PRESS RELEASE I.R.I.S. serves Swiss law firm Lenz ... - IRIS ECM
PRESS RELEASE I.R.I.S. serves Swiss law firm Lenz ... - IRIS ECM
PRESS RELEASE I.R.I.S. serves Swiss law firm Lenz ... - IRIS ECM
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I.R.I.S. <strong>serves</strong> <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>law</strong> <strong>firm</strong> <strong>Lenz</strong> & Staehelin<br />
“I.R.I.S. best suited to act as implementation partner”<br />
<strong>PRESS</strong> <strong>RELEASE</strong><br />
Louvain-la-Neuve, 24 Februari 2010 – The stock exchange listed company I.R.I.S., (EURONEXT<br />
Brussels: IRI), specialized in Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) 1 , Enterprise Content<br />
Management (<strong>ECM</strong>) 2 and complex infrastructure for Information and Communication Technology<br />
(ICT) 3<br />
, is pleased to announce that it was selected by <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>law</strong> <strong>firm</strong> <strong>Lenz</strong> & Staehelin to implement<br />
iManage WorkSite, Autonomy’s flagship document management solution for the legal and<br />
professional services markets. WorkSite will further improve the current tailor-made solution.<br />
With three offices - in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich - <strong>Lenz</strong> & Staehelin is Switzerland’s biggest <strong>law</strong><br />
<strong>firm</strong>. The <strong>firm</strong> specialises in all major areas of <strong>law</strong> and it was named “<strong>Swiss</strong> Law Firm of the Year<br />
2009” (Who's Who Legal).<br />
<strong>Lenz</strong> & Staehelin’s current software solution includes among others conflict of interest,<br />
administration of mandates and billing, as well as accounting and document management. The <strong>firm</strong><br />
was looking for a document management system which enabled them to save, search and retrieve<br />
the right information even faster.<br />
Lukas Morscher, Partner and Head of IT, Telecoms & Media at <strong>Lenz</strong> & Staehelin was one of the<br />
partners involved in the evaluation process and managed the contractual part of the project: “In our<br />
evaluation of a new document and email management system, it soon became clear that WorkSite<br />
1<br />
IDR (Intelligent Document Recognition): automatic recognition of the content of structured (forms) or nonstructured<br />
documents (incoming post, invoices etc.)<br />
2<br />
<strong>ECM</strong> (Enterprise Content Management): acronym for the technologies relating to electronic content<br />
management.<br />
3<br />
Optimized IT infrastructure: “best-in-class” architecture for servers and digital storage, including<br />
consolidation and virtualization
iManage promises to best address our <strong>firm</strong>’s needs. Our assessment of experience made by <strong>law</strong> <strong>firm</strong>s<br />
abroad con<strong>firm</strong>ed our first impression we gained from I.R.I.S. professionals that they would be best<br />
suited to act also as our implementation partner in Switzerland.”<br />
“In particular, the functionality in the areas of collaboration, portal access, knowledge and now also<br />
workflow, makes iManage WorkSite a popular system within the legal profession. Within all <strong>law</strong> <strong>firm</strong>s<br />
we see that once the ease and efficiency of WorkSite is experienced, they don’t want otherwise. The<br />
fact that the solution as well as I.R.I.S. was selected by this <strong>Swiss</strong> specialist within the legal profession<br />
is very gratifying,” adds Dries Ausems, Business Development Manager at I.R.I.S.<br />
Building on Autonomy’s advanced Meaning Based Computing platform, Autonomy iManage offers<br />
the most comprehensive suite of information management applications on a single, common<br />
platform and is used by more than 1,400 <strong>law</strong> <strong>firm</strong>s worldwide, including 75 of the top 100 global <strong>law</strong><br />
<strong>firm</strong>s.<br />
About I.R.I.S.<br />
The mission of I.R.I.S. to increase the productivity and know-how of its clients by helping them<br />
better manage their documents, data and information.<br />
I.R.I.S. Products & Technologies develop technologies and products within the field of Intelligent<br />
Document Recognition and commercialize the product portfolio worldwide through strong<br />
partnerships.<br />
I.R.I.S. Professional Solutions offer companies and governments the chance of finding in one single<br />
company innovating know-how and cutting-edge technology for the effective management of their<br />
documents, data flows and information infrastructure.<br />
I.R.I.S. employs more than 600 people, spread over branches in Louvain-la-Neuve, Vilvoorde and<br />
Antwerp (Belgium), Orly (France), Windhof (Luxembourg), Amstelveen and Maastricht (Netherlands),<br />
Aachen (Germany), Delray Beach (Florida, United States), Hong Kong (China) and Oslo (Norway).<br />
For more information, please visit www.iriscorporate.com – www.ecm.irislink.com<br />
Press contact:<br />
Frederik Welslau<br />
Marketing & Communications Manager <strong>ECM</strong><br />
I.R.I.S. Europe Headquarters<br />
Tel.: +32 (0) 10 832 409<br />
frederik.welslau@iriscorporate.com