Data-First

Collaboration with
Stormboard
Stormboard is the data-first
collaborative workflow platform that
turns unstructured interactions into
data-rich collaborative workspaces,
creating new structured and
actionable data from normal human
collaboration, whether in-person or
across distance.
Importance of Data-First Collaboration to the
Bottom-Line

There is little argument that data-driven organizations offer numerous advantages over
traditional businesses. The promise is that data becomes a strategic asset that can inform
decision-making processes and drive actionable results.

Companies which leverage data to drive decision-making gain a competitive advantage,

reducing business expenses, and increasing margins and profits. In fact, data-driven
companies achieve 2.5x better business outcomes. McKinsey estimates that by 2025,

“smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines

will likely be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most
employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work.”

Organizations produce reams of business and operational data. While being overrun with
data, businesses have been forced by competitive pressures to leverage the “data overrun”
to inform every decision, interaction, and process thereby fueling business growth.

To make data operationally valuable, it must be captured, processed, and

delivered in real time without any intermediate silos.

Sounds Easy?

Many companies attacked this challenge by starting with sporadic deployments or initiating
enterprise-wide IIT data warehousing projects that often take years to bear fruit. Both
approaches lead to little lifetime value and certainly not immediate value.

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 Don’t Boil the Ocean!

Stormboard is a data-first collaboration workflow platform which succeeds at creating

new structured and actionable data from normal human collaboration, whether in-person
or across distance. Beyond phones, remote meetings and messaging, the primarily visual
focus of the platform (via leading-edge whiteboard capabilities) is to empower data-driven
companies to turn their unstructured human interactions into information-rich collaborative
workspaces; enabling data-driven decisions and efficient processes while often eliminating
the need for meetings entirely. Human-generated data also survives sessions along with
the original context which can be edited or added to in the future.

This is a Storm —
what we call your
digital workspace!

Stormboard Out-of-the-box users achieve immediate value: 10 minutes to

learn, 30 minutes to master!

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This Isn’t Your Father’s Whiteboard!

Stormboard’s approach is different from competing e-collaboration spaces

and traditional whiteboards, which are often tailored to creative/design
audiences, not operationally focused executives.

Competitors may speak of collaboration but that often translates directly to just
‘presentation.’ On the contrary, Stormboard enables mature visual collaboration through
infinite, scalable Storms permitting businesses to create fresh, actionable data in real-time.

Stormboard facilitates integration with various third-party platforms such as Google Drive,
Microsoft Office 365, Jira, Slack, Zapier, and more …

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Key Differentiators
Stormboard’s cloud-based data-first collaboration workflow
platform is built on several key differentiators that are unique
to Stormboard.

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Smart Sections and Templates

Smart sections and templates are the foundational elements to

Stormboard’s data-first collaboration space.

Each data element interacts directly with other elements, thereby creating a “living” data
environment and enhancing data lifecycle management and outcomes.

Our unique templates can be fully customized:

Magnetic sections automatically organize all sticky notes in the section neatly in a grid
formation, optionally sorted by a value you choose.

Count the number of sticky notes, votes, or other data in a specific section.

Agile integration sections allow you to Integrate an existing backlog into a template section.
Changes made in Stormboard are reflected in your Jira, Rally, and Azure DevOps instances
— and vice-versa.

The header color, background color, and title of each section can easily be customized.

You can keep your section type blank or change it to a Matrix, Shape, Spreadsheet, Venn
Diagram, Calendar, or PI Planning backlog.

Custom Template Guides can help make things easier, support processes when there is no
facilitator, and make sure teams are operating the same way across the whole company.

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Stakeholder-Ready Reporting

Stormboard is the only cloud-based data-first operational workflow

platform that provides actionable and accessible data after a meeting,
instead of a blurry photo of a whiteboard or JPEG image of a screen.

The platform further maintains project and meeting momentum by creating editable
stakeholder-ready reports at the click of a button. Our reporting feature allows you to
compile all work, decisions, assigned tasks, and actions from your meeting instantly and
export it into a professional report that can be collaboratively edited and then shared with
participants, management, or other key stakeholders. Exported documents can be iterated
on, referred back to, and easily updated as a project progresses thanks to Stormboard’s
native integrations with popular workspaces such as Microsoft Office and Google Drive.

