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Internationaal advocatenkantoor kiest Autonomy iManage Universal Search

Autonomy, leverancier van infrastructuursoftware voor ondernemingen, heeft een overeenkomst gesloten met het internationale advocatenkantoor Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Het advocatenkantoor met meer dan 2.700 advocaten en 27 kantoren wereldwijd, waaronder in Amsterdam, maakt gebruik van Autonomy iManage Universal Search (IUS) voor content- en kennismanagement doeleinden. Autonomy wordt door de gesloten overeenkomst de grootste IT-leverancier van Freshfields. IUS biedt de meer dan 6.000 gebruikers directe toegang tot gezochte documenten. Daarnaast worden gebruikers geattendeerd op conceptueel identieke content en eventueel aanwezige experts in de community. Tevens worden professionals automatisch en real-time begeleid naar informatie die relevant kan zijn voor een casus. iManage Universal Search werd geselecteerd na een uitgebreide analyse van mogelijke oplossingen en werd gekozen dankzij de unieke conceptual search capaciteiten, de schaalbaarheid en de taal- en formaatonafhankelijkheid van de oplossing.“Als één van de belangrijkste internationale advocatenkantoren zijn wij constant op zoek naar technologie die de efficiëntie en effectiviteit kan vergroten, kosten kan verlagen en de dienstverlening voor onze klanten kan verbeteren”, aldus Paul Domnick, CIO van Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. “Autonomy is inmiddels de standaard geworden en de belangrijkste innovator in deze branche.

Dit is te danken aan de krachtige combinatie van de domeinexpertise van Interwoven en Autonomy’s robuuste Meaning Based Computing platform.”Autonomy’s iManage biedt een gemeenschappelijk platform voor advocatenkantoren, juridische dienstverleners en juridische afdelingen binnen organisaties. iManage Universal Search 7.0 is een pan-enterprise search oplossing speciaal ontwikkeld voor deze gebruikersgroepen, waarvan de performance ten opzichte van de vorige versie aanmerkelijk is toegenomen.

De kern van Autonomy iManage Universal Search is IDOL. IDOL´s Meaning Based Computing technologie begrijpt de context van informatie, ongeacht taal, dataformaat en rechtsgebieden, en identificeert patronen tussen verspreide informatie.

“Advocatenkantoren hebben te maken met een enorme toename aan ongestructureerde informatie en rechtszaken”, aldus Victor Cohen, General Manager Noord-Europa bij Autonomy. “Daarom hebben zij een robuust technologisch platform nodig die betekenis geeft aan data, ongeacht waar die data zich bevindt. Autonomy is de enige leverancier die aan deze vraag kan voldoen. Wij zijn verheugd met het feit dat Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer heeft gekozen voor iManage Universal Search voor het beheren van al haar content en kennis wereldwijd.”

iManage Universal Search 7.0

De interwoven/Autonomy geeft aan dat de opvolger van Interwoven Universal Search 6.0 met onder de motorkap Vivisimo Velocity Search Engine een opvolger heeft gekregen met versie 7.0. Deze versie maakt dus GEEN gebruik meer van Vivisimo Velocity maar van Autonomy IDOL.

Voor de kantoren die gebruik maken van versie 6 ( en dat is volgens mij maar 1 kantoor in Nederland ) is er een upgrade beschikbaar.

iManage Universal Search 7.0, now based on IDOL, is a pan-enterprise search solution tailored for law firms, delivering an order of magnitude increase in performance over the previous version. This version is pin-for-pin compatible, and delivers a transparent user experience. The product is available now at no additional cost to current maintenance customers. Customers, who wish to take advantage of IDOL’s breadth of connectivity to repositories and applications, as well as a myriad of rich functions from the IDOL platform, can do so for an additional cost.  The new add-on capabilities include access to more than 400 connectors and over 1,000 file types, including text, audio and video, as well as hundreds of new functions, including expertise location and automatic taxonomy support. A series of new Autonomy iManage’s modules leveraging the additional capabilities of IDOL will be released over the coming months.

XMLAW Announces OneView 2009 Products for SharePoint

Epona levert Intranet 2.0 ( the Lawyers Dashboard )aan advocatenkantoren. Dit intranet is gebaseerd op Microsoft Sharepoint en de oplossing Oneview Connect van XMLAW. Deze laatste maakt vandaag de nieuwe producten bekend.

XMLAW, the leading provider of SharePoint-based information and knowledge management solutions to the legal industry, today announced the release of new and enhanced products in its OneView suite of applications built on the SharePoint platform.  OneView, used by more than 25% of the top ranked 200 US and international law firms worldwide, provides a framework for delivering integrated intranet, extranet and search solutions using SharePoint 2007.   
 
