Posted on Wed, May 23, 2001
Bringing General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Together
HOUSTON -- May 23, 2001 -- Bridgeway Software, Inc., the leading provider of corporate legal solutions, announces the integration of eCounsel™, the total practice management program for corporate legal departments, with Secretariat™ version 5, the premier corporate secretary automation solution. The integration of eCounsel™ and Secretariat™ transforms the ease of doing business for corporations by storing all legal and business management data on one database, using one uniform management process. Staff needs to be trained to use only one framework rather than dealing with multiple formats and interfaces. If a support question arises, the in-house IT staff needs to make only one call.
Pat O'Donnell, president of Bridgeway, comments that "The integration of eCounsel™ and Secretariat™ is a real breakthrough in simplifying the management of legal and business data for corporations. The continuity and simplicity of dealing with one vendor, one management process and one training and support system make life infinitely easier at a time when legal workloads are becoming more demanding."
The integrated version, like the individual versions, can be deployed on an intranet, the Internet or as an ASP, making system management and data accessible from the main corporate office, subsidiaries or outside law firms, anywhere in the world. The system is browser-based providing a familiar means of navigation for users. The security features of the integrated version safeguards company data through proven security technology like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and VPNs.
Bridgeway is packaging the integrated version of eCounsel™ and Secretariat™ in the new Bridgeway Application Suite. Equally important, Bridgeway will continue to offer each application individually with the option to integrate in the future.
Each of the two software programs, eCounsel™ and Secretariat™, manages a critical legal and business compliance area for a corporation. However, the legal department and the office of the corporate secretary often work with the same data. The integration of eCounsel™ and Secretariat™ eliminates the duplication of data entry. It ensures that its originating department always enters the data where it will be the most reliable. It also enables information sharing. For example, at the click of a button, corporate secretaries can view an entity's contracts and corporate attorneys can quickly view a list of officers authorized to sign the contracts.
About eCounsel™
Bridgeway Software's eCounsel™ is an elite, total practice management application for corporate legal departments, optimized for Internet browser access. This software manages legal matters from inception through close. The legal department can review similar matter types, budget vs. actual costs, staff deployment, outstanding invoices, outside counsel costs and more. eCounsel™'s user-driven design supports electronic billing, document management integration, desktop calendar assimilation, drag-and-drop report design, document creation using HotDocs® integration and knowledge dissemination throughout the company's intranet. The eCounsel™ solution shoulders the details for legal staffs from 15 to over 1,500, allowing counsel to focus on the best legal outcomes for their clients and the company.
About Secretariat™
Bridgeway Software's Secretariat™ is the premier corporate secretary automation solution, optimized for Internet browser access. This software application tracks a company's history from inception through its entire life cycle making corporate history recall a matter of point and click retrieval. Its sophisticated userdriven design supports wizards for repetitive tasks, a report writer for drag-and-drop report design, document creation with HotDocs® integration and supports knowledge dissemination through the company's intranet. Its international design adapts to the way a company does business, wherever it is located. The Secretariat™ solution shoulders the details for corporate secretary departments managing fifty to thousands of legal entities.
About Bridgeway Software
Bridgeway Software, Inc. develops, markets and supports the Secretariat™ and eCounsel™ application families to the corporate legal community. Its best-in-class software and professional services are designed to automate the management of information for corporate secretaries and general counsel. Bridgeway has been recognized in the Inc. 500 as one of America's fastest growing companies as a result of its rapid growth. Founded in 1989, Bridgeway Software is headquartered in Houston, Texas with representative offices in Canada, Bermuda, and Barbados. For more information, visit its web site at http://bridge-way.web6.hubspot.com/news/?month=5&year=2001 or speak with a Bridgeway Managing Consultant at (888) 272-4699.
Media Contact:
Blane Erwin
713.599.8300
mailto:blane.erwin@bridge-way.com
Posted on Tue, May 01, 2001
Built For The New Millennium
HOUSTON -- May 1, 2001 -- Bridgeway Software, Inc., the leading provider of corporate legal solutions, announces the release of Secretariat™ version 5. A high-performance entity management solution for corporate secretary departments, Secretariat™ 5 is a complete reinnovation of the industry-leading version currently used by over 800 corporate secretary departments. Secretariat™ 5 takes its worldwide subsidiary management to the Web to meet the needs of corporations doing business in the rapidly expanding global economy.
"Secretariat™ 5 is truly a collaborative effort between Bridgeway and its clients," states Pat O'Donnell, president of Bridgeway. "The results of the group effort are evident throughout the product, offering our clients the most robust corporate secretary solution in the world."
Secretariat™ 5 introduces cutting edge Internet technology that provides browser-based users the same powerful features previously reserved for Windows applications, including resizable, rearrangeable, and resortable data entry grids and user definable preferences for colors, styles, and fonts. One of the most significant benefits of using the browser-based Secretariat™ is the ease of deployment.
Secretariat™ 5 has a new international design that adapts to the way a company does business, wherever it is located. Its userfriendly framework lets the client define the rules - which fields are required, what currencies are supported, and what terminology is used. Also with Secretariat™ 5, the user can define an unlimited number of entity types specific to their organization.
Part of the power of Secretariat™ lies in its ability to reduce the daunting labor associated with repetitive tasks to a few simple clicks of the mouse. Wizards produce documents, update databases, perform multiple state qualifications and make calendar entries for such events as meetings and directors' retirements.
The security features of Secretariat™ 5 ensures that the data can be protected through industry standard technologies like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and VPNs. With its flexible and sophisticated design, Secretariat™ enables the setup of access privileges for each member of the staff, for each location all the way down to the field level. And this security extends beyond all geographical boundaries, no matter how far the organization expands.
Secretariat's™ powerful Report Wizard creates sophisticated reports without complex tools or high-tech know-how. Reports are tailored using a simple drag-and-drop technique. In addition, new Secretariat™ supports document and form creation using HotDocs®, the proven application that creates documents quickly by combining text templates with data fields from Secretariat™stored corporate information. And with Secretariat's™ Smart Reports feature, all standard and user-defined reports and documents can be run from any screen within Secretariat™ using information on the screen to generate the report.
Reports can then be published in the most popular formats, including PDF or H™L, over the Internet, making it simple for Web-based users to access them. Through Internet distribution, critical documents can be made available in a secure environment to anyone, anytime, anywhere the Internet reaches. And Secretariat™ allows the corporate secretary to tailor report access so that key people have key information.
About Secretariat™
Bridgeway Software's Secretariat™ is an elite, corporate legal management tool for corporate secretary departments, optimized for Internet browser access. This software application tracks a company's history from inception through its entire life cycle making corporate history recall a matter of point and click retrieval. Its sophisticated user-driven design supports wizards for repetitive tasks, a report writer for drag-and-drop report design, document creation with HotDocs® integration and supports knowledge dissemination through the company's intranet. The Secretariat™ solution shoulders the details for corporate secretary departments managing fifty to thousands of legal entities.
About Bridgeway Software
Bridgeway Software, Inc. develops, markets and supports the Secretariat™ and eCounsel™ application families to the corporate legal community. Its best-in-class software and professional services are designed to automate the management of information for corporate secretaries and general counsel. Bridgeway has been recognized in the Inc. 500 as one of America's fastest growing companies as a result of its rapid growth. Founded in 1989, Bridgeway Software is headquartered in Houston, Texas with representative offices in Canada, Bermuda, and Barbados. For more information, visit its web site at http://www.bridge-way.com or speak with a Bridgeway Managing Consultant at (888) 272-4699.
Media Contact:
Blane Erwin
713.599.8300
blane.erwin@bridge-way.com