HighQ secures new cloud contract with Clayton Utz

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:31

Software vendor, HighQ, has secured a contract to provide leading Australian law firm, Clayton Utz, with a new extranet and collaboration platform to its clients.

James Kleinig, Technology & Innovation Manager at Clayton Utz said the HighQ platform Collaborative would provide a unique set of capabilities to enable the company to securely exchange documents, support client relationships, manage transactions and enable new ways of collaborating and communicating with clients through the use of innovative social tools such as wikis and blogs.

'One of the things we liked most about Collaborate was the fact that we can quickly set up and configure a site to a meet client's specific needs with very little effort. A simple document sharing site can be built and shared literally in a matter of minutes. More complex sites take a little more effort, but that's really just ticking boxes and settings to make it do what you want.

'The features and services we are now able to share with our clients are making a positive difference to how we provide online services to our clients. The document management capabilities are excellent, the WorkSite integration takes away a lot of the internal maintenance effort and the social and data management features have allowed us to build some really interesting and useful sites for our clients,' Kleinig said.

Stuart Barr, Director, HighQ, said Collaborate is a cloud-based solution, which removes the need for firms to build and host their own client sites. 'The company additionally opted for global web acceleration, which means that wherever the application is accessed from, it will feel responsive and fast, as though it is hosted locally to the user. For Clayton Utz, which acts for international clients, this was an essential feature,' Barr said.

According to Clayton Utz IT director, Garry Clarke, the law firm chose HighQ Collaborate 'not only for its combination of features but also because it is immediately available as a cloud-based service. It's saving us a huge amount of time and effort by not having to build and host our own solution in-house. And because it's hosted in the cloud, our lawyers and clients can access it quickly and easily from anywhere.'