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1. The great
autumn people-go-round
2. Aderant upgrades Expert PMS
3. Interwoven killer app pulling in the crowds
4. Scottish Law Society going paperless
5. Blackberry: gadget or critical application
6. Irwin Mitchell in IT infrastructure overhaul
7. Socialtext bringing Web 2.0 to the UK
8. Axxia DNA gaining critical mass
9. Amazon searches and zero tolerance for internal spam
10. T3 to make UK debut
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Headline
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The great autumn people-go-round
The last few weeks have seen a major shake-up of people within the legal
IT industry, including the departure of some very well known faces.
Mark Woodward who,
along with Neil Ewin, was one of the architects of the Solicitec/Visualfiles
case management software success story, has left the company, departing
this August just over a year after Visualfiles was acquired by LexisNexis.
A spokesperson said that having spent the past 12 months working on the
integration of the Visualfiles business within LexisNexis, Woodward (under
the terms of his earn-out deal with Lexis) had the
opportunity to leave the company and decided to do so, so he could spend
more time with his family.
Another recent Visualfiles departee Colin Kennedy, previously
head of the Scottish business and, at the time of his resignation, the
COO for the LexisNexis Visualfiles group, has resurfaced after six months’
gardening leave as a director of Pilgrim Systems with responsibility for
the case and matter management division.
By far the biggest shake-up took place within the CSG/IRIS
Group of legal suppliers (AIM, Laserform, Mountain and Videss). While
the individual brand names and products are retained, the CSG name vanishes,
with the legal business unit now known as IRIS Legal Solutions. And, following
the introduction of a cross-group senior management structure, replacing
the business operating as separate companies, those leaving IRIS include
Ian Knox, the managing director of Mountain, and Mountain’s long
time sales director Steve Kendrick, plus Jim Chase, the former MD of AIM
and recently the Operations Director of CS Legal. The new IRIS Legal management
team now includes Philip Murray (originally technical director at Meridian
Law and more recently with Mountain) as head of professional Services,
Videss veteran Chris Rose as sales director solicitors, and, reflecting
the group’s niche markets, Nick Ozga as sales director for barristers
and coroners systems, while Brian Welsh continues as the general manager
for GB Systems Scotland.
Talking of AIM... Richard Bearpark, who was the chief
executive of that company until it was acquired by the CS Group in May
2006, has just resurfaced as a non-exec director of AIM-listed Ultima
Networks plc, the parent company of legal systems supplier Cognito Software.
He will be working with Ultima finance director Robert Piper, who has
been appointed managing director of Cognito.
Other changes include the departure of Charles Russell’s
long-time IT director Jon Gould to head up IT at Burges Salmon, and the
appointment of Richard Baskin as vice president of product management
at Recommind. Baskin previously headed e-discovery product management
at Zantaz, now part of Autonomy.
Aderant upgrades Expert PMS
IThis week, the senior management of Aderant are in London to brief UK
law firms on the latest version (release 7.5) of the Aderant Expert practice
management system. The new features within 7.5 include a Vista compatible
user interface; multi-book functionality to help firms with international
offices adhere to local accounting and tax rules and still generate accurate
financial reports on their global operations; and, support for LEDES XML
v.2 e-billing standard. Release 7.5 is available from the end of this
month while the next new version (7.6, scheduled for release early next
year) will include next generation Microsoft-based workflow software.
• Lavan Legal, the largest independent law firm in Western Australia,
has selected Aderant Expert as its new PMS.
Interwoven killer app pulling in the crowds
Interwoven’s recently announced Universal Search facility (see Insider
201) is proving to be the killer application its developers hoped and
is pulling in the crowds, with over 50 firms now looking at the Google-like
search system.
Meanwhile Interwoven’s other products continue to
attract interest. Trowers & Hamlins has bought the Worksite Email
Management system via Phoenix Business Solutions. (Phoenix and Interwoven
have also signed a technology agreement focussing on the Phoenix Worksite
Assist range of utilities.) Davidson Chalmers in Scotland has selected
Worksite as its DMS as part of an integration project with Visualfiles.
After an extensive review of the options, including Sharepoint, Clarke
Willmott has selected Worksite as its new DMS, as has accountancy firm
PKF. And, as part of a broader electronic filing strategy, Taylor Wessing
has implemented Interwoven’s Records Management to provide a unified
platform for handling electronic and physical (typically paper-based)
records.
