July 2010 - Law Firm Newsletter

Reduce Law Firm Overhead with SaaS

(See below for special limited offer)

eDI's SaaS (Software as a Service) offering continues to help law firms reduce IT expenses and increase firm profits.

Through eDI's SaaS offering, eDI takes litigation support software, loads it into its robust IT infrastructure and builds in customizable workflow engines. It also adds several layers of data security. The end result is enhanced data security, advanced technology, customized workflow, increased support, and decreased costs to the law firm.

eDI's SaaS offering is designed to reduce the financial and personnel burdens associated with conventional litigation IT and software licensing deployments. With a customized eDI SaaS solution, law firms gain more IT functionality and control, make litigation software applications accessible over the Internet, and gain the flexibility to quickly increase or decrease data storage capacities with no upfront costs.

Case-specific financial analysis also allows for cost recovery on a case-by-case basis.
eDI's SaaS offering allows law firms of all sizes to shift litigation support capital expenses and software acquisitions and transform IT departments. It enables clients to become proactive instead of reactive with respect to litigation support.

Advantages to in-house deployment include:

Reduce law firm IT expenses by up to 35 percent,
Reduce hardware expenses - Law firms can add data storage with no upfront hardware costs.
Reduce software expenses - Law firms gain additional software licensing options and can leverage their own licenses or sub-license with eDI.
Quickly change storage needs - Quickly increase or decrease data storage capacities as needed with no costs.
Eliminate acquisition costs - Law firms leverage eDI's storage devices and schematics thus eliminating the need to research, acquire, and implement new storage devices.

In short, eDI's law firm SaaS offering leverages existing capital investments, provides additional litigation support staff, offers cost-shifting methods, and dramatically reduces costs.

CASE STUDY

An AMLAW top 100 firm had a project that was part of an MDL. The litigation team needed to utilize a database in a format that all members were familiar with, that enabled them to collaborate with one another throughout the project, and that provided an area in which to build their trial presentation. End users of the database software were located around the world, requiring access from anywhere at any time. The firm also did not have the infrastructure in place to provide access to the hosted database for parties outside the firm itself.

THE eDI SOLUTION

After examining the firm's needs and capabilities, eDI identified that most end users had experience with Summation software. Through the SaaS offering, eDI provided the Summation application, enabling the firm to fully administer the software and to maintain total control of the data and the processing. eDI also provided training to the parties who were not familiar with Summation. The Verdical case management product was also made available through eDI's SaaS offering, and a customized routing was created to transfer the necessary documents out of Summation and into Verdical, so the team could prepare for the depositions and trial.

CASE RESULT

This solution enabled the team to utilize a software application they were familiar with, maintain total project control, and provide worldwide access to all parties through Web-hosting, with no front-end requirement on the part of the firm to expand their network.

TIPS and TRICKS

Litigation support and litigation matters are typically deadline driven and often times subject to rapid increases and decreases in hardware and software demands. eDI's SaaS offering allows IT personnel to better maintain control of their departments by shifting the volatility of litigation support.
special-offer
To demonstrate the value of litigation SaaS services to law firms, eDI has extended a special SaaS offer to the qualifying subscribers of this e-Newsletter that will provide either the Summation or Concordance applications via SaaS at no cost through the end of 2010. This offer includes: