BoardPro vs. Diligent Boards

The best scenarios for the use of BoardPro are highlighted when there is planning, development, coordination, execution and monitoring of projects and activities, in addition to being an information panel for all the members of the different teams of the organization, it provides the ability to hold meetings, an integrating element that stands out from other software. The management of the boards is exceptionally intuitive and easy to use, in addition to simplifying its content in a way that is easy to understand for all people, granting continuity and consistency to the work or works to be developed. An area of opportunity where it could be developed in a better way is offline work, since it will not be possible for your team members to work in this way.

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Diligent is pricey, so it is suitable for large-size organizations with sufficient funding. Universities and colleges would be good clients. Diligent is not suitable for small organizations or not-for-profit organizations due to the pricing. There are other options to distribute and share documents, such as Google format, so I think pricing is the key to expand the market for Diligent.

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• Agenda-setting and writing minutes is very easy with the built-in structure offered
• Compiling and distributing Board packs with BoardPro takes a fraction of the time it used to - and updates to papers are so much easier
• Ability to hold all governance documents in one central repository is useful for external Directors
• Directors find the Board paper annotation feature very useful. New updates to this have made it an extremely powerful tool.
• Flying Minutes feature is very useful for obtaining formal decisions between meetings and then automatically adding them to the next set of minutes.
• The ability for Directors to update their own interests in the Interests Register is efficient and puts the responsibility on them to ensure this is up to date - this is automatically included in each Board pack.
• The actions feature is fantastic - allocating a person responsible and an action deadline which then is followed up by BoardPro email reminders keeps people on tasks and allows the Chair to stay on top of actions as they are reported in the Board packs each meeting.

Incentivized

• Diligent Boards outlines each meeting and agenda really well making navigating a meeting easy to do.
• Diligent Boards has a great Resource Center that allows the filing of materials that can be viewed by all users after Board and Committee meetings to easily access Policies, Charters, Appointments, etc.
• Diligent Boards is so easy to use and intuitive for first time users.

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• development of an Android app (at the moment available only on the Apple store)
• a section for the Q&A answer for users at the beginning level
• upload also excel format documents

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• I am using one click, it would be nice to see what board members see
• I mentioned before I would like to be able to sort documents by various parameters like importance, date, type
• Talking to other assistance i find that everyone knows something different about quicker ways to load, maybe a weekly/monthly tip would be beneficial.

Incentivized

We find the Boards portal to be an effective tool for our board meeting documents. It is user friendly and allows for amendments, additions as needed without compromising documents that have already been uploaded. Additionally, our Board members are comfortable with the platform and confident in their ability to navigate it.

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Because it is extremely user friendly and you don't have to be a technical genius to use the product

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Great service!

Quick service, specially on loading.

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.

Incentivized

The training was executed through a Deligent meber.

The training offerings are much better than they used to be 5 years ago. Kudos to that!

Incentivized

BoardPro is on a different playing field than monday.com, in fact, BoardPro is in a league of it's own. I used monday.com at a different organisation board and actually found that I did not use it. I found it easier to download and read the PDF board pack that was provided to me. The user interface of BoardPro is such that the software is easy to navigate and use, it is intuitive and such a delight to use.

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While they can be more expensive than other providers. Their product just stands head and tall above the rest. It would be hard to convince our board to move away from Diligent. They are also continuously updating, improving and offering new features and gives the customer opportunities to provide feedback.

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It is really worth it.

• It has made meetings more enjoyable and flow faster
• We are able to get through the formal agenda quickly and focus on strategy
• The strategic decisions that have occurred as a direct result of using BoardPro have added real value to Search Republic

Incentivized

• Ease of dissmeniation and administration of packages (errors can be easily corrected)
• Directors can read packages from anywhere in the world at any time. It makes prep for Dircetors a lot easier
• Keeping records of meetings, doing searches for information has become easier and less time consuming

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