• We’ve been looking into the rumours that
Interwoven may be in breach of US NASDAQ stock market rules for not filing
its reports on time. As far as we can determine, this is because the company
(along with half of corporate America) is conducting a voluntary investigation
into share option grants and is precluded from filing accounts until the
investigation is completed. Interwoven still hope to release their Q3
financial results on 25th October.
Scottish Law Society going paperless
They may be much smaller than their English counterparts but the Law Society
of Scotland consistently reveal themselves to be more innovative. At their
recent Beyond Nothing.But.The.Net conference in Edinburgh, the Society’s
director of central services Gordon Brewster announced that the organisation
was now planning to replace the traditional paper practice certificate
with a dual purpose plastic card, that could also double as an ID card
for solicitors making visits to police cells and prisons.
This year also saw the Society introduce the welcome innovation
of not bombarding delegates with bulky folders containing copies of speakers’
notes and presentations. Instead all the presentations were loaded onto
the event website and delegates given a free (sponsored) USB memory stick
on which to store any of the notes they wanted to keep.
What, does this mean conference speakers will no longer
face the distraction of having the entire audience reading their notes
rather than focus on their presentations? And, that entire forests will
no longer be rendered into paper files that are never looked at again
or (worse still) surreptitiously binned by delegates on the way home because
they are too bulky or heavy to carry?
www.nothingbutthenet.co.uk
Blackberry: gadget or critical application
The Insider readers’ poll is back. Once again the topic is the Blackberry
but this time we are looking at it from the point of view of law firm
disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. For example, the
latest edition of the Solicitors Code of Conduct requires firms to have
business continuity and DR plans in place for critical applications, so
is the Blackberry just another gadget or a critical application? If your
firm is running multiple applications via Blackberrys (and this autumn
should see digital dictation becoming available on the device), what would
happen if your BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) crashed and how long
could elapse before this became a business critical issue? The link to
the full online survey form can be found at the top right of the Insider
website and, as ever, all responses are anonymous. We will have a full
report in the November issue of the Insider.
Insider
readers' poll
Click
here for latest survey
• The Insider, in conjunction with Avanquest, is
hosting a roundtable lunch to discuss Blackberrys, disaster recovery and
business critical technologies, on 6th November. We’ll also carry
a report on this event in the next issue.
Irwin Mitchell in IT infrastructure overhaul
As part of a major infrastructure overhaul, Irwin Mitchell has selected
Thomson Elite’s 3E as its next generation financial and practice
management system, along with Interwoven as its new DMS – the latter
contract was secured by Tikit. Since 1996 the firm has been using a PMS
based on Axxia Arista software, prior to that the firm ran an AIM system.
Socialtext bringing Web 2.0 to the UK
US-based Socialtext, a provider of wiki and Web 2.0 social media software,
is now targeting the UK and European legal market, following the appointment
of former Workshare sales executive Ross Hargreaves as EMEA sales director.
Product marketing director Jeff Brainard says Socialtext (which already
has systems running in a number of US law firms, including Morrison &
Foerster, where it is used for a number of KM, CRM and client/matter projects)
differentiates itself from other Web 2.0 players by being able to deliver
‘enterprise-grade’ wikis.
Other features include a ‘wiki-wyg’ (what
you see is what you get) editor for wikis and the ‘miki’ which
provides full browser functionality for users needing wireless access
to a wiki via Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices. Brainard adds that
Socialtext is currently the only wiki that can be integrated as web parts
within a Microsoft Sharepoint environment.
• Ross Hargreaves can be reached on 020 3002 2855. Socialtext is
offering a free 14 day trial of its wiki. To sign-up visit www.socialtext.com/trial/1
Axxia DNA gaining critical mass
Not withstanding the loss of Irwin Mitchell (see separate story) Axxia’s
renaissance in the practice management arena continues, with Pannone LLP
the most recent firm to order the supplier’s DNA ‘PMS meets
BPM/workflow’ system. Coming on top of this summer’s announcement
of wins at Olswang, Weightmans and Bevan Brittan (like Pannones, all top
50 firms), plus Mundays and Kingsley Napley also signing up for DNA, Axxia
has already broken the 4000 barrier in terms of the number of end users
in firms implementing or committed to DNA and is well on its way to hitting
its target of 8000 users by the end of next year. Axxia is also enjoying
success among local authorities with Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council,
which is replacing an old Datix system, the latest signing.
