Board Foresight: Enterprise Analytics on a Mid-Market Budget
Enterprise giants predict market shifts months ahead while you're still discovering last month's problems in your latest report. This is the brutal reality mid-market businesses face. Yes, they need enterprise-grade forecasting, but without enterprise budgets.
Spreadsheets create silos. Legacy systems cannot keep pace. AI promises transformation but rarely delivers needed precision. This is the reality for many businesses.
I often meet leaders who feel helpless to solve these problems without a six-figure budget.
My recommendation is always the same: Board Foresight.
Board Foresight removes the budget barrier and enables mid-market organisations to leverage the same platform enabling giants like Kraft Heinz to build predictive models for critical planning needs, cut costs and optimise logistics.
It’s a cutting-edge solution developed as a result of Board’s recent acquisition of Prevedere, a leader in predictive analytics technology that uses an external insights engine to identify future economic opportunities or risks that could impact business performance.
How Board Foresight Transforms Mid-Market Planning and Analytics
A huge draw for mid-market businesses is that Board Foresight can be implemented quickly and functions as a pure standalone product, regardless of whether or not you’ve invested in the wider Board solution or any other EPM/CPM..
It also has true pay-as-you-grow architecture. Unlike monolithic ERP systems demanding six-figures upfront, Foresight scales with you. You could start with demand forecasting and then add workforce or capex planning later on, giving you real flexibility to grow at your own pace.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The real transformational advantages of Board Foresight are under the hood:
External Data for Accurate Predictions: Accessing over 5 million datasets, Foresight pinpoints the exact market signals that impact your business and identifies external data most relevant to your industry, organisation, category and geography. It connects your enterprise data with external forces and runs thousands of model combinations to identify the strongest correlations. This means predicting supply chain disruptions using live economic indicators, not outdated assumptions. No more wasting time or resources.
Unmatched Data Integrity: Thanks to the acquisition of Prevedere and a brilliant in-house team of top economists, Board Foresight offers users unmatched data at a lower cost. Unlike purchasing expensive yet unchecked, incomplete legacy data from other repositories, Board users get enriched data they can trust for superior forecasting and accurate reporting.
Unified Intelligence Engine: Run scenario modelling, predictive analytics and reporting in one environment. Model interest rate impacts on cash flow while simultaneously adjusting workforce budgets, all in a single workflow. This eliminates the endless data shuttling between planning tools that kills productivity.
Zero-Code Data Integration: Automatically map and cleanse data from ERPs, CRMs and spreadsheets using pre-built connectors. Reduce monthly close cycles from days to hours without coding. Your finance team can finally focus on insights, not data wrangling.
AI-Powered Anomaly Detection: Real-time updates from millions of external sources enable enterprises to spot deviations in inventory, sales or labour costs with predictive analytics that provide root-cause insights. This helps you contain profit leaks before they show up in quarterly reviews.
Here’s how Board’s SVP of Product, David Marmer, puts it:
"With the power of over 5 million datasets, AI-driven analytics and expert economic intelligence, our customers can now plan continuously for the future with greater confidence and precision."
Engineering Outcomes, Not Just Rollouts
At Propriety, we go beyond software delivery to ensure Foresight transforms your business.
We achieve this through a unique approach:
Outcome-First Architecture: If a client wants to reduce inventory waste by 15% or slash forecasting time by 60%, then those are the specific problems we care about. We map your exact operational gaps first, then configure Foresight to address them, not generic KPIs.
Team Adoption Strategy: If just two team members in Finance see software solutions as a threat, this can lead either to apathy or wilful sabotage. We handle the human side of transformation, ensuring your team sees Foresight as an ally, not a replacement.
Data Foundation First: If your item master, supplier list or sales history is a mess, no solution can succeed. We clean your data before it touches Foresight, a critical pre-deployment phase most vendors skip entirely.
Long-Term Partnership: Some vendors just sell licenses and disappear. Our PG Care service is built on the pillars of technical support and enablement. It means we are embedded in your business as a true technology partner, offering you:
Technical Support: We guarantee timely responses to any query through our dedicated specialist service, with top-tier methodology and a proven track record. Our technical support includes system optimisation, bug resolution and ongoing reliability to create the foundation for change.
User Adoption: We prepare training and enablement programmes designed to make our solution the operational core for current and new challenges. Through quarterly training refreshers, workflow improvements and continuous coaching, we ensure teams don't slip back into old patterns.
Value Expansion: As your business evolves, we identify new use cases and opportunities such as stakeholder workshops to build toward a centre of excellence. We understand that the lifespan of new habits determines ROI. The longer teams embrace change, the greater the impact on efficiency, customer experience and competitiveness.
Transform Your Planning
Every month of delayed implementation costs you predictable profits. Board Foresight accelerates business performance and drives continuous planning with greater forecast accuracy. But only if implemented correctly. At Propriety, we engineer resilient operational foundations that benefit your team and your business without breaking the bank.
Let's discuss how Board Foresight can transform your planning process.