Archive for March, 2010
We’re Onit: New Enhancements to Project Plan
Jill Black
We appreciate the feedback we have received from our beta users and wanted to share some news about new enhancements to the Project Plan. We recently updated a section in Project Plan that lets you add detailed information to tasks. Now, it is faster than ever to add new items and you can track the status of items like you can with project status.
In the Project Plan, you can assign tasks to team members, add a description, set deadlines, estimate costs associated with a task and update your personal status. You can also quickly upload and attach multiple documents to projects. We also fixed how the Project Plan is displayed in Internet Explorer. The screen shot below shows this new functionality. Log on now to see these new enhancements.
Why I Joined Onit?
Jill Black
Hello. I first wanted to introduce myself as a new Onit team member. My name is Jill Black and I have been doing marketing and communication in the legal market for a little more than 10 years. In fact, I was the director of marketing for DataCert, an e-billing and legal spend management company, and was responsible for the company’s global marketing initiatives including tradeshow and seminar management, internal and external communication, media relations, advertising and collateral and website development.
Enough about me. I am hear to tell you about Onit. I decided to join the Onit team for two reasons. First, I just couldn’t stand to be away from the legal technology market. I left for a short hiatus and took a position with a software company in Austin. I know it sounds crazy but I actually missed my colleagues and the long booth hours at the legal tradeshows. What was I thinking!! I also have the pleasure of working with Eric Elfman and Eric Smith again and I just couldn’t say no, especially after spending so much time with them at DataCert.
The second reason I joined Onit was simple. There are no other products in the legal market that does what Onit offers. Okay, I am going to “borrow” a quote from Eric Elfman now. “Lawyers manage projects for a living but aren’t trained in the discipline of project management.” Enough said. There is a huge market opportunity for a lightweight tool that lawyers and people that work with lawyers could use. Onit is the answer …And it’s a catchy name!!
Okay, so now you know who I am and why I joined Onit. Now, I want to tell you that I’m here to help make your Onit user experience the best that it can possibly be. I will be lurking in the community site and posting community updates so I would love to hear your thoughts, comments and ideas for new features. I will also periodically post new blogs about new features or enhancements in Onit.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me by email at jill.black@onit.com or at 713-560-9225 if you have any questions about Onit.
How E-billing Has Evolved Since the 90′s
Eric Smith
I have been thinking about legal e-billing and spend management for a long time now. My partner and I implemented the first really successful e-billing systems in corporate legal back in the late 1990’s. At that time, corporations were dealing with invoices the size of phone books from their outside lawyers. They were simply too big for busy inside lawyers to review.
The goal with our product was to identify waste. Everyone knew the waste was there. They knew that their invoices were too high. They also knew this was not because the firms were cheating them but because no one was reviewing the invoices for mistakes made by their firms.
Many of the Fortune 500 were the earliest adopters of the technology and the earliest success stories. We designed our product with their requirements in mind. We developed big hairy systems to get invoices electronically from law firms to their corporation customers. We wanted to help them save time and money and eliminate waste.
We at Onit are in the process of developing a new e-billing system that will work for BOTH small and large corporations. One of the first things we learned was that scale matters. Smaller firms and workgroups have very different problems and barriers to adoptions than the largest corporations in the world. Trying to implement software designed to squeeze pennies out of every line item will not work for you unless you have lots of line items.
We have a philosophy about how, why and when you should adopt e-billing and spend management systems and this collection of blog posts, I hope, will articulate some of that philosophy.
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- Legal Project Management is EXACTLY like Legal Electronic Invoicing
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- New Project Features – Snapshot Project View, Tags & Filters
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