Amazon searches and zero tolerance for internal spam
Speaking at the recent Nothing.But.The.Net conference in Edinburgh, Peter
Owen of Lights-on Consulting said when planning IT strategies, law firms
needed to consider if technology will ease a lawyer’s workload or
actually increase it, as had been the experience with email. Owen suggests
one way to tackle email and other law office tasks is to apply a ‘4D
matrix’ to in-boxes and to-do lists. You should either do it, delete
it, defer it or delegate it although he also adds that when it comes to
email, firms should display zero tolerance towards internal spam.
Owen also said he would like to see knowledge management
systems develop an Amazon-type interface, with users not only giving star
ratings to particular documents they have refered to but also the system
generating information along the lines of ‘lawyers who looked at
this document also looked at these documents’.
T3 to make UK debut
American Lawyer Media’s popular litigation practice conference T3:
Trial Tactics & Technology travels from New York to UK for the first
time. The event, which takes place at the New Connaught Rooms in Covent
Garden, London, on Thursday 1st November, aims to provide a forum for
American and British lawyers to discuss litigation, legal technology and
data management issues. The event includes role playing sessions –
the topic this year is EU and US data privacy laws – plus a mock
trial session ‘A day in the life of an e-discovery case’.
Insider readers can qualify for a reduced delegate rate by quoting the
registration code INSIDER. The full programme can be accessed via the
Insider website’s events page.
Insiders
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Other
stories
What
comes around, goes around
Pace Professional Systems (0131 654 4028) has secured its 70th and 71st
orders for its PacePro accounts and case management software. The orders
were placed by Wright Crawford in Paisley for a 20 user system and AC
Morrison Richards in Aberdeen for a 30 user site. Pace MD Ronnie Paton
said Pace had carried out data conversions from a range of incumbent accounts
packages, the most frequent are GB Systems conversions but Pace is about
to handle an Axxia swap-out. In an example of ‘what comes around,
goes around’ Pace has also handled conversions from an old system
called Soroba. This ran on DEC Rainbow kit and was sold about 25 years
ago by a company called Micro U-Legal – whose chief salesman was
Ronnie Paton.
www.paceprosystems.com
E-discovery and litigation support on the blog
The last week saw the publication of two new reports on e-discovery and
litigation practice – the 2007 Fulbright & Jaworski Litigation
Trends Survey and e-Disclosure: the 21st Century Legal Challenge by KPMG
Forensic. A summary of their findings plus PDF copies of the full unexpurgated
reports are available on the Insider’s Orange Rag breaking news
blog.
www.theorangerag.com
Interest in outsourcing booming
The enthusiasm for UK-based outsourced digital dictation transcription
services seems to be growing. DictateNow (0845 6017726) has just entered
into a partnership agreement with DDS market leader Bighand, while outsourced
transcription pioneer Voicepath has announced its latest integration,
this time with Crescendo. As Voicepath can also offer integrations with
Bighand, nFlow, V7 and Winscribe, the company estimates that 98% of law
firms in the Insider Top 250 running digital dictation systems can now
access Voicepath’s services.
• If
you want more choice, then a new transcription supplier to consider is
Solscribe (0121 288 3071). Managing director Michael Rodden says the service’s
selling points include its usability and extensive reporting facilities
that allow users to check live the volume of dictation sent to Solscribe,
who has sent it, how much money has been spent on transcription, etc.
Solscribe is already integrated with nFlow and the company can also provide
bespoke implementations.
www.solscribe.com
Next Insider Colour Supplement
The next issue of the Insider Colour Supplement webzine will be published
on Monday 29th October. Feature articles currently scheduled include an
analysis of the ‘acorn theory’ – namely does it make
commercial sense for law firms to offer favourable rates for small clients
now, in the hope they will one day become big clients.
www.theinsidermag.net
10 years ago today...
The top stories in October 1997 included Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw
Goddard) selecting a new PMS from Norwel and the decision by Masons IT
director Martin Telfer to move to Australia to join Mallesons. Telfer,
who regularly chaired legal IT events in London during the 1990s, is now
with Baker McKenzie.
