New York, NY, September 11, 2024 – Diligent, a leading GRC SaaS company, today announced the launch of Policy Manager for Policy Service Providers (Policy Manager), uniquely designed to meet the needs of policy service providers in public education. Leveraging over a decade of experience supporting public policy professionals, Policy Manager centralizes and streamlines how model policy content is distributed and maintained across school districts, offering unprecedented efficiency in the process for both policy providers and their service subscribers.

“Policy Manager for Policy Service Providers significantly elevates the entire policy management cycle for both providers and subscribers,” said Nonie Dalton, VP Product at Diligent. “It enables service providers to efficiently deliver their model policy content so that their subscribers can receive timely and accurate updates that are simple to compare, merge and adopt.”

Backed by the same expertise behind BoardDocs, a leader in governance and policy solutions for K-12 which serves 40% of the US public education market, Policy Manager offers a centralized repository for policy documents, ensuring that service providers can easily manage, access, and update active, draft, and retired policies. The solution’s innovative "compare and merge" features allow both policy service providers and school districts to swiftly review and adopt policy content, significantly reducing the time and complexity involved in keeping policies current and compliant with legislative requirements.

Key Features of Policy Manager include:

Centralized policy repository: Easily manage and access active, draft, and retired policies in one secure location.
Automated workflows: Configure the entire policy management lifecycle consistent with your organization’s process, schedule and launch automatic review cycles, and build approval workflows to maintain the integrity of policy content for the subscriber network.
Publish updates and policy books to subscribers: Instantly notify of changes and updates to policy templates to your network of connected subscribers, directly within their Diligent Community sites.
References and citations: Create a library of applicable legal and legislative references that can be easily linked to your policy documents.
Audit trails and version control: Maintain detailed records of policy revisions, approvals, and adoptions, ensuring transparency and accountability.

By integrating advanced features like customizable workflows, tracked changes and version control, and subscriber management, Policy Manager provides a comprehensive, collaborative solution that meets the evolving needs of public education policy service providers. The solution’s unique hub-and-spoke model simplifies the ability to instantly publish policy templates and notify a network of connected subscribers about relevant changes and new requirements.

Policy Manager seamlessly integrates with Diligent Community, the next-generation board management solution for public and elected boards. Advanced tools help districts maintain accurate policies by providing timely notifications of updates from their service provider, the ability to compare new templates against their active policies, easy document collaboration and seamless publishing to public transparency websites. Users can also attach to their board meeting agenda for review and approval by directors, establishing an auditable timeline of adopted and retired policies.

Learn more about Policy Manager for Policy Service Providers here.

About Diligent Diligent is the leading GRC SaaS company, empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders to make better decisions, faster. The Diligent One Platform helps organizations connect their entire GRC practice — including governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG — to bring clarity to complex risk, stay ahead of regulatory changes and deliver impactful insights, in one consolidated view. Learn more at diligent.com.

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