Sopra Steria and Board International sign Partnership Agreement

Thanks to the partnership, the two organizations will provide a unified solution of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management that effectively enhances the decision-making process

Sopra Steria, European leader in digital transformation, and Board International, global leading provider of Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and Predictive Analytics unified software solutions, are pleased to announce their business partnership agreement. Through the partnership, Board International and Sopra Steria will be able to help their business customers to manage the entire decision-making process, aligning strategies and operations and driving business growth.

The Board platform allows users to develop any BI and CPM software application without the need for any coding. Its outstanding toolkit approach make it easy and fast to build customized analytic, planning and simulation applications in a fraction of the time and cost required by traditional solutions on the market. Board helps to implement a visual and interactive environment, spreading the benefits of BI and CPM business-wide.

 Efficiently combining the ease of use and flexibility of Board with Sopra Steria’s Consulting and System Integration solutions across the entire organization, both companies can meet customers’ needs of analysis, planning, forecasting and simulation through a single product, a single technology, within a single environment. After an initial focus on the Fashion Retail industry, Board and Sopra Steria’s joint solution has proved to be a fit for many other industries and departments, from supply chain to finance.

“Sopra Steria has turned out to be a strategic partner both for their company size and for the pervasiveness and professionalism that distinguish their project implementations on the market. We share common values and business approaches so we really look forward to bringing outstanding benefits and improvements to our customers’ decision-making processes”

states Andrea Maderna, Southern Europe General Manager at Board International.

“More than ever, Performance Management and Advanced Analytics are key factors within any corporate strategy. Board is a customizable solution, being tailored to the most complex organizations’ needs of BI, CPM and Predictive Analytics. We strongly believe that the partnership with Board is extremely important to enter new markets and industries, together seizing the new opportunities,”

notes Fabio Arrigoni – Director for Industry&Services at Sopra Steria

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings on the market: consulting, systems integration, software development, infrastructure management and business process services.
Sopra Steria is trusted by leading private and public-sector organizations to deliver successful transformation programmes that address their most complex and critical business challenges. Combining high quality and performance services, added value and innovation, Sopra Steria enables its clients to make the best use of digital technology. With over 38,000 employees in more than 20 countries, Sopra Steria had revenue of €3.6 billion in 2015.

About Board International

Board is the #1 decision-making platform for organizations of any size. Founded in 1994, Board International has enabled more than 3,500 companies worldwide to rapidly deploy Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and Predictive Analytics applications on a single unified and programming-free platform. The Board platform allow companies to achieve a single, accurate and complete view of business information and a full control of performance across the entire organization, from strategic formulation down to operational execution. Thanks to its programming-free toolkit approach, global enterprises such as H&M, KPMG, DHL, Mitsubishi, NEC, Puma, Rolls-Royce, Siemens have rapidly deployed end-to end decision-making applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Headquartered in Chiasso, Switzerland, and Boston, MA, Board International has 21 offices around the world and a global reseller network. Board has been implemented in over 100 countries.