Cloud Analytics and Planning, HTML 5 technology, self-service data modelling and prebuilt data connectors all make life easier for both business users and IT.

BOARD 10: the future of decision makingVersion 10 brings a dramatic technological shift to the BOARD platform, introducing a series of innovations that revolutionize the way in which decision-making applications are built, deployed and used across organizations. On one hand, the powerful combination of Cloud BI and Planning, HTML 5 technology, self-service data modelling and pre-built data connectors empowers users with full self-service analytical capabilities. On the other hand, it provides IT with unmatched agility and effectiveness in delivering sophisticated business applications.

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The new Data-Fast track function enable users to easily connect to any data source, instantly create data models and immediately run visual analyses or build analytical applications, without the help of IT

BOARD Cloud is a SaaS version of the BOARD all-in-one platform, which allows you to analyse, plan, simulate and forecast easier than ever before.

BOARD 10 introduces a responsive HTML 5 technology that enable you to build applications once and to instantly access them from any device.

BOARD 10 offers a set of out of the box statistical and business functions that allows users to instantly enrich their data with a higher degree of analytical power.

A new set of pre-built data connectors minimize the time and effort required to access the most popular data sources.

Alongside the major technology innovations, BOARD 10 offers a series of incremental enhancements that improve ease of use and boost efficiency of the entire platform.

CLOUD BOARD Cloud is a SaaS version of the BOARD all-in-one platform.Backed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, BOARD Cloud gets your BI and CPM applications up and running faster while providing world-class security, reliability, scalability and performance.Designed to offer seamless connection to on-premise and cloud data systems in real time, BOARD Cloud allows you to deliver enterprise analytics, planning and forecasting that fully leverages your existing software investments.Unlike other solutions in the market, BOARD also support writing-back from cloud-to-on-premise, through a secure tunnelling connection. This way, your planning data stored in Board can easily be integrated back to the underlying legacy systems residing behind your firewall.

Key facts

• Sign-in through unified portal, cloud.board.com • Private Board Server on Amazon AWS data centers or Microsoft Azure data centers. • State of the art cloud infrastructure, security and reliability including physical isolation of

your data. • Hybrid architecture. Whether your source data reside in the cloud or on premise in a relational database

behind your firewall, BOARD Cloud allows you to easily access and integrate them. • Secure connection to on-premise data. The BOARD Cloud connector, installs in a few clicks, does not require any firewall changes

and immediately creates a secure tunnel between the Board cloud server and your on-premise data.

• Write back on relational sources. • Native data connectors for the most popular cloud data sources

BOARD Cloud offering is enriched by a suite of pre-built applications

BOARD Cloud: Data integration and connectivity

BOARD FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis)

BOARD FP&A is a turnkey application that combines enterprise wide financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting with self-service analysis, reporting, dashboarding and analytics.

BOARD FC (Financial Consolidation)

BOARD FC enables companies to perform both legal and management consolidation within a single, integrated Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management environment to gain deep insights into financial and operational results.

BOARD RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary)

BOARD RFM is a turnkey solution to segment customers by examining how recently they have purchased (recency), how often they purchase (frequency), and how much each customer spends (monetary). The clusters of customers created by BOARD RFM are then immediately available as dimensions for any further analysis, planning, or forecasting process.

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Planning andControlling

BOARDCloudAll the flexibility of the Cloud, All the power of BOARD

Data Fast-Track BOARD 10 introduces “Data Fast-Track,” a new function for self-service data modeling, mash-ups and uploading. With Data Fast-Track, business users can easily create compelling visual analyses and analytical applications from raw data in a few clicks, without the help of IT.Users connect to a dataset and automatically build BOARD data models that reflects similarities and relationships among all data items. Users can then enrich the data model by automatically blending additional data sets or by creating derived fields in an Excel-like environment. Once the data model is finalized, BOARD’s drag-and-drop environment will allow the immediate creation of any analyses.

Key facts

• Allows business users to create analyses in few clicks from raw data • Smart data blending from different sources. Automatically merge diverse data sources

in a single data model • Automatic discovery of Codes, Descriptions, Measures, Dimensions, Hierarchies • Self-service data manipulation. An Excel-like environment allows users to create new

measures with formulas, to cut and paste data, and to edit metadata mapping

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Review FastTrack findings, cubes, entities, relationships, mappings

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HTML 5 technology BOARD 10 introduces a native HTML5 web technology, designed and developed for a high performance, gesture based interaction.The powerful combination of HTML5 technology with the “Toolkit” allows users to build applications once without any coding and to immediately use them from any device.Use your desktop, your tablet or your phone and BOARD 10 will always provide a compelling and consistent user-experience.

