#1 most frequent
United States of America
45.1%257 installations of 570
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of collaboration on sensitive documents across the organisation in preparation for the board meeting, while safeguarding information in Diligent’s secure ecosystem.
Who Buys & Uses Diligent Boards
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
16.8%96 installations of 570
#3 most frequent
Australia
15.8%90 installations of 570
Pros
- Streamlining board meeting processes and material creation
- Generating comprehensive meeting packs and organizing board papers
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface for document sharing
Cons
- Confusing or restrictive agenda builder functionality
- Difficulties with minutes and agenda formatting
- AI integration requires more guidance and is not yet widely adopted
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
