- Board Meeting Management: Create, distribute, and update agendas, packs, and minutes in one secure workspace.
- Secure Document Collaboration: Annotate, share, and review sensitive board materials with enterprise-grade security.
- Mobile & Offline Access: Access board materials from tablets, phones, or desktops, even without internet.
- Governance Analytics: Use peer, industry, and company data to strengthen oversight and decision-making.
- Director & Board Evaluations: Conduct assessments, questionnaires, and track board effectiveness over time.
- Compliance-Ready Security: Regional data centers and leading security standards protect confidential information.
Diligent Board Portal Software
Enterprise-grade board portal for secure governance and leadership collaboration
Updated July 28, 2026
Diligent Board Portal Software Overview
Diligent Board Portal Software is the board management platform behind Diligent Boards, used by 50% of the Fortune 1000. It centralizes board meetings, documents, analytics and collaboration in a secure cloud environment.
Diligent reports 1 million users at 25,000 organizations across more than 130 countries, with over 75% of the Fortune 500 as customers. The portal sits inside the wider Diligent One Platform, so boards can extend from agendas and minutes into risk, audit, compliance and market intelligence without changing vendor.
Key Features
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Featured |
|---|---|---|
| Diligent Boards | Custom quote | Secure board portal, agendas, annotations and minutes, mobile and offline access |
| Diligent One Platform | Custom quote | Board management unified with risk, audit and compliance modules, governance analytics |
| Diligent Market Intelligence | Custom quote | Shareholder activism, executive compensation and ESG datasets |
Diligent publishes no rate card. Its pricing page is a request form promising a package sized to your organization, and contracts are annual. Forrester noted in its 2026 GRC Platforms report that Diligent “stands out for its simple, tiered pricing approach in a market hampered by complex pricing”.
Pricing source: https://www.diligent.com/pricing
Pros
Competitor |
Pros |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq Boardvantage | Diligent sells governance as a whole rather than a portal alone: board packs sit alongside risk, audit, compliance and market intelligence modules on the Diligent One Platform. It was named a leader in both the 2026 Forrester Wave and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for GRC platforms, and a leader again in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for third-party risk management. |
| OnBoard | Diligent brings a wider governance toolset: board evaluations, D&O questionnaires, peer and industry analytics, and director data on issues such as board interlocks. The peer and industry data is the part smaller portals cannot match, because it lets a board see how its own composition and decisions compare with organizations of similar size. |
| Azeus Convene | Diligent adds governance insight and benchmarking data on top of the meeting workflow, and hosts in regional data centers so sensitive board material stays inside a chosen country. It also integrates with the meeting tools boards already run, including Microsoft Teams and Zoom. |
| BoardPro | Against a small board tool, Diligent scales: granular permissions, audit trails, offline access to packs, and real-time updates pushed to phones and tablets. Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study of the Board and Leadership Collaboration solution found clients cut meeting prep time by 50% to 60% and saved over 1,600 hours creating and distributing materials across three years. |
| Board Intelligence | Board Intelligence is built around decision papers. Diligent covers the whole board cycle and then extends past it into enterprise risk, internal audit, policy management and third-party risk, so a governance team can consolidate onto one vendor instead of stitching several together. |
Cons
Competitor |
Cons |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq Boardvantage | Cost is the recurring complaint. Administrators in a 2024 r/ExecutiveAssistants thread said Diligent came out more expensive than the alternatives they evaluated, and one who runs three boards on Boardvantage found Diligent less flexible on the admin side for building long agenda packages. |
| OnBoard | Diligent asks more of administrators up front. Reviewers describe agenda and pack building as comparatively rigid and note that configuration and training take real time, where lighter portals get a first meeting out faster. |
| Azeus Convene | Diligent’s own SoftwareReviews profile scores satisfaction of cost relative to value below the category average, and cost-sensitive teams cannot size the platform without a sales conversation. Organizations needing only core portal functions may be paying for governance analytics they never open. |
| BoardPro | For a startup or a single small board, Diligent is over-specified. The extra governance modules and enterprise security controls arrive with administrative overhead and an annual contract that a five person board is unlikely to justify. |
| Board Intelligence | Directors who want a clean decision paper and nothing else face more interface than they need. Reviewers also report occasional password and access problems after a gap between meetings, which is exactly the pattern of use a non-executive director has. |
Reviews
- G2 Review (Rating: 4.5/5): Diligent Boards earns praise for secure document sharing, efficient minutes management, and AI features that help teams compile and distribute board packs. Many reviewers mention the intuitive interface, deployment measured in days rather than months, and responsive support. Some report password access problems after periods of non-use, and friction syncing notes or aligning presentations.
- Software Advice Review (Rating: 4.7/5): Setting up meetings is simple and participants log in easily to review posted materials, with feedback emphasizing a smooth setup and a strong overall experience.
- Capterra Review (Rating: 4.7/5): Reviewers say the platform works especially well for creating and sharing content with a board of directors, and board members themselves report strong satisfaction.
- Reddit r/ExecutiveAssistants: Cost comes up repeatedly in this 2024 thread. One credit union administrator writes, “When I was looking I found the Diligent products to be more expensive than Board Paq,” and another poster says of a different board, “We had Diligent for one of our boards and it was okay, but less flexible on the backend than the other one we use.” A third describes starting on BoardEffect, Diligent’s nonprofit portal: “I just started with BoardEffect (diligent) and was super impressed with how easy and intuitive it is.”
- SoftwareReviews profile (Composite Score 7.8/10 across 32 reviews): One verified end user in IT scored Diligent Boards 9 out of 10 for likeliness to recommend in May 2024, valuing the Okta pairing for “security and peace of mind” and answering “I think nothing” when asked what they disliked. The profile flags cost satisfaction as the weakest of its category scores.
