Thomson Reuters Strategically Expands BoardLink Service
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Global Solution Delivers Additional Tools for Board Members
NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading supplier of
intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a
number of strategic enhancements to its BoardLink service, a secure board
workflow solution designed to serve companies as they operate across borders and
have increasingly mobile, global boards.
The boards of public companies today face increased scrutiny from investors,
regulators and the media, and so need better tools to perform their jobs.
Serving a customer base of leading global companies, user security and data
storage as well as functionality for the BoardLink iPad application have all
been significantly enhanced. With particular sensitivity to data privacy rules,
Thomson Reuters has launched BoardLink's new, wholly-owned European Datacenter,
based in Limerick, Ireland, that gives BoardLink customers alternative
approaches for data storage for their BoardLink information that avoids the need
to export personal data out of Europe to the US.
Concerns about data security and data privacy continue to rise, particularly
relating to board documents and communication. A recent Thomson Reuters survey
of corporate and company secretaries and general counselors that examined board
behavior and board communications illustrated a strategic concern about
confidential board communication. Over 80% of respondents indicated that they
either did not always encrypt board communications or did not know if they were
encrypted at all, while 50% of respondents indicated that they thought that it
was likely that members of their board could access board papers on their
personal computers or unsecured networks, exposing them to potential theft and
hacking.
Through BoardLink organizations can experience market-leading security and the
high quality of service necessary for serving the biggest companies and boards
around the world. BoardLink data content stored in the European Datacenter is
held separately from US-based data content, providing a solution for customers
who do not wish their data to be exported to or stored in the US. The datacenter
in Limerick is exclusively owned and operated by Thomson Reuters and provides
customers with the same high levels of data security as maintained in Thomson
Reuters primary US Datacenter.
This latest version of BoardLink includes adaptive authentication, the next step
in user authentication security, that utilizes OnePass, Thomson Reuters
proprietary access credentials system. Moving to adaptive authentication will
allow users to abandon hard and soft log-in tokens and experience greater ease
of accessing BoardLink through username, password and security questions while
still enjoying the peace of mind provided by market-leading security.
In addition to expanding the BoardLink Datacenter footprint and increasing user
authentication security, significant enhancements have also been made to the
BoardLink iPad® application. The annotations functionality within the
application now includes Free-Draw which allows users to create hand-written
notes and references so that users can complete more of their workflow in the
BoardLink application and directors to feel more connected to their board
materials. Coupled with this, users can now bookmark pages of interest within
board books and view summary pages of all bookmarked pages for greater ease-of-
use while navigating documents. Additionally, Sticky Log-Ins will now enable
users to recall the sign-on method last used by the BoardLink user for swifter,
less complicated access.
"Firms' board members and executive management need the ability to access
critical information remotely without concern about their online data and how
well it is secured," said . "This next iteration of BoardLink brings together
all of the capabilities that board members need to access, understand and share
their documents and demonstrates the truly global nature of a product that
organizations can utilize globally and in local jurisdictions where privacy laws
may be particularly strict."
BoardLink is available as part of the Thomson Reuters Accelus suite of products.
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