2025 April Badge of Impact

Miran Saric · 2025-04-01T15:03:52+00:00

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Happy April! This month's Badge of Impact focuses on Board's incredible Academy and the wealth of knowledge that can be gained from it. Our Academy is your go-to resource where you can find courses to enhance your skill and expertise to get results from Intelligent Planning with Board, and we'd love to get your feedback on it as you earn your April Badge of Impact.

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Thank you to our fantastic March badge earners for their contributions, @Fethi ZERARA, @Samir Jones, @Mads Meissner, @Nico Weber, @Mindy Waltz and @Karry Schupp. Awesome feedback as usual, and remember that it's never too late to reply to a past month's prompt!

2025 brings big plans for Community Captains program. If you're interested in joining the ranks of our Captains, please comment 'I'm interested' below, and we'll follow up with you directly. If you're a frequent contributor to the Badge of Impact program—you've already got what it takes to be a Captain. Expand your knowledge share, and join the Captains!

Interested in learning more? Check out these recent Badge of the Month/Impact responses:

2025 March Badge of Impact
2025 February Badge of Impact
2025 January Badge of Impact

April question of the month

Academy: How has the Board Academy improved your Board practice?

Added challenge: Call out a specific key learning from the training, or share one of the hardest challenges that you overcame to pass? Share your feedback in the comments and earn yourself the April badge.

And if you've taken, and completed, our latest Advanced Developer course, let us know your thoughts on it below as well.

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Nico Weber

The Board Academy significantly enhanced my ability to design and optimize financial planning and reporting solutions. One of the most valuable learnings was mastering data flow optimization — ensuring efficient data transformations and minimizing processing times in complex Board applications.

A key challenge I overcame during the training was handling large-scale data processing while maintaining performance. By applying best practices in algorithm efficiency and cube structuring, I was able to streamline calculations and improve execution speed. This experience has directly translated into building more scalable and high-performing Board solutions in my projects.

Holly Rieke

"Mastering data flow optimization" - a great takeaway from your learnings! Thanks for sharing.

Fethi ZERARA

The Board Academy has been really helpful with clear, easy-to-follow content. The certification covers the specifics of board governance well, and I keep learning new things even after going through it a few times. Big thanks to the team behind it! By the way, when's the next certification coming out? I’m ready for it hehe

Holly Rieke

I love that you keep learning new things every time!

TJ Barber

As a member of the Academy, I'm always excited to see what kinds of work we are improving on and making great strides forward with as a company! I just got to be part of updating our Level 200 developer training for B14 and it's fan6tastic to see the different capabilities and new strengths of Board in that format! we were also able to split that course into 3 smaller courses, each with a month long deadline, giving everyone more time to explore the tool while they work.

Karry Schupp

As old as I am, I have always struggled with the best way to learn something new. Do I just dive in, do I read everything I can about it before I even start or do I talk to experts about it and ease into the learning part. My Dad would probably tell me to RTFB (read the factual book). Reading the instructions are definitely important; however, hands on practice is an excellent way to learn. At first, the Academy classes can be intimidating because the mock business is really nothing like what will be applied in real life (or at least my "real life"), but once the intimidation passes - it is a great way to learn. I had some major "AH-HA" moments on how to work around some of our business challenges and had some small nuggest of information that came in handy for additional reporting requests. We are preparing to upgrade to 14 and I cannot wait to see the improvements!

Miran Saric

Thanks for sharing, @TJ Barber and @Karry Schupp - great insight!