{"id":551680,"date":"2022-01-24T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=551680"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:48:02","slug":"must-have-technology-in-south-africas-boardrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/551680\/must-have-technology-in-south-africas-boardrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Must-Have technology in South Africa\u2019s boardrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/solutions\/boardvantage\/what-is-a-board-portal?utm_campaign=EMEA_Q1_2022_BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Advertising&amp;utm_source=3rdParty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is a board portal?<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> Board portal software is a must-have in boardrooms, transforming paper-based corporate governance processes into digital workflows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/solutions\/boardvantage?utm_campaign=EMEA_Q1_2022_BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Advertising&amp;utm_source=3rdParty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here for more information about Nasdaq Boardvantage.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The board portal market is growing rapidly because software has fundamentally changed the way boards and executive leadership teams communicate.<\/p>\n<p>Old-school paper processes are simply too inefficient to keep up in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>Today, regulatory scrutiny, greater globalisation, deeper competitive pressures, and stakeholder activity have increased the volume of work and the need for a digital solution.<\/p>\n<p>To align with the changing needs of boards and executive leadership teams, many organisations have implemented board portal software.<\/p>\n<p>A board portal helps optimise meeting management, streamline the board book creation process, and tighten information security.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, board portal software is designed with features to help save time, improve efficiencies, and enhance the effectiveness of meetings, collaboration, and decision-making for directors, leaders, and administrators alike.<\/p>\n<p>Some board portal software benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Efficient Meeting Management: <\/strong>Administrators can use board portal software to create and host meetings, build agendas, share materials, track attendance, and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved Document Management:<\/strong>\u00a0Think of a board portal as a document repository, allowing directors to view, edit, share, and search for materials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Streamlined Collaboration: <\/strong>Directors can take it a step further and use a board portal to add private or shared notes to materials and directly communicate with others all in one place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhanced Corporate Governance: <\/strong>Board portal software supports an enhanced workflow for corporate governance processes and simplifies stages of the board meeting lifecycle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Added Security: <\/strong>A board portal is designed with multiple layers of security to help protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data stored within the software.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperless Experience:<\/strong>\u00a0To keep up with the pace of today\u2019s board work, move away from paper-based processes and save time by digitising workflows between various users and spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When choosing a board portal, it is important for boards and executive leadership teams to assess their specific needs, current processes, and potential areas for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>When evaluating whether board portal software is the right fit, consider factors like features and functionalities, security, adoptability, pricing, and the provider\u2019s customer service.<\/p>\n<p>If a board portal sounds like it could be the right fit to transform your corporate governance processes, but you want to learn more, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/solutions\/governance\/boardvantage?utm_campaign=EMEA_Q1_2022_BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Advertising&amp;utm_source=3rdParty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>download this All About Board Portals guide<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether looking to optimize meeting workflows, collaborate confidently knowing security features are in place, better align on strategic decision-making, or simply save time and costs, Nasdaq\u2019s board portal software can help. Nasdaq Boardvantage\u00ae is a board portal from a name you trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/solutions\/boardvantage?utm_campaign=EMEA_Q1_2022_BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Advertising&amp;utm_source=3rdParty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Find out why thousands of public, private, and non-profit organisations worldwide use Nasdaq Boardvantage to support their journeys to governance excellence.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a board portal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":552742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[2746],"class_list":["post-551680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-nasdaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552782,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551680\/revisions\/552782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}