Hosted SharePoint 2010 for Law Firms

Law firms face a major challenge: how to augment the efficiency and effectiveness of their IT assets while still saving money.

Why is it challenging? Because mountains of data are simply a big time sink. The sheer volume of information and knowledge that must be processed by a law firm on a daily basis—so that it can be searched for, retrieved, managed and used in the future—is staggering. By its nature, it’s a business process that is prone to administrative waste and lost revenue.

That’s why law firms are implementing the Microsoft SharePoint platform for collaboration and content management on an unprecedented level.

When your firm’s success is built on your business intelligence, it’s critical that you have effective tools in place to communicate and collaborate internally with your teams and externally with your clients, making good use of document workflow, portal, search and integration technologies. That’s where hosted SharePoint can help.

AIS Network’s hosted SharePoint 2010 is highly configurable and scalable. It has valuable document management capabilities as well as an integrated suite of powerful business intelligence tools, public-facing Web sites, portals, collaborative environments, private communities, custom applications and so much more – all brought together into a comprehensive platform that empowers you to manage knowledge and information, streamline business activities and processes, and respond to client demands more quickly.

And by hosting your SharePoint platform with AISN, you get a world-class Service Level Agreement that offers the security, availability and accessibility you need to meet all of the IT and compliance challenges that you face.

Manage Legal Matters Using Client Extranets

In today’s complex legal environment, collaboration is essential and increasingly important for those firms that embrace cross-practice, cross-industry and/or cross-geographic client service.

Hosted SharePoint 2010’s secure client extranets allow the firm’s entire legal team and its clients the anywhere access they need to collaborate closely on cases and stay in constant touch. The dashboard centralizes the information they need, including time and billing, meetings and updates. Collaboration is optimized through document review, version tracking, and indexing for efficient data search.

Hosted SharePoint 2010 Delivers for Your Law Firm

Hosted SharePoint 2010 provides the tools and workflow support to help you meet compliance efforts and minimize risk, manage documents for electronic discovery, and save time and money. AISN can work with you to customize the hosting plan you choose. And, we can integrate your home-grown, back-office systems.

Some of the features that hosted SharePoint 2010 delivers include:

• Automated workflows boost worker productivity—especially useful for document review and approval, issue tracking, reporting and signature collection
• A simple, consistent user experience integrates with email, Web browsers and other familiar client applications
• Scalable document libraries can handle millions of docs without difficulty and feature records management, tagging and rating capabilities
• Search with FAST capability, including the ability to preview thumbnail images, enables reliable and quick searching across all client documents and content, saving considerable time and money
• Automated routing of email communications ensures your client is always up-to-date
• Status tracking of all legal matters and various efforts associated with them, including risk management and budget
• Live, interactive business intelligence portals assemble and display mission-critical information from disparate sources
• Comprehensive control over content, including retention and auditing policies for sensitive business records, meets regulatory requirements, reducing litigation risk
• Easy-to-use tools to author content for Web sites, submit it for approval and schedule online deployment
• Enterprise access to internal social networking connects people with information and expertise, encouraging professional development and sharing of intellectual resources

Why AIS Network Should Be Your Vendor of Choice

Increasingly, legal organizations are turning to AISN for help in adapting to the new business and regulatory environment they now face. Being a successful supplier takes much more than having technical expertise. We know that in order to deliver the solutions you need, we must understand the challenges of the evolving legal industry.

AISN offers a high-touch, personalized approach to solving the unique IT, seemingly insurmountable, challenges each company faces with experts who routinely develop custom hosted solutions. With a best practices approach to working with you, and our understanding of the organizational and compliance issues you face, we can be your partner in deploying a customized, hosted SharePoint solution. See what our clients are saying about us.

Small and Large Firms Benefit

We know that the demands on IT departments are many and can be overwhelming. Our staff’s rich experience and forward-thinking approach can help you achieve today’s goals while preparing for the future.

Both large and small law firms benefit from AISN’s hosted SharePoint 2010. Small firms impress clients with an advanced technological infrastructure and set the stage for faster growth with a scalable solution. Large firms can become more efficient at every level and gain more control over information management to improve quality of work life for employees, increase efficiency and enhance client relationships and communications. Plus, no matter your in-house technology, hosted SharePoint integrates seamlessly.

Hosting Plans Provide Options

At AISN, we offer our service in the cloud or on dedicated servers with online and mobile accessibility to the hosted service. With all of the services we provide, AISN is valued by its customers because we offer personalized, high-touch service so your solution is customized to work for your company’s unique way of doing business. All hosting plans offer our guarantee of 100% uptime and availability and disaster recovery. Our support is backed by seasoned technical engineers, who are available 24x7x365—live, on the phone—no matter what you need.

Security, Compliance Issues Addressed

AISN is 100% SLA-guaranteed and SSAE 16 Type II-certified to maintain the highest level of security. Additionally, with SharePoint 2010, we customize client solutions to address critical compliance issues involving PCI Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other industry-specific regulations.

While we know it’s critical to protect organization and client data, that’s not a task that is easily ensured. Managed SharePoint hosting through AISN gives you the data protection and recovery you need.

CATEGORIES: