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ADERANT Partners with Onset Technology to Deliver Mobility Solutions for Professional Services Firms; ADERANT Mobile Office Improves Productivity, Increases Information Visibility, and Helps Mobile Professionals Turn Down Time into Billable Time.


ATLANTA -- ADERANT, a global provider of business and financial management software for professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  organizations, today announced that it has partnered with Onset Technology to provide law, accounting and other professional services firms with a new suite of mobility applications, ADERANT Mobile Office.

ADERANT Mobile Office will enable professionals to remotely access information from ADERANT's practice management, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , and business intelligence applications as well as perform key business functions using the BlackBerry blackberry, name for several species of thorny plants of the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae (rose family). See bramble.
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, compress extended business processes, and increase their responsiveness to customer demands.

Faced with growing competition and an increasingly rapid pace of business, professionals can no longer afford to be disconnected, whether they are just away from their desk, in meetings, or on the road. As a result, mobility solutions are becoming an essential technology for professional services organizations that want to make their traveling or remote employees more productive, responsive, and billable.

"Every day professionals face a unique challenge: they need productivity tools and rapid access to information to serve their clients, yet they are often away from the office where these tools and information are readily available," said Michael J. Simmons, Chief Executive Officer of ADERANT. "Our new ADERANT Mobile Office suite will help traveling and remote professionals turn what would once be down time into billable time by keeping them connected to their office systems using popular handheld wireless devices."

ADERANT Mobile Office is using Onset Technology's METAmessage to deliver applications that are optimized for use with BlackBerry handheld devices. "We partnered with Onset Technology because they are the recognized leader in enabling business applications for use with BlackBerry devices," continued Simmons.

"We are pleased to have ADERANT leverage METAmessage to provide law, accounting, and other professional services firms with wireless access to their critical business systems," said Gadi Mazor, Chief Executive Officer of Onset Technology. "ADERANT Mobile Office will help firms extend the reach of their existing business systems and provide traveling or remote professionals with real-time access to critical information."

ADERANT Mobile Office Capabilities

ADERANT Mobile Office will consist of a suite of productivity applications that are optimized for use with BlackBerry handheld devices as well as web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical
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. The suite will include BlackBerry solutions for:

--Mobile Time Capture: enables professionals to increase their billable hours by making it easy for them to capture key time information while they are out of the office. The flexible solution lets professionals capture phone calls or enter basic time information and then, if necessary, flesh out the entry later or forward it to their support staff for review, editing, and input into their firm's billing system.

--Mobile Inquiries: enables professionals to remotely interrogate (1) To search, sum or count records in a file. See query.

(2) To test the condition or status of a terminal or computer system.
 their firm's practice management, CRM, or other key business system to quickly get accurate answers to their questions in real-time. Mobile Inquires includes a comprehensive snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure.

(2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated.
 of any client, prospect, matter, or professional to keep them constantly informed.

--Mobile Enterprise Inquiries: provides firms with a powerful tool to create their own custom Mobile Inquiries.

--Mobile CRM: allows professionals to capture or access key customer, prospect, marketing activity, and opportunity information from ADERANT Front Office CRM.

--Mobile Approvals: keeps decision-makers in the loop on file openings, check requisitions, expense approvals, and other time-sensitive business processes. The application can be easily customized to reflect a firm's unique business processes and key decision points.

In addition to BlackBerry devices, ADERANT Mobile Office will also leverage the existing web-browser and SmartClient capabilities of other ADERANT applications. ADERANT's browser-based applications will provide professionals with instant access to accurate information and allow them to interact with the core ADERANT systems in real-time using only a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . SmartClient will deliver professionals the same user interface and functionality as the client/server version of their ADERANT applications without requiring them to be connected to their firm's network.

Onset Technology

Founded in 1997, Onset Technology is the developer of METAmessage(R) for Wireless - a unique software solution that gives business users access to virtually any data on their enterprise network using wireless devices such as BlackBerry(R) handhelds from Research In Motion (RIM). The software is broadly compatible with virtually all wireless devices and servers including those from strategic partners Microsoft and RIM. Since its introduction, METAmessage has been widely adopted by Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and a range of large service organizations. For more information, visit www.onsettechnology.com.

About ADERANT

ADERANT, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a leading provider of software for services organizations. The global software company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, consisting of financial, resource and practice management software that enables services organizations of all sizes to maximize operational efficiencies. ADERANT provides solutions to the world's largest and most prominent service organizations - including HP, Computer Sciences Corporation, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm)
KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German)
KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen
 LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , Manugistics, Deloitte Consulting, Macleod Dixon LLP, Mayer Brown Mayer Brown is one of the largest international law firms with £538.5m (approximately US$1b) of 2006 revenue[1]. It was founded in 1881 by Levy Mayer in Chicago.  Rowe & Maw LLP, Skadden Arps and Winston & Strawn. ADERANT also has offices in Asia Pacific and Europe. More information about ADERANT is available at www.aderant.com.

Editors Note: The correct usage of the ADERANT name is all capitals.

Javelan and Novient are registered trademarks and ADERANT Back Office, ADERANT Executive Office, ADERANT Front Office, CMS (1) See content management system and color management system.

(2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system.
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n.
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2. The central supporting element of a whole.
, and all ADERANT product logos are trademarks of ADERANT Holdings, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the properties of their respective owners.

METAmessage(R) is a trademark of Onset Technology. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
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