Novell Legal Partner Quote Sheet

"GroupWise gives us an excellent framework on which to build our legal CRM/Matter Management solution," said Donovan Rogers, product development manager at GroupLink. "The GroupWise/ContactWise combination helps track business activity based on specific matters in law offices and can track all the activity of each internal or external contact involved with that matter, whether phone calls, emails and other correspondence. ContactWise was also developed to streamline business processes around CRM information, and allow other business process modules ¾ such as GroupLink’s E-Business Routing software, 2ndC’s DocuWise, or other similar systems ¾ to plug into the basic CRM module."

"Novell’s focus on such an extremely customer-friendly integrated solution for the legal market is completely in-line with JetForm’s commitment to fixing our customers’ business process problems," said John Hogerland, vice president, global business development. "JetForm is an industry leader in automating e-processes, document creation, and customized workflow solutions ¾ solutions that are imperative to the legal profession. Our e-process expertise rounds out Novell’s Net solution."

"Because of the continued use of fax in the legal industry, there is a clear requirement for a better solution to manage the growing flow of hundreds, if not thousands, of fax pages that are sent and received by law firms nationwide each business day" said Pierre Chamberland, vice president of business development for Tobit Software. "Our objective in partnering with Novell as part of the Novell Legal initiative is to help firms leverage the power of Novell’s directory and collaboration products and provide them with a truly cost-effective and comprehensive network fax technology platform. By improving the way they manage their fax traffic, reducing the reliance on paper-based fax machines, and coupling fax with existing e-mail systems, firms can reduce their fax costs by thousands of dollars a month."

"Today everyone is talking about knowledge portals, but unless you structure and organize your information, you will never be able to turn that information into knowledge," said Birgitte D. Pedersen, CEO & president, 2ndC Americas. "With Novell Legal we are addressing the specific information management needs for the legal market."