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Diligent Boards

Score9 out of 10

166 Reviews and Ratings

What is Diligent Boards?

Today’s directors need fast, informed decision-making and seamless governance workflows. Diligent Boards automates board and committee meeting creation, streamlines preparation and enhances collaboration with secure, integrated tools. More broadly, Diligent solutions provide a growth trajectory on the path to good governance and bundle capabilities that support the evolution of forward-looking boards and leadership teams.

  • Save time by digitizing meeting materials and workflows
  • Work together without worrying about security
  • Drive better decision-making with curated data and intelligence

Diligent is a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS company, serving more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance.

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collaboration on sensitive documents across the organisation in preparation for the board meeting, while safeguarding information in Diligent’s secure ecosystem.
an additional layer of security to known processes with key integrations like Microsoft 365. Documents can be shared and users can collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders.
the centralized platform where users can take, record, review and share minutes.
board evaluations and questionnaires.
D&O questionnaire requirements, which are managed in a single application experience.
communication with leadership teams. This occurs in real-time on an encrypted, uncluttered channel to signify importance and urgency.
Diligent's AI Smart Book Builder

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Diligent Boards empowering Board Members to read on the go

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have virtual meetings with global stakeholders. Diligent Boards allows us to share books ahead of time and also review that information offline. This is critical in a global environment as access to internet is not always reliable and have access to information offline is critical. Having other sections, like a resource center, is excellent as it allows us to reference information.

Pros

  • Efficient at sharing information
  • Easily accessible offline
  • Synchronizing over multiple devices and having the same information

Cons

  • Maybe being able to export the documents we read into other formats
  • Being able to correspond with the individuals within the Diligent Boards to share information and options
  • Allowing more collaborations among the individuals that information is shared with

Most Important Features

  • The accessibility among multiple devices
  • The offline ability to download it and take it on the road
  • Notifying about updates to books

Return on Investment

  • This has had a positive impact on sharing information
  • This has also had a positive impact on updating books and for individuals to read the updated book
  • This has made our meeting more efficient as individuals that attended the meeting had the most up to date

Usability

Other Software Used

Anthropic Claude, Oracle PeopleSoft ERP

Diligent Boards is user friendly with great customer service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Diligent Boards to create our Board and Committee meeting materials.

Pros

  • User friendly
  • Ahead of current trends (I.e. AI)
  • Excellent Customer Service

Cons

  • Agenda builder is a bit confusing
  • Password re-set/pin for directors could be easier to obtain

Most Important Features

  • Book building
  • Voting/Approvals
  • Ease of use

Return on Investment

  • Happy directors
  • Happy administrators
  • Organizational goals

Usability

New but LOVING it

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are new users, just a couple of months in. We startrf using to simply digitize and use the virtual capabilities when we need to meet off-site and the ability to have a more templated board book and agenda that takes less time to create.

Pros

  • Annotation and Comments
  • Auto-Agenda function to easily build an agenda that can then become a template

Cons

  • More default setting changes abilities for admins - not going through CSM to change things like default times, etc.

Most Important Features

  • Share Storage Space for files and library (Data Room or Resource Library)
  • Comments and annotation
  • Customizable templates

Return on Investment

  • Currently, just reduction of time spent creating the book

Usability

Other Software Used

ClickUp, BILL, Microsoft SharePoint

Great Product Overall

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Diligent Boards to support our Board of Directors and Committee meetings. We also use Diligent Boards for questionnaires such as D&O and the annual self assessment. Our main goal is to easily share information with our directors and executives, and Diligent Boards gives us the opportunity to do that without the hassle of sharing paper documents and is secure.

Pros

  • Publish books
  • Share documents
  • Create/manage questionnaires

Cons

  • Minutes

Most Important Features

  • Publish board books
  • Questionnaires
  • Resource center to publish documents

Return on Investment

  • Cost savings of over $50k for bringing questionnaires in-house
  • Increased security for keeping documents in data room
  • Greater communication among directors

Usability

Other Software Used

Brightflag, Coupa

My Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for for school board meetings. I am the Minutes Clerk for the board meetings and create the agenda.

Pros

  • Is intuitive and fairly user friendly
  • Runs a board meeting more smoothly

Cons

  • Allow for bulk item movement of section items

Most Important Features

  • Policy Items
  • Board Agenda and Minutes
  • User Friendly

Return on Investment

  • I don't have experience to know the end business objective

Usability