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Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP) Technology

The Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP) is a patented Tabular Database Management System (TDBMS) designed specifically to work with the tabular data am information user works with in a spreadsheet on their desktop. This innovative enterprise 2.0 technology removes the inherit limitations of spreadsheets by leveraging them as a user interface and rapid business process modeler on the desktop and connecting them with the collaborative BCP database backend.

BCP enables desktop spreadsheet users to share data with other users and backend systems at the cell level with the click of a mouse. Running on top of an industry standard relational database, BCP's innovative technical breakthrough intelligently connects the desktop to the enterprise shifting users from working with static, isolated data to persistent, enterprise-quality, collaborative information. Using the Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP), companies of any size can rapidly build enterprise quality business processes that use spreadsheets as the front end and BCP as the back-end.

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Some of The BCP unique capabilities include:

  • Enterprise 2.0 technology
    • Leverages spreadsheet as desktop user interface/process modeler
    • Utilizes industry-standard relational database as data store
    • Patented abstraction layer manages interaction between tabular spreadsheet data and relational data store

  • Cell-level collaborative database engine
    • Two-way exchange between desktops and backend systems
    • Share data, formula, embedded documents
    • Multiple collaborative ranges of data in single spreadsheet
    • Change history for all changes to all cells

  • Intelligent spreadsheets on the desktop
    • No check-in/check out, work on the same data at the same time
    • Isolation/sharing - work offline and sync when ready
    • Collaborative conflicts management

  • “Persistent” Excel data
    • All changes are version with complete audit trail
    • Refresh versus replace all changes at a cell level
    • Cell, row, table history change management

  • Flexible data architecture
    • Add or delete rows or columns without having to send a new spreadsheets
    • Cell-level access control which can be changed on-the-fly
       
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