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Charles Russell Migrates to Next Generation Document and E-mail Management Platform Built On Hummingbird Enterprise(TM)
Charles Russell Migrates to Next Generation Document and E-mail Management Platform Built On Hummingbird Enterprise(TM): " -- Hummingbird Ltd. , a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced that UK-based law firm, Charles Russell, is completing a firm-wide migration from the two-tier client/server environment of DOCS Open(R), to the multi-tier architecture of Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) DM, part of the Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal solution.
The new platform supports the evolving needs of the progressive law firm, introducing a matter-centric way of working for the firm's 400 fee-earners, offering advanced document management, e-mail management, records management and knowledge discovery, enabling the users to put content into context. In addition, the new platform provides fee-earners with access to matter-related information, documents and e-mails from their BlackBerry(R) wireless devices.
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With offices across the United Kingdom, Charles Russell provides full and integrated legal services to businesses, individuals, governments and not-for-profit organizations. The law firm has been a Hummingbird client for many years, until recently using DOCS Open as their document management system. To support their expanding internal document management requirements and to provide new functionality for the fee-earners, the firm decided to upgrade to the multi-tier architecture of Hummingbird Enterprise DM. The advanced enterprise content management platform will help the firm attain a competitive edge in the marketplace, enhances the service capabilities to their clients, and has delivered significant performance improvements for e-mail retrieval and index searching.
Initially focusing on matter-centric computing for e-mail and documents, the firm has plans to extend its use of the Hummingbird platform to enable full matter lifecycle management, taking advantage of other key components of the Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal suite of solutions such as Enterprise Webtop (Hummingbird's portal framework), Mobility and Records Management." ¶ 08:57
The new platform supports the evolving needs of the progressive law firm, introducing a matter-centric way of working for the firm's 400 fee-earners, offering advanced document management, e-mail management, records management and knowledge discovery, enabling the users to put content into context. In addition, the new platform provides fee-earners with access to matter-related information, documents and e-mails from their BlackBerry(R) wireless devices.
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With offices across the United Kingdom, Charles Russell provides full and integrated legal services to businesses, individuals, governments and not-for-profit organizations. The law firm has been a Hummingbird client for many years, until recently using DOCS Open as their document management system. To support their expanding internal document management requirements and to provide new functionality for the fee-earners, the firm decided to upgrade to the multi-tier architecture of Hummingbird Enterprise DM. The advanced enterprise content management platform will help the firm attain a competitive edge in the marketplace, enhances the service capabilities to their clients, and has delivered significant performance improvements for e-mail retrieval and index searching.
Initially focusing on matter-centric computing for e-mail and documents, the firm has plans to extend its use of the Hummingbird platform to enable full matter lifecycle management, taking advantage of other key components of the Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal suite of solutions such as Enterprise Webtop (Hummingbird's portal framework), Mobility and Records Management." ¶ 08:57
