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Collaboration
This feature enables Board users to conduct
virtual meetings or collaborative work sessions over the company’s
intranet or over the Internet. Managerial processes and tasks such
a planning and controlling require interaction to discuss a budget
or a forecast, or to analyse and share comments over a given performance
metric.
Key features
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Highly scalable
collaboration technology: 2 or 50 users can attend
a meeting without impacting the server’s
workload. |
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Collaboration
is part of the standard environment with no setup
or configuration. |
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Adds collaboration
to the B.I. and C.P.M. applications. |
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Run virtual
meetings without having to acquire and integrate
web-conferencing tools. |
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Supports
voice transmission (VoIP) provided that the PCs
are equipped with a microphone and speakers. |
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Can be used
for remote training and support. |
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Low band-width
thanks to the compressed ROAR transmission protocol.
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Synchronous Collaboration
This type of virtual meeting allows two or more remote users to share real-time navigation of Board Capsules. All participants view the same analysis and the same data at the same time. As in a round table all participants can intervene: any user can drill-down, jump to another analysis or enter a budget value and his or her actions are instantly propagated to all participants.
This type of virtual meeting is particularly suited for all those processes which require some type of iteration or negotiation.
Technology:
the technology used for this type of virtual meeting is based on the creation of an “action queue” on the Board server which serializes all actions (drill-down, data entry etc..) taken by the participants. The result of the action is placed in an output queue which is propagated to all participating users. Therefore, the Board server workload is independent of the number of participants.
Briefing
This type of virtual meeting allows one person to present to an audience. The presenter can navigate through a Capsule, run analysis, drill-down or take any other action while the participants only view the presenter’s screen. The participants share only a common pointer object with the presenter. This type of virtual meeting is particularly suited for presentations, for example, to illustrate next year’s business plan. Or for training purposes, for example, to explain to the sales force how to use your latest forecast application.
Technology:
the technology used for this type of virtual meeting consists of simply capturing the screen of the presenter and sending the image in a compressed format to the participants in real-time so movements are smooth and the presentation is “live”.
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Performance
Collaboration