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Apologies for the Board Education Invite!
On Friday, July 28, 2023, an invite (sample below) was erroneously sent out to all customer and partner users that have access to the Board Academy asking them to join the Board Education site (for Board employees only). We apologize for this email and ask that you kindly disregard it. Please continue using the Board…
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The Community forum has migrated
In an effort to streamline the Community structure, the Community team has migrated the existing Community forum and merged it with the Platform forum to provide a more centralized discussion experience. Much like the previous Community forum, this is a space where you can connect directly with the Community team to…
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What is the Board Advocacy Program?
If you are a Board customer or partner, you have the opportunity to share feedback and stories about Board in exchange for some great rewards. We invite you to sign up for the program and get on the list to be the first to hear about activities to share and win big. About the Program There’s nothing we love more than…
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New Board solution: Group Consolidation & Reporting
We are excited to officially launch Board Group Consolidation and Reporting (GCR), our new financial consolidation solution. GCR is a comprehensive and future-proof solution, built to meet the continuously changing challenges faced in the office of finance. Some aspects of the new solution: 1. Unified planning &…
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Board Academy Announcements: multi-lingual and new course
Big things are happening beginning in the first week of July! On July 5th, there will be a streamlined training registration process for instructor-led training of Board Academy courses. In the Training tab above, you'll find the Academy and can search course availability by location, language, and learning type--whether…
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2022-03 Geo Maps
A new GeoMap object was introduced back in Board 2021 Spring release. It is based on Google Maps services and is available for advanced data visualization. With this new feature administrators can customize the new Map Objects to allow user interaction with the map. In this session, we'll show you how to set up and use a…
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5,000 members and counting!
The Board Community is thrilled to announce a major milestone of 5,000 members! This achievement is reflective of a strong and vibrant community and unwavering support and dedication that form our foundation. To all our newest members, we share our heartfelt welcome. We hope you will find immense value in what the…
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Community Voices: Krisztina Zappert
Welcome to the first 'Community Voices' blog post! In this series, you'll gain insight and inspiration directly from the broad community of active Board users. We’re excited to share stories and thought leadership from those who know Board best to enable everyone to plan smarter, lead transformation, and achieve the…
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Introducing Board Premium Support
We are excited to introduce our new-and-improved Board Premium Support program, which is designed with one mission in mind—maximize our customers’ return on investment through an enablement-focused, customer-first approach. Our goal is to ensure our customers are properly enabled and supported along their entire…
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Announcing the Community Roundup
In the roughly 100 days following Community’s migration to the new Vanilla platform, the Community team has been working hard to bring you even more features and functionalities to enhance the Community experience. As part of these efforts, we want to share what we’ve been working on and to get your feedback on these…
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Highlights from Board Beyond 2023 (& What Comes Next)
Authored by Mark Gambill. Originally posted here. Intelligent Planning™ took the stage in London with a distinguished line-up of experts and execs. On a (surprisingly) fair-weathered spring morning in Kensington, some of the world’s foremost experts in financial planning, retail planning, and supply chain planning convened…
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Quick Poll: How do you feel about the level of activity here in the Board Community?
The new Board Community experience has been live for just over 90 days, and we want to hear from you! The forums have been busy with Q&As, new technical content is published weekly (Best Practices and How-to Guides), and there are regular updates shared in the Blog and Support section to keep you informed—just to name a…
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What Is Board Early Adopter Programs (BEAP)?
Join our interactive early access program and help us make the BOARD platform even better! If you have experience as an advanced Board user or maker and are skilled in creating Board solutions, we'd like to invite you to make a significant impact on the platform's future by trying out our latest features and…
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A Simplified Sign-On Experience (SSO) Has Arrived on the Board Academy
We’re delighted to announce that single sign-on (SSO) has arrived to the Board Academy on May 17, 2023. The same streamlined sign-in process you currently use on the Board Community is now available for the Board Academy, allowing you to access both platforms with the same login credentials. How the New Sign-In Experience…
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Introducing the Idea Exchange FAQ
The Board Community's Idea Exchange is a valuable space for you, the Community member, to share your feedback on how to improve and evolve the Board experience by directly contributing your suggestions to our Product team and voting on your peers' ideas. As such, we've put together an Idea Exchange FAQ which outlines Idea…
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Introducing The Community Experience Survey
At Board Community, your feedback matters, and in an effort to bring you a Community experience complete with timely support, vital knowledge sharing, and rich engagement and networking, we've created a Community experience survey that allows you to provide feedback—in your own time. This anonymous survey will be monitored…
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Community's Training Category Is Live!
