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Agentic AI in Enterprise Planning: Beyond the Copilot Era
Agentic AI in enterprise planning is moving organizations beyond today’s reactive copilots and toward goal-driven AI agents that can sense, decide, and act—within enterprise guardrails—to drive business outcomes across finance, supply chain, and operations. TL;DR Copilots respond to prompts; agentic AI agents can initiate…
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March CommunityCast and Monthly Mission
🍀Welcome back to March's Monthly Mission. Community packed a number of user experience updates, blog content, and knowledge in our How-To Guides and Best Practices in a shortened February and we're excited to share those with you. Here are your one-minute, Community updates this month: https://player.vimeo.com/1170343878 A…
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Foresight Best Practices – Wave 2 Now Live!
We’re excited to share the next wave of Foresight Best Practices in the Community, featuring 10 new best practices. ➡️This second set of articles continues to expand on practical guidance for working effectively in Board Foresight. While the first wave focused on core modeling and data fundamentals, this new group rounds…
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3 Q's with Amy Holmes, Board Academy Director
Featuring: Amy Holmes, Community Captain and Board Academy Director In this installment of Community 3 Questions, we sat down with Amy Holmes, Board Academy Director, to get her thoughts on the new Academy vision, what's resonating with learners, and looking ahead to 2026. Be sure to give your feedback in the comments…
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Build Along with Board: Turning Guides Into Guided Walkthroughs
If you’re looking for reliable, actionable guidance in the Board Community, Best Practices and How-to Guides are the place to start. Whether a guide is created or curated, it’s always reviewed and validated by Board’s internal Center of Excellence—so you can trust what you’re applying in your own work.…
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🎓Academy Reimagination is NOW!!
Board Academy 2025: A Year of Transformation — And What’s Next for 2026! In 2025, Board Academy embarked on an exciting journey to reimagine the learner experience - guided by one bold vision: Delivering the Right Education, in the Right Way, at the Right Time. . .Every Time! This transformation is shaped by you, and this…
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Introducing The Boardroom!
Welcome to the Boardroom, Board's inaugural monthly LinkedIn newsletter which explores how finance, supply chain, merchandising, and operations leaders move from static cycles to continuous, connected enterprise planning. The first edition dives into a shift reshaping the space: enterprise-ready agentic AI, and how Board…
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Scheduled Infrastructure Update for Board SaaS Instances
Dear Board Community, We would like to inform you that we will be carrying out required planned infrastructure maintenance on Board SaaS environment in the coming months of 2026. This activity is required as part of our ongoing efforts to maintain a secure, stable, and up-to-date cloud platform, including the replacement…
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Introducing the New Board Idea Exchange
The Board Idea Exchange is where Board Customers, Partners, and Employees share ideas, provide feedback, and help shape the evolution of the Board platform. It’s a central space for proposing enhancements, discovering what others are asking for, and engaging with ideas that impact how you work. We built this portal to…
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Board Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring Agentic AI Into the Core of Enterprise Planning
Domain-Specific, Enterprise-Ready AI Agents Support Continuous Planning Across Finance, Supply Chain and Merchandising Boston, MA — January 21, 2026 — Board, one of the leading Enterprise Planning Platforms, today announced the launch of Board Agents built on Microsoft Foundry. Board Agents deliver an intelligent suite of…
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DOWNLOAD NOW! Take on Board 2025–2026 Report: Your Feedback in Action
Those that have met me can appreciate how ensuring that Board remains customer-driven is so important to me and everything we do. To that end it gives me great pleasure to announce the second edition of Take on Board – Customer Experience Report 2025–2026 which is, yet again, — built entirely on: your feedback. Over the…
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🎓 Introducing the New Academy Interface
We’re excited to share the launch of the new Academy interface, designed to make learning easier, faster, and more intuitive. What’s new: Seamless access to all learning formats On-demand courses, certifications, and instructor-led trainings are now accessible through a single, streamlined experience. Direct access to key…
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🎓Exciting News from Board Academy – New Solutions Courses Coming Your Way!
Academy is excited to share some exciting upcoming updates regarding our Solutions courses! Here’s what’s on the way: ✅ The Full Enablement Path for Merchandise Planning is targeted to be live by the end of Q1. ✅ The Go-To-Market courses for FCCR and Supply Chain Planning will be live by the end of this month. ✅ The…
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US Economic Outlook: February 2026
As the U.S. economy moves toward 2026, consumer spending growth is increasingly concentrated among high-income households. Board’s February Economic Outlook explores how this K-shaped dynamic reshapes risk, volatility, and planning assumptions for business leaders. Rather than broad-based income gains, today’s expansion is…
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Monthly Customer News Update - February
The Innovation Edition From Emerging Ideas to Real-World Impact Innovation only matters when it changes decisions. This month’sedition looks at how AI, predictive intelligence, and unified planning arealready shaping how organizations plan, adapt, and execute, at every level. Agentic AI and the evolving CFO role Board…
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🎓LEARN! GROW! ACHIEVE! We are happy to share some exciting updates and launches in Academy.
