrate financial planning and analysis with operational plans and reporting to optimize processes, boost data quality, and slash planning cycles throughout the organization.

Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, Puma, Desigual, Ricoh, KPMG, H&M, Groupe SEB

BP, Fiat, Carrefour, Continental, Allianz, Bacardi, McDonald’s, Netafim, Swiss Post, Telstra, Suzuki, Vodafone, University of Western Australia, Unilever