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BoardPad (discontinued)

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What is BoardPad (discontinued)?

BoardPad was a meeting and document collaboration solution, with hosted and self-hosted options options. The product and company were acquired by Diligent in 2017. It has since been discontinued and is no longer supported.

Categories & Use Cases

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Have all your meeting details on your portable device.
Our administrative portal helps you organise and drag-and-drop documents into your meeting agenda, it's as simple as that.
On-the-go editing and reviewing of documents.
Available on iOS, Android and all Windows 7 and up devices.

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The amazing software that makes meetings more enjoyable!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BoardPad has been instrumental in streamlining our meetings. Its ease of use ensures that all employees are confident to adapt to this new style and will endeavor to see how effective it is to change the way you operate your meetings. We use BoardPad to link documents, agendas, minutes, and AOB items so that everyone can access them in one simple place. It great facility is the annotation function, so staff can easily adapt and/or sign on the go.

Pros

  • Great voting function.
  • Ease of having all documents in one place prior to the meeting.
  • Trusted source to record actions.
  • Annotate as the meeting is in process.

Cons

  • Needs time to configure but well worth it in the end.

Most Important Features

  • Meeting organization - documents, agenda's, reading.
  • Voting - as great when you are working in teams.
  • Recording by a trusted source.
  • All previous meeting records kept in one simple place.

Return on Investment

  • Meetings are more streamlined.
  • Improved accountability.
  • Quick and easy annotations function has saved massive amount of staff time.

Other Software Used

Zingtree, Dropsolid Experience Cloud

BoardPad for Funds

Pros

  • Preparation of Board Books (i.e. reports, minutes, resolutions, etc)
  • Collaboration before and during Board meetings
  • Trusted source to records Board actions

Cons

  • Functionality is all there. The devil is in initial configuration.

Return on Investment

  • Increased employee efficiency -- team of paralegals reduced to one