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In the past year, NetDocuments’ Partner Program has exploded from a small group of consulting firms to a global network of over 90 Partners worldwide.
Our Partners range in size from single consultants, offering a best-of-breed document management solution, to full-scale firms with multiple offices and hundreds of employees offering the end to end solution of selling, consulting, implementing and deploying the service.
So whether it’s a simple lead referral, or the complete solution, the Program has proven effective for driving two-way business via value-adding consulting firms.
Here is what some of our partners have had to say:
“We are very excited to add the NetDocuments Document Management in the cloud solution to our product offering base. The benefits of a feature rich document management, available anywhere, anytime, combined with built-in business continuity services and backup will be of great benefit to many of our law firm clients.” - Steven J. Best, Esq., Partner, Affinity Consulting Group LLC
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“This past year we’ve seen increased interest and demand for Cloud-based systems solutions from both small and large companies. NetDocuments has been offering online document management for over a decade and we are excited to see that the market for this and other Cloud-based services has matured. Many companies have plans to migrate existing systems to this feature rich platform. In the document management space, NetDocuments is the only competition for traditional systems. We expect our certified status will be win-win-win for our clients, NetDocuments and TechZen.” – Ed Arovas, President & CTO, TechZen
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“The move to the cloud many times means limiting your functionality. Not so with NetDocuments; this is why our team of experts at 7 Second System chose to partner with them.” – Kelly Jones, Co-Founder, 7 Second System, Inc.
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“Knowledge Partners had been looking for a solution for small to medium sized organisations where a great ROI still applies to a smaller number of uses. The NetDocuments ECM solution delivered as a SaaS (Software as as Service) or Cloud model fits this market requirement perfectly. Not only does NetDocuments have all features you would expect from an ECM, the lower total cost of ownership (TOC) makes it a compelling business proposition! Practically any organisation large or small looking to better manage, store, organise and share its electronic content can do so more cost effectively now than any time in the past.
Knowledge Partners has found dealing with NetDocuments to be easy, professional and helpful. Other vendors would do well if they managed to reach the standards delivered by NetDocuments. Knowledge Partners is excited about delivering NetDocuments to the Australian market with a strengthening sales pipeline.” – Carl Lindemann, CEO, Knowledge Partners
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“Eastern Legal Systems believes that the large-scale deployment of broadband internet access in smaller law firms we are seeing today will, over time, introduce fundamental changes in the way information is managed by attorneys. While ‘apps in the cloud’ are slowly starting to gain traction, we believe that “data in the cloud” managed via familiar desktop apps, is a much more viable approach to sharing – and securing -information within a legal practice. NetDocuments is spot-on in embracing this approach with their document management service. Developing a reseller channel from among legal technology consultants should accelerate adoption rates among those smaller law practices most in need of this approach. Eastern Legal Systems is proud to be part of the campaign to deliver this versatile technology to the small law firm.” – Jack Schaller, Director of Sales, Eastern Legal Systems
For more information regarding the partner program, send an an email or a tweet (@MarriottMurdock) to Marriott Murdock, NetDocuments Partner Program Manager.
May 3rd, 2011
Tags: collaboration, Consulting Partner, document management, SaaS|
Category: business continuity, Channel Partner, Cloud Computing, community, Consulting, Professional Services, SaaS
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Remember recess in elementary? That’s right, a hundred kids running at full speed in different directions, headed for unknown destinations, totally oblivious of who would be there and why? Exciting, yes. Fun, yes. Total mayhem, you bet. The Cloud Computing industry is growing at a break-neck pace, recess is out, and it’s time to make some sense of the chaos.
Collaboration is a broad and well trodden topic; in fact, it was Salesforce.com’s theme at their event of the year, titled “Collabor8”. But just because Salesforce.com can throw around phrases like “collaborative software”, or taking a “collaborative approach” in their business vernacular, it doesn’t make it any easier to grasp in a real sense, nor to implement in a real-life, competitive and fast-paced environment, especially if your business has nothing to do with Salesforce.com.
Note: If you think collaboration is a cliché topic, then you don’t really understand how far reaching of a “principle” it really is. It is the secret sauce to the budding industries and technologies of social media, software/technology design, the user experience, and channel management, so quit you’re complaining and put your “cliché” card away.
I’m not talking about collaboration specific to the NetDocuments world, although it’s worth mentioning that client portals, data rooms, extranets, threaded discussions, notifications, alerts, and workspaces are all collaborative tools available within NetDocuments’ functionality (shameless plug), but I’m talking about Collaboration from a bird’s eye perspective in the developing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. Business solutions aggregators are beginning to sprout and take shape; timely since CNET has just validated that one of the “Top 12 Cloud Gifts of 2010” is the broad acceptance of Cloud Computing. What immediately follows acceptance? Chaos. What should follow chaos? Collaboration.
