LawPort tops support for over 40 third party apps

Delivery of an EverGreen strategy saves users unnecessary development cost

(Vancouver, Canada – December 15, 2010) SydneyPLUS LawPort, supplier of SharePoint Portal solutions to top law firms, Fortune 1000 companies, and government agencies announced today that it provides compatibility support to over 40 third party applications. This direction is part of an EverGreen support model that ensures LawPort users are provided with continued and “evergreen” support for their third party applications.  “With EverGreen, LawPort users never have to bear the cost of having third party software compatibility issues with their portals.  The model supports third party application version upgrades as well as migrations to a different vendor’s product or suite of products, including DMS, Finance, CRM and many other application categories.” say Marcus Liban, senior sales representative for LawPort.

Firms that chose the path of developing their own portals eventually discover that their portal projects and their associated expense can never end.  They discover that their portal must continue to evolve and keep pace with an environment driven by such events as third party service pack upgrades, new software releases, and wholesale software replacement projects.  To keep pace, their portal continues to be developed going through continuous cycles of development, testing and new release rollouts.  In the end, these firms find themselves owning their own software development shop with significant, often unplanned cost overruns and requirements for dedicated staffing.

The in-house development approach also runs counter to the fact that law firms are actually in the business of providing legal services and not software.  Companies turn to the best law firms because those firms deliver superior legal services.  It stands to reason that law firms do the same when addressing their own software needs.  However, not all law firms realize that to enjoy the benefits of top drawer software products and an indisputable ROI to match, they need to leverage the superior software and services that come from companies whose actual business is software – and not law.  As such, because LawPort is a software development company, LawPort users receive benefits such as EverGreen support that delivers;

§         Automatic support for over 40 industry-leading 3rd-party applications

§         Cost relief from portal QA, compatibility and performance testing expenses

With LawPort, cost conscious CIOs can avoid the software development trap and offload perpetual cycles of portal development and expense.  For further information on LawPort’s EverGreen strategy, phone 604 278 6717 or email sales@sydneyplus.com with your questions.