Next-generation suite of tools to augment board portal capabilities, driving more productive meeting workflows and better decision-making for boards
June 29, 2023 — Azeus Convene, the most trusted board management leader for private and public entities, announces the release of Convene 7.0, with newly improved and state-of-the-art board portal features to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and governance in the boardroom. The upgrade aims to augment the existing core functionalities and benefits of Convene — redefining the meeting experience and empowering superior governance.
Intentionally redesigned for boards across industries, Convene 7.0 translates meeting challenges into pragmatic features. Azeus Convene’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael Yap, reveals what users can achieve in the new update: “Currently, boards and organizations are actively refining their processes as they transition beyond the COVID-19 era. With the emergence of hybrid meetings and new working arrangements in this post-pandemic period, we are focused on continuously improving our board portal to be the best in supporting our clients. With Convene 7.0, we are dedicated to assisting our clients in navigating this period of significant change by offering a new suite of tools designed to reinvent their meeting experience.”
Building upon the latest and consistent recognition from global software review sites, such as G2, Convene has propelled itself further ahead through its major 7.0 release, solidifying its position as an industry leader. The latest features have been meticulously designed to foster enhanced collaboration for directors, boost board administration efficiency, and facilitate effective decision-making within the Convene platform.
What’s New in Convene?
- Comprehensive and customizable dashboards. Empower directors to instantly make informed decisions at their fingertips. Convene Dashboard condenses everything in one display. From completing urgent action items, reviewing meeting files, to voting on pending resolutions, the dashboard shows all the critical matters to prioritize and address ahead of their deadlines.
- Secure digital signatures. Take signing workflows to the next level with Convene Authority, allowing for seamless integrations with local signature providers like DocuSign and POS Digicert, and other exciting signature tools such as initials and signature placeholders, providing core signature functionalities compliant with regulators’ policies.
- One-click attendance confirmation. Streamline attendance confirmation with Convene RSVP. Responses can be customized by the organizer to change the RSVP option based on policies and context. What’s more, follow-ups on RSVP are automated and participants may be able to view others’ responses, eliminating the hassle to coordinate with different parties.
- Plan the annual board agenda in one dashboard. Efficiently organize and oversee the annual board agenda with Convene’s Agenda Planner. Plan and plot topics across multiple meetings in a single dashboard and easily track the allocated time for each topic, ensuring streamlined board discussions.
- Seamless meeting publication online. Enable public access to meeting documents, minutes, and recordings by leveraging Convene Publisher. This feature allows organizers to effortlessly publish meetings on their company website directly from the portal.
In addition to these exciting new features, Convene 7.0 enhances the existing meeting capabilities, including video meetings, annotations, voting, document management, and integrations, to provide users with a seamless and intelligent experience.
Convene 7.0 will be available this July 2023. Existing Convene clients can access our What’s New with Convene page to learn more about the new features.
To learn more about how Convene can empower your organization, explore our board portal page.
About Azeus and Convene
Azeus is a global product business empowering thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries with digital corporate governance solutions — Convene Board Portal, ConveneAGM, Convene in Teams, and Convene ESG. With expertise in the industry for 30 years, Azeus has been globally operating across major regions, with offices and entities in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, Australia, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, UAE, China, Spain, India, Nigeria, and Turkey. Azeus has consistently been appraised at Level 5 in CMMI, which is the highest and most mature level in the software development model. Visit azeusconvene.com.