IT Process Platform

Information workers primarily rely on familiar desktop productivity applications such as Microsoft (R) Excel to help them perform their daily job functions, analyze data, and collaborate with others. However, these workers are not leveraging enterprise system capabilities, like process automation and collaboration, when working within these desktop applications. Even though companies have spent millions of dollars on enterprise applications, 80% of the daily work in an enterprise is done outside of system(s) of record much of it within Excel.

According to CFO Magazine, 91% of executives surveyed indicated that over the next five years spreadsheets will either remain the same or increase in their importance. And yet, the spreadsheet collaboration problem which has existing for over 20 years has not been solved in an enterprise quality manner until Boardwalktech’s patented spreadsheet platform was released.

IT Process platform challenges

Enterprises that rely on 1000s of uncontrolled critical spreadsheet-based processes are placing the enterprise at an unacceptable level of business and regulatory risk
Out of necessity, rogue processes have been created to solve business problems using spreadsheets which are inherently not enterprise quality
It’s difficult to control these rogue desktop process because IT has no easy way to gain insight into their status, no ability to control who has access to the data, and no way to centrally manage these ad-hoc spreadsheet-based processes
Information workers require the ability to work collaboratively on their desktops with information stored in enterprise systems which is today only available through a few users. This means the power of business applications is not being extended to every employee across the enterprise

The Boardwalktech Solution: BCP-Driven IT process platform

The Boardwalk Collaboration Platform utilizes a patented data extraction layer which runs on top of an industry standard relational database system. This unique technology bridges the gap between the tabular row & column data modeling world of spreadsheets and the record-storage world of relational database systems. The Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP) is a technology breakthrough that does for tabular data what relational systems did for file systems.

The BCP Server is an enterprise-quality data management solution for your company’s spreadsheet-based processes and data which insures your critical data is backed up, access controlled, auditable, and secure
BCP enables a two-way, collaborative exchange between transactional enterprise processes and ad-hoc, desktop-based productivity processes
BCP can work with any industry standard relational database system which means integrating it with your existing enterprise infrastructure can be done in weeks not months

BCP turns existing spreadsheet-based processes into enterprise quality applications while retaining the power and flexibility of Excel on the desktop

Benefits of using BCP as an IT process platform

Centrally manage all your company’s critical spreadsheet-based processes, but retain the flexibility needed for the desktop user
Eliminate the information worker’s reliance on business application experts and seamlessly connect the process and productivity application worlds
Data from ERP, SCM, CRM and other enterprise systems can be pulled securely into the BCP environment so users can collect and “mature” the data before it is ready for input back into the systems of record
Enterprise data used in isolation on the desktop can now be included as part of the overall enterprise workflow while eliminating the risk of being out of compliance with standards and policies