DataCert's Guide Provides Automated Enforcement of Corporate Billing Guidelines
DataCert, Inc.By DataCert, Inc.
HOUSTON, September 19, 2006 - DataCert, Inc., the leading provider of electronic invoicing and legal spend management solutions, today introduced new enhancements to Guide including the ability to prototype and deliver rules in a faster and more efficient manner. Guide, a powerful business rules engine, automates the enforcement of corporate law department billing guidelines for legal electronic invoicing. With Guide, the tedious and time-consuming task of manually validating thousands of line items on legal invoices is eliminated.
The Power to Enforce Billing Guidelines
Guide gives companies the ability to create powerful, client-specific rules that match the manual invoice review processes already in place. Working in conjunction with DataCert's Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS) version 3.8, Guide can automate invoice-related tasks such as enforcing time keeper rates, applying bulk discounts and approving low-dollar invoices from authorized law firms and vendors. Guide also warns law department personnel about invoices that may potentially violate billing guidelines such as duplicate invoices and invoices attached to over-budget matters.
This rules engine translates into a time-saving tool for law department personnel. By identifying noncompliant invoice items and charges and automatically adjusting them, Guide gives employees the opportunity to focus on more important assignments.
"Customers are demanding tools that automate the most tedious parts of invoice adjustment," commented Paul Zengilowski, Director of Product Marketing, DataCert, Inc. "Guide delivers this with its unique ability to model complex logic for reviewing and adjusting invoices. Employees' time - always a commodity - can now be transferred to tasks that bring more value to the department."
Guide's new enhancements also contribute to a quicker implementation of AIMS. DataCert can deliver on billing guideline requirements accurately, reliably and in a time-sensitive manner, allowing law departments to enjoy the benefits of their legal spend management technology within an abbreviated time frame.
Customization
Guide provides unmatched flexibility by offering invoice adjustment capabilities that extend beyond "out of the box" solutions. A law department's adjustment process does not have to change to meet the capabilities of the technology. Instead, Guide effectively models both simple and complex validation guidelines and standards to provide rules that simulate each law department's unique approval processes.
Availability
Guide is available immediately. For more information, please contact DataCert at 713-572-3282 or e-mail nasales@datacert.com (North American inquiries) or emeasales@datacert.com (international inquiries).
About AIMS
Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS) is DataCert's web-based application that facilitates the approval and payment of electronic invoices between law firms and vendors and corporate law departments. Its primary purpose is to help managers proactively analyze corporate legal spend. Using AIMS, legal invoices are validated against corporate outside counsel guidelines, routed, adjusted and approved, then posted to a matter management and/or accounts payable system.
About DataCert, Inc.
DataCert, Inc. is the largest and fastest-growing supplier of electronic invoicing and corporate legal spend management solutions. DataCert's products and services provide a substantial return on investment to corporations looking to reduce outside legal spend. With more than 6,300 customers in 100 countries, including 55 of the Fortune® 500, DataCert processes in excess of $9 billion of electronic invoicing data on an annualized basis. DataCert is headquartered in Houston with regional offices in London and Austin. Visit DataCert at www.datacert.com for more information.
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