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Hummingbird Announces Content Library Consolidation Offering
Hummingbird Ltd., provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announced the availability of a comprehensive Content Library Consolidation solution for law firms as part of its Enterprise Content Integration solution. The solution is designed to help law firms with their library consolidation efforts, to minimize the time required for consolidation while ensuring complete data integrity and availability throughout the process.
"In response to the clear movement towards data centre consolidation in law firms, Hummingbird is pleased to be the first vendor delivering a packaged solution to assist with this effort," said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. "We are uniquely positioned to assist law firms with their centralization initiatives, as we have unmatched product capabilities and domain expertise."
Hummingbird Genio, Hummingbird's data integration offering, has already proven to be invaluable in many Global 2000 organizations for mission-critical data extraction, transformation and integration projects. The Content Library Consolidation offering for law firms is built on this solid foundation, packaged with legal-specific project templates, coupled with proven methodologies and best practices.
The Content Library Consolidation offering is designed to be a cost- effective quick start program. This pre-packaged, fixed rate solution consists of all the tools and professional services required to ensure maximum return on investment on consolidation efforts.
Howrey Simon Arnold & White, one of the world's leading international law firms, was one of the first firms to leverage Hummingbird's data integration tool to consolidate its distributed libraries. Hummingbird Genio was used to consolidate data from multiple libraries in offices across the firm into a single, centralized repository. The resulting document management configuration has reduced hardware expenditures and IT support and maintenance costs for the firm, directly affecting the bottom line.
"With offices spread across the United States and over 1,600 staff, the fast, efficient exchange and integration of documents and information is fundamental to our success," said Robert Koenen, COO at Howrey Simon Arnold & White. "With Hummingbird's centralized library solution, our attorneys and staff have access to all our documents from one centralized repository. The solution is flexible, open, easy-to-use and administer, resulting in improved collaboration between internal staff and external clients and reduced operating costs and IT manpower."
Attorneys at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP are also benefiting from the consolidation of the firm's IT resources. Bradley S. Christmas, CIO at Akin Gump says, "Prior to deploying Hummingbird Enterprise, we were using nearly 30 separate DM libraries. Now over six million documents are consolidated into two production libraries and one archive library in two data centres. Our server hardware requirements were reduced and we are now positioned to accommodate additional lawyers with minimal increases in per- lawyer technology expense."
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Canada's fourth largest law firm, employs over 1,400 people in nine offices. Prior to implementing the Hummingbird DM system, Fasken required conversion of approximately 1.5 million documents from a competing document management system. "Our data integration project processed documents in batches, grouped by author, converting all metadata, including history, and documents from six source libraries, into a single DM destination library," said Greg Christensen, Director - Knowledge Management Technology Support, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. "Our consolidated DM system simplifies and reduces administration costs and improves knowledge sharing across the firm - providing us with real competitive advantages."
The Hummingbird Content Library Consolidation solution is available immediately. For more information, please visit: http://www.hummingbird.com/products/enterprise/content_integration/index.html
About Hummingbird Content Integration(TM)
Hummingbird Enterprise Content Integration represents a new generation of enterprise integration, which allows Hummingbird Enterprise content to be shared across each of the components of Hummingbird Enterprise. This provides organizations with a unified view of their enterprise content - enterprise content that is accessible, meaningful and actionable. Hummingbird Content Integration consists of a data integration solution, Hummingbird Genio®, that transforms, enriches and directs information across multiple enterprise systems and applications. Also included with Hummingbird Content Integration is a metadata management solution, Hummingbird Met@Data(TM), which ties and links all information system components though their metadata. This enterprise solution provides seamless access to all metadata sources enabling knowledge workers to gain access to valuable information, and making the time they spend locating and retrieving information more productive. 25.08.2004, Hummingbird Ltd.
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