Board vs Farseer
Board
board.comFarseer
farseer.comSide by side
| Figure | Board | Farseer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 9 | 1 |
| Spec score · Sales and Operations Planning Software | 7.9 (#3) | 7.7 (#7) |
| Spec score · Financial Planning & Analysis Software | 8.0 (#18) | 7.7 (#35) |
| Spec score · Financial Forecasting Software | 8.0 (#15) | 7.6 (#38) |
| Spec score · Financial Consolidation Software | 7.9 (#7) | 7.6 (#11) |
| Spec score · Scenario Planning Software | 8.0 (#22) | 7.7 (#40) |
| Spec score · Workforce Planning Software | 8.0 (#7) | 7.7 (#10) |
| Spec score · Financial Modeling Software | 8.0 (#10) | 7.7 (#18) |
| Budgeting | Yes | Yes |
| Financial consolidation | Yes | Yes |
| Forecasting | Uses historical data, external signals, and business drivers for demand forecasts. | Yes |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Chiasso, Switzerland | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Available integrations | Additional components include an Office Add-In, SAP connector, parallel engines, and broadcasting package. | The site lists pre-built connectors for SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery, and SQL warehouses, plus an API and custom connectors. |
| Scenario modeling | Yes | Yes |
| Security | AI agents inherit role-based access controls and activity is auditable. | Farseer says it is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, GDPR-compliant with a standard DPA, and hosted in a single-tenant environment on Google Cloud Belgium. |
| Variance analysis | Yes | Yes |
| Workforce planning | Human resources solutions include HR workforce planning. | Yes |
Plans
Board
- Board Supply Chain PlanningPriced on request
- Board add-ins & integrationsPriced on request
- FinancePriced on request
- HRPriced on request
- Predictive analyticsPriced on request
- Premium SupportPriced on request
- RetailPriced on request
- SalesPriced on request
- Supply chainPriced on request
In their own words
Board
Board is an enterprise planning platform that connects data, processes, and teams for financial and operational planning. Its listed functions include budgeting, forecasting, reporting, consolidation, supply planning, and workforce planning. Teams can model scenarios and trade-offs, plan for events, and compare forecasts with actuals. The platform also offers governed agentic AI with human oversight, governance, and accountability. Collaboration can extend beyond the enterprise. Additional components include an Office Add-In, SAP connector, parallel engines, and broadcasting package. Deployment options are cloud and on-premise, and the site supports recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Support resources include product support, training, Board Community, and a premium support plan. Plans include Finance, Supply chain, Retail, Sales, HR, and predictive analytics, with customized quotes based on specific needs; no prices are listed. The supplied pages state no free plan or free tier, and do not state a trial or refund policy. Board lists headquarters in Boston and Chiasso and a founding year of 1994.
Farseer
Farseer is an FP&A platform for enterprise finance teams, combining planning, forecasting and reporting. It covers budgets, rolling forecasts, sales, workforce and ESG plans, cash-flow forecasting, profitability analysis, scenarios, variance review, forecast-versus-actuals work and financial consolidation. Modeling supports enterprise financial logic through natural-language formulas without code. A spreadsheet-style interface and dashboards let users move from profit-and-loss figures to invoices. The Rama in-memory engine processes models across products, entities, accounts, currencies and time; Farseer says it can import 350,000 rows in 35 seconds. Connectors are listed for SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery and SQL warehouses, alongside an API and custom connectors. Farseer AI can build a planning model from ERP data for sandbox review. The service is web-based, paid and priced on request, with role controls, audit logs and single-tenant Google Cloud hosting in Belgium.