Altien Ltd

Lawyers were early adopters of document management technology, and today most law firms have a document management system of some sort.

However, many are now looking for next generation ECM solutions that meet all their content management needs and include fully integrated business process management, email management, records management and eDiscovery capabilities.

Over the next five to ten years, we see enormous challenges for law firms in the way they manage their unstructured data. We expect continuing explosive growth in the volume, variety and complexity of digital information and a parallel increase in the costs associated with information governance failure.

To cope with this, firms need to establish a single master content catalog that will store every digital artifact that needs to be stored and dispose of everything else, and will manage this process reliably, transparently and in real time.

The system must be highly scalable because huge growth in volume is a given, but the system must be flexible and adaptable to cope with a changing environment as new forms of communication and content creation technology emerge.

Until now however there has not been a solution that delivers the enterprise-grade platform capabilities firms need to meet these future challenges and which also matches the specific way that lawyers work with documents.

Altien Legal Document Manager (LDM) is an advanced, matter-centric document & business process management application built on the IBM Enterprise Content Management platform.

For law firms, Altien Legal Document Manager delivers four key benefits:

• Strong User Buy-in.

  LDM is built around an advanced matter-centric model and works the way that lawyers expect. It is simple to learn, but even more importantly, it is efficient for frequent use.

• Manage all your content in one place.

  LDM enables firms to bring together all their documents, emails, images and other media into a single, hugely-scalable and flexible repository. Using the IBM Content Collector engine, all inbound and outbound emails are automatically captured and filed into relevant matters.

• Improve efficiency with process automation.

  LDM goes beyond a static DMS by enabling the automation and auditing of document-centric and matter-centric workflows, from simple ad hoc tasks to complex multi-step, multi-party processes.

• Architected for the challenges of the future.

  The IBM ECM platform offers an unrivalled range of core capabilities and is the choice of many of the world’s leading corporations including more than 75% of the Fortune 100.