Azeus Systems Philippines Limited (“Azeus” or the “Group”), in collaboration with Microsoft, announces the launch of CiT (azeusconvene.com/cit-trial-signup), a Teams-based board portal regularizing and transforming board and leadership meetings with its best-practice workflows for better corporate governance in the Philippines.
● CiT is an all-in-one Microsoft-integrated solution that makes board and leadership meetings uncomplicated by seamlessly integrating with Microsoft products and services (including Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Teams) in one unified platform. CiT enables collaborative document creation and repository, easy calendar management, and video conferencing with enterprise-grade and identity-led security.
● CiT goes beyond meetings by equipping executives with expert governance tools, workflows, and capability, drawing on Convene’s experience in serving thousands of clients in over 100 countries for more than 10 years.
Organizations have to shift all types of meetings, including board and leadership meetings, to respond to the impact of the global pandemic — exponentially increasing the meeting workflows and requirements Teams must address. Intending to equip boards and leaders with governance best practices, Azeus, together with Microsoft, aims to revolutionize the landscape of corporate governance in the Philippines with CiT.
Drawing on Azeus’ extensive experience in meeting management at the board and enterprise-level, CiT builds on MS Teams and other Microsoft products and services to offer a unified platform supporting productive meeting preparation, effective meeting discussions and decision-making, and compliant approval and documentation processes.
Regularizing Teams-based board and leadership meetings — simplifying workflows and embedding best practices for better governance
Running board and leadership meetings is highly complex, even more so with the shift to digital communication during the pandemic. Teams has vastly contributed to transforming how meetings are facilitated at the board and enterprise levels. However, complex governance workflows, such as voting, documentation, and signature requests are extremely challenging to facilitate in a remote setting, forcing both directors and administrators to use other Microsoft products and services to fulfill their required usage.
CiT addresses all these complexities by offering an all-in-one platform that seamlessly integrates Microsoft products and services to enable best practice board and leadership meetings in Teams. Azeus expects that, with CiT, organizations can fully reap the benefits of their investment in Microsoft services.
Michael Yap, Executive Director of Azeus, said, “Board and leadership meetings are inherently complex. CiT is a game-changer for all organizations using Microsoft as it safeguards all the necessary security and governance for effective meetings without the complexity — seamless with the organization’s environment.”
Kevin Chan, Global Partner Solutions Lead, Microsoft Singapore shared, “Microsoft prioritises partnership, innovation and resilience to help our customers and partners punch above their weight on the global stage. Through work by partners like CiT to drive technical intensity in the area of corporate governance through Teams, we continue to deliver on resilient, digitally inclusive nations as the Microsoft Cloud delivers on digital transformation to help our customers achieve more.”
CiT standardizes boards and leadership meetings in the Philippines by establishing governance tools and capabilities in board and leadership meetings:
● One-screen agenda builder: Administrators can speed up the meeting preparation process up to 90% faster with a highly efficient workflow where they can schedule the meeting, structure the agenda, edit and collaborate on documents, add decision items, and publish to all with one click.
● Collaboration tools beyond video conferencing: Directors can have more effective decision-making and collaboration experience as they can share notes, assign action items, vote, sign, and engage in video conferencing — all in real-time.
● Accountability in and out of meetings: Administrators can uphold accountability with automated meeting minutes generation and scheduled follow-ups on action items after every meeting, ensuring no actions are missed.
● Streamlined approval workflows: Administrators can expedite approvals and get signatures up to 5 times faster without sacrificing traceability and security. CiT allows users to define approval workflows, receive real-time alerts, sign with saved signatures, and maintain decision records.
● Simple and secure resource center to store traceable confidential records: Administrators can store and manage all board resources in one central location and set straightforward permission controls for executives.
Directors and administrators are provided with unlimited training, easily accessible user guides and videos, customized training, and 24/7/365 support from Azeus’ teams of product experts to ensure that organizations can fully maximize their Microsoft investment with CiT.
By introducing best-practice meeting and governance workflows, CiT is going to enhance board and leadership meetings facilitated in Teams — achieving more efficient and effective board meetings.
Learn more about CiT here: azeusconvene.com/cit-trial-signup
