RSSOpen Text Gives Law Firms a Better View of Their Legal and Business Worlds
Open TextLegalTech New York 2008 - 2008-02-06 - Open Text™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced a revolutionary new solution that gives law firm attorneys and staff easily customizable, comprehensive views of client and matter information from within their already familiar Microsoft Outlook interface or other Microsoft applications. Open Text Legal View™ hides the complexities of the back office, and lets attorneys work in and access information from one familiar place to significantly improve productivity. Open Text is demonstrating the solution at the LegalTech New York 2008 conference this week, in booth #2003. Open Text Legal View will be available in April.
At most law firms today, even smaller ones, information about a particular matter is typically stored across many different mission-critical applications, such as document management, accounting or contact management, each with its
own unique user interface. This creates a training and usability challenge for attorneys, who must frequently access information from multiple systems at the same time. Switching between different applications and navigating different menu systems cuts into attorneys' productivity.|
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Open Text Legal View solves the problem by building matter-centric views of content from all the systems attorneys need to access, and presenting them in context in Microsoft Outlook. Documents, emails, and billing and contact information for the matter from different systems are all displayed in a single view, allowing attorneys to work from within a single, familiar application.
"With Open Text Legal View, law firms can take a quantum leap forward in user convenience, satisfaction and productivity," said Mohit Thawani, Business Development Manager of Legal Solutions at Open Text. "Legal View builds a virtual matter folder that aggregates and presents matter information in the application attorneys use everyday: Microsoft Outlook. This solves a very real problem in a way that is easy to implement and yields immediate productivity gains."
Based on Open Text Enterprise Connect, one of three advanced new content services introduced in October (www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1949), Open Text Legal View gives attorneys access to all the information they need, when they need it, and in ways that make sense for the task at hand. Attorneys and staff can also easily search and retrieve information from multiple systems; drag and drop objects between systems and apply metadata; file and manage important emails related to client matters; and manage the full lifecycle of information according to firm policies, using records management and archiving that's transparent to attorneys and staff.
Open Text provides a full range of legal solutions that support law firms' business practices and proactive compliance needs throughout the matter lifecycle – from client intake through to final disposition. Currently, 70 percent of the AmLaw 100 firms are using Open Text content management solutions. For more information, go to: www.opentext.com/2/sol-industry/sol-ind-legal.htm.
About Open Text
Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit http://www.opentext.com.
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