DHL Selects DataCert's AIMS to Lower Legal Services Spend and Enhance Metrics Reporting.DataCert's Technology To Arm the Leading Express Delivery and Logistics Company With Valuable Data to Control Legal Operations HOUSTON -- DataCert, Inc., the leading provider of legal and IP spend and matter management solutions, announced today that DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature has chosen DataCert's Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS) to help the worldwide express delivery and logistics company simplify the legal invoice payment process and control its legal spend. "DHL selected AIMS for its ability to provide a substantial return on investment both financially and operationally," said Jon Olin, general counsel, Americas, DHL. "The actionable metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. produced by AIMS will help us develop an in-depth understanding of our legal spend and drive strategic business decisions regarding law department operations." Using DataCert's legal spend management software, DHL's law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
This reportable database of comprehensive legal spend data will give DHL's legal department the ability to analyze, forecast and reduce future spend. "DHL has the foresight to expect not only short-term benefits from AIMS - such as the elimination of paper bills - but also long-term benefits such as the identification of billing trends, the strengthening of outside counsel relationships and the recognition of year-to-year cost reductions," commented Eric M. Elfman, DataCert's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are excited to partner with DHL as they begin this initiative." About DHL DHL is the global market leader of the international express and logistics industry, specializing in providing innovative and customized solutions from a single source. DHL offers expertise in express, air and ocean freight, overland o·ver·land adj. Accomplished, traversing, or passing over the land instead of the ocean: an overland journey; an overland route. adv. transport, contract logistic lo·gis·tic also lo·gis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to symbolic logic. 2. Of or relating to logistics. [Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation solutions as well as international mail services, combined with worldwide coverage and an in-depth understanding of local markets. DHL's international network links more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Some 300,000 employees, including more than 40,000 employees in the U.S., are dedicated to providing fast and reliable services that exceed customers' expectations. Founded in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in 1969, DHL is a Deutsche Post Deutsche Post AG (ISIN: DE0005552004, LSE: DPO) is a German post, logistics and courier headquartered in Bonn, previously the German state-owned mail monopoly. It has 520,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 60. World Net brand. The group generated revenues of more than 63 billion euros (more than $93 billion) in 2007. About AIMS Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS) is DataCert's web-based application See Web application. that facilitates the approval and payment of electronic invoices between law firms and vendors and corporate law departments. Its primary purpose is to help managers take control of their corporate legal spend. Using AIMS, legal invoices are validated against corporate outside counsel guidelines, routed, adjusted and approved, then posted to a matter management and/or accounts payable system. About DataCert([R]), Inc. DataCert, Inc. is the largest and fastest-growing supplier of legal and IP spend and matter management solutions. Corporate counsel rely on DataCert's products and services to manage legal activities and provide transparency into outside legal spend. With 72 Fortune([R]) 500 clients and customer connections in 116 countries, DataCert processes in excess of $9 billion of electronic invoicing data on an annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. basis. Visit DataCert at www.datacert.com for more information. |
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