“XMLAW has focused exclusively on creating enterprise scale, industry-targeted SharePoint solutions for more than five years” said Rob Saccone, CEO of XMLAW.  “Our first 2009 product releases reflect our real-world experience in delivering global solutions that are scalable, flexible and impactful to our client’s business.”    
SharePoint has radically evolved since its initial release in 2001, and has become a billion-dollar business for Microsoft and its partners.  “Few partners have invested in SharePoint from the beginning” continued Saccone, “and XMLAW is fortunate to be among those that have, over time, determined the right mix of platform, products, services and support that truly deliver enterprise value. Installing a couple of web parts and hoping for the best isn’t a viable strategy for those organizations that truly want to change the way they find and use information.  XMLAW provides a complete suite of products and complimentary services to ensure success for those firms serious about SharePoint.”  
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Autonomy neemt Interwoven over

Interwoven Inc has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Autonomy Corporation plc for $16.20 in cash per share for a total transaction value of approximately $775 million.

Interwoven’s products improve human interactions with information, and Autonomy’s technology will allow people to know what those human interactions mean. The combination of these two companies will redefine how global 2000 corporations, leading law firms, and government regulators will discover, analyze, and manage human friendly information.

“Interwoven and Autonomy are two high-performing companies that share the same vision for improving the way organizations understand and interact with information,” said Joe Cowan, Interwoven CEO. “We believe customers will benefit from the combination of Autonomy’s industry-leading technology with Interwoven’s unmatched position in our target markets. We are extremely excited with the unique possibilities for future product direction that will arise through the integration with Autonomy’s technology.”

“The combination of Autonomy and Interwoven, industry leaders in meaning-based computing and document and content management respectively, will continue the extension of Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) – an information infrastructure that global 2000 companies standardize on to search and process over 1,000 data types,” said Dr. Mike Lynch, Group CEO of Autonomy. “Our past acquisitions have clearly demonstrated how Autonomy can quickly and effectively leverage the power of IDOL into new customer bases and to address new customer needs, and we see great opportunities for continued innovation and development of the Interwoven product offerings. We are very familiar with Interwoven, its product base and management team through our joint customers and partnerships over the years and see this transaction as an exciting opportunity to extend the chain of Autonomy’s solutions.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Interwoven will be acquired by Autonomy for $16.20 per share, in cash, or approximately $775 million in the aggregate. The directors and certain executive officers of Autonomy and Interwoven have agreed to vote the shares they own in favor of the acquisition. The transaction is expected to close by Q2 2009 and is subject to shareholder approval by both companies, Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust clearance, and other closing conditions.

Epona Deutschland GmbH gestart in Frankfurt


Epona start in samenwerking met Christiane Müller-Haye en Ralf Kaiser en nieuw bedrijf onder de naam Epona Deutschland GmbH in het eerste kwartaal van 2009 te Frankfurt am Main.

 

De leiding van onze nieuwe Duitse vestiging komt in handen van geschäftsführer Christiane Müller-Haye. Epona Deutschland legt zich in eerste aanleg toe op het verzorgen van CRM implementaties voor advocatenkantoren in Duitsland me behulp van de zeer succesvolle CRM applicatie Epona ContactManager. 

Aderant in andere handen

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Vista Equity Partners today announced that it has completed the acquisition of ADERANT Holdings Inc. (ADERANT).  Vista, a private equity firm with over $2 billion in committed capital, invests in private and public software and technology-enabled companies, focusing on successful organizations committed to maintaining industry leadership.
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Fenwick & West LLP choose Aderant

ADERANT, a global provider of business and financial management software for law firms, today announced that leading technology and life sciences law firm Fenwick & West LLP has selected ADERANT’s integrated business management application suite, ADERANT Expert, as a replacement to its existing legacy practice management system.

One of the largest law firms based in Silicon Valley, Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. The firm has over 275 attorneys throughout its offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.
Fenwick & West is replacing their outdated legacy system with ADERANT Expert’s integrated applications for practice management, time and billing, financial management, business intelligence, and performance management. Read more »

Open Text to Acquire Captaris

Open Text™ Corporation , a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPA), a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric processes, today announced a definitive merger agreement in which a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text will acquire Captaris. Under the terms of the agreement, Captaris shareholders will receive cash consideration of approximately US $131 million in total, or $4.80 per share in exchange for their Captaris stock. Read more »

Allen & Overy and docGenix announce the launch of docGenix, a new documentation risk management company

Allen & Overy (A&O) has launched an independent company in New York offering documentation risk management services to financial institutions. The firm has appointed London derivatives lawyer John Berry as general counsel of the new business, named docGenix. DocGenix’s non-executive board will include London debt capital market partner Jonathan Brayne and New York senior partner Dan Cunningham.

Press release:

NEW YORK – Allen & Overy and docGenix, L.P. (docGenix) today announced the launch of docGenix, an independent company providing innovative services that offer financial institutions a significantly enhanced ability to manage documentation risk.  The services provided by docGenix make use of advanced technology and analysis techniques originally developed within Allen & Overy's affiliate, Derivative Services LLP (DS LLP).  Read more »

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