Diligent Boards vs. Nitro Productivity Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Diligent Boards
Score 9.3 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
Nitro Productivity Suite
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Nitro Productivity Suite combines electronic signature and general PDF editing, from Nitro, Inc. It is built around capabilities such as getting approvals and esignatures in seconds and sharing and reviewing documents from anywhere.
$9.99
per month per user
Pricing
Diligent BoardsNitro Productivity Suite
Editions & Modules
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Nitro Sign® Essentials
$9.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Advanced
$19.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Premium
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Diligent BoardsNitro Productivity Suite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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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User Ratings
Diligent BoardsNitro Productivity Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(70 ratings)
9.0
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(7 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(6 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(67 ratings)
9.2
(3 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Diligent BoardsNitro Productivity Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Diligent Corporation
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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Nitro, Inc
I run a professional services business from home. I need to edit documents quickly and easily and with minimal subscriptions to minimize overheads. I love that Nitro is a one-off payment to get a license to the software, and you can simply upgrade to the latest version if that's what you want, but you're not obligated to. I've been using the same version of Nitro for 7-8 years now. Despite the fact the upgraded versions have a lot of great, nice-to-have features, the version I'm on still does the job.
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Pros
Diligent Corporation
  • 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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Nitro, Inc
  • Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated)
  • Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors
  • Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services
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Cons
Diligent Corporation
  • 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.
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Nitro, Inc
  • Converting from PDF to Microsoft Word can be complicated at times. Some parts of a document such as tables are not converted properly.
  • Sometimes it appears to be easier to save MS Word documents to PDF rather than using NPS to convert. It can be a bit slow to convert at times.
  • In my view, it wasn't user friendly at the beginning.
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Likelihood to Renew
Diligent Corporation
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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Nitro, Inc
We will definitely be renewing the Nitro Productivity Suite. Saves the company a lot of money for something we use everyday
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Usability
Diligent Corporation
Because it is extremely user friendly and you don't have to be a technical genius to use the product
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Nitro, Inc
For the most part, the entire software is extremely easy to navigate and use. You won't need to follow tutorials or anything for the bulk of the core features, as it's all pretty seamlessly designed.
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Reliability and Availability
Diligent Corporation
Great service!
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Nitro, Inc
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Performance
Diligent Corporation
Quick service, specially on loading.
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Nitro, Inc
It works as advertised.
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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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Nitro, Inc
Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers
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Online Training
Diligent Corporation
The training was executed through a Deligent meber.
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Nitro, Inc
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Diligent Corporation
The training offerings are much better than they used to be 5 years ago. Kudos to that!
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Nitro, Inc
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Diligent Corporation
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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Nitro, Inc
Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free version) installed to view a small percentage of some PDFs we receive.
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Scalability
Diligent Corporation
It is really worth it.
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Nitro, Inc
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Return on Investment
Diligent Corporation
  • 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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Nitro, Inc
  • ROI was very quick as the license costs were so low. We purchased 8 licenses versus the initial 2 we were planning on for Adobe.
  • More people were able to use the product than we initially thought due to low purchase costs.
  • We haven't had any further costs to own the product after the initial purchase. We would need to purchase new licenses if we wanted to upgrade.
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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.