eSentio's Implementation Services provides a broad range of solutions to the nation’s leading law firms.  Our expertise ranges from core applications such as word processing, email, financial management and document management; to the utilization of technology within the substance of the practice such as litigation support, matter management, and knowledge management. eSentio’s professionals have extensive experience in law firm specific web-based technologies including, intranets, extranets, portals and web enabled applications.

We can assist your firm with all of its technology needs, including the assessment of your current technologies, strategic planning and budgeting, the selection of the appropriate solutions and vendors, and the implementation and maintenance of your systems, all of this with unparalleled client service. 

NEW! Vista / Office 2007 Jumpstart Program
eSentio is a Microsoft Certified Partner and participant in the Microsoft Desktop Deployment Planning Services program. As part of this program, we have launched the Vista/Office 2007 Jumpstart Team. eSentio consultants will meet with your internal planning team for a series of interactive session of Desktop Deployment Planning Services that are collaborative, comprehensive, and based on best practices from Microsoft. Following these in-depth sessions, your dedicated eSentio consultant will create a detailed blueprint for a seamless transformation of your business and technical environment.

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Document Management System Services
eSentio’s DMS services are widely considered to be the industry benchmark.  As a strong Interwoven strategic partner, our professionals have unparalleled experience and expertise in performing conversions and implementing matter centric environments within the nation’s leading law firms.

Our DMS specialists work with firms to merge, migrate, and upgrade their document management systems, while helping them to understand the future of the available products to ensure a continued return on their DMS investments. Because our professionals stay in tune with all the vendors in the marketplace, they understand the intricacies of the next generation of DMS and can help our clients build applications that leverage the power of these new technologies.
eSentio can also assist you with any special DMS needs your firm might have, such as setting up a multi-office DMS replication, creating a Work Product Retrieval system, or providing your clients with access to documents in your DMS. 

Matter Centricity
eSentio is at the forefront of the legal IT industry when it comes to implementing matter centric environments.  Our professionals have worked with some of the nation’s largest and most prestigious law firms to assist them in adopting matter centricity, making their electronic filing systems easily accessed and shared among their attorneys.  We work to integrate the firm’s records policy and email management systems, while increasing the level of collaboration for users. 
When a firm decides to adopt matter centricity, it is really adopting a new business process, rather than a technology initiative.  eSentio’s experience and understanding of the business of law firms provides our clients with a unique perspective that takes all of their critical processes into account.  We will work with your team to implement a system that is user friendly for current and particularly new associates, implement a comprehensive records management policy, and manage your content from inception to closure.

Additionally, training is a very important aspect in implementing a matter centric environment.  For this reason, eSentio has formed a strategic partnership with Traveling Coaches, a leading provider of training services with a focus on legal technology.  eSentio’s professionals work in concert with Traveling Coaches trainers to help your firm’s professionals feel comfortable with the new system, and to ensure a high user adoption rate.
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Consolidation & Centralization
eSentio has assisted many of the country’s leading law firms in adopting a centralization and consolidation technology strategy. Our professionals helped these firms to develop a strategy that would allow their organization to benefit from cost savings realized from the need for less hardware, software licenses and servers,  decreased storage requirements, and less of a staff requirement to manage them.

A consolidation and centralization strategy provides firms with many advantages including easier administration, more efficient maintenance and monitoring, more consistent support, better firmwide collaboration, and a technology model that allows for firm growth. eSentio’s experienced professionals will assess your current systems, and offer you a comprehensive strategy for moving to a consolidated and centralized environment. Our professionals will then implement and configure the necessary systems to best suit your firm’s needs. eSentio will help your firm to be more profitable and resourceful, by taking advantage of the scales and efficiencies that these types of strategies provide.

Microsoft Technologies
As a Microsoft Certified Partner, eSentio can provide your firm with a broad array of services centered around Microsoft’s latest technologies. Our professionals have extensive experience with implementations, upgrades and conversions of MS Windows, Office, Exchange, SharePoint, SMS, and Active Directory.  eSentio also offers firms access to many third-party and proprietary tools that fulfill special needs specific to law firms.

Windows Services
eSentio offers comprehensive Windows integration and upgrade services, and has executed these projects for many of the nation’s top law firms. Our professionals will help you to estimate the size and scope of your project and outline a solution based on your organizational needs, server investments, workstation population, network environment and applications.  We create desktop images for clients including the integration of core applications as well as hundreds of other applications, as determined by your unique needs. 

Office Services
eSentio provides comprehensive services for Microsoft Office.  We can help you evaluate Office 2007 and its added benefits, and will work with you to design and deploy the optimal Office environment for your firm, including a review or your current environment and business goals, the formulation of a comprehensive strategy for the project, customized design and architecture, and the development and implementation of your Office suite.

eSentio has extensive experience in creating and utilizing a broad array of third party applications that enhance the functionality of the base systems used in today’s leading law firms.  Our professionals utilize tools such as number suites, metadata cleansers, and template utilities to enhance the functionality of your firm’s applications.  Through our partnerships, alliances and understanding of the legal technology market, we will customize comprehensive solutions that will meet all of your firm’s technology needs.

