DataCert Delivers Comprehensive Business Intelligence Tools with AIMS 3.7 Release; AIMS 3.7 Enhanced Reporting and Report Delivery Allows Personalization of Corporate Legal Spend Analysis.HOUSTON -- DataCert, Inc., the leading provider of electronic invoicing and legal spend management solutions, today launched version 3.7 of its Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS). AIMS 3.7, available immediately, features enhanced business intelligence reporting The preparation and conveyance of information by any means. More commonly, the term is restricted to reports as they are prepared by the collector and as they are transmitted by the collector to the latter's headquarters and by this component of the intelligence structure to one or more options that integrate with BusinessObjects(TM) and Microsoft(R) Analysis Services. In addition to offering enhanced security options and aiding value-added tax value-added tax (VAT), levy imposed on business at all levels of the manufacture and production of a good or service and based on the increase in price, or value, provided by each level. (VAT) compliance, AIMS 3.7 also includes a proprietary method for integrating intellectual property (IP) data for invoice reviewers and creates a complete portfolio of outside counsel spend in one system. "Personalization is the key component that guided the evolution of AIMS 3.7," stated Paul Zengilowski, DataCert's director of product marketing. "Getting the right information to the right place at the right time and in a format that's consumable for the recipient is critical to managing law department business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ." Enhanced Reporting AIMS 3.7 equips corporate law departments with business intelligence tools that extend beyond standard reports and report templates. Highly customizable, AIMS 3.7 reporting converges with "drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. " online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) tools and applications such as BusinessObjects and Microsoft Analysis Services Microsoft Analysis Services is a group of OLAP and Data Mining services provided in Microsoft SQL Server. History Microsoft's foray into OLAP Server business began in 1996 with the acquisition of OLAP technology from the Israeli company, Panorama Software. to support multiple data sources and field types. Law department staff members are now able to receive detail-specific reporting that identifies financial, operational and firm-transaction billing trends. "AIMS 3.7 drills down through the body of corporate legal spend and identifies budget or billing rate variances," commented Zengilowski. "The variety of reporting options - from a high-level overview of outside counsel spend to detail-oriented lawyer/firm billing trends - helps corporations identify and act on legal spend patterns, often saving millions of dollars." Report Delivery AIMS 3.7 scheduled and ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. reports are created in user-friendly formats such as Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Microsoft Excel and Adobe(R) Acrobat(R). Reports can be scheduled for automatic generation and delivery on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Reports can be delivered to individuals or designated groups both inside and outside of the corporation. This allows staff to share actionable legal spend reporting with traditionally underserved senior management such as CEOs and CFOs, as well as outside counsel. Additional Features AIMS 3.7 features include: --IP matter compatibility: AIMS 3.7 displays trademark information, docket and case numbers and agent and filing fees for invoice reviewers. This dramatically streamlines the invoice review and approval process and aggregates a company's IP spend with the broader law department spend. --VAT compliance: By aiding corporations and law firms in complying with the complex European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community regulations for VAT, AIMS 3.7 facilitates the VAT audit and recovery process. --Enhanced security: Administrators can enforce alphanumeric password complexity options, which are configurable through an administrator interface. --Workflow review: E-mail notification logs allow administrators to review all e-mail notifications sent by AIMS for the workflow of approved, pending or rejected invoices. Availability AIMS 3.7 is available immediately. For more information, please contact DataCert at 713-572-3282 or e-mail nasales@datacert.com (North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. inquiries) or emeasales@datacert.com (international inquiries.) About AIMS Advanced Invoice Management System (AIMS) is DataCert's web-based application that facilitates the approval and payment of electronic invoices between law firms and vendors and corporate legal departments. Its primary purpose is to help managers proactively analyze 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, Inc. DataCert, Inc. is the largest and fastest-growing supplier of electronic invoicing and corporate legal spend management solutions. DataCert's products and services provide a substantial return on investment to corporations looking to reduce outside legal spend. Headquartered in Houston, DataCert has over 6,300 customers, 56 of which are Fortune(R) 500 companies. 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, DataCert processes in excess of $9 billion of e-invoicing data. Visit DataCert at www.datacert.com for more information. |
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