Using it within 3 different companies, I found Convene to be user friendly and rich in functionality. The company behind Convene itself projects a good image. Its employees exercise very good customer care and support.
Having Convene means that members of the board have access to the papers far sooner, allowing them more time to read and digest the issues for consideration. This has strengthened understanding and enhanced debate at our board meetings. Although not everyone was keen on the change at first, the benefits are there for all to see.
Convene provides an easily accessible and secure platform to help us manage our board and committee meetings. The platform security and the ability to set access permissions on an individual and group level is particularly important to us in order to maintain data security in relation to confidential and sensitive information. User support from Convene is always quick and helpful.
"Convene enables you to be up to speed with what’s happening. It has improved our meeting experience and has helped us achieve our organizational objectives. In Convene, everything is easy to document and updated versions can also be uploaded right away, eliminating the need to reprint and redistribute paper-based meeting packs."
It supports an impressive array of devices and platforms. We also particularly like the simple drag-and-drop interface that our secretarial staff can use to build some meeting packs.
Convene can help you to reduce the time you spend on scheduling meetings, as well as archiving the meeting contents because you can send agenda, documents, and updates easily.
The app makes it easy to conduct meetings and business literally everywhere. You can either sit around a boardroom table and exchange ideas without the flood of paper documents, or conduct your meetings on the fly anywhere you happen to be.
I have been impressed with the simplicity of the system so far and this is just what my organization required. From my point of view, the system admin was easy to understand and I found creating and building agenda's for meetings very straight-forward.
"We had trialed several other platforms and felt that Convene offered the most versatility and functions. Convene was easy to use and is a cost effective solution to move away from paper-based meetings."
Convene is a hidden gem. It has more rich features, aesthetics, and intuitive interface as BoardVantage and Diligent, while costing at least 40% less! It’s a clear winner for those who are value-conscious. You have no idea how much it means for nonprofits and value-conscious organizations to have a solution as good, yet as reachable, as Convene.
It was quite interesting to see how Convene looked on screen and find it impressive that across all the apps, it’s in the same format more or less which is great for being able to switch to different devices.
Convene provides security for our board information, control over users, and an easy to use system which is cost effective. The software has clearly set out sections, is easy and intuitive to use, has very informative user guides and excellent customer support.
Prior to using Convene, we were collating documents from across the business to put into board papers using which was a formatting nightmare. Convene has enabled our organization to set agendas well in advance, create dynamic agendas, and importantly give directors the opportunity to make notes before, during and after the meeting. Voting and resolutions are also able to be done online and the program provides a cloud based solution which gives everyone the ability to source current information.
"Convene offers the functionality to collate all papers into one document, ease of access for all users, and ability to manage the account for users. There is nothing major that I dislike about the software."
Convene is very easy to use and simple to understand. It has been fantastic for GDPR and for control over access to board information packs. Convene is simple to understand, navigation just works, and is very intuitive.