Free OCS trial now available
Posted on Twitter this afternoon, an alert from InTechnology that free trials of Microsoft Office Communications Server are now available – A sensible no risk way of trialling this game-changing technology.
For more information http://www.intechnology.co.uk/HostedUC #ocs #ucoms.
Legal Inc gets personnel
Edisclosure, litigation and technology specialist Legal Inc has announced the launch of a new service aimed at addressing some of the key resourcing issues for today’s litigation support department.
Incterim will see Legal Inc consultants made available on short, medium or long-term secondments, enabling law firms to scale up teams with temporary staff who have specific litigation expertise and coal-face experience.
As Lisa Burton, co-founder of Legal Inc, explains, adequately resourcing caseloads when demands can flex so alarmingly is not as straightforward as it seems:
“The feedback we received from litigation support managers was that they all need outside help at some time or another, and not just extra lit support bodies but also increasingly IT consultants, workflow engineers and project managers. They were finding that going through mainstream recruitment agencies was not always satisfactory.
Common problems included people having the requisite skills but not the relevant experience within the litigation environment, which made for protracted learning curves and time-consuming supervision. And then there was finding the skills in the first place: identifying useful generalists at one end of the spectrum or essential specialists at the other was taking time and effort they could ill afford to spare.
As one of the UK’s most respected litigation support and technology consultancies, we have built our business on bringing together both legal and technical talent, immersing them within this unique arena and deploying them at the legal coal-face. We’re looking to supplement teams with seasoned practitioners, who understand the drivers and dynamics of litigation, who know every aspect of the EDRM working model, who have proven track records in their own particular subjects, and who can bring immediate value to any project needing extra resources. No protracted learning curve, no hand holding, no knowledge gaps, no process flaws, no management weaknesses.”
Key skills and roles covered include:
• IT systems architecture, infrastructure and security consultancy
• ‘Best of breed’ litigation support and other COTS application advice, consultancy
• Litigation systems and IT support
• Consultancy and advice on secure data collection
• Data and document preparation
• Capture of data (coding)
• Electronic data pre-processing, processing
• Early case assessment
• Review
• Production
• Disclosure
• eCourt solutions, electronic presentation
For more information on Incterim, then please contact Lisa Burton | lisa.burton@legalinc.co.uk
InTechnology scores OCS winner
All eyes might be on South Africa this month but law firms looking to transform their business communications could be onto a surefire winner back in the UK. Having already scored a first with its integration of hosted IP telephony and Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), data, networks and telephony management specialist InTechnology is following up with a special launch offer: firms signing before the end of June can net hosted OCS for just £6 per seat per month.
InTechnology’s hosted OCS solution, together with its Unity IP Voice product, is leading the way in the ‘Unified Communications’ revolution. Desktop tools such as presence, video calling, document sharing, group Instant Messaging and conferencing have the potential to accelerate decision-making, increase output, simplify collaboration, improve user engagement, reduce travel and boost green credentials while slashing communication and associated costs by up to 50%.
The service requires no upfront investment and can be deployed in as little as 24 hours; and with 24x7x365 support and no extended tie-ins, firms can trial the technology with confidence and without risk.
For more information call 0800 9832522 or email: hosteduc@intechnology.com
New podcast from InTechnology available
The latest episode of The Grid from data, networks and telephony management specialist InTechnology should be worth a listen if you’re interested in the convergence of communications and maximising the potential of tools such as presence and video calling.
‘The benefits of Unified Communications for law firms’ looks at what can be achieved through integrating IP telephony and Microsoft OCS and making it available on a hosted platform, and the specific advantages accruing to the legal user.
http://www.intechnology.co.uk/Documents/Podcasts/07_The_Grid_Unified-Communications-Legal-Sector.mp3
e-know.net chosen as preferred hosting partner as LexisNexis head into the Cloud
LexisNexis ® UK (www.lexisnexis.co.uk), a leading provider of content-enabled workflow solutions including legal enterprise software, today announced LexisNexis Managed Services, offering LexisNexis ® Axxia ® dna as a fully-hosted, integrated practice management application to customers.
This new Software-as-a-Service offering allows small and mid-sized law firms to easily adopt a next-generation practice management platform, without the need to incur additional capital expenditure to implement the solution or undertake ongoing administration, maintenance and upgrade costs to use the solution.Law firms adopting LexisNexis Managed Services benefit from secure, flexible and cost-effective access to a modern practice management platform that not only facilitates improved organisational performance, but also delivers business continuity and disaster recovery. The per user, per month subscription model means that customers can easily scale the solution up or down based on changing business requirements. As the management of LexisNexis Axxia dna is outsourced, customers’ IT departments minimise overhead costs and free up valuable time to focus on other strategic technology projects within their firms.
LexisNexis Managed Services is provisioned through a preferred alliance with e-know.net Limited (www.e-know.net), a managed services and hosting solutions provider with an unrivalled track record in the UK legal sector. e-know.net has an enterprise-level, state-of-the-art data centre and employs legally qualified support staff to help address customer issues and needs.
“We worked closely with LexisNexis Axxia dna customers to develop an enterprise-class hosted solution that offers cost-effective, functionally rich and customisable technology. The solution can be tailored to customers’ individual business needs, whether they pertain to the types of applications they require, disaster recovery, data security or other factors,” said Tim Cheadle, General Manager, LexisNexis UK Enterprise Solutions. “The combination of our extensive legal sector expertise and e-know.net’s successful track record of providing hosted solutions to this market makes LexisNexis Managed Services a compelling proposition. Furthermore, we intend to gradually expand this offering to include other LexisNexis products.”
To make it easy for customers to deploy LexisNexis Axxia dna, LexisNexis Managed Services hosts their current practice management system with e-know.net whilst simultaneously migrating to the new solution to minimise business disruption. In addition, with the latest LexisNexis Axxia dna releases and upgrades made immediately available to LexisNexis Managed Services customers, they can always have the most up-to-date integrated practice management system underpinning their business.LexisNexis Managed Services also offers LexisNexis Axxia dna customers the opportunity to host applications such as LexisNexis ® InterAction, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, VoIP and document management.
“This alliance is an exciting opportunity for both organisations. This formal arrangement will allow us to offer LexisNexis Axxia dna both as an ‘out of the box’ as well as managed bespoke solution, which will greatly benefit our customers. We have more experience in providing hosted solutions to the legal sector than any other service provider. Similarly, LexisNexis’ market penetration today in the UK legal market is unequalled. This collaboration is a logical step for both parties,” added Nigel Redwood, Managing Director at e-know.net. LexisNexis Axxia dna is a next-generation, fully-integrated practice management software designed to increase firms’ efficiency and profitability with legal accounting, time and billing, workflow, document and contact management in one integrated system.
