BOARD Positioned in 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

London, United Kingdom, February 11, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms presents a global view of Gartner's opinion of software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to use business intelligence (BI) platforms applications.

The research evaluates vendors by their completeness of vision and ability to execute on that vision.

BOARD was one of 20 platforms evaluated in the report worldwide.

“In a market where we see more and more customers disillusioned with the solutions they are using and frustrated by the integration problems they are experiencing, we believe Gartner’s recognition reflects our capability to successfully help more than 2000 International organizations manage and control the entire decision-making process: from data collection to information analysis; from goal-setting to decision-making; from operational execution, to results monitoring,” comments Giovanni Grossi, BOARD CEO. “Unlike other competitors we seamlessly unify BI and CPM in a single product, combining Advanced Office Integration, Interactive Visualization, Self-Service Reporting and Analysis with a great ease of use for both final users and developers.”

“BOARD continues to build momentum, with an above average growth in the BI market and our customers are more and more satisfied with the latest innovations” points out Andrea Alfieri, BOARD Head of Marketing “It’s not by chance that even in such a tough year as 2010 we maintained a double digit growth for the sixth time in a row.”

The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms is available on the website www.board.com, compliments of BOARD.

About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About BOARD
Founded in 1994, BOARD has enabled over 2000 companies worldwide to improve the effectiveness of their management decision making processes, unifying BI and CPM in a single integrated environment.

BOARD provides a seamless solution for the support, control and management of core processes such as; Reporting and Analyses, Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting Profitability Modeling and Optimization, Simulation and What-if Analysis, Scorecarding, Financial Consolidation, Statutory and Financial Reporting, Monitoring and Auditing.

Thanks to its programming-free toolkit approach, global organisations like ABB, DHL, Johnson & Johnson, Mitsubishi, NEC, Puma, Sephora and Sixty rapidly deployed BI and CPM applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Headquartered in Lugano Switzerland, BOARD International has branches in Australia, Germany, India, Italy, Singapore, Spain, UK and US and a worldwide network of distributors and certified partners.

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