Ann: GENERAL: DIL: Diligent reaches 100,000 users

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GENERAL: DIL: Diligent reaches 100,000 users

Diligent Achieves Global Growth Milestones, Surpassing 100,000 Users as
Boards and Senior Leadership Embrace SaaS

Users From 62 Countries Across Seven Continents and More Than 35 Percent of
the Fortune 1000 Leverage Diligent Boards

New Zealand - July 29, 2015 - Diligent Corporation (NZX: DIL) announced its
continued growth, surpassing 100,000 users of its Diligent BoardsTM solution.
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based platform transforms how companies
manage the secure electronic production, distribution and collaboration of
confidential information to their boards, committees and leadership teams.

Diligent is now more than double the size of its nearest competitor in terms
of clients and is a truly global provider. It has clients in over 60
countries and users on all seven continents   ?   even Antarctica.
Additionally, more than 35 percent of the Fortune 1000 uses Diligent Boards.
The solution remains the most widely used of its kind and Diligent has a 99
percent* client retention rate, one of the best in the SaaS industry.
Diligent Boards drastically simplifies collaborative business and governance
as a strategic enabler for securely receiving and reviewing board materials
through any device.

"Collaborating across a board can be difficult in most organizations, but it
is even more of a challenge when you need to work in remote locations such as
Antarctica," said Peter Smith, General Manager, Corporate Services and
Strategy of Antarctica New Zealand, a government entity responsible for
developing, managing and executing activities in Antarctica and the Southern
Ocean. "Diligent Boards is an easy-to-use and secure tool that keeps our
board aligned and enables us to collaborate and make key decisions to help
support our organization's activities in respect to Antarctica."

Last month, Diligent received a Gold Stevie(R) Award in the "Customer Service
Team of the Year" category and a Silver Stevie(R) Award in the "Customer
Service Department of the Year" category, recognizing the company's continued
dedication to providing its more than 100,000 users with exemplary service
?   regardless of their locations.

"The momentum we're experiencing is extremely vital as it illustrates a shift
in senior leadership's understanding and value of SaaS services. Companies
around the globe are increasingly trusting their most important and sensitive
materials to Diligent," said Brian Stafford, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Diligent Corporation. "The lack of visibility around SaaS adoption
in broader enterprise and executive settings is at a turning point. Some
board members may not even know that Diligent Boards is a SaaS tool as its
secure and intuitive design, empowers effective information flow around the
most business critical decisions using the cloud."

To learn more about the Diligent Boards solution, please visit,
www.diligent.com.

*Based on number of clients and excluding client reductions due to
dissolution of a board (e.g., M&A or bankruptcy)

About Diligent Corporation (NZX: DIL)
Diligent is the leading provider of secure corporate governance and
collaboration solutions for boards and senior executives. Over 3,100 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$90 million in annual recurring revenue, based on previously reported
revenue retention rates. Visit www.diligent.com to learn more.

Contact:
Taylor Lavalli
RF|Binder Partners
[email protected]
212 994-7678

Safe Harbor Statement
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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 we
do not successfully develop or introduce new product offerings, or
enhancements to our existing Diligent Boards (formerly Diligent Boardbooks)
offerings, or keep pace with technological changes that impact the use of our
product offerings, we may lose existing customers or fail to attract new
customers and 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's operations, markets, products, services and other factors set
forth in Diligent's Risk Factors filed as Part II, Item 1A to its Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 11, 2015.
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