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Overview
A law firm’s profitability and competiveness rests in the effectiveness and productivity of its attorneys who are challenged continuously by the volumes of information they must find, retrieve and use to effectively serve their clients. The legal industry has adopted Microsoft SharePoint as the de facto standard for collaborative next generation intranet / extranet solutions due to its functional maturity and the support it has received from third-party vendors.
eSentio’s Best-In-Class QuickStart
eSentio offers firms it’s QuickStart program allowing firms to quickly establish a starting point to build a robust SharePoint solution. The QuickStart SharePoint intranet – which exemplifies eSentio’s experience and expertise – presents relevant and targeted information to attorneys from multiple systems in a single, easy-to-use interface.
The QuickStart SharePoint intranet is a feature-rich framework based on SharePoint that can be quickly implemented to meet the most common information requirements of law firms. It models a real-world legal environment with well-built-out sites that represents the way law firms are organized and attorneys work, but is flexible to meet the unique culture and business processes of any specific firm. Customizing and adding content areas can be accomplished quickly.
The extensive use of native SharePoint means there is no additional suite of products to purchase to meet your firm’s intranet needs. The QuickStart intranet is easily and rapidly modified using standard SharePoint tools and provides a stable framework for further application development. Using SharePoint's native architecture as our primary building block, the QuickStart is easy to support and maintain.
Designed with years of experience working with law firms, the QuickStart intranet meets the majority of a firm’s needs out-of-the-box andsaves months of effort and can be rapidly deployed for use by attorneys and staff. Firms can quickly deliver and share information throughout the firm. The information a firm already has is easily accessed and used from a single, familiar interface.
Leading the Competition in Functionality & Approach
FUNCTIONALITY
Full-Featured Portal
Legal-specific Navigation and Site Structure - Sites for practices, firm services and office locations are installed with content areas common to firms. The site structure and content areas can be easily and quickly modified as required.
Dynamic Client and Matter Pages - Dynamic pages handle the existence of thousands of clients and matters sites, allowing each to have a unique viewing perspective, but rendering them real time to eliminate the need to create and manage unique pages for each client and matter.
Design Alternatives -Two skins are included which allow firms an option for selecting an appropriate look and feel. Firms can switch between the skins as desired and are easily modified to meet firm branding requirements.
APPROACH
Law-Firm Specific Format - The QuickStart intranet exploits SharePoint native functionality, demonstrating its effectiveness in meeting the common needs of law firms and providing a stable framework for further application development.
Dashboards Make it Simple - Samples of attorney and management dashboards keep attorneys informed of their individual performance as well as client and matter-responsible attorneys informed of the KPIs regarding the client or matter they are currently reviewing. Charges, billings and collections are presented in several time slices (3 month, 6 month, Rolling 12 month, YTD) in a dashboard format.
Various DMS Integration - Out-of-the-box, the QuickStart intranet currently supports Interwoven DMS integration with plans for Open Text and StarLaw. DMS integration, along with native SharePoint document management, provides users with quick and easy access to their work product in the context of their daily tasks.
Universal Search - The QuickStart intranet provides the ability to perform a single search across all a firm’s data sources. This is accomplished by integration with Interwoven’s Universal Search and native SharePoint search. Customized search results ensure ease of use.
Six Steps to Success
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