Boardly vs. Board Papers

Boardly acts as a cloud-based operating system designed to enhance and unify the governance management of buildings across New York City, equipping boards and committees with a secure platform to efficiently plan and manage meetings, generate and distribute digital board packs, organize agendas, and document key decisions and action items, all while ensuring a well-structured, auditable repository for all relevant files instead of depending on scattered emails and shared drives. It includes features like agenda creation, automated assembly of board packs, tracking of action items, searchable decision logs, surveys, assessments, role-specific access controls, and encryption to maintain compliance and protect privacy. Additionally, it incorporates AI-powered tools that aid in the creation of meeting minutes and reports, which helps to alleviate administrative workloads and improve clarity, thereby enhancing collaboration and productivity for directors and management teams who operate from multiple locations and devices. As a result, Boardly significantly contributes to the establishment of more effective governance practices across the board.

Installed in a SharePoint site collection, the Board Papers board portal lets you quickly set up meetings and create agendas to organize your documents. Agendas and documents are then published to an intuitive book-like app on participants' iPads, laptops, and mobile devices for on and offline access. In the app, board members and meeting attendees mark up documents with pen and highlighter tools, add and share notes, and electronically sign pages. Votes are cast with a single click. Participants come to meetings prepared, and that means shorter, more effective meetings. Board Papers is used by large and small organizations in over 30 countries to deliver electronic board books and meeting packs for all types of meetings. Key benefits of Board Papers: - All of your documents are stored in your Microsoft 365 tenancy, making security and permissions seamless. - Affordable for any sized organization. - Simple book-like app, all tools are just a tap or click away. Directors don’t have to search for features. - Designed to be flexible and scalable. Used by small and large organizations alike. In 2008, Pervasent was founded to bring mobile apps to the enterprise. Over the next two years, Pervasent built some of the most popular and well-received apps for the iPhone and iPad. But from the start, our focus has been getting the information that business users need onto the devices they always have on hand. In 2011, Pervasent teamed with Standard Chartered Bank to develop a board portal that could meet the bank’s stringent requirements for security and ease of use. That June, Board Papers was used for the first time at a board meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. In early 2012, Board Papers was released to the market and showcased as a featured business app at Apple Store.