Diligent Boards vs Board Papers

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.

Board Papers brings a new approach to traditional board portal solutions, combining an innovative iPad application with seamless and safe Microsoft SharePoint® integration. [The Board Papers server component is required to connect to your SharePoint instance. Please contact Pervasent for more information.] Initially designed to meet the exacting requirements of Standard Chartered Bank (2010 Global Bank of the Year), the Board Papers app provides unparalleled ease-of-use and multi-layered security features. Your directors simply enter their credentials and their board documents are downloaded to their iPad. Older documents are automatically removed. No extra steps required. Other features include: • An enhanced PDF viewer that lets users “swipe” through large documents without delay • A full set of annotation tools that automatically turn-off when a user is done adding notes • An “annotation navigator” that allows users to find any annotation with a tap of a finger First-time users of the app must enter a server name at start-up. A demonstration version of the app is available by tapping on the “Demo” button on the start-up screen.