ADERANT Introduces Portal Solution
AderantAtlanta, GA—October 18, 2006– ADERANT, a global provider of business and financial management software for professional services organizations, today announced the immediate availability of a new Microsoft SharePoint-based solution, Expert Portal, Powered by Handshake Software. The solution enables firms to quickly expose real-time data from its various business systems, including client, matter, financial, and other information, to timekeepers, decision-makers, and clients through a SharePoint portal.
Built on Handshake Software, Inc.’s industry leading data relationship integration and SharePoint web part technologies, Expert Portal enables firms to quickly deploy effective portal solutions. The portal solution is seamlessly integrated with ADERANT Expert and includes proven integrations with other practice management, document management, and client relationship management applications. Additionally, Expert Portal includes hundreds of pre-built graphical web parts that enable firms to tailor portal content and business data views to meet their exact needs.
“Firms have always tried to provide their professionals with easy access to critical information, even if it meant costly integrations or time-consuming data synchronizations between applications,” said Michael Kohlsdorf, President and Chief Executive Officer of ADERANT. “Expert Portal gives firm professionals a single web-based point of access to all the client, matter, financial, and performance data they need to service their clients, regardless of its source application. The solution can be quickly deployed and tailored to meet the unique needs of any firm.”
Proven Integrations
Expert Portal enables firms to easily profile and integrate any business application data and expose them in a Microsoft .NET Web Service. The solution includes detailed integrations to a variety of practice management, document management, and customer relationship management applications.
Comprehensive, Configurable, and Contextual Data Access
Expert Portal provides users with a single comprehensive view of information from their firm’s disparate business systems. Data is dynamically integrated into real-time views of matters, clients, people, and more to provide users with a true 360 degree presentation of critical business information. Expert Portal allows users to easily navigate from one contextual view to another as well as drill down for more detailed information.
Expert Portal enables firms to easily configure the appearance, content and behavior of their portal to meet their exact business needs. The solution’s extensive library of hundreds of pre-built SharePoint web parts allows information to be delivered in a wide variety of formats, including lists, panels, graphs, calendars, and more.
Full-Text Searching
Expert Portal enables users to search any column from any application while they are within their firm’s portal. Using the solution’s powerful full-text search capabilities, users can simultaneously search documents, time entry narratives, contacts, and more.
About Handshake Software
Handshake Software, Inc., has the #1 product for Microsoft SharePoint® and IBF integration of line of business systems for law firms in the world. Handshake’s products dramatically reduce the deployment time and complexity for SharePoint® Portal Server, Office 2003 Information Bridge Framework (IBF), and Office 2007. Pre-defined integrations include ADERANT, Elite, InterAction, Juris, Hummingbird, Interwoven, and others. Recognized by Microsoft as one of five leading Partners for the Professional Services market, Handshake has some of world’s leading and largest law firms as clients.
About ADERANT
ADERANT, headquartered in Atlanta , GA , is a leading provider of software for services organizations. The global software company
offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, consisting of financial, resource and practice management software that enables services
organizations of all sizes to maximize operational efficiencies. The international company provides solutions to the world’s largest and
most prominent service organizations – including American Express, Deloitte Consulting, KPMG LLP, Skadden Arps and Winston & Strawn.
ADERANT also has offices in Asia Pacific and Europe .
More information about ADERANT is available at www.aderant.com.
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