How BSC Designer Manages Your Strategy Data

Learn the options you have regarding data governance with BSC Designer to ensure high security, fast access, and data localization compliance.

How Your Strategy is Stored

We use Digital Ocean for cloud hosting on our platform. Digital Ocean provides highly reliable data centers that are certified according to industry best practices:

  • AICPA
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • SOC 3 Type II
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI-DSS

To host and process your data securely, BSC Designer implements industry best practices within the established cybersecurity program.

Data Backup

BSC Designer performs daily backup snapshots for all user data.

  • For Professional Plan users, backup snapshots are retained for a period of one (1) year.
  • Enterprise Plan users benefit from an unlimited backup retention period.

In addition, users can perform their own data backups through the built-in backup function within the platform, providing additional options for data management and retention.

Strategy Portability

BSC Designer provides the necessary functionality to ensure strategy portability between strategy execution platforms. You can:

  • Import an existing strategy to BSC Designer (see the Import command in the Tools menu).
  • Export a strategy scorecard (see the Export command in the Tools menu).

In addition to regular automated backups on the platform side, the account administrator can download a complete backup of all account details via Settings > Backup.

Audit Trail

To satisfy the compliance requirements established within the company, the audit trail can be activated to record all strategy-related activities within the platform.

  • Activate the audit trail via Menu > Users > Audit Trail

All strategy-related activities will be available to the administrator via Users > Audit Trail. Additionally, the necessary contextual information about changes made to goals, KPIs, and initiatives will be available via the History of changes on the Context tab.

Historical Data Modification Lock

To meet the data governance requirements for performance reporting, the platform can automatically lock the possibility of modifying data after a certain period.

For this purpose, use the Historical Data section available in Menu > Settings > Workflow tab.

How AI is Implemented

BSC Designer can be connected with GenAI for strategic analysis. Below is an outline of AI-related mechanics:

  • Activation. The account administrator can enable or disable global use of AI within the account.
  • Accountability. Only power users with full access to the scorecards can use AI. The use of AI is recorded in the audit trail.
  • Transparency. When starting an AI-powered chat, the user decides what data will be sent to the AI as context. No data is sent to the AI in the background without direct user approval.
  • Anonymization. Personal data, such as user names and emails, are anonymized before being sent to the AI.
  • Privacy. To ensure better contextual information and data security, we can connect your account to your proprietary AI models.

Data Localization: Shared Cluster

BSC Designer provides a data localization option, allowing you to host your data in a shared cluster at one of the following locations:

  1. New York City, US: NYC1, NYC2, NYC3
  2. San Francisco, US: SFO1, SFO2, SFO3
  3. Toronto, Canada: TOR1
  4. London, United Kingdom: LON1
  5. Frankfurt, Germany: FRA1
  6. Amsterdam, Netherlands: AMS1, AMS2, AMS3
  7. Singapore: SGP1
  8. Bangalore, India: BLR1
  9. Australia: SYD1

Data localization provides faster access and ensures data compliance for organizations in regulated business domains.

Data Governance: Private Cloud

We offer the possibility of hosting your data in a private cloud. A private cloud can be configured according to your organization’s requirements, giving you more flexibility in terms of data governance. Among the benefits of a private cloud:

  • The cluster hosts only the data of your organization
  • Lower latency due to the geographic proximity of your data
  • Fulfilling data governance requirements of regulated business domains

More flexible cybersecurity settings include:

  • The possibility to set up specific IP rules (such as allowing access only from certain IP ranges)
  • The possibility for specific backup rules (more frequent backups or different backup locations)

The costs of a private cloud are not included with the standard subscription and depend on specific requirements. A typical package includes:

  • Setup fee: 480 USD
  • Annual cloud hosting fee: 1320 USD/year
Cite as: BSC Designer, "How BSC Designer Manages Your Strategy Data," BSC Designer, August 2, 2024, https://bscdesigner.com/data-governance.htm.