Quote, unquote
“We don’t have a practice development strategy. The managing
partner doesn’t like to look at the bigger picture” ...a law
firm manager explains to a consultant why his services will not be necessary.
Hi, Ho, Silver Line(time)
This month sees Leeds-based Linetime celebrate its 25th year in business.
The company was founded in 1982 by John Burrill, who is still actively
involved with the company as chairman, following an MBO from Systime.
In its day, Systime was a major player in the UK IT world.
• Linetime has also announced three new wins for its Liberate Express
document and matter management system for ad-hoc (as distinct from heavily
proceduralised) work types. The firms are niche IT/IP and commercial practice
The Waterfront Partnership in London, HR boutique firm Quantrills and
Manchester new start-up Blue Sky Law.
Gone watch fishing
The Insider’s first encounter with Mark Woodward (see lead story)
was in his pre Solicitec/Visualfiles days. As a publicity stunt at one
of the old Barbican SOLEX shows, his then company were giving away a free
Rolex – the catch was the watch lay at the bottom of a fish tank
full of piranas. Great idea except Mark had forgotten that one of the
few things to frighten piranas are lawyers. So, the venue doors opened
at 9:30am and by 9:31 one lawyer had already rolled up his shirt sleeves
and pulled the watch from the water, while the piranas cowered in a corner
of the tank.
Gossip central
Which legal IT salesman recently said “Of course this is not a lifestyle
business. I’ve seen my lifestyle and I don’t like it.”
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News
in brief
Mills
& Reeve roll out Redstone IP
Mills & Reeve has awarded Redstone Converged Solutions a contract
worth £660k over five years to upgrade the firm’s telecoms
infrastructure. This includes the roll out of Cisco IP phone equipment
and IPFX call management software.
www.redstoneconverged.co.uk
A&O pinpoint
e-disclosure
PinPoint Global, the e-discovery services company set up by a number of
former Diskcovery Australia executives, has won its first major UK order
from Allen & Overy, who will be using PinPoint in conjunction with
their FTI Ringtail litigation support system.
www.pinpoint-global.co.uk
DFA backup
with Asigra
As part of its DR strategy, Northampton-based DFA Law has invested in
Asigra online data backup and storage as a managed service. The service,
called TouchPoint, is supplied by Smartways (01694 670500) and has a BMR
(bare metal restore) feature that allows data to be restored to new PCs
without having to manually reinstall the same operating system or configure
hardware prior to use.
www.asigra.com
www.touchpointbackup.co.uk
New J-Link
from Justis
Electronic publisher Justis has launched its new J-Link tool. This uses
JustCite linking technology to scan web pages for legal references and
link them to JustCite pages.
McGrigors
select FloSuite
Glasgow-based McGrigors LLP, which as well as having offices across the
UK now also has a presence in the Falkland Islands and Azerbaijan, is
to roll out FloSuite’s BPM software for both case management within
its real estate department and to help automate some of its core internal
business processes.
IRIS wins
English Law Society deal
The English Law Society is to overhaul its membership and associated business
processes by replacing its existing, disparate databases with IRIS Group’s
(formerly CS Group) Integra CRM and membership management system.
Wright Hassall
partner with Saturn Legal
Wright Hassall LLP has selected Saturn Legal to provide assistance with
its core financial systems, including key reporting, business processes
re-engineering and systems consultancy for the firm’s Elite practice
management system.
Visualfiles
report busy autumn
Along with a steady stream of HIPs related business, LexisNexis Visualfiles
has reported a busy Q3 for its other software product lines. The Skipton
Building Society is rolling out the M2 matter management system to inhouse
legal staff; Macdonalds in Edinburgh is implementing VisualFiles to replace
its Pilgrim debt recovery system; and in Lincolnshire Chattertons is upgrading
from SolCase to VisualFiles for conveyancing, as well as rolling out M2
practice wide.
Charles Russell
latest Mimecast win
Charles Russell has become the latest law firm to deploy an email management
system from Mimecast to handle security, message quarantining, storage,
retrieval and archiving.
