A new outlook on content

Hummingbird has introduced a new rich client for Microsoft. Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook is described as providing an interactive, business-based view of the entire suite of Hummingbird Enterprise functionality from within Microsoft Outlook.

Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook offers users the following capabilities:

Organizing content—deploying multiple Business Solution Frameworks to be exposed in Outlook.

Managing e-mail—ensuring that all essential business correspondence is captured and managed appropriately.

Managing the full content life cycle—reduce training costs and user adoption barriers by managing content and records in the familiar Outlook interface, with full functionality, check-in/check-out, versioning, permissions, profiling and history.

Searching all desktop, enterprise and external content—increase user productivity through a complete, unified search solution.

Managing business processes—empowering users to initiate workflows, then participate, delegate, escalate and monitor progress without leaving Outlook.

Generate reports and analyze business—providing business owners with one-click access to generate reports, with report variables automatically driven by the business solution framework or selected by the user.

Securely collaborate—maximizing participation in collaborative projects, providing users with the option of publishing content and securely collaborating from within Outlook rather than a separate Web browser.

Managing records for compliance—ensure compliance by protecting all business correspondence and other relevant content from within Outlook automatically.

Publishing and archiving content—publishing content to Web sites or archiving it to third-party content archival systems with a single click.

The company adds that Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook offers seamless integration with practice support capabilities, giving law firms a unified practice support solution that fee-earners and staff can access through Outlook.