Diligent Boards vs. Virola Messenger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Diligent Boards
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Diligent’s Board & Leadership Collaboration solution is built to provide organizations everything they need to drive digitization and operational excellence for board, committee, and executive meetings. Directors and executives can leverage real-time communication, secure collaboration, governance approval workflows and intelligence to power smart decisions. More broadly, Diligent solutions aim to provide a growth trajectory on the path to good governance and bundle capabilities that support…N/A
Virola Messenger
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Virola Messenger is a corporate messenger for secure team collaboration. Both self-hosted and cloud Virola servers are available. Main features: private and group chat rooms file transfer and unlimited storage reactions, mentions, replies and discussions continuous voice and video meetings voice meetings recording live avatars issue tracking with task board screen sharing remote…N/A
Pricing
Diligent BoardsVirola Messenger
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Diligent BoardsVirola Messenger
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiligent Board Plans include... Essential: Built for organizations looking to embrace governance best practices and digital transformation Pro: Built for organizations that are looking to embrace end-to-end security around key governance processes like board meeting preparation, communication, and questionnaires. Enterprise: For high performing boards looking to maximize effectiveness of committees and prepare for proxy season.
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Features
Diligent BoardsVirola Messenger
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Diligent Boards
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Ratings
Virola Messenger
7.8
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Search00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Diligent Boards
-
Ratings
Virola Messenger
9.5
2 Ratings
17% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Diligent Boards
-
Ratings
Virola Messenger
9.0
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Video files00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Diligent BoardsVirola Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(45 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(42 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Diligent BoardsVirola Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
Diligent Corporation
It is very useful for multinational organizations that require secure and easy-to-use board operations. It helps coordinate between different board members. It provides very high-security document sharing options to the users. It really helps organize board meetings in a very effective and strategic manner.
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This is fantastic for offices that have employees working from home. It is a much cleaner and easier way to discuss projects or even have informal conversations. However if all employees are working from the same office, the features are limited as conversation, screen sharing, and task management are less valuable.
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Pros
Diligent Corporation
  • It is easy and intuitive both from an administrator perspective and a user perspective
  • Good tool, very easy to use with a large space that allows me to store my files such as my videos, my photos and many other documents and folders
  • I like that everything I need is a click away. Its very user friendly for my Board.
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • Secure chatting
  • Chatrooms
  • File transfer/ sharing
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Cons
Diligent Corporation
  • not so easy to handle access when we have to arrange a specific, non-standard set up of access: sometimes we have to limit the access to one or few of the members of a particular book
  • calendar function will be useful, but it is an additional cost
  • flexible view options: vertical vs. horizontal
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • A cleaner interface.
  • More intuitive for older generations.
  • Customizable notification tones
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Likelihood to Renew
Diligent Corporation
Because it is a great product--safe, secure and reliable. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!
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Provide Support Live Chat
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Usability
Diligent Corporation
It is very easy to use
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Reliability and Availability
Diligent Corporation
Great service!
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Performance
Diligent Corporation
Quick service, specially on loading.
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Provide Support Live Chat
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Support Rating
Diligent Corporation
As previously stated, I applaud how effective the customer service team was during the onboarding process. They communicated effectively and offered around-the-clock assistance. The training sessions are also useful and allow you to learn at your own pace. They are also willing to set up time to discuss any concerns.
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Online Training
Diligent Corporation
The training was executed through a Deligent meber.
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Implementation Rating
Diligent Corporation
I think our Diligent Boards implementation went well
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Alternatives Considered
Diligent Corporation
Diligent Boards provides a number of capabilities ranging from security to arranging meetings to distribution of board meeting materials. Although other products also have these capabilities but I would say security is at next level for Diligent Boards which makes it suitable for my organisation. Customer support resolved queries quite soon and they are quite knowledgeable.
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Provide Support Live Chat
It's really early to judge Virola's capabilities with other offerings or tools in the marketplace but with the set of features the tool offers at the moment at the negligible price it can surely be counted as a dark horse to make its way through to be one of the best. Provide that it has the ability to support larger teams, it can really be successful in the future.
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Scalability
Diligent Corporation
It is really worth it.
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Provide Support Live Chat
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Return on Investment
Diligent Corporation
  • Market leading and used by some Board members already at other organizations
  • I like that our documents are stored in a secure place and are easily accessible for the users
  • I use the software on a PC and most of our users use the software on an iPad. My only criticism would be that i do have concerns of how documents we upload on a PC may appear visually on the users iPads.
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • Kept everyone in the loop
  • Allowed for seamless project discussions from inside and outside the office.
  • Great way to share screens which was very important.
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ScreenShots

Diligent Boards Screenshots

Screenshot of Preparation for board, committee and executive meetings, whether in person, virtual or a hybrid of the two.Screenshot of Collaboration on sensitive documents across the organisation in preparation for the board meeting, while safeguarding information in Diligent’s secure ecosystem.Screenshot of 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.Screenshot of the centralized platform where users can take, record, review and share minutes.Screenshot of board evaluations and questionnaires.Screenshot of D&O questionnaire requirements, which are managed in a single application experience.

Virola Messenger Screenshots

Screenshot of Virola Messenger desktop and mobile client appsScreenshot of Issues and discussions in Virola MessengerScreenshot of Virola Messenger mobile client appScreenshot of Task board in Virola MessengerScreenshot of Screen sharing and remote control in Virola Messenger