IRIS manage
success
The IRIS Professional Services team (which combined the Videss managed
service and AIM technical teams earlier this year) has been awarded a
contract worth £160k by AIM-users Ashton Graham to redesign its
IT infrastructure around a Microsoft cluster-based architecture. And Videss
users Spratt Endicott are spending £220k with IRIS Managed Services
on a fault tolerant IT framework that will include server virtualisation
and replication, email and document archiving and centralised data backup.
Simplified
network printing for Microsoft Word
Integrated Office Solutions (020 8249 6530) has launched its Interalia
Print Menus utility to simplify network printing from Microsoft Word,
with a new interface that can handle multiple printers, locations, worktypes,
finishes (hole punch, stapling etc), paper types and commands in plain
English. For example, printers can be shown with a meaningful name, such
as ‘Litigation 1st Floor – Birmingham’ rather than \\mh-bham\xerox555_lt1.
www.iosl.co.uk
Proclaim 3
rolled out to acclaim
Proclaim v3, the latest version of the case management software from Eclipse
Legal Systems, is now being rolled out free of charge to some 6000 users
across the UK. According to sales director Russell Thomson, one of the
most popular new features in v3 is the CRM functionality, which provides
fee earners and marketing teams with a ‘one view’ approach
to client and prospective client data.
FWBS is latest
DocsCorp partner
FWBS is the latest legal IT supplier to sign up as a reseller of DocsCorp’s
pdfDocs PDF integration software.
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People
& places
Billbacker
joins Elite
Lisa Oldfield has been appointed a regional sales manager for Thomson
Elite’s Asia Pacific division, where she will now share the territory
with Lucas Garlepp. Oldfield was previously the sales director of cost
recovery systems vendor Billback.
Legal Inc
relocate south
Litigation support specialist Legal Inc has moved from Gray’s Inn
Road to new offices south of the river at Unit 315-316, Great Guildford
Business Square, 30 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0HS. The phone
number remains 08704 323027 and on 22nd November the company is hosting
a charity photography sale.
Intendance
relocate north
Web design consultancy Intendance has relocated from Wandsworth to new
offices north of the river at 28 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HR.
The new switchboard number is 020 7242 7160.
All change
at Community Internet
Community Internet has rebranded as CI-Net and moved to new offices at
Network House, Langford Locks, Kidlington, Oxon OX5 1GA. The phone number
(01865 856000) remains unchanged.
www.ci-net.com
New home for
ILTA
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) moves into its first
bricks & mortar home – at 9701 Brodie Lane, Suite 200, Austin,
Texas – on 9th November. If you are in the area you are invited
to drop in – no, really.
www.iltanet.org/openhouse.aspx
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Digital dictation news in brief
Two new wins for Voice Technologies
DMD Law Solicitors in Edinburgh and Tilly Bailey & Irvine in the North-East
have both become digital dictation systems customers of Voice Technologies
(0141 847 5610). DMD have already gone live, while Tilly Bailey has selected
Voice Technologies to support its Winscribe DDS.
www.voicetechnologies.co.uk
Speech recognition
integrated with Winscribe
The latest version of the Winscribe DDS – version 3.7 – now
offers full integration with Nuance Communications’ Dragon NaturallySpeaking
speech recognition software. To maximise flexibility, the integration
offers users a choice of local and server-side speech-to-text conversion.
New Olympus
voice recorder helps visually impaired
Olympus has launched three new models (the DS-30, 40 and 50) in its digital
voice recorder range. Although not intended as an addition to its professional
range of dictation recorders (such as the DS-2300), they have been designed
in conjunction with the RNIB so their ergonomic features (distinct surfaces
and a voice-guided menu) make then ideal for people with visual impairments.
Dictation is saved in a WMA file format that can be replayed and transcribed
on standard DSS player software.
K&L Gates
rollout Bighand in London
The London office of K&L Gates (the US based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Preston Gates Ellis LLP, which includes the old Nicholson Graham &
Jones practice) has rolled out Bighand 3 DDS to over 200 users, following
an initial head-to-head pilot between Bighand and Winscribe. The firm’s
head of IS operations Andrew Collier said Bighand’s handling of
digital dictation over Citrix was a crunch factor as the firm was moving
to a new IT infrastructure with remote access and Citrix forming a vital
element. In the coming months the firm also plans to integrate DDS with
its OpenText DMS.
nFlow establishes
Benelux arm
In response to market requests, nFlow has established a sister company
(involving a direct investment with co-founders Juul Leijnse and Eugene
Haarmans) called dFlow that will specialise in the provision of document
management and digital dictation systems to law firms operating in the
Benelux region of Europe.
