Diligent Boards vs Sherpany

DILIGENT BOARDS – iPHONE and iPAD The most intuitive and secure way to improve communications and decision-making, Diligent Boards gives you immediate access to board books and meeting materials, along with the tools to review, discuss and collaborate on them. You’ll find streamlined voting, questionnaire tools and signature approvals with features that can be enabled or disabled to meet your organization’s governance and security requirements. Features: • Access current agendas and meeting materials, or archives from previous meeting • Protect all of your data with world-class security and encryption • Annotate any page using a suite of markup, bookmarking and note-taking tools • Collaborate with groups or select individuals by sharing comments, right on the page • Transition seamlessly between online and offline to access the app anywhere, even when Internet connectivity is unavailable • Keep up-to-date with built-in contact list and meeting calendar functions • Vote on motions and directives with instant digital signatures • Respond to questionnaires that save your responses as you go • Review your organization’s repository of governance information • Use side-by-side with Diligent Messenger to enable secure messaging and real-time collaboration. • Get assistance any time with award-winning 24/7/365 concierge-level support Experience a streamlined Diligent Boards on iPhone, with only essential features for on-the-go reading, annotation and more. Additional information: Over 4,700 organizations and 140,000 executives and board members trust Diligent with their most confidential board meeting materials. The Diligent Boards solution meets or exceeds the standards of the most security-conscious IT departments. Diligent’s information management security is ISO 27001 certified and our internal control processes have received clean SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 (SOC 1 Type 2) audits for nine consecutive years.  You can count on unlimited training via one-on-one personal or group sessions, delivered either in person or online and including board presentations. We also provide regular webinar tutorials to keep you up-to-date about product features from Diligent and in-person seminars where you can compare notes with your peers.  Ninety-nine percent of all support calls are answered immediately by our deeply knowledgeable employees. In addition to 24/7/365 support in English, our own employees also provide coverage during specified times in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, and select Indian and Sri Lankan dialects.

Sherpany is the leading Swiss meeting management solution, designed to meet the unique needs of Board, Board Committee, and Executive meetings. Trusted by Europe’s top companies, Sherpany boosts meeting productivity by 45%, streamlining the entire process — from meeting preparation to the distribution of digitally signed meeting minutes and action items. • Swiftly build agendas, and add assignees and collaborators. • Easily record and track discussions — capturing minutes in a template based on the meeting's agenda. • Instantly assign tasks and track their progress. • Securely access your documents offline as well as online, from anywhere. • Discuss decisions, projects, or give feedback via the Sherpany software before, during, and after meetings. Swiss precision and world-class security: • ISO 27001 certification, • ISAE 3000 certification, • End-to-end encryption, • Remote wiping capability, • Manage what happens with people trying to access using ‘’jailbroken’’ devices, • Assurance through regular pentests and compliance with major privacy and industry-specific regulations (e.g. General Data Protection Regulation, Banking Secrecy, FINMA Outsourcing, Swiss Data Protection Regulation). Fast and personalised service: • Personalised onboarding and constant feedback, • 24/7 assistance in 4 languages. Features that digitalise your entire meeting lifecycle: • Access to a digital meeting agenda, • Use comments to discuss topics with other participants, • Sherpany MINUTES®: consult and approve meeting minutes outside of meetings, • Sherpany MINUTES®: consult and assign tasks and decisions • Access multiple rooms, • Access documents, even offline, • Use global search in all documents and meetings, • Annotate and comment documents in the App, • Digital Circular Resolution — vote digitally, • Join Presenter Mode to be on the same page as everyone else during the meeting, • Give feedback on the meeting, • Manage tasks & decisions after the meeting, • Consult the documents library to find strategic information, • Manage what happens with people trying to access using ‘’jailbroken’’ devices.