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Holland & Knight Deploys the iManage WorkSite Suite to More than 3,000 Users in 30 Offices Worldwide iManage Partner Baker Robbins & Company's Expertise Enables Rapid Conversion of More Than 10 Million Documents into iManage WorkSite FOSTER CITY, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iManage, Inc. , a leading provider of collaborative content management software for global enterprises, today announced that Holland & Knight, one of the world's largest law firms, has completed a large centralized deployment of iManage WorkSite(TM) to support matter centric collaboration firm-wide. To make it possible for the firm's 3,000 users in 30 offices worldwide to work together more productively, the decision was made to implement iManage WorkSite for a centralized collaborative document management (DM) approach that would introduce new efficiencies. The deployment at Holland & Knight was completed with the assistance of iManage partner, Baker Robbins & Company, and iManage Professional Services. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020306/SFW026LOGO ) Said Ralph Barber, CIO, Holland & Knight, "A hallmark of our IT strategy has been to standardize our approach, while laying a centralized technology foundation at the core of our vision." As part of this new vision, the firm made the decision to adopt iManage's methodology for matter centric collaboration. Matter centric collaboration goes beyond traditional document management and provides an integrated, historical view of documents, events, tasks and contacts for any given matter. In addition, global teams have seamless access to client-matter and collaborative projects from any location at any time. The firm will also use the iManage WorkSite Server with Caching and iManage's Email Management solution. By moving to a centralized data environment, Holland & Knight has improved the usability of its system from an end user perspective; any document in the firm can be accessed the same way by users in all locations across the globe, without the need to search multiple distributed libraries. In addition, by using a single high-end cluster to replace 30 separate databases and indexes, each of which had to be maintained individually, the firm has realized dramatic cost savings, improved manageability and simplified disaster recovery planning. The challenge of avoiding the latency and delays that can occur when documents move from a local area network (LAN) across a lower bandwidth wide area network (WAN), have now been uniquely overcome by utilizing this leading edge thinking around the design of document management and server infrastructure. Also essential to Holland & Knight's deployment of iManage WorkSite was iManage Professional Services and iManage partner Baker Robbins & Company, a leading information technology-consulting firm with nearly two decades of experience implementing large-scale DM systems. In addition to assisting the firm with the overall deployment, Baker Robbins provided critical subject matter experience and support through design, data migration and software deployment. Given the size of the Holland & Knight repository -- more than 10 million documents -- a seamless conversion and speed were the firm's two major focuses during the migration to iManage WorkSite. Baker Robbins used their internally developed tool, known as Shamrock, to migrate approximately 200,000 documents per hour -- a speed and efficiency rate that has been previously unattainable in the document management migration world. The power of this unique tool allowed the entire transition to be completed over only two weekends without encroachment on normal business hours, or interruptions in business operations. With iManage and Baker Robins project management services and methodologies, there was no need to send local teams to each of Holland & Knight's local and international offices during the migration weekends. The data arrived in iManage WorkSite intact and with no loss of date, complete with document history, folder structure, and users' work lists. The entire rollout was accomplished in 10 days with no impact on users. "With the efficiencies and management control made possible by our iManage implementation, our institutional IT group will no longer be tied down by lower-level tasks, and will be able to expand our focus on more high-value initiatives to support our firm," stated Barber. "We see iManage and Baker Robbins as vital partners to our business, and anticipate a long and productive working relationship with both teams." Said David Craig, a Baker Robbins consultant, "Holland and Knight's move to a centralized matter centric collaboration system with iManage will be extremely valuable to the firm. In supporting the firm's deployment of iManage Worksite, we knew we had to migrate millions of irreplaceable documents quickly, so there would be no interruption to work -- and this is where the value of Shamrock is the most visible. Not only was the conversion of documents fast and seamless, the entire firm had access to their documents immediately. The long term benefit to Holland & Knight will be better service to their clients and great cost savings." With iManage WorkSite now in place, Holland & Knight has decreased the number of servers dedicated to document management at its central office from 27 SQL servers to four. The increased efficiency of the system will make it easier to manage as well as to grow, and will deliver the economies of scale central to Holland & Knight's IT philosophy. Moving forward, Holland & Knight plans to use its iManage platform as the basis for knowledge management, records management and uniformly enforced retention policies firm-wide. "For a firm the size of Holland & Knight, a centralized document management environment can make the difference between economies of scale, and large-scale inefficiencies," said Chris Junker, iManage vice president of legal sales. "Our matter centric collaboration paradigm makes it possible for attorneys throughout Holland Knight's global organization to work together as closely and conveniently as if they were all in the same room together." About Holland & Knight LLP Holland & Knight LLP is among the largest law firms in the world with more than 1,250 lawyers who practice in over 100 areas of law. The firm's United States offices are in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington state and Washington, D.C. Internationally, the firm's offices are in Mexico City, Helsinki, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Sao Paulo, with representative offices in Caracas and Tel Aviv. About Baker Robbins & Company Baker Robbins & Company is an international technology-consulting firm that is dedicated to helping their clients achieve success through the practical application of information technologies. Founded in 1984, Baker Robbins has become a leading provider of technology solutions to large law firms and corporate legal departments. Their services include document management and collaboration, financial and human resource systems, knowledge management, litigation support, matter management, records management, technology infrastructure, facilities and strategic technology consulting. Offices are located in Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Baker Robbins & Company is an independent provider of technology consulting services and is not a reseller of any software or hardware. For more information, please visit http://www.brco.com/ or send e-mail to . About iManage, Inc. Headquartered in Foster City, Calif., iManage, Inc. is a leader in collaborative content management software that enables businesses to efficiently manage and collaborate on critical business content across the extended enterprise. The iManage WorkSite suite delivers document management, collaboration, workflow and knowledge management accessible through an integrated portal in a single integrated Internet solution. This results in significant improvements in communication and process efficiency, faster response times and a rapid return on investment. More than 600,000 professionals in approximately 1,400 businesses have transformed their organizations with the iManage WorkSite solution. Since 1999, over 90% of leading law firms that purchased a new document management system chose iManage. For more information, please contact iManage at 1-877-4iManage, or visit our Web site at http://www.imanage.com/ . iManage and Interwoven announced on August 6, 2003 the signing of a definitive merger agreement, which is subject to customary closing conditions. Trademark Notice: iManage, the iManage logo, WorkTeam, WorkDocs, WorkPortal, WorkRoute and DeskSite are registered trademarks of iManage, Inc. iManage WorkSite, iManage WorkKnowledge and iManage MailSite are trademarks of iManage, Inc. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020306/SFW026LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: iManage, Inc. CONTACT: Laura Heisman, Public Relations, +1-650-577-6607, or , or Jennifer Lee, Investor Relations, +1-650-577-6567, or , both of iManage; or Michael Stovall of Baker Robbins & Company, +1-713-840-0510, or Web site: http://www.brco.com/ Web site: http://www.imanage.com/

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