IRIS Nederland, a specialist in providing solutions for content services and workflow automation for knowledge professionals, selected by Norwegian law firm Hjort to implement iManage Werk, the leading documentbeheer solution for the legal and professional services markets.
Supporting a wide client approach
The origins of Hjort date back to 1893. Today, Hjort employs approximately 85 staff members, of whom 63 are lawyers and associate lawyers. Hjort is owned by 26 partners, all of whom are active in the firm. Morten Staubo, IT Director at Hjort: “Different from most of the larger law firms in Norway we have a wide customer approach. We don’t just work in business law but also in many other areas like civil procedures and family business. Besides, we employ many high ranked lawyers.”
Accelerating and improving document processes
The implementation of the new iManage Work solution was very important to Hjort to accelerate and improve the many different document and e-mail handling processes. For many years Hjort used a document management system, developed in-house and based on a SharePoint platform. “Unfortunately, this system had become outdated,” says Staubo. “It had too much downtime so the documents were not available and the performances weren’t as good as they should have been. We decided it was time to explore the market and look into different solutions and approaches. The major question for us was whether we wanted to develop the new software ourselves, or start using common market systems for law firms. Data quality will increase by using a sophisticated DMS like iManage Work: we want to centralize all documents and communication on all subjects in iManage Work. This will create an extensive helicopter view.”
Hjort consulted other law firms and did extensive market research: what solutions did other Norwegian firms use en what were the results? “The feedback on IRIS was very positive and rightly so: the cooperation with IRIS is successful and the people are professional. Other important issues in our decision making process were stability and availability,” Staubo adds, “and iManage Work really meets our demands.”
iManage Work offers the most comprehensive suite of information management applications on a single, common platform and is used by more than 1,400 law firms worldwide, including 75 of the top 100 global law firms.
Over IRIS
IRIS is een toonaangevende leverancier van oplossingen voor informatiebeheer, die al meer dan 25 jaar actief is in de EMEA-regio. We zijn er trots op deel uit te maken van Canon Benelux en bieden strategisch advies, softwareoplossingen, systeemintegraties en technische ondersteuning aan een groot aantal bedrijfstakken, waaronder juridische en boekhoudkundige bedrijven, financiële dienstverleners en grote ondernemingen.
Onze focus ligt op intelligent informatiebeheer en we bieden een uitgebreid scala aan oplossingen, waaronder documentdigitalisering, contentbeheer en kennis- en bedrijfsprocesbeheer. We werken nauw samen met toonaangevende technologieleveranciers zoals iManage, Litera-Microsystems, BRYTER en Co-Flo om de meest geavanceerde en innovatieve softwareoplossingen op de markt aan te bieden.
Bij IRIS zijn we er trots op dat we een persoonlijke en op maat gemaakte aanpak bieden voor de unieke behoeften en uitdagingen van elke klant. Ons team van hoogopgeleide consultants, ontwikkelaars en ondersteunend personeel heeft een passie voor het helpen van bedrijven bij het optimaliseren van hun informatiebeheerprocessen. Ons streven naar uitmuntendheid heeft geresulteerd in talloze succesvolle projecten en tevreden klanten.
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