📚New Courses launched this month: Solutions Overview About this course: This course introduces Board’s Solutions strategy and explains why it is critical to delivering faster, more consistent customer value. You learned how Board has evolved from a flexible platform to a solutions-driven approach, how Engineering,…
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February CommunityCast and Monthly Mission
💗 Welcome back to February's Monthly Mission. January was a content-packed month with the Community blog publishing a number of posts covering a range of topics. We've also implemented several user experience updates that you can learn about in the video below, and geared up for February's launch of the new Idea Exchange…
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Monthly Customer News Update - January
The Performance Edition AI, Forecasting, CX Insights & Outlook Welcome to the first Board newsletter of 2026. This edition focuses on performance: accelerating cycles, improving forecast confidence, and turning intelligence into action across finance and operations: Agentic AI, Part 2: how AI agents drive measurable…
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Status Page New Feature: Delegated Technical Contacts
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Delegated Technical Contacts (Self-Managed) on the Board Cloud Status Page. This new functionality is designed to help customers—especially Board partners—ensure that the right technical stakeholders stay informed about incidents, maintenances, and service reliability, while…
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From GCR to FCR: A Name Change That Reflects How Finance Teams Work
Names matter, especially when they describe how finance teams actually work. That’s why we’re making a small change that better reflects how many of you use Board. As of today, we’re renaming our solution area from Consolidation and Reporting GCR (Group Consolidation & Reporting) to FCCR (Financial Close, Consolidation,…
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January Economic Outlook: Inside US Manufacturing Shifts
The US manufacturing sector entered 2026 under pressure—but the headline numbers don’t tell the full story. Conflicting PMI signals at the end of 2025 point to something more structural than a simple slowdown. Our January outlook breaks down what’s really happening beneath the surface: a two-speed manufacturing sector…
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January CommunityCast and Monthly Mission
☃️ 2026 is here - happy new year! As they say: "new year, new me" and with that in mind we want to share a slight rebrand to our Badge of the Month series which is now titled Monthly Mission. We're eager to get your knowledge, feedback, and updates to our prompts in this series and you'll continue receive a shiny badge for…
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Introducing Foresight Best Practices
We’re excited to announce the launch of Foresight Best Practices in Community. This new space brings together a curated set of articles designed to help users work more effectively and confidently in Board Foresight. The best practices combine technical guidance with practical approaches for success across the full…
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Find It Faster: Content Tags Power Your Search in the Board Community
Content tags in the Board Community are applied to published articles to help make content more discoverable. Did you know that you can find some of the most popular content tags directly from the homepage? Find them just under Quick Links on the right-hand side and select a tag to discover posts and discussions that…
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Board 14.5 is here!
We are pleased to announce that the Board 14.5 release is here! 🚀 The new Board 14.5 release includes significant improvements for Developers, Administrators, and Planners (End Users). Board 14.5 proudly introduces a new semantic layer to your data – the Datasets! Furthermore, we made improvements to the Data Reader Action…
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Part 1: Agentic AI – A Paradigm Shift for Integrated Business Planning
How different would your business look if your planning tools could anticipate your next move? ➡️Part 1 of our two-part series on Agentic AI is here, and it’s set to shake up how organizations think about Integrated Business Planning. This first installment explores the paradigm shift underway and what it means for the…
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Europe’s 2026 Economic Outlook: A Transition Toward Resilience
Europe enters 2026 with a firmer but still uneven economic foundation. Despite persistent pressures—from rising housing costs to fiscal divergence and external demand constraints—the region is showing signs of stabilization. Consumption is holding steady, inflation has largely converged, and employment remains near…
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December CommunityCast and Badge Opportunity
☃️ 2025 is rapidly coming to a close and it's time to reflect on the year. Community had a productive 2025 with a number of big accomplishments, how about you? Feel free to share yours below and be sure to check out our monthly updates to learn about what was new in Community in November. Here are your one-minute,…
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The 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software
Board has once again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software. This marks our fourth consecutive year in the Leaders quadrant. This recognition reflects our continued commitment to helping organizations unify strategic, financial, and operational planning within a…
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The New Board Cloud Status Page is Live!
📢 We are excited to announce that the new Board Cloud Status Page is officially live and available to all logged-in Customers and Partners through the Board Community, accessible using your Board Community login credentials. This new platform marks a significant step forward in transparency, reliability, and customer…
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Board Cloud Status Page: Launch Update
Recently, we shared that the new Board Cloud Status Page would be launching soon. In case you missed it, this new platform will provide logged-in customers and partners with real-time visibility into the health of Board Cloud services — including ongoing incidents, planned maintenance, and service availability across…
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Monthly Customer News Update - November
Hurry, hurry—the end is near. No need to panic, though. It’s only 2025, and we’ve got your 2026 planning covered: trends shaping the year ahead, AI insights to sharpen your decision-making, and best practices that show how Board customers stay ahead of the curve while showcasing the full range of possible solutions. Maybe…
