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TECH Product Announcements Accola announced the release of Epona’s DMS4Legal to the North American legal industry. DMS4Legal brings the first document management system powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to law firms across the U.S. The product was first released in Europe in early 2010 and has garnered much interest from firms for the functionality and capabilities it adds to their practices. DMS4Legal is a uniquely designed document management system (DMS) for the legal industry and was developed in conjunction with lawyers to bring needed functionality to the market. www.accola.com ADERANT announced the introduction of a new Microsoft SharePoint-based application for consolidated information access, Expert ClearView. Expert ClearView represents ADERANT’s strategy to greatly simplify how ADERANT Expert users can access and use critical information. It provides partners, practice group leaders, professionals, CFOs and other key firm personnel with a consolidated view of both operational data and performance information, allowing them to improve decision making. www.aderant.com Advanced Legal Systems, Inc. introduced SimplicITy, a managed services program for law firms. SimplicITy offers an outsourced IT solution with customizable packages, allowing predictability in budgeting monthly IT-related costs. Smaller firms benefit from outsourcing their IT needs by receiving big firm functionality and service quality, while larger firms benefit from an IT partner with whom they can collaborate to offer cutting-edge service to their firm and its users. www.advancedlegal.com Advanced Productivity Software (APS) announced the launch of iDTE, a mobile application of the company’s time tracking solution, DTE Axiom. Designed exclusively for the iPhone, iDTE enables users - attorneys, legal staff, financial officers and IT administrators - to record billable hours, create entries, capture phone calls and track e-mail messages while on the go. iDTE improves productivity and profitability by providing law firm personnel with a mobile application to enter and edit critical time and expenses securely from anywhere in the world. www.aps-soft.com Altep, Inc. announced the release of version 3.0 of Inspicio. The new version offers fully-integrated concept searching, clustering and categorization via Content Analyst’s Analytical Technology (CAAT.) CAAT is a unique, patented data analysis engine that provides advanced Conceptual Search based on Latent Semantic Indexing, a mathematical technique that enables CAAT to acquire information about any given document population from the actual documents being indexed, eliminating the need for external dictionaries and thesauri. www.altep.com and www.contentanalyst.com BEC Legal Systems has announced several enhancements to its CoreRelate and Docket Enterprise Release 1.3. In this Docket Enterprise release, the entire docket scheduling process happens in one dialog, which steps you through the process. Additional enhancements include: peruse the related matter information without closing the Schedule Wizard when entering schedule details; include default recipients on Work Plan Templates; search for a specific piece of data in more than one field; execute complex searches (even across multiple field sets) and save these searches for future; use the results of any search to create a report, merge to a Word document or produce an Excel spreadsheet. www.beclegal.com BigHand launched the second iteration of its BigHand for iPhone App. The iPhone dictation app forms part of BigHand’s Enterprise Edition, which is used by over 100,000 professionals to manage their workload and produce documents. Features include: record speech, edit, insert, overwrite, fast forward or rewind; take photos from within the app and attach them automatically to your dictation; expedite document production by setting a priority such as low, normal, or high; convert your voice-to-text via a server-based engine if no PA support is available; and more. www.bighand.com Biscom announced the release of BDS for iManage, an integration of the Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) secure file transfer technology with Autonomy iManage. Designed with law firms and corporate legal departments in mind, BDS users can now directly access a FileSite library to upload documents for secure delivery via BDS. This will eliminate the extra step of moving documents stored in FileSite to a local drive before uploading to a BDS delivery. BDS for iManage is the result of a joint development effort with Adaptive Solutions, Inc. www. biscomdeliveryserver.com and www.adaptivesolutions.com 36 www.iltanet.org Peer to Peer Business Integrity released version 3.6 of ContractExpress. The ContractExpress family helps law firms and corporate legal departments accelerate revenue, manage risk and reduce costs in the way they manage contracts. New features include deep-links to documents, a TEST button and enhanced security. ContractExpress.com users will now have the ability to brand their experience with custom color schemes and logos. www.business-integrity.com CompuLaw LLC introduced Version 4.0 of its Vision Web Portal. Version 4.0 offers many exciting new features, all of which are a direct result of law firm feedback and customer suggestions. The CompuLaw Vision Web Portal provides users with around-the-clock access to their schedules and other pertinent calendaring information from any location, via their Web browsers. CompuLaw offers rules databases for all 50 states, including State, Federal, Appellate, Supreme Court, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property and more. www.compulaw.com DocAuto announced the release of a new product, iImport Desktop. This exciting new product is an add-in to iManage DeskSite or FileSite that allows users to quickly and easily import content, preserving organizational structures if desired, from native operating system folders and subfolders directly into WorkSite. With iImport Desktop, users can extend the native FileSite/DeskSite import capabilities on their workstations to import multiple documents or entire folder structures at once. The product includes document filtering capabilities and the ability for administrators to limit where content can be imported. www.docauto.com DocSolid announced the launch of two new products for its patented KwikTag document capture platform: ScanBack and MailScan. As components of the KwikTag platform, they extend the solution’s ability to reduce paper handling costs, enhance productivity and enable green operations by eliminating paper. www.docsolid.com Document Technologies, Inc. (DTI) announced its adoption of the Nuix Enterprise Discovery platform for electronic data discovery processing. DTI partners with Nuix to implement the platform as part of the company’s end-to-end suite of discovery services. Nuix Enterprise Discovery operates at speeds averaging 20 times faster and requiring less hardware than competitive products, reducing energy consumption and labor hours to dramatically drive down discovery costs. www.DTIGlobal.com and www.nuix.com eLaw announced the launch of its newest product offering, eLaw Cases & Statutes. Powered by Casemaker, Cases & Statutes is a comprehensive legal research tool available to attorneys in New York and New Jersey that provides case law and statutes for all 50 states dating back more than 150 years. www.eLaw.com eMag Solutions, LLC announced its enhanced Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) capabilities for law firms and corporations. NDMP is a method of backing up stand-alone NAS (network-attached storage) devices that otherwise would not allow for the installation of a backup agent because of their closed architecture. NDMP is not a backup format but a way for the network appliance to communicate with the backup server and deliver the data to the tape/disk storage. This type of restoration is common for large corporations and technical companies that host terabytes of data on an NAS storage device. www.emagsolutions.com Esquire Interactive announced the introduction of WordPrESQ, an all-in-one website/blog solution designed exclusively for solos and small law firms. Based on the world’s leading blog platform, WordPrESQ contains a content management system (CMS) managed through a Web-based admin console. Through the admin console, law firms can easily create new Web pages and navigation links, add pictures, articles and firm news, change or add attorney profiles, and add slide- shows and video. www.EsquireInteractive.com Geller Data Solutions, Inc. (GDSI) announced the release of two new products, Internet Explorer Integration for WorkSite and Outlook Terminator. With the launch of Internet Explorer Integration for WorkSite, Autonomy WorkSite users gain the ability to download documents from the Internet directly into iManage. Outlook Terminator makes certain that with a proper shutdown, the myriad add-ins, toolbars, and integrations also shutdown correctly ensuring that when Outlook is restarted, all the users preferences are correctly installed. www.gdsi.com HyperionGP, a business and technology consulting practice to the legal profession, announced the availability of a HITECH Risk Assessment Starter Kit. The kit was designed by seasoned legal technology and compliance professionals to help law firms understand and address the new guidelines under the Heath Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. www.hyperiongp.com Hubbard One released enhancements to ContactNet that deliver advanced analytics and reporting, along with tight integration with market intelligence and FOCUS

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