Exchange Services
eSentio provides comprehensive services for Microsoft Exchange. We have an in-depth understanding of Exchange 2007 and its functionality, and can assist your firm in evaluating your options as you consider upgrading your email management system.  Our professionals have performed a multitude of complex conversions and upgrades for law firms, including migrations from GroupWise and Notes to Exchange.  We will work with you to design and deploy your firm’s optimal Exchange environment, by reviewing your current environment and business goals, defining the benefits, costs and challenges of the project, evaluating the impacts on your user community, coordinating the migration of your firm’s mail data, designing an appropriate solution for your firm, and developing and implementing Exchange within your firm.

SMS – Applications Packaging & Deployment
eSentio assists law firms in managing the installation, configuration and deployment of their applications.  Law firms have hundreds of applications used by various individuals throughout the organization. Our professionals have an in-depth knowledge of how law firms operate, and have extensive experience with the latest tools and package applications offerings.  We will assist your firm to deploy your critical applications through tools such as Microsoft’s SMS.

SharePoint
eSentio is a leader in the legal IT industry in assisting law firms to implement SharePoint, the solution many firms are turning to for their intranet, portal and extranet needs. eSentio’s professionals can help you identify your firm’s specific needs and design and build an environment that seamlessly integrates with your other data sources such as Interwoven or Elite to provide matter centric sites.

Our SharePoint QuickStart product saves months of development time in creating a highly usable SharePoint intranet solution. The QuickStart – which exemplifies eSentio’s experience and expertise – presents relevant and targeted information from disparate systems to attorneys in a single, easy-to-use interface.

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Active Directory
eSentio’s professionals have extensive experience with Active Directory, which allows firms to deploy programs across selected multiple users, assign enterprise-wide policies for usage, and apply updates across their entire organization.  Our professionals can help your firm to use Active Directory as a central repository for user information and replicate that data for other core systems to prevent silos of information from forming.  We can perform an audit of your systems to help you to identify the appropriate design, install and configuration of Active Directory to suit your firm’s specific needs. 

Project Management
eSentio offers some of the most experienced project managers in the field of law firm technology. In fact, many are former CIOs and law firm technology leaders. They have managed projects ranging from comprehensive technology upgrades within law firms to implementing specific applications such as Document Management, Financial Management and Litigation Support. eSentio’s project managers are experienced professionals who are committed to attaining your firm’s desired results.

Email Management and Archiving Solutions
eSentio’s professionals have extensive experience and expertise with various strategies and solutions that will help your firm’s email system operate in the most efficient manner.  Our archiving and storage solutions will provide you with an effective and reliable system that will ensure that your firm is able to supervise, store and retrieve your correspondence.  eSentio experts were asked to provide two presentations at ILTA 2006 specific to email management, including strategies for developing policies, messaging storage, archiving solutions, and incorporating the email system into the firm’s DMS of RM systems.

Exchange Services
eSentio provides comprehensive services for Microsoft Exchange. We will work with you to design and deploy your optimal Exchange environment, by reviewing your current environment and business goals, defining the benefits, costs and challenges of the project, evaluating the impacts on your user community, coordinating the migration of your firm’s mail data, designing of an appropriate solution for your firm, and developing and implementing Exchange within your firm.

Intranets, Extranets & Portals
From developing a simple web applet, to designing and building a mission critical eBusiness site, eSentio has the experience and expertise to ensure the success of your firm’s web projects. Our Web Solutions Team has expertise in key web technologies including ASP, XML, SQL, COM, and WAP.

Web-based Solutions – Intranets, Extranets, & beyond
eSentio’s Web Solutions professionals work with leading law firms to develop custom Intranet, Extranet, and Remote Access applications. We will help you to define your objectives, and develop Intranet and Extranet solutions that will meet your attorneys’ and clients’ ever evolving needs.
Whether integrating a firm’s Docketing System with its Intranet, publishing files from a DMS to the firm’s Extranet, or developing a unified login for web-based document and e-mail systems, eSentio’s team can customize your existing system or build a new system from scratch. We are well versed in the industry standard web interfaces and messaging systems, document management systems, accounting systems, litigation support systems, and much more.

Web Portals
eSentio can help your firm to navigate the multitude of portal solutions currently in the marketplace.  eSentio has researched, tested and implemented many differing systems determined by each firm’s individual needs and objectives.  Our professionals can help you to define your needs, select the most appropriate portal model for your firm, and build a system that provides the most value to your lawyers and your practice.

Mobility & Remote Access
eSentio can assist your firm in identifying the correct framework for your firm’s mobile needs, and can design and implement the proper systems to ensure that your critical systems are accessible to your firm’s professionals, but still secure. We can assist with anything from Blackberry usage which can allow your professionals to view documents on their handhelds, to remote laptop access using virtual private networks, to implementing Citrix so that your professionals can access their systems from any computer worldwide. We can even enable web based access to provide you with the ability to directly access your critical systems. eSentio’s professionals will work closely with you to determine, design and implement the most effective system to suit your needs.

Information Security
eSentio’s professionals understand how critical security is as a key component of your firm’s overall technology strategy.  Law firms’ systems are growing increasingly complex, with overlapping technologies that all interact to provide users with all the information they need at their fingertips, no matter where they may be located. eSentio understands the intricacies of legal IT, as well as your firm’s and your clients’ need for secure systems and documents. Our professionals can help your firm to ensure that your critical systems, documents and additional intellectual capital are secure.