Transform how your leaders and your board work together
Collaborate with confidence. Keep communications secure. Manage committee and board meetings more effectively. The #1 board management software makes it all possible.
Manage all your board duties in one platform
Collaborate on board documents, communicate seamlessly across teams, and securely store files in a cloud environment that integrates with meeting tools like Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
Make board books & board reports secure
Simplify and accelerate the entire board governance cycle - from collecting and preparing meeting materials to voting, approving and distributing board minutes.
Easily prep for, run & follow up on board meetings
Share and edit board books on the go, highlight urgent issues, and make critical decisions – all with the confidence that your company’s sensitive information is protected.
Free up directors’ time with purpose-built AI
Instantly generate board material summaries and comparisons, benchmark against peers, and deploy AI assistants.
Moving beyond a board portal
Our board management software empowers boards to tackle the challenges of modern governance by equipping then with essential tools, analytics, and insights to better understand market dynamics and overall business performance.
- Streamline board evaluations: Complete D&O questionnaires and access industry-leading board leadership insights – all in one intuitive tool.
- Stay Informed: Get real-time industry and company analytics, curated news, and director resources to keep pace with the fast-evolving business landscape.
- Enhanced governance oversight: Access crucial director data to address issues such as board diversity and director interlocks.
Centralize and optimize your board meetings
Diligent Boards, trusted by 50% of the Fortune 1000, provides boards and executive teams with easy-to-use tools to enhance efficiency and streamline board governance.
Streamlined management: Effortlessly handle agendas, annotations , documents, discussions, and meeting minutes – quickly and securely.
Real-time updates: Provide immediate updates to board materials on-the-go from phones, tablets, computers, or even offline.
Secure collaboration: Collaborate in a secure environment where directors can make annotations and share them with the entire board or select members before, during, or after meetings.
Empower Directors to Make Informed Decisions with Purpose-Built AI
Harness the full potential of AI to streamline board activities: from summarizing and comparing materials to building agendas and drafting disclosures. Analyze trends effortlessly and make data-driven decisions with confidence.
- AI-Generated Summaries: Receive insightful, nuanced meeting summaries complete with citations for seamless cross-referencing, ensuring you have all the details at your fingertips.
- On-the-Go Preparation: Stay prepared with AI-powered text-to-speech summaries that you can listen to anywhere—whether in the car, on a plane, or during your commute.
Diligent Mobile Apps: Manage Board Meetings Anytime, Anywhere
Empower your board, committees, and senior leadership teams with mobile access to critical meeting materials. With Diligent’s mobile apps, streamline meeting management and accelerate decision-making on the go.
- Instant Access: View all current board books with a single tap.
- Personalized Notes: Create private or shared notes and add comments effortlessly.
- Real-Time Voting: Capture, tabulate, and finalize votes and resolutions in real-time.
- Seamless Transitions: Switch smoothly between online and offline modes for uninterrupted access.
Security that Drives Trust
Diligent’s security infrastructure sets the industry benchmark, empowering your board to collaborate with confidence. Our platform seamlessly integrates advanced protection without compromising efficiency.
- Comprehensive Data Protection: End-to-end encryption and robust access controls safeguard your data, both at rest and in transit, ensuring it’s always secure.
- Regulatory Compliance: Adherence to top-tier industry standards like ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II ensures compliance and peace of mind.
- 24/7 Monitoring and Resilience: Continuous monitoring and a 99.5%+ uptime guarantee mean your board’s operations are always reliable and secure.
- Seamless Integration: Securely collaborate across your preferred tools with governance-specific workflows and integrations, maintaining security without hindering productivity.
Streamline Your Board Materials with Diligent AI
Experience the future of board management with Diligent AI.
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Enhance board productivity and security with Diligent Boards
50-60% time reduction
Streamline the creation and distribution of board materials.
1,600 hours saved
Efficiently manage board documents, freeing up valuable time.
623 hours saved by IT support
Reduce the risk of a breach and save an estimated $21,000 over three years.
Coverys cuts board prep time and saves resources with Diligent Boards
As Director of Corporate Governance for Coverys, a leading provider of medical professional liability services, Kim Tobin must keep the board up to date.
This was sometimes a painful process that entailed reams and reams of paper being mailed to directors’ homes, with each correction requiring costly reprints.
With Diligent, Tobin was able to eliminate time-consuming paperwork, facilitate more effective collaboration for board members, and ensure robust security without privacy concerns.
The most trusted board management software for over 25,000 global companies
Diligent Boards earns countless analyst accolades. But when it comes to real-world trust, no board portal comes close to Diligent Boards: over 70% of Fortune 1,000 companies trust Diligent boards to drive business-critical decision-making.
Industry-leading efficiency and security
Minutes management
Streamline the collection, review and memorialization of minutes. Collaborate in real time with reviewers, eliminating version control issues and mitigating the risk of sharing via email.
