I highly recommend Convene. It has been an excellent board portal. The ability to complete surveys within the app and vote from the comfort of my home doesn't force me to be physically present at board meetings. The platform is also great for meetings within the app from any location.
Convene’s been great. Its smooth implementation process meant people adopted to it very easily. We haven’t looked back. Convene has helped us get our papers in order in advance of a meeting. It’s a very reliable, mature product. Other more costly board portal solutions failed to meet our required standard such as SharePoint that does not make life easy, or BoardPad which was really expensive, and required lots of hand holding, Convene has made us more disciplined and organized about not wasting time.
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.
For us here in Uganda Development Bank, we find the product excellent. We're very glad with Convene. Cheers!
I just wanted to say thanks to those who took the time to go through the options for the replacement of BoardPad with Convene. Seriously – how good is it… I’m a few days behind as I’ve been working on the House but in this past hour I worked through the 250 odd pages of the BRC papers making notes and drawing squiggles. Superb!!!
Convene gives the possibility to prepare meetings anywhere and offline. It has a system to protect all your information and data so you don't need to worry. The software also notifies all group participants updates about meetings and other important events.
There has been nothing but fantastic feedback from the board directors and executive staff who are now using Convene. The platform has not only saved time in preparation, but secures data and makes it accessible to only the participants. The functionality of the Announcements feature is a vital part of keeping everyone up to date, especially during COVID-19. We also love the Document Library feature, where I store all documents that are relevant for the board of directors to stay abreast of policies and past reports from departments. Convene has been the best investment our organization has made.
Convene is intuitive with abundant features and also has very granular control in its security levels. The board portal software is suitable for all kinds of organization structures.
Convene helps us streamline board papers and is really straight forward to use. Convene itself has no complicated features.
I'm a huge fan of Convene and it is definitely making it so much easier to prepare our meeting agendas and papers. It is also very useful for document approval and verification processes.
“All directors were able to use Convene without an enormous amount of training and instruction.”
“We also found it very intuitive to have all the papers in one place, it bears a resemblance to Adobe Acrobat Reader, so people who were already familiar with that software went into Convene and picked it up in no time. The feedback we’ve had from the committee has just been very positive. They have particularly highlighted how easy it is to navigate around a pack, click through the agenda and sign off papers all within the digital meeting app.”
“Convene is very simple and intuitive. Papers can be easily uploaded, published, updated and re-ordered. The use of Convene has simplified the administration of board meetings and reduced time and effort associated with same, along with a reduction in printing and paper use.”
“We did looked at a number of products, but Convene struck the price point balance of cost and features, so we purchased 15 licenses under a hosted agreement. The implementation process and learning curve have been fairly easy, just a couple of short sessions with internal users were enough for them to gain confidence in using the system.”
“What excited me most about Convene was the way it encrypts data on a device. We looked at similar products that did this, but meeting collaboration wasn’t their primary function. Yes, we did have a business need that revolved around security, but when it came to the procurement of Convene, the add-ons such as digital collaboration, remote meetings, and a meeting pack archive is what worked out well for us.”