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GENERAL: DIL: Diligent Corporation Releases 'Diligent D&O

Diligent Corporation Releases 'Diligent D&O' Solution for Directors and
Officers

New Questionnaire Features Deliver 'One Stop' Efficiency for Corporate
Governance

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 18, 2015 - Diligent Corporation (NZX:
DIL), the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based platform for the secure
electronic production, distribution and collaboration of confidential
information for boards, committees and leadership teams, today announced the
availability of its Diligent D&O offering in the U.S as signaled in
Diligent's market announcement of August 11, 2015. The product module adds
pre-filled and signed questionnaire functionalities to Diligent's suite of
management tools, allowing governance officers to reuse content and expedite
approvals. The new, paid features deliver greater efficiency in generating
and updating questionnaires for directors, officers and administrators,
streamlining the creation of Director and Officer (D&O) compliance reports
annually required by public companies in the U.S.

"We began to see a need in the Director and Officer space for increased
efficiency in what was traditionally a very manual, paper-intensive reporting
process," said Brian Stafford, President and CEO of Diligent. "So we created
a product module called Diligent D&O that offers our customers a one-stop,
holistic platform for governance, reducing the number of tools needed for
secure collaboration and eliminating redundancies in the production of annual
compliance documentation."

Existing Diligent users can choose to add Diligent D&O to their current
account. This means a single login will offer access to the full suite of
corporate governance tools for boards and their committees, including Books,
Questionnaires and Resource Centers. As with all Diligent offerings, the
upgrade will allow approved administrators to manage access to the
questionnaires platform, and will offer the same premium security and 24/7
service and support for which Diligent is known.

Diligent D&O enables users to pre-fill, publish and reuse questionnaires year
after year, creating a more efficient process and minimizing the risk of
errors related to version control. It also offers a unique set of analytics
tools, allowing approved administrators to see which recipients have opened,
started and completed the questionnaire, so they can follow-up as appropriate
to manage outstanding actions, vote statuses and results.

There are benefits for questionnaire recipients, too. The tool allows users
to resume precisely where they left off in the questionnaire after closing
the program, and recipients can also access their prior questionnaire
responses through the application once complete. There are also a number of
printing options for those who prefer a paper experience, as well as to
ensure physical and electronic copies are available for regulatory filings.

"This year, we used Diligent D&O to distribute and collect our D&O
Questionnaires.  The forms were easy to build and relatively easy to
customize for each director and officer.  Since our directors and executive
officers already use Diligent for board duties, it was very convenient for
them to fill out the questionnaires right on their existing portals," said
Tanya Sestak, Paralegal II at Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. a pre-release user of
the new product module.  "Diligent D&O has made it easy to save final
questionnaires for our records, and with the forms already built, next year
all we have to do is make minor edits and distribute again.  In our
fast-paced business world, we are all looking to leverage technology to save
time and improve processes.  Using Diligent D&O has helped us do both."

Diligent D&O is available beginning today. For additional information and
pricing, please visit diligent.com.

About Diligent Corporation (NZX: DIL)
Diligent is the leading provider of secure corporate governance and
collaboration solutions for boards and senior executives. Over 3,300 clients
in more than 60 countries and on all seven continents rely on Diligent to
provide secure, intuitive access to their most time-sensitive and
confidential information, ultimately helping them make better decisions. The
Diligent Boards (formerly Diligent Boardbooks) solution speeds and simplifies
how board materials are produced, delivered and collaborated on via any
device, removing the security concerns of doing this by courier, email and
file sharing. Diligent is a publicly listed company (NZX:DIL) with nearly $US
100 million in annual recurring revenue, based on previously reported revenue
retention rates. Visit www.diligent.com to learn more.

Safe Harbor Statement
Statements made in this press release that state Diligent's or management's
intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are cautioned that these statements
are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or
results. All forward looking-statements are only as of the date of this press
release and Diligent undertakes no obligation to update or revise them. Such
forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and
uncertainties that could cause Diligent's actual results to differ materially
from those projected in such forward-looking statements. For example, if our
new products and features do not fit with our customers' needs, our financial
performance and revenue growth may suffer. Factors which could cause our
actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking
statements include, without limitation, economic, competitive, regulatory and
technological factors affecting Diligent Corporation's operations, markets,
products, services and other factors set forth in the Company's Risk Factors
included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 16,
2015.

Investor inquiries:  Media inquiries:
William Maina
NZ toll free: 0800 995 082
International: +1-646-277-1236
[email protected]
 Geoff Senescall
Ph: + 64 21 481 234
or
ICR Inc. for Diligent
Austin Taczli,
Ph: 1-646-277-1235
[email protected]

Shawn Lankton
Chief Marketing Officer
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