Press Release - Linetime lead way with latest Digital Dication Link
23rd April 2007
The country’s Number ONE Legal IT Supplier has extended its product portfolio through the development of a seamless link to one of the leading suppliers of Digital Dictation solutions.
Linetime Liberate users now have the choice of two of the country’s leading digital dictation software solutions; nFlow and BigHand.
Linetime announced a cooperation agreement with specialist digital dictation developer, nFlow some months ago, whereby nFlow’s software was integrated in to the automated document production process in Linetime’s Liberate suite of legal software. This integration has already delivered substantial productivity benefits to Liberate users.
The announcement of a similar agreement with BigHand ensures that Linetime’s software is now compatible with the two leading Digital Dictation systems on the market.
Phil Snee, Linetime’s Technical Director commented; “The concept of partnering market leading specialist complementary software developers is a fundamental element of our product development strategy and we anticipate entering similar cooperation agreements in other areas of the legal IT market as it continues its rapid growth and development.
“The success of Digital Dictation within the Legal market hinges on the same four factors that control the success of the majority of software systems.
These are…
• Ease of use
• Stability
• Scalability
• Flexibility
“Through the integration of these two market leading Digital dictation systems Linetime can now offer customers a number of crucial benefits all of which lead to improved profit margins.”
These benefits include:
• Increase billable time – more efficient use of time
• Reduce cover (holiday/illness) costs
• Improve client service – maintain clients and increase market share
through recommendation
• Comply with flexible working legislation
• Instant remote working – reducing travel costs. Increased fee-earner
flexibility
• Improved security and client confidentiality
• Disaster recovery provision – lower business risk
• Increase team working – improve staff moral and help retain
important team members
• Allow legal systems integration – leading to more efficiency and lower
costs
• Management reporting – improve control, lower costs, increase
profitability
BigHand Background
BigHand3 is the latest version of BigHand Digital Dictation, which is reputedly the No.1 digital dictation product in the world. Over 50% of the Top-250 UK law firms using digital dictation workflow now use BigHand technology. The BigHand system has won a plethora of awards including: ‘The SCL Award for Most Outstanding Application of IT to the Law in the UK and Ireland’. Built upon a three-tier architecture with an XML front-end, BigHand3 represents a new generation of digital dictation workflow software.
BigHand allows a user to dictate directly to the firm’s network using a handheld microphone, headset, remote device, PDA, mobile phone or via the web. An encrypted sound file is then transferred instantly to available secretarial support, wherever they may be located in the world. Importantly BigHand software is built to respond to the way you work, whether you are a small, medium or large firm. The latest release, BigHand3, really makes a difference as exemplified by the following…
Case Study: Savings of £400,000 directly attributed to Digital Dictation
Chris Simmons, IT Director at Campbell Hooper, illustrates how their 26 partner commercial law firm based in London, realised huge savings of £400,000 over a 3 year period. Campbell Hooper has directly attributed the savings to the installation of BigHand Digital Dictation software.
For more Information contact:
Keith Hutton
Linetime Limited
Moorfield Close
Leeds LS19 7YA
T: 0113 250 0020 F: 0113 250 0524
www.linetime.co.uk E: info@linetime.co.uk
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