Is there a better way to organize control/data control panels?

A client I am working with has about 15 screens of control panels, with varying lengths of data columns/rows (some with scrolling columns). All must provide some sort of editing feature pertaining to the data.

Although it's functional, I am wondering if this is the only way to design data/system/platform control features. I looked up other designs out there from data management systems like Splunk to User Management controls for regular websites - and they are all using tables with in-line editing and checkboxes.

Is there another way?