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Board International is an Intelligent Planning Platform, that offers smarter planning, actionable insights and better outcomes for over 2,000 companies across the globe. Board allows leading enterprises to discover crucial insights which support in driving business decisions and unify strategy, finance and operations to plan smarter and achieve full control of performance.
Partnering with Board, global enterprises such as H&M, BASF, Burberry, Toyota, Coca-Cola, KPMG, and HSBC have digitally transformed their planning processes.
Founded in1994, and now with 25 offices worldwide, Board International has long been recognized by leading analysts and subject matter experts including Gartner, Nucleus, and Dresner.
The majority of regional partners are experts in their industries and key to the success of mutual customer projects
Data is the new oil. The explosion of digital transformation projects has seen volumes of data on an unprecedented scale. Board’s Intelligent Planning Platform benefits from proprietary in-memory technology meaning enterprise accounts globally benefit from un-capped data volumes and the ability to ignore dark data and focus thought leadership on actionable insights to make better informed decisions.
Board’s Intelligent Planning Platform allows you to take data from any and multiple data sources and visualise this data with interactive dashboards, then, with machine learning and predictive analytics move seamlessly into budgeting, planning and forecasting in a single environment. This differentiates from other point solutions to give enterprise organisations a single version of the truth.
Speed of thought analysis to give insights from a historic perspective to gain foresight into what will happen. Uncapped data volumes and seamless two-way integration into familiar environments in the MS stack. Fast track appliances to get you operational and self-sufficient in weeks.
Over the past 12 months Board has had key wins with partners such as PwC Middle East and KPMG Saudi
Board and its network of strategic partners share the same mission: improve decision making processes to enhance enterprise business. The strength of partnerships delivers paramount operational and cost benefits to customers.
We have a network of over 150 regional channel partners across 20 countries as well as strategic partnerships with leading global advisories such as Accenture, EY, KPMG and PwC. The majority of regional partners are experts in their industries and key to the success of mutual customer projects. We work with the best and are looking for new partners worldwide.
Over the past 12 months we have had key wins with core partners such as PwC Middle East and KPMG Saudi where they both implemented Board and the use of our solution which demonstrates value. In addition to these key engagements are with organisations such as Tadawul Saudi Stock Exchange, Apparel Group and further extensions with the likes of National Water Company and Bridgestone Middle East.
TOP EXECUTIVE
Sanford Burley role is Country Manager for Board International’s Middle East and India countries reporting to the Regional General Manager for Northern Europe and IMEA. We cover around 30 countries from the UAE hub with the team split between Dubai and Mumbai in India.
Burley has been in the decision making solution space for over 20 years, initially in London and then for the last 17 years here in the Middle East. He has worked for numerous smaller consulting firms and larger companies such as Oracle, SAP and Maersk. His focus has always been helping customers to overcome their issues through Technology solutions.
The greatest achievement to date has been the successful creation of a business unit across Middle East and India establishing ourselves as a key player in the territory for Decision Making needs across the Office of the CFO, Supply Chain and Retail.
DREAM ROLE
Board has huge potential in the region due to its unique ability to make the data for decision making simple and intuitive to use. The immediate aspiration is to really establish Board as the leader in the market and drive value for customers.
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Most of my time outside of work is spent with my family and having retired from playing rugby in the last couple of years it is now about spending the time outside of work with them and enjoying time together.
