Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP) Technology
The Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP) is a patented Positional Data Management System designed specifically to work with the tabular data line-of-business (LOB) users manage within a spreadsheet or browser on the desktop.BCP is a patented enterprise 2.0 technology that removes the inherit limitations of working with positional data in a spreadsheet or browser in a traditional enterprise environment where data needs to be checked out or updated one record at a time. BCP enables desktop users to work with and share ranges of positional data with other users and backend systems concurrently at the cell level with the click of a mouse.
Running on top of an industry standard relational database, BCP's innovative technical breakthrough can shift 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 new enterprise quality business processes or extend existing enterprise systems to support intelligent collaboration with the desktop.
Some of the unique BCP capabilities include:
- Enterprise 2.0 technology
- Utilizes a positional data environment as the user interface/process modeler which can be managed through a spreadsheet or other tabular data environment
- Utilizes industry-standard relational database as the data store
- Patented abstraction layer manages interaction between
positional data and the relational data store
- Cell-level collaborative data
exchange
- Two-way exchange between desktops and backend systems
- Share data, formula, embedded documents
- Work with multiple collaborative ranges of data in single positional environment
- Change history for all changes to all cells
- Intelligent positional data environment on the desktop
- No check-in/check out or record locking, work on the same data at the same time
- Isolation/sharing - work offline and sync when ready
- Collaborative conflicts management
- “Persistent” desktop 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 on-the-fly
- Dynamic cell-level access control
