A board portal is software for streamlining corporate governance processes. This essential software allows boards to operate entirely paperlessly, enhancing meeting effectiveness, collaboration, and decision-making in corporate governance. Our board portal, Nasdaq Boardvantage®, is designed for boards, committees, and executive leadership teams and features robust security features and a user-friendly experience. 

Board portals are designed for boards of directors, committees, and executive leadership teams, and are trusted by corporate secretaries, administrators, IT, and information security professionals.

A board portal, like all board management software, is designed to help you work more efficiently, productively, and strategically. A board portal enhances the management of meetings and materials, collaboration, decision-making, and corporate governance processes-all with added security.

Nasdaq Boardvantage was built with the corporate secretary in mind. Store everything you need in one secure place; easily manage corporate governance activities; plan meetings and build board books; easily access and manage meeting materials; reliably and effectively communicate updates; directly edit materials in their native formats; customise permission settings; and so much more.

Nasdaq Boardvantage recognises that directors' time is valuable, and that they need to be prepared for board meetings and ready to meaningfully contribute to conversations. Other systems that require multiple logins and hopping between platforms take up time that could be spent adding value to your business. Nasdaq Boardvantage provides one place to manage your tasks, easily access information, communicate reliably with fellow directors and management, and drive strategic action before, during, and after meetings-inside or outside of the boardroom.

Nasdaq Boardvantage is built with the priority of protecting your most sensitive information. IT and information security teams need to ensure that all systems and information remain secure, especially for boards, committees, and executive leadership teams. Nasdaq Boardvantage maintains data security without inhibiting communication or information-sharing. Learn more about Nasdaq Boardvantage's Information Security Features. 

No, Nasdaq Boardvantage is not only for Nasdaq-listed companies. Boardvantage is a board portal and management collaboration solution that is available to any organisation, regardless of where they are listed or even if they are not publicly listed at all. The platform is designed to help organisations manage board meetings, share sensitive documents securely, and facilitate collaboration among board members and executives, independent of their listing status.

Yes, you can use Boardvantage as a standalone product without using other Nasdaq products. Boardvantage is Nasdaq's board portal and leadership collaboration software that operates independently of other Nasdaq offerings. It is designed to help organisations manage their board meetings, share documents securely, and facilitate collaboration among board members and leadership teams regardless of whether they use other Nasdaq services.

Key points about Boardvantage:

• It's a separate, standalone solution
• Provides secure document management and sharing
• Enables remote board meeting management
• Includes tools for leadership collaboration
• Can be implemented independently of other Nasdaq products or services

Distribution of meeting materials is automated. Relevant materials are presented in the context of the meeting agenda, and the current meeting is presented in a meeting timeline. Nasdaq Boardvantage enables a level of productivity that is often lacking in high-level meetings today.

Nasdaq Boardvantage offers purpose-built tools for digitally approving initiatives, signing agreements, participating in meetings remotely, sending secure messages, and sharing notes and annotations-anytime and anywhere.

Nasdaq Boardvantage is hosted in a highly secure, hardened data centre with no third-party access. Our board portal software includes full-strength encryption, multi-factor authentication, and security certificates. Customer content is segregated into individual repositories and encrypted with unique keys. Only an organisation's authorised users can access protected data, barring even Nasdaq system administrators from viewing content housed in our board portal. Learn more about Nasdaq Boardvantage's Information Security Features. 

We offer ongoing training for Nasdaq Boardvantage users. Plus, our customer support team is available 24/7 from support centres located around the world.

Yes, you can brand Nasdaq Boardvantage interface to include your organisation's logo and colours.

Four essential elements ensure an effective board meeting: optimising your meeting agenda, perfecting your meeting minutes, digitising your boardroom, and optimising your board portal. These will help your board navigate key moments before, during, and after every meeting.

Board meeting agendas are dependent upon a variety of factors, including how often and for how long the board meets, as well as how prepared directors typically are. However, essential elements of a productive board meeting agenda often include: an executive session, a chairman session, a regular session, and an extended agenda. If you need a sample, download our board meeting agenda template.

High-quality board meeting minutes are essential to meeting effectiveness, before and after the meeting. Meeting minutes serve as an impartial "witness" that a board is carrying out its fiduciary responsibilities-and recording them is good governance practice. For help with organising your meeting minutes, read our step-by-step guide and download a free template.

Digitisation relieves boards, committees, and leadership teams from many tedious administrative processes. This gives them more time and resources to focus on core fiduciary duties including financial oversight, strategic planning, and risk management. The paperless boardroom helps enhance meeting effectiveness by streamlining corporate governance and compliance processes and powering strategic decision-making.