Key facts

• Build once without coding, deploy everywhere • Consistent user-experiences with Laptops, Tablets and Smartphones • Modern User Interface supporting gestures • Zero-impact migration: Once installed, BOARD 10 allows existing capsules developed

for previous versions of Board WebServer to be immediately opened from any web browser supporting HTML5

• Enhanced web experience. The new HTML 5 technology provides more features to web users and supports all interactive procedures.

• No need for any plug-ins. Microsoft Silverlight is no longer required.

BOARD Connectors BOARD 10 offers a comprehensive set of pre-built dedicated data connectors that minimize the time and effort required to access the most popular data sources. From relational databases, to cloud applications – from Big Data, to cloud data stores, no matter which data and where it is stored, BOARD will empower you to rapidly and effortlessly use it.

Native connectors available

Column Oriented Databases

Relational Databases

Big Data/NoSQL Databases

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The BOARD DataReader now also supports loading data in JSON format through OData or REST, which is the most widespread method to exchange data on the internet and widely adopted by data providers.

Analytical Functions BOARD 10 offers all levels of Board license users a set of out-of-the-box statistical functions, from the traditional min/max, average, standard deviation to algorithms specifically addressed to business analysis such as frequency, recency, dormancy and nascency.With a few mouse clicks, business users can instantly use these functions to build and enrich any analysis, dashboard or report.

Other Improvements Reporting indentation

It is now possible to apply an indentation to the format of a row. This feature facilitates the production of formatted reports, particularly for financial reports where indentations are commonly used.

Note also that Entity Format templates can now be created or edited by PowerUsers as described above.

BOARD Server Cluster enhancement

Version 10 also introduces several performance optimizations in the BOARD Server Cluster technology. The internal mechanism that automatically synchronises the servers of a BOARD Cluster has been optimized to handle cases where one node appends and needs to synchronise a data set with a large number of new entity members or sparse combinations. These optimizations allow you to better support complex architectures with 24/7 availability requirements.

Rules and entity formatting extended to Powers Users

Rules and entity formatting were previously limited to users with Developer licenses to enforce strongly centralized management of enterprise reporting. With BOARD 10, they can be implemented autonomously from the Board administrator, allowing any user with a Power User license to create and edit their own Rules and Entity Format templates. Existing Rules, which were previously created by a Developer user, can be viewed but not edited by Power Users, preserving security and control over existing Rule formulas.

Concurrent access to Database design

BOARD 10 allows developers to simultaneously access some key database design functions, and to work in parallel on Rules, Procedures, and BEAM Models.

MS Office 2016 support

BOARD 10 extends the native Excel, Word, and PowerPoint integration to the latest release of the Microsoft suite: MS Office 2016.

> Business Indicators > Nascency> Recency> Frequency> Dormancy

> Across Time > Time Lenght> First Value> Last Value> Min Value> Min Not Zero Value> Max Value> Total> Average> Average Not Zero Value

> Time Series > IdsiARX Forecast> IdsiARX Naive> Holt-Winter> Linear Regression> Multiple Linear Regression

> Statistical > Next Value [IdsiARX Naive]> Next Value [Linear Regression]> Growth %> Volatility> Standard Deviation> R-Squared

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About BOARDBOARD International is a global provider of Business Intelligence and Performance Management software.Founded in 1994, BOARD has enabled over 3,000 companies worldwide to improve the effectiveness of their management decision making processes, unifying BI and CPM in a single integrated environment.

BOARD provides a seamless solution for the support, control and management of core processes such as:

• Reporting and Business Analytics • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling and Optimisation • Simulation and What-if Analysis • Scorecarding and Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation

Thanks to its programming-free toolkit approach global enterprises like Acer, DHL, GSK, Mitsubishi, NEC, Puma rapidly deployed BI and CPM applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.

Headquartered in Switzerland, BOARD International has branches in US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux, UAE, Singapore, Australia, India, Japan, Mexico, Argentina and a worldwide network of distributors and certified partners.

Better decisions. Better business.

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