Throughout more than two decades of providing IT business solutions, Derive Technologies has remained acutely aware of the varied needs of the Legal industry. Law firms currently face increasing competitive pressure in the global climate of mergers, acquisitions and other cost and operational controls. Requirements include disseminating complex and sensitive information to clients faster and with greater clarity and the need to better capture the attention of and retain the loyalty of clients.

• Derive designs robust, forward-looking technology solutions for the Legal industry that support many of the emerging needs of the environment, while also reducing the cost of services for firms and, ultimately, their clients.
• Among these are centralized and virtualized corporate infrastructures and data structures that support productivity and billing applications, connectivity and secure remote office and application access solutions, document scanning and management.
  

APPLICATION ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE

• We pay special attention to the costs of keeping your legal teams productive and on the go and to the special needs for system uptime and cost-effective, secure and smooth information transitions during mergers and acquisitions.
• Derive's solutions for Application Access Infrastructure enable:
• Configuration and management: Of remote applications from a single location
• Customized access policies: Based on the new scenarios put forth in Legal mergers.
• Cost and time reductions: In the technology support of new office locations.

APPLICATION SUPPORT

• Derive provides reasonable-cost, standard and virtualized server, storage, network and availability technologies that give greater power to your applications for:
• Billing and time management.
• Document management.
• Research.
• Knowledge management.

• Derive centralizes document management for Legal firms from a holistic perspective. We provide specific applications and services that help you to:
• Scan documents with wired and mobile devices: With powerful retrieval capabilities supporting full metadata down to complex document elements beyond text.
• Access images securely over remote systems and PDAs: With protected, thin-client applications that remove traces upon signoff.
• Give special attention to disaster planning: To preserve the confidentiality of original contracts and forms.
• Specialized printing: We also encompass specialized printing capabilities comprising digital watermarking, tagging, and more.
  

ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS

• Audio/Video Conferencing: For Legal boardrooms, courtrooms and other meeting rooms.