Integrated AI
Summarize and compare board materials, build agendas, draft disclosures, and seeanalyze peer trends.
Agenda builder
Create agendas, attach documents, insert items and build and publish packets within a single digital tool. Choose from user-friendly templates and use our drag-and-drop interface.
Voting
Easily and securely organize, review, discuss, approve and memorialize key decisions on critical issues from anywhere.
Board reporting dashboards
Diligent’s integrated platform gives boards, committees and leadership teams unmatched clarity on enterprise-wide risk, connecting the business to the board.
Secure messaging
Remove sensitive conversations from general purpose tools like email. Communicate with directors and leadership teams in real-time on an encrypted,uncluttered channel.
Workflows and integrations
Take advantage ofgovernance-specific workflows and integrations with leading tools like Office 365 and DocuSign to meet collaborators in the tools they use, without compromising on security.
Document library
Create customizable document libraries — providing a convenient, secure and centralized location to upload and manage your documents.
Videoconferencing
Efficiently set up livestreams directly within Diligent Boards and integrate with Zoom, Teams or Webex to conduct meetings on a single platform.
Unparalleled board effectiveness
Premium questionnaires
Simplify your board evaluation and D&O processes with best practice templates from Latham & Watkins and other thought leaders. Pre-fill with past responses and get real-time insight into director progress.
Market intelligence & reputation monitoring
Access governance risk scores, organizational health, market intelligence and shareholder insights to make agile decisions that consider the full picture.
Glass Lewis Proxy Papers and P4P Modeler
Access comprehensive environmental, social and governance (ESG) research, plus exclusive compensation and voting recommendations from leading proxy advisor Glass Lewis.
Nominations & board health check
Find, recruit and connect with board and executive leadershipby leveraging resources, insights, partnerships and technologyto drive diversity and modernize governance.
Executive compensation & governance benchmarking
Access up-to-date executive compensation and board composition data to anticipate market expectations — powered by Diligent Market Intelligence.
Discover board governance with Diligent’s trusted board management software
Discover how Diligent Boards revolutionize board governance by enhancing efficiency, securing communications, and streamlining processes. Our intuitive platform ensures that every board member has access to critical information in real-time, fostering informed decision-making and seamless collaboration.
Experience the benefits of a unified, secure platform designed to support board governance, making complex board operations simpler and more effective.
Why settle for less? Diligent redefines board excellence.
Diligent offers top-tier security, ease of use, and seamless integrations. With 24/7 support, it’s simple for your board to stay informed and secure. See how Diligent outshines the competition.
Feature Comparison
| Comparison Category | Diligent | Why Settle for Less? Diligent’s Features Redefine Board Excellence | |
| Ease of use | check_circle | Diligent's intuitive user experience ensures directors quickly find the information, notes and annotations they're looking for. Administrators can easily build board books using drag-and-drop for by uploading directly from productivity software. | |
| Reliability | check_circle | No matter how big the board book, no matter how many updates or changes you make, Diligent Boards ensures all your directors have uninterrupted access to the latest version. | |
| Security | check_circle | Your board and executives can safely collaborate with permissioned users and trusted third parties like auditors and outside counsel using virtual data rooms. | |
| Support, training and templates | check_circle | Be up and running in as little as 4-6 weeks, with unparalleled training and support. If a crisis arises, get help from anywhere in the world 24/7/365. Access exclusive best practice templates to keep your board on the right path. | |
| Scalability | check_circle | A board portal that doesn't grow with your company is just a document management system. Choose a partner that can scale with you, and has 100+ internal and third-party integrations to give your board the data it needs, as it needs it. |
More than 100 Integrations to keep you connected
Integrate Diligent Board Software into the tools you use daily so you can easily access information on the go.
Expert support, seamless integration
Unmatched support around the clock
Understanding that board responsibilities can call for immediate action at any time, we ensure that our support is available 24/7/365.
Effortless onboarding and seamless transition
Whether you're new to board management software or moving from another solution, our dedicated onboarding and implementation experts are here to make the process run smoothly.
Tailored training programs
Enhance your skills alongside your peers in our live, instructor-led training sessions designed for both new and seasoned users.
A board management portal that’s up and running in weeks, not months
Enjoy fast, easy implementation with dedicated support and advisory services to help you put best practices in place.
We are committed to providing a robust and secure service that protects all our customers’ data.
Diligent’s Security Program is governed based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Diligent follows ISO/IEC 27001 standards to keep information assets secure by implementing an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
Board management software trusted by over 700,000 global directors.
Ready to make board meetings better? Get your personalized demo today.
Our team of expert governance specialists is here to guide you every step of the way, including scheduling a personalized demo, or providing pricing tailored to your needs.
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