New Practice Management Features in Elite Enterprise 3.6 Reflect Strategic Product Vision and Provide Improved Risk Management Tools
Partnerships with industry organizations yield valuable user input in designing new version
LOS ANGELES, June 12, 2006 – A new version of the Elite® Enterprise suite of financial and practice management applications, including significant additions to practice management functionality, is now available from Thomson Elite. The new capabilities in Enterprise 3.6 are the result of heavy research and development investments the company has made in association with highly respected legal industry groups.
Working with Hildebrandt International, a global leader in professional services consulting, Thomson Elite conducted interviews on what customers need most in a practice management software suite. Both organizations are part of The Thomson Corporation, which affords them a unique opportunity to combine strengths and develop advanced practices for the legal industry. The interviews included forums with general counsel from major law firms to discuss issues involved in new business intake and conflicts analysis.
Conflicts Manager in Enterprise 3.6 improves efficiency by displaying all matters and clients linked to a related party in the conflict search result list. Seeing more relevant information at a glance reduces the number of clicks needed to review the detail on which to base new business intake decisions. Users also can generate attractively formatted, easy-to-read conflicts reports using Elite® Document Studio templates.
Records Manager now offers active integration with Interwoven WorkSite, a collaborative document management platform, to manage all physical and electronic documents within the Elite® Records Manager application. The new Pleading Index feature enables the creation and maintenance of a table of contents of all pleadings related to a case, automatically reorganizing and renumbering files as they are added to the system.
Task functionality, which provides all the advantages of event creation without date dependency, has been added to Case Manager in Enterprise 3.6. Users can view all tasks assigned to a matter and assign tasks to individuals or groups. Tasks can have child tasks linked to them or be linked to events.
“Partnering with Hildebrandt has allowed us to further develop our software offerings that automate the workflows and processes inside law firms,” said Chris Poole, president and CEO, Thomson Elite. “In Enterprise 3.6 we use the knowledge we gained to enable firms to reduce risk exposure and increase firm efficiency with our practice management applications.”
About Thomson Elite
Thomson Elite is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to professional services firms worldwide. Thomson Elite is a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and is a premier provider of financial and practice management systems to the legal industry and to other professional services markets, including accounting, engineering, marketing services, and management and IT consulting. For more information, visit www.thomsonelite.com.
The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2005 revenues of $8.5 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,500 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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