• The UK accountancy practice PKF LLP has selected nFlow to roll
out digital dictation to 335 users who had previously been using analogue
tape. The firm’s IT manager Scott Hussey said nFlow was selected
because it felt that of the main DDS players, nFlow had “by far
the best Citrix solution for us”.
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Fresh on the radar
This
month we report on two products we saw at the recent Nothing.But.The.Net
event in Scotland.
Hosted PMS
for £99 a month
Justia, from Glasgow-based software house Solution Canvas (0845 890 3190)
is a new hosted practice management system for small law firms supplied
at the astonishingly low price of £99 per month, per firm, with
no fixed or minimum period contract terms. Admittedly the system can currently
only handle firms of about 20 users in size but £99 for a whole
firm compares very favourably with some other hosted service providers
who are charging closer to £99 per user per month. It is also worth
pointing out that the Justia PMS handles not just accounts/cashiering
but also workflows, matter and document management. Technology-wise, Justia
is hosted on Microsoft’s OfficeLive ‘software as a service’
portal, which means users also don’t need to worry about security
or data backup. It sounds an excellent deal for small firms, in fact the
only disadvantage we can see is that inherently conservative solicitors
will think Justia ‘is too good to be true’ and stay away.
www.justia.co.uk
Law Cube aims
to deliver business intelligence
If you liked the sound of the Partner Insight business intelligence system
we looked at earlier this year (see Insider 200) then you are really going
to like the Law Cube BI system from EJS UK (0141 946 0946). The system
is built around Microsoft’s ProClarity business intelligence engine
and takes advantage of SQL Server 2005’s support for OLAP (online
analytical processing) data warehousing ‘cubes’ to provide
law firm managers with a three dimensional picture of the information
at their disposal. Rather more importantly, the affordable nature of the
Microsoft technology underpinning the system means Law Cube has an entry-level
server licence price of £12,500 and is delivered with most of analytics
and reporting dashboards law firms need already pre-defined. Harper Macleod
in Glasgow is now running Law Cube in conjunction with its Pilgrim Lawsoft
PMS.
www.ejsuk.com
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International news
CRM
wins in The Netherlands
Epona Software Consultancy BV (previously known as Guide Consultancy Legal)
has won an order from Dutch law firm Wessel Tideman & Sassen to install
the ContactManager CRM system. Marcel Lang of Epona says his company anticipates
two more Dutch firms to sign up for ContactManager in the near future.
www.epona.nl
Document business
busy at Timesoft
Timesoft has won orders from Loyens & Loeff to implement Workshare
Professional and from Dutch firm Kienhuis Hoving to implement AIA Software’s
ITP (Intelligent Text Production) document assembly system.
Morningstar
moves
Morningstar Systems has moved its head office from Heerlen to Kruisstraat
1, 6231 LJ Meersen, The Netherlands. The new phone number is +31(0)43
408 6600.
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Insider jobs of the week
Marketing
Executive
IRIS Legal Solutions, West Yorkshire
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the marketing team of one of
the fastest growing IT companies in the UK. Based in the CS Group Leeds/Bradford
Office, reporting to the Marketing Manager and working closely with the
Divisional Product and Sales Managers you will be responsible for the
formulation and execution of comprehensive marketing strategies and activities
throughout the mid market commercial sector. Ideally you will have a minimum
of 3 years marketing experience in the IT and Legal sectors with a positive
and energetic attitude. Responsibilities will include: Production of annual
regional marketing plan for New Business & Installed base; Database
Maintenance/Management; Integrated Campaign Planning; Direct mail campaigns
using all medium; Telemarketing campaign planning; Events; Central &
Regional Marketing initiatives; Press & PR; Production of literature
& marketing collateral; Website Content Management; Newsletter contributions;
Google maintenance. To apply please send your CV and covering letter to
Jo Grimshaw at Joanne.grimshaw@iris.co.uk
quoting reference MA02.
Full details
on these and other vacancies can be found on the Insider
jobsboard
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