The integration of Line of Business (LOB) information to key business process is a critical success factor in Law Firms and Corporate Legal. The Handshake Software
Relationship Framework rapidly integrates LOB applications to easily deliver real time information in context through Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook, other Office applications and in the Web.
Handshake Software provides Matter-Centric, Client-Centric, Practice-Centric, Professional-Centric views, as well as others, of all the firm’s information. Handshake Software supports all of the major Line-of-Business4 application used in Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments today.
Law Firms and Corporate Legal departments are faced with information access and data integration challenges when trying to integrate their disparate LOB applications that only Enterprise Portals can solve. Handshake Software
SharePoint Envoy enables firms to quickly expose real-time data from its core business systems, including client, matter, documents and financial information, to timekeepers and decision-makers through a Microsoft SharePoint-based intranet Portals.
Based on the Relationship Framework, Handshake Software can Jumpstart Portal implementations with integrations from Practice Management, ECM, Knowledge Management and CRM solutions. Coupled with the solution's hundreds of pre-built graphical web parts, this integration enables firms to quickly deploy portals that meet their exact business needs.
Portal implementations have traditionally locked users into predetermined, “designed by committee”, static pages of information that provided the user with no control of what information they viewed and how it was organized. Handshake Software PageGuru™ solves this problem by delivering an easy-to-use SharePoint personalization environment that allows the user, with no SharePoint training, to select what they want to see and organize information exactly how they want to see it – on any SharePoint page!
Law Firms and Corporate Legal departments are driven by information from their front office documents linked to their back office LOB applications. Without access to all of the information the organization they find their daily tasks difficult or impossible to accomplish.
Handshake Software SharePoint Bridge extends Microsoft Search to all of the systems supported by the Relationship Framework. Organizations can securely1 search their iManage or eDOCS (Hummingbird) repositories with and related to information from their Practice Management or CRM solution. and other applications by allowing SharePoint to understand the documents, metadata and most importantly the security of the repositories.
To be competitive in today’s fast-paced, competitive business climate, Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments need to provide a higher level of service for their clients and partners. Connecting clients and partners fosters a deeper relationship demonstrating considerable value.
Handshake Software Content Replication connects clients to their work product by migrating content from iManage and Open Text (Hummingbird) ECM systems to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 or 2010 to create standards-based customer facing extranets. Handshake Software PageGuru™ allows Extranets to be customized to meet the unique needs of Clients or a given matter.
Document Management is a major front office application for Law Firms and Corporate Legal. Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 contain rich Document Management functionality. However, Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments have developed highly defined requirements for Document Management, that SharePoint alone cannot satisfy. Handshake Software
DM Director extends SharePoint DM to enable Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments to use SharePoint as their document management system. Based on the industry leading Handshake Software Relationship Framework,
DM Director “fills the gaps” for SharePoint and provides exciting
new capabilities2.
DM Director can help you get a higher return on your investment in SharePoint.
DM Director provides a rich and flexible user interface combined with a dynamic foldering structure allowing your firm to take advantage of the impressive array of features in SharePoint for Document Management and Records Management.
Email has become the primary client and partner communications mechanism in many Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments Email messages themselves containing documents that otherwise would be under the control of a Document Management system. Organizations struggle to implement an Enterprise Information Management strategy based on Microsoft SharePoint without Email being a major component of that strategy.
Handshake Software Email Director captures business-critical email within SharePoint enabling a unified view of all enterprise content. Email Director transforms email from an information island to a critical element in an organization’s Information Management strategy. Major features include:
| Automatic Profiling |
Drag and Drop Filing |
Single Click Profiling |
| Profile on Send |
Relationship Management |
Background Operations |