An elevated overview of Legal Spend & Matter Management and e-Billing
ASCENT Screenshot showing Legal Spend and e-Billing Dashboard
doeASCENT™ (ASCENT™) is a next generation, end-to-end solution for legal spend (e-billing), matter, and project management. Developed from the doeSUMMIT legal enterprise collaboration platform, ASCENT™ enables corporate legal departments and their law firms and vendors to collaborate globally in a highly intuitive and secure environment.
ASCENT™ simplifies and organizes information, communication and documents used by corporate legal departments. It allows in-house counsel the ability to: access and search real-time data, monitor project activity, review, edit and approve invoices, track budgets, manage accruals, manage documents, create comprehensive reports, and communicate with colleagues, law firms and vendors. Overlaid on this rich functionality is a suite of reporting and analytics capability unmatched in the legal spend and matter management realm.
While this rich array of functionality for corporate legal department sets ASCENT™ apart from its competitors in its own right, what makes ASCENT™ revolutionary is the collaborative functionality it inherits from the doeSUMMIT platform.
While most legal spend management applications define collaboration as either an Outlook integration or access to the corporate legal department's own applications, ASCENT™ is different because it reveals corporate legal department data and functionality from within the corporate legal department to a middle-tier which is separate from the corporate legal department application or the law firms applications. This middle tier is securely integrated with the corporate legal department's core spend management functionality and offers the option for law firms to integrate to this middle tier as well.
This middle-tier, or shared space is the collaborative environment where law firms come to submit invoices, to check status', to look up matter information and to run reports. The corporate legal department can use this space to share documents, to publish reports, alerts, updates, notes and more. But beyond such static functionality, the corporate legal department can also turn on dynamic functionality allowing the law firm to submit budgets, case plans, timekeeper updates, request new matters, to engage in matter or invoice workflow and more. Through the use of ASCENT™ team rooms, information and functionality can be segmented and distributed based on a single case profile or based on the requirements of internal workgroups (Litigation, M&A, Labor, Special Projects, etc.). Law firms can then be invited to join these groups and information and functionality can be shared and appropriate security levels enacted for functionality down to document level access.
ASCENT™ Architecture - Click to Enlarge
Corporate legal departments will benefit from the innovative and supportive collaboration tools for:
ASCENT™ is available as a hosted or SaaS solution offering unlimited flexibility and security in a Tier 3 Data Center. It is offered at a competitive price point making true enterprise collaboration available to the legal marketplace for the first time. Get more information on our "Master Climber" Certification Program where your outside vendors are trained with your team to reach their peak efficiency using this software.
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ASCENT™: Legal Spend and Matter Management
Legal Spend Management, Legal e-Billing, Matter Management, Business Intelligence and Reporting
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