Meeting output options include the following export options:

• Create your report instantly (no wait time!)

• Easily share meeting insights with those who couldn’t attend
• Keep your documentation up-to-date at all times
• Never lose great ideas
• Track ongoing assignment and task status
• Download reports to your device
• Save reports to your Storm
• Edit reports to share with management, other teams, etc.

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Real-Time Bi-Directional Integrations

Real-time (actually working!) bi-directional integrations eliminate

wasteful/redundant transcription practices and ensure data accuracy and
consistency across platforms.

OOTB integrations are available for Jira, Rally and Azure DevOps. Each source system is
synced with Stormboard on a bi-directional basis: change a field in Rally, for example, and
immediately see the change in Stormboard (and vise-versa). Enjoy the simple drag-and-drop
capabilities and the ability to visualize dependencies.

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Robust Enterprise-Grade Security

Stormboard’s platform is trusted to protect critical data worldwide with

a security approach that adheres to  some of the international business
community’s most stringent internal standards.

The best-in-class security provided through the Platform can be thought of in 3 key
differentiation areas: (1) Data Residency, (2) Data Protection Compliance, and (3) Enterprise-
Built Configurable Security Standards.

Data Residency

Data Residency allows companies to choose optimal locations to host data,

including via geographies or regions while maintaining the highest data
management standards.

Data Protection Compliance

Data Protection Compliance ensures access control for permitted users is

enforced and anonymous workspaces or users are not permitted. The option
for single-tenant environments is available (the standard is multi-tenant), as
well as cloud-based (asynchronous) workspaces feature. The Stormboard
Platform is both SOC II (current 2022) and GDPR compliant.

Enterprise-Built Configurable Security Standards

Enterprise-Built Configurable Security Standards include features such as

enforced 2FA, data encryption both in-transit and at-rest using industry
standard 256-bit keys.

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Embeddable External Data Streams

Embeddable external data streams reduce barriers to data access and

drive workflow efficiencies through the Embed option.

This innovative and unique feature allows Storms to become a central hub for collaboration,
day-to-day task management, and ideation activities — regardless of the source tools — all
without the need for costly development or API Management. Allowing different applications
to publish data directly into Storms, provides the ability to reference other data objects
including projects, applications, forms, surveys, calendars, fully functional maps, and GIFs …
or anything else, without the need to switch tabs or navigate between apps. This represents
the next generation of workflow optimization.

What apps can I embed in Stormboard?

Basically, most apps that allow you to copy an embed link or code (iFrame or otherwise) can
be embedded into a Storm now — think of everything from a custom form or social media
post to different video players and presentation software.

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Quick ROI and High Customer Satisfaction

Quick ROI and high customer satisfaction with 10 minutes to learn, 30

minutes to master, the minimal learning curve allows users to derive value
from the Platform immediately, enabling a fast return on the investment —
often less than 4 months.

Enterprise accounts are provided with dedicated Customer Support teams providing either
24/5 or 24/7 support consisting of real people who monitor chats and other communications
methods and dedicated Account Representatives. QBRs are provided for X customers.

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Idea & Data Visual Grouping

Idea & data visual grouping provides additional clarity and context
without the need for synchronous sessions by identifying and organizing
conceptual groups and relationships between data points.

Idea Grouping is a fun, visual, dynamic way to organize, categorize, and identify ideas within a
virtual workspace using animated bubbles. Collaborations become more fruitful and efficient
by grouping related ideas together into clearly defined categories, themes, or concepts.
The feature enables teams to extract the most value from each idea and recognize patterns
and trends that might otherwise be overlooked. Idea Grouping can be used as a standalone
feature on an unlimited blank canvas or as the ideal complement to our organized smart
sections and exports, which will result in the addition of a completely separated dimension to
your Storms. Ideas can also be part of an output on stakeholder reports.

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Pure Image Sticky Notes

Pure image sticky notes allow the addition of graphics, emojis, border-
free images, photos, charts, graphs, or any type of image directly onto the
workspace within your Storm.

This capability removes the confines of keeping objects within a defined border, resulting in
a whole new level of freedom, depth, and context, and enabling a level of in-Storm flexibility
unlike anything in the market. Images can now be moved or resized, and placed optimally in
the Storm, giving every workspace more context and giving every Storm, project, idea, chart,
graph, or report a cleaner, more contextual look.

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