BOARD 10 at a glance

CLOUD DATA FAST TRACK HTML 5

ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS CONNECTORS AND MUCH MORE…

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BOARD 10 highlights

Data Fast-Track for Self-service data preparationBOARD Data fast-track automates data modelling, blending, loading and mash-ups.

BOARD CloudSaaS version of the full BOARD all-in-one platform

Also pre-packaged applications available:

BOARD FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis)

BOARD FC (Financial Consolidation)

BOARD RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary)

New HTML 5 Technology

BOARD Analytic Functions

BOARD Connectors

Data Fast-Track

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BOARD Data Fast-Track

New self-service data preparation

Allows business users to create analysis in few clicks

from raw data

Smart data blending from different sources

Automatic discovery of hierarchies and measures

Built as an additional capability of the platform

!!!Not as a new product !!!

Full integration between BOARD enterprise data models, and user

created data models

Self-service data preparation

• Automatic data blending• Automatic recognition of cubes, dimensions, hierarchies

• Excel-like data manipulation

Business User Data Enterprise Data External Data

Flat File Departmental DB DWHERP, HP

Legacy SystemTraditionalBI solution

Cloud IOT Cloud Open-Data

ExcelCSVtxt

SAPNavision

JDE…….

SalesForceNetSuiteWorkday……..

LinkedinFactual

Gnip……

OracleIBM DB2MS SQL…….

OBIEESAP BO

IBM Cognos………

AccessMySQL…..

data.govdatabank

……

BOARD DATA Fast-Track

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Data Fast-Track: Key features

Automatic discovery of: Codes

Descriptions

Measures

Dimensions

Hierarchies

Self-service data manipulation Excel like environment

Formulas

Cut and paste

Meta-data mapping and editing

Data blendingAutomatic merge of diverse data sources in a single data model

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Data Fast-Track: how it works

Enables users to load a data set and analyse it immediatelyAn Excel or CSV file,

A SQL table/view,

or other data sources: open data, cloud and big data sources

Automatically creates “ready to use” data modelsScans the new file and detects the underlying model (dimensions,relationships...)

Incorporates learning: synonyms, mappings...are shared and reused

Loads it into a BOARD database

Automatically creates a screen with suggested analysis

Import exercise can be packaged and re-applied mechanically from «departmental environment» to the corporate environment.

WHO it is for: business users for «self-service data discovery»

IT users or business analysts for warp-speed prototyping

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Fast-Track : a four-click journey!

Step 1 : Choose the file or dataset to load

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Fast-Track : a four-click journey!

Step 2: give a name to the database

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Fast-Track : a four-click journey!

Step 3: review FastTrack findings

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Fast-Track : a four clicks journey!

Step 3 : review cubes, entities, relationships, mappings

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Fast-Track : a four clicks journey!

Step 4: nothing to do here... just GO !

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Fast-Track: a four-click journey!

And you land here: a self-built screen with a set of

recommended analysis charts and metrics

Easy integration of any data-source

BOARD Cloud benefits

Intuitive and easy to

useDrag and drop interactive UI

Global in minutes

Availability of 11 data centers in 5 continents

Always up to date

Automatic upgrades

Reliable

Backed by AWS technology

Futureproof

Adaptive to your business evolution

Cost-effective

No infrastructure cost

BOARD Cloud infrastructure features

Private (dedicated) BOARD server on MS Azure or Amazon AWS

Sign-in through unified portal

AD federation for Single Sign-On support

Support for hybrid data source architectures

On-premise-to-cloud connector: connects local relational DBs to the

BOARD Cloud server. Doesn’t require firewall or network changes.

Cloud-to-cloud data connector

Native connectors for SaaS or Cloud data sources

Force.com platform, Oracle service cloud, MS Dynamics CRM, Sugar CRM,

Veeva CRM, Marketo, Google BigQuery

Generic web-services connector (OData/REST)

BigData No-SQL data sources : SAP Hana, Amazon Redshift, Hadoop Hive

BOARD Cloud applications

BOARD FP&A - Financial Planning and AnalysisA turnkey application that combines enterprise wide financial planning, budgeting, and

forecasting with self-service analysis, reporting, dash-boarding and analytics.

BOARD FC - Financial ConsolidationEnables companies to perform both legal and management consolidation within a single,

integrated BI and CPM environment to gain deep insights into financial and operational results

BOARD RFM - (Recency, Frequency, Monetary)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 for

any further analysis, planning, or forecasting process.

HTML 5 technology

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Build Once, Deploy Everywhere

BOARD HTML 5 responsive technology provides consistent user experience across any device

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Zero Impact Migration

«Open and run» migration to HTML 5 of any existing

BOARD capsule

Access BOARD Client capsules from any HTML 5 browser

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HTML 5 benefits

Capsules developed with BOARD windows client can be immediately used with any HTML 5 browsers

Modern User Interface supporting gestures

Consistent user experience with Laptop, Tablet and Smartphones

Silverlight is no longer needed

Full support to mobile based planning processes

BOARD Analytic

Functions

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BOARD Analytic Functions

Rich set of out-of-the-box statistic and business

functions

BOARD Connectors

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BOARD connectors

Rich set of native connectors to a wide variety of data sources

including:

Relational Databases

(Oracle, MS SQLServer, IBM DB2, MySQL, Informix, PostgreSQL)

Column oriented DataBases

(SAP Hana, Teradata, Exasol, HP Vertica, Sybase IQ, Greenplum)

Big Data/NoSQL Databases

(Hadoop, Cassandra, Impala, MongoDB)

Cloud Applications and DB

(SalesForce, MS Dynamics, Amazon Redshift, FinanceForce, Google

Analytics, Google Big Query, Hubspot, SugarCRM, Eloqua, Marketo, )

Standard protocol (REST, OData)

Other Improvements

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BOARD 10 also includes

Row Indentation for financial reporting

BOARD Server Cluster enhancements

Power Users can edit rules

Concurrent access to Database design

SAP Connector supports JOINs

Support for Office 2016