Here are a few industry-specific collaborators – Let’s see what they have to offer…
The LCCA is specific to the legal industry and has comprised some innovative and thought leading organizations who among others, purport to be leading the “cloud computing” pack. Member organizations surround practice management and technology consulting for the legal professional, including: Clio, DirectLaw, RocketMatter, and TotalAttorneys. If the aim is to define standards and best practices, and form policies and guidelines, the list is not yet complete but I’m thrilled to see it beginning to take shape.
The LCCA’s charter
- Provide a unified and consistent voice for vendors in the legal cloud computing market;
- Collaborate and cooperate with Bar Associations and other policy-forming bodies in efforts to form policies and guidelines relating to the use of cloud computing in law practices;
- Define standards and best practices;
- Provide educational resources to attorneys and the broader legal community on cloud computing and the technical, legal and ethical issues relating to cloud computing
Virtual Solutions Consortium (VSC) aggregates financial services solutions and resources into one central location, separated by two main categories: Virtual Staff and Resources. Virtual Staff includes links to operational managers, compliance consultants, web developers, and accountants. The resources tab includes C-level strategists, coaching, client portals, and document management. VSC seeks to answer the questions: What can I outsource? What should I outsource? Who can I outsource it to? With a concise set of value-ads such as:
- Increased efficiency and productivity
- Expert advice and execution
- Greater flexibility
- Significant cost savings
Virtual Solutions and the LCCA are two innovative organizations seeking to bring collaboration and unity to the chaos and clutter of the cloud computing industry. I applaud their initiative, but there is still a lot of work to be done to collect and unite the key stakeholders across vertical markets and the industry as a whole. To learn more about new collaboration, or to contribute to the discussion, send a tweet to @NetDocuments or @MarriottMurdock.
Post written by Marriott Murdock of the NetDocuments marketing team and head of channel development
December 21st, 2010
Tags: Attorney, CNET, collaboration, Content Management, document storage, GreenIT, law firm, legal technology, MyVirtualCOO, Salesforce, Salesforce.com, Will.I.Am|
Category: business continuity, Cloud Computing, collaboration, Compliance, Cost Savings, document management, Document Management for Salesforce, Financial Services Technology, legal, legal technology, Registered Investment Advisors, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Technology
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The Applied ICT A2-level Project Management class at Haslingden High School, located in Manchester, England, needed a better way to collaborate on projects in order to fulfill a requirement to learn project management techniques and work together from school and from home.
Wise Systems and Solutions put them in contact with Matt Duncan of NetDocuments who granted the class a NetDocuments basic account to enable them to complete their project.
After completion of their semester, they sent us the following report:
Objective 1: To meet the requirements of the specification for students to use project management tools and techniques appropriate to team working.
- “We were able to utilise and report the use of standard ways of working.”
- “The majority of students worked really well with the principle of copying their team’s inbox folder in on all project related emails.”
Objective 2: To provide a practical solution for storing files to allow collaboration between team members at school and from home.
- The students entered their final year of ICT studies knowing that there are a number of issues associated with working on the school network that hamper productivity. Such as only having limited user rights; down time because of viruses; USB sticks banned; and no connection of own laptops.
- As a group we were very appreciative of a better solution than emailing attachments backwards and forwards between home and school.
- A few students were a bit alarmed when the files they uploaded to NetDocuments were “moved” not “copied”. They obviously didn’t read the dialogue box when it appeared! The higher achieving students quickly came to trust that the file in the NetDocuments repository was the only version required.
- I had initially informed students that we would not have full functionality because we were working on Office 2000, but in practice we did not seem to experience any restrictions.
- The following quote is from student KF at the end of the unit: “NetDocuments is a good system, as it has the vast amount of facilities that make it ideal for uploading work from anywhere. However, I think the downside is what we found in unit 8. Firstly the [confusion about] lack of compatibility with older versions of office namely 2000 and also the [delay surrounding] integration with networks such as the one at school. If this worked fine within school, it would be a big asset”
Conclusion: I am extremely pleased with my students’ development using NetDocuments. I am proud that they will go on to university or employment with this experience and understanding of the principles of online document management.
NetDocuments would like to thank Haslingden High School for their innovative approach to teaching and project building.
August 16th, 2010
Tags: collaboration, England, High School, Manchester, Technology, UK|
Category: broadband, collaboration, document management, paperless, SaaS, Technology
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