Ed Kaczor (left) and Trevor Dyck at the Colligo pod at ILTA.
The Colligo team participated at another interesting conference last week, this time the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference in Las Vegas. We were invited to participate by Microsoft who graciously shared their booth space with us. The legal industry is very important to Microsoft as law firms and legal departments of all sizes are deploying SharePoint for matter management faster than ever before. In fact, we spoke with many law firm CIOs and CTOs, and were told empathically that it’s not a matter of “if” they’ll deploy SharePoint but “when” they’ll deploy SharePoint.
Colligo’s integration of Outlook to SharePoint is a critical piece of the puzzle for any law firm or legal department looking at SharePoint for matter management. The reason is simple: the vast majority of client communications (up to 90% by some research) occur via email. By making it easy for lawyers and administrative staff to move emails into client and matter folders while capturing accurate metadata, Colligo Contributor is essential for the success of any SharePoint project in the legal space.
Many thanks to all the folks at Microsoft for their support and for walking over so many of their clients to our “pod” for a demonstration of Colligo Contributor. It was also extremely gratifying to have Microsoft highlighting the role of Colligo Contributor in their own Legal and Corporate Affairs Department’s deployment of SharePoint. A special thanks to Norm Thomas, Mark Beckman, Julie Kremer, Tanice Myers, and Karin Breedis for their help and hospitality.
Colligo already has some great clients in the legal space and you can read their individual case studies that detail how they are using Colligo Contributor for matter management:
National Grid Legal Department Improves Collaboration & SharePoint Adoption with Contributor Add-In for Outlook (Click here to download the Case Study)
We’ve also produced a new white paper that explains how Colligo Contributor helps law firms and legal departments manage their matter content including emails in SharePoint. Click here to download the White Paper.
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June continued to be a busy month at Colligo for conferences and events. Colligo’s Braeden Calyniuk, who’s responsible for business development in the Asia Pacific region, recently attended, presented, and exhibited at the New Zealand SharePoint Conference in Wellington and the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney. Both events were well attended with over 400 SharePoint professionals in New Zealand and 800 in Australia. Ryan Duguid, who recently co-hosted our extremely successful webinar on email management in SharePoint 2010, provided the keynote address in Wellington.
This was Colligo’s first time exhibiting in New Zealand and Australia and it was great for Braeden to meet face-to-face with the many partners and customers that he’s only talked with on the phone. It was also great to meet with Microsoft representatives in both countries, so a big thanks to Ryan Duguid for introductions to the Microsoft New Zealand people and to Gayan Peiris for introductions to the Microsoft Australia folks.
Colligo was the guest of Information Leadership Consulting at the New Zealand show and the guest of Unique World for the Australian conference. Both groups generously shared their booths with us and played the part of excellent hosts, making many introductions to key companies and important SharePoint contacts in their respective regions. So another big thanks to Grant Margison at Information Leadership and Eddie Geller at Unique World for their support and incredible hospitality. Many thanks also to Debbie Ireland for putting together two great conferences!
Colligo has built a very good profile in New Zealand and Australia with a solid core of customers and excellent partners. We received a lot of good plugs at various “Voice of the Customer” presentations and the knowledge level of Colligo and our SharePoint client solutions with the conference attendees was fantastic.
Here are some photos that were taken at the events. Braeden is sitting in the middle.
Conferences like Tech-Ed are a great way for us to connect with customers, learn about their experiences using our products and the results that their companies are achieving. At Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans, we had the good fortune of having Bob Burke from Newfoundland Power stop by the Colligo booth. Bob is an Application Analyst and was heavily involved in deploying Colligo Contributor to their field service staff.
Newfoundland Power operates an integrated generation, transmission and distribution system throughout the island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador. The company identified a problem in the time delay involved in updating and printing manuals for their field staff to take with them in their service vehicles. To solve the problem, the company implemented SharePoint and Colligo Contributor, so that the manuals could be updated electronically, uploaded to SharePoint, and then synched to each of the field service technician’s laptops using Contributor. This process ensured that field staff always had the latest version of the service manuals in their trucks.
As Bob told us at Tech-Ed, Contributor provided fast and easy access to up-to-date field service manuals and helped solve Newfoundland Power’s mobile document management problems.
I’m very excited to announce that Colligo has been recognized on Profit Magazine’s List of Canada’s fastest growing companies. The editor of Profit summed it up like this: “Heroes for hard times, role models for the recovery. That’s how we describe the firms featured on our 22nd annual ranking of the PROFIT 100: Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies.” Just to be eligible for the list requires a five year track record of increasing sales along with a minimum of triple digit growth, so no “flash in the pan” companies allowed.
Thanks and congratulations to everyone at Colligo as well as to our customers and partners worldwide for contributing to our success. This is our first year of eligibility for the list, and I look forward to making this an annual annoucement for years to come!
The Colligo team is in New Orleans for Microsoft Tech-Ed this week and the only thing hotter than the weather is all the buzz about Office and SharePoint 2010. Conference attendance is definitely up from last year, with most of the sessions packed to the rafters and the exhibit hall a frenzy of activity, especially the first night with the vendor reception driving 10,000 attendees into Hall D.
Traffic to the Colligo booth has been excellent and the team has had some great conversations with people stopping by to learn more about our SharePoint solutions and how they can deploy them in their organizations. The vast majority are interested in Office and SharePoint 2010 support and we definitely have a good story to tell about Colligo products here. Email management in SharePoint is high on the list of companies either deploying SharePoint or looking to expand their use of it. Without exception, everyone loves our Contributor Add-In for Outlook!
The post conference festivities have been excellent too, as expected in a city as vibrant as New Orleans, which has definitely bounced back with a passion since Katrina. Last night’s AvePoint sponsored party at the famous Maison Dupay Hotel in the French Quarter was excellent, featuring great food and a very talented fire dancer. Later in the night, the party moved to Bourbon Street in style, with a jazz band and full police escort leading a parade of about 200 people through the streets of the French Quarter. It was quite the spectacle!
Look for more from the Colligo team when they return.
I’m in New York for the worldwide launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. Colligo was invited by Microsoft to participate in the launch today, so I’m heading over to NBC Studios in a half hour to see Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division and others take the covers off “Wave 14″..
Last night, Microsoft hosted a party at the NBC Experience store. A bunch of customers, partners and, of course, Microsoft-ies, were there. I had the company “Flip” with me, and made a short video of the event.
On the video you can see:
Gideon Bibliowicz, who heads up SharePoint products at Microsoft
Paj and Ruth (who organized the event), both from Microsoft
Rasool Rayani from Metalogix
Tony Lanni, and Tiani Jiang from AvePoint
Marsha from Mercer Consulting
Nic Betts from Pfizer
Chris Johnson from Microsoft (he put the on stage demos together)
We’re at the big New York launch event tonight and tomorrow. Next week, we’re Gold Sponsors in Atlanta.
This is one of a series of events held throughout the United States. No matter what your job is, you’ll find a launch event that delivers technical content you can use today, and gives you the inside track on what Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 have to offer. There are all day or half day in-person events and virtual events that you can attend anytime. It’s all free.
