Alternatives to Diligent Entities & Why Athennian Stands Out

For many legal teams, Diligent Entities has long been the go-to choice for entity management. But as demands grow more complex and expectations shift toward speed, integration and user experience, organizations are increasingly exploring alternatives.

From steep learning curves to limitations in automation and collaboration, Diligent Entities may no longer meet the needs of modern governance operations. That’s where Athennian comes in, providing a cloud-native, intuitive entity management platform built for today’s pace of work and tomorrow’s growth.

Why Organizations Look for Diligent Entities Alternatives

Common pain points with Diligent Entities

Despite offering a wide set of capabilities, Diligent Entities often falls short for legal teams seeking efficiency and adaptability. One of the most common issues is its complex user experience. From navigating a dated interface to working through rigid workflows, many users find the platform unintuitive and difficult to adopt. This complexity can result in steep learning curves, increased training time, and lower overall engagement across teams.

Cost is another factor that prompts legal departments to seek alternatives. The total cost of ownership with Diligent Entities can be high, particularly when factoring in implementation fees, licensing per user, ongoing support, and the IT resources required to maintain the system.

In addition, automation and collaboration features tend to be limited. Many processes remain manual, and the lack of real-time collaboration tools can lead teams to go back to old processes and, again, rely on email chains and offline coordination— adding friction to already time-sensitive tasks.

Finally, Diligent Entities often struggle to integrate smoothly with modern legal and compliance tech stacks. Legal teams working in cloud-first environments may find the platform’s architecture restrictive, leading to another silo. As governance needs evolve and remote collaboration becomes the norm, legal professionals require flexible, cloud-native solutions that scale with them, not legacy tools that hold them back.

Introducing Athennian: A Modern Alternative to Diligent Entities

Athennian is a purpose-built entity management solution designed to support corporate governance operations, law firms, professional services providers, and private investors. Built from the ground up as a cloud-native platform, Athennian enables teams to streamline workflows, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently.

From corporate secretaries and paralegals to fund managers and outside counsels, Athennian offers a unified workspace that enables secure collaboration, real-time updates, and full visibility across your entity portfolio.

Feature Comparison: Athennian vs. Diligent Entities

Athennian is built to directly address the shortcomings of legacy systems, replacing complexity with clarity and outdated architecture with modern infrastructure.

Key Benefits of Switching to Athennian

Switching to Athennian isn’t just a software change: It’s an upgrade in how legal teams work. By replacing manual processes and legacy systems with modern automation, real-time collaboration, and cloud-native infrastructure, Athennian helps legal departments operate with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence.

Efficiency gains

Automate repetitive tasks, including entity lifecycle management, and eliminate busywork so teams can focus on strategic initiatives.

Improved collaboration

Enable Legal, Finance, and Tax to work from the same data in real time with no version control issues or resorting to email chains.

Better compliance management

Built-in reminders, automated compliance task tracking, and audit trails reduce the risk of missed deadlines or regulatory gaps.

Faster onboarding and adoption

Supporting many types of data migration (including from Diligent Entities), your corporate record will be clean and ready the day you go live. Athennian’s clean, intuitive interface makes it easy for new users to get up and running quickly without weeks of training.

Stronger integration ecosystem

Bi-directional integrations keep Athennian in sync with Microsoft 365, DocuSign, and other tools your team already relies on.

Lower IT burden

Cloud-native by design, Athennian requires no on-premise infrastructure or manual updates.

Security and Compliance: Built for Modern Governance

In an era of increasing regulatory pressure and heightened scrutiny, governance operations need more than just baseline protections. They need a platform that actively supports governance integrity and risk reduction. Athennian was built with this in mind. From its core infrastructure to its user controls and permissions, every layer of the platform is designed to help legal teams meet the highest standards of security and compliance.

Athennian is SOC 2 Type II certified and hosted on secure cloud infrastructure, ensuring that sensitive entity data is encrypted, backed up and accessible only to those who need it. This eliminates the risks associated with on-premise storage or fragmented systems, which often leave organizations vulnerable to data loss or unauthorized access. With Athennian, security is a foundational principle, not an afterthought.

Beyond infrastructure, Athennian empowers teams to enforce internal governance protocols through granular user permissions and audit-ready activity tracking. Whether collaborating with internal stakeholders or external partners, your administrators can control who sees what, when, and how. These capabilities not only strengthen data security but also create a verifiable chain of accountability that is essential for maintaining trust and meeting compliance obligations with confidence.

Why Athennian Is an Important Alternative to Consider

Athennian isn’t just another entity management tool. It’s a modern, agile platform designed for the realities of today’s governance operations, with customer feedback at the core of every product decision.

As organizations grow and their governance needs become more complex, Athennian offers the scalability, adaptability, and performance that traditional platforms struggle to deliver.

A Step Forward in Entity Management

Governance operations are evolving, and so are the systems they depend on. Teams no longer have to settle for outdated interfaces, clunky processes, or slow innovation. Athennian represents a new standard in entity management. More intuitive. More collaborative. More connected.

Ready to see how we compare? Explore Athennian’s platform or learn how we support compliance and automation in a single, centralized workspace.