Introducing Elite 3E

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Law firms that want to grow their business and operate more competitively in an increasingly global industry require a long-term, flexible technology solution. Elite 3E provides maximum power and agility to transform you business.

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Successful firms recognize that a wise investment in technology increases productivity and reduces costs. Desirable attributes for business software include intuitive capabilities that can be personalized to meet unique needs. These attributes ensure your firm can meet existing needs as well as new requirements that evolve. On all accounts, 3E delivers.

The 3E software development platform is built entirely on Microsoft .NET, operates on a thin client, offers superior wide-area-network performance and is based on open standards. The new Elite Services Bus leverages Microsoft BizTalk Server to enable integration with third-party applications.

What makes 3E truly unique is that it offers an extensive set of built-in functionality combined with the ability to fully personalize the solution to match the way your firm operates. The integrated development environment includes a comprehensive set of Designers that your IT staff can easily use to tailor existing functionality. Once applications are built, programmers can reuse selected pieces of their business logic to create additional applications, extending the value of past work and shortening development lead times.

A new programming tool developed by Thomson Elite’s engineers, called Object Query Language (OQL) simplifies accessing data from the system. Additionally, a true single-entity data structure, consistent user interface, improved access to more data, scalability and Unicode support help make 3E the new leader in its class.

Adapting your infrastructure to accommodate business change frequently involves exploring different avenues and making trade offs. Some alternatives involve greater time and costs to accomplish while others have the potential to box you in down the road. When faced with a new requirement, the ideal scenario would allow you to implement changes that work for your firm as if they were built into your software from the start.

The following illustrates how your firm can personalize 3E to meet unique and specific needs without the need for expensive software customizations or inefficient workarounds. Assume your firm wants to be able to report operating results according to specific industry groups. This capability exists within 3E, but you now want to capture richer information about your expertise within sub-industry segments and incorporate specific business rules pertaining to how the information can be reported.

With 3E’s integrated development environment, your firm’s IT staff can easily include additional data elements within existing 3E database tables and create any number of new tables to capture required information. New business processes can be developed and data input fields and drop-downs added to the standard 3E client and matter screens in locations that make sense to your firm. 3E’s metrics tools and system software can now report and analyze the information – and all your software changes have become a seamless element of your entire solution that will remain intact even after installing the latest 3E software release. With 3E, you are now living in the ideal world.