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Looking for an alternative to Anaplan? See why leading enterprises choose Board as their enterprise platform for integrated business planning – unifying financial and operational planning.
Board combines planning, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting in one native, unified platform unlike Anaplan, which acquired Fluence Technologies for financial consolidation – a separate tool designed for SMB.
Board’s FP&A and GCR Agents drive collaborative intelligence to analyze performance data, generate scenarios, uncover trends, detect anomalies and more, enabling your teams to make more confident decisions.
Natively combine internal metrics with 5m+ external economic signals and insights from industry-leading economists to proactively adapt strategies ahead of changing conditions and driving resilient performance.
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| Scalability & Performance | Board is built on a natively sparse engine with no hard product limits, ensuring seamless scalability at no extra cost without the need for upfront engine selection or migration risks. | Anaplan lacks scalability on its Classic engine. With the new Polaris engine customers must choose the engine upfront and rebuild any existing applications. |
| Unified Planning Platform | Board drives strategic clarity through a single source of truth for integrated business planning by natively unifying planning for both financial and operational teams. | Anaplan relies on Fluence Technologies for financial consolidation, a tool designed for SMB, which remains a separate tool within the Anaplan ecosystem. |
| Seamless Real-Time Data Management | Board supports parallel data imports and writes discrete subsets of data allowing users to continue accessing and updating data without disruptions, a necessity in highly dynamic business environments. | Anaplan’s Classic Engine locks users out during data uploads and requires sequential processing within models, limiting its effectiveness in fast-paced decision-making scenarios. |
| Native Direct Data Integrations | Board natively integrates with the widest range of business applications (ERP, CRM, HRIS, BI solutions and more) enabling real-time access, consistent models, and seamless integrated business planning with no external ETL tools for many use cases. | Anaplan’s native integrations are limited to fewer than 10 business applications via the Anaplan Data Orchestrator, which comes at an extra cost, and requires data imports to be manually set up and maintained, increasing complexity and IT administrative overhead. |
| Tailored User Experience | Board provides a highly customizable, pixel-perfect interface that enables intuitive self-service reporting and full flexibility in data exploration – with minimal IT support. | Anaplan’s UI remains rigid, with limited customization, predefined templates, and constrained data navigation that requires Model Builder intervention for modifications. |
Board is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software
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Board was named a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions (FCCS)
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Coca-Cola implemented Board to automate 90% of financial data input, reducing data transfer time from 24-hours to 15-minutes, enabling driver-based planning across production, supply chain, and logistics for full visibility and consolidation in one-click.
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Mitsubishi Electric chose Board to replace inflexible, manual reporting with a unified, real-time planning platform powering their full sales, forecasting, and planning process across divisions, accelerating sales analysis, reporting, and performance decisions from 10-hours to 2-seconds.
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Toyota standardized financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting across 40 companies, replacing disparate spreadsheets with a unified solution supporting different methodologies, including zero-based budgeting and driver-based planning.
Read the case studyBoard Agents drive collaborative intelligence designed around role-based personas (e.g. FP&A, GCR, Merchandising, Supply Chain) to collaborate with your planning teams to deliver more confident decisions.
Yes. Board supports a “bring-your-own-model” approach. Even if your data is on-premises, you can seamlessly integrate through REST APIs and built-in connectors such as Azure ML Studio, Databricks, R, and Snowflake. These connect directly into our Microsoft Azure cloud system, ensuring smooth integration and scalability.
Board is designed to meet 100% of enterprise-level scaling requirements. Board’s Enterprise Tier infrastructure meets 99.3% of customer scaling needs with our standard configuration. It manages all scaling requirements seamlessly, without adding any complexity for the customer.
With Flex Grid, Board enables users to analyse, enter, edit, and drill into millions of records in real-time. Its high-performance grid ensures smooth interaction with massive datasets and no front-end lag.
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