Customers and partners can easily browse and register for eLearning courses, whether online or instructor-led, in-person or virtual, right from Community! The Training category includes: Course Catalogue: review all our training options without registering on the site. Learning Library: access free-to-use resources from…
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Important Update: Changes to Board Cloud Security and Connection Settings
What’s changing? At Board, we prioritize safeguarding your data, information, and other assets managed through our platform. To ensure robust protection, we continuously enhance our cloud security policies. Starting June 30, 2023, we will close the port range 9700-9710 for incoming TCP connections. This change supports new…
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Announcement: On-Premises Customers
Please be aware of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-42915) in some of our On-Premises ODBC drivers. This vulnerability affects only On-Premises installations of Board ODBC drivers with the HTTP proxy enabled. It is related to the following currently supported drivers: Oracle 8.0 ODBC SQLServer 8.0 ODBC DB2 8.0 ODBC…
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ICYMI: Set notification preferences to receive updates automatically
Are you enjoying the new Board Community experience but want an easy way to learn when new content becomes available? We’re here to help! Get automatic updates when new technical content is published to popular sections like the Best Practices and How-to Guides, and hear what the Community is buzzing about here in the blog…
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Top 5 Reasons to Attend Board Beyond
It’s been four years! We haven’t had an in-person event since 2019 - so this is long overdue - and we’re beyond excited to host you in London! Join us at Board Beyond, a full-day event featuring an incredible lineup. Our team designed a packed agenda for those short on time but with a bias for data-driven action. Why does…
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Announcing 'How-to Guides' to support specific use cases
Board is a powerful Intelligent Planning Platform, with a myriad of use cases that allow you to plan smarter and drive desired outcomes. The Board Community supports members getting the most out of their investment by bringing together a collection of expertise from across the ecosystem to guide you on your journey and…
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Practice what you learned in Foundations of Building in Board
Customers and partners asked for some review activities as a bridge between Foundations of Building in Board, and the upcoming course in the series, Building a Planning Solution in Board. We're glad you asked and proud to help by offering these exercises to empower success! There are two different activities in Board…
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DACH Customer Roundtables
Register now for: UPDATE (July 19, 2023) Based on your initial customer feedback, we plan to organize the first set of meetings starting September until the end of 2023 in the following regions or locations: Hamburg Bielefeld/Hannover Frankfurt München/Landsberg By popular demand, we will switch or have more locations with…
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The Board 2023 Spring Release Is Now Available
We are pleased to announce the Board 2023 Spring Release is live. This release delivers numerous improvements for all users of Board across a wide variety of business scenarios, including: Citizen End Users can easily tweak the format of values displayed in Data views and show or hide columns on the fly to customize the…
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Board Beyond 2023: It’s time to ignite the Intelligent Planning revolution
For the first time in three years, we’re bringing the Board community together in person to discuss all things planning. We’re beyond excited (😉) for a day of visionary speakers, sneak peeks at upcoming product enhancements, interactive solution sessions, and the networking opportunity of the year. Best of all, Board…
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Board Community Celebrates International Women’s Day 2023
The Board Community invites you to join us in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023! This year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity and recognizes that equity isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have. A critical component of this year’s campaign is education—recognizing that Equity and Equality, while often used…
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Introducing Board's Community Team
With the recent launch of our new Board Community experience, we'd like to pull back the curtain and introduce the team that helped make this migration possible and successful! It is with great pleasure we introduce our Board Community team. With a diverse background in customer success, content management, marketing,…
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Introducing Board's Center of Excellence
With the recent launch of our new Board Community experience, we want to introduce one of the amazing teams that is key to bringing some of the most crucial content and knowledge to all of us. It is with great pleasure we introduce our internal Board Center of Excellence (CoE). This small, yet mighty and talented, team of…
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Update: Academy Videos Have Moved
We've moved! Many of our Academy videos previously located in the Academy forums have been migrated to the Board Academy as part of the relaunch of Community. In Case You Missed It Sign in to the Board Academy at https://academy.board.com, and then select a link below to access the videos: Build-A-Board Series Subscription…
