Solcara SolSearch helps leading law firms provide a better service to clients

Middlesex, England, UK -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/04/2007 -- In the past few weeks Solcara has helped these firms to improve the productivity of their fee earners and the service that they deliver to their clients:

Clyde & Co
Dundas & Wilson
Marks & Clerk
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
Morrison Foerster
Olswang

How? By enabling fee earners to easily access content from multiple information resources, for example the document management system, know how system, intranet, Lexis Nexis, PLC etc.

Rather than searching these individually, fee earners are able to cast a simultaneous search across all resources, pinpointing the vital information they require quickly and easily.

One search does it all – no training, user ids, passwords or complicated search syntax to remember.

The result is fee earners and their support staff spend less time searching for information and more time putting that information to work. Increases in efficiency mean they can respond more quickly to the demands of their clients.

SolSearch is delivering benefits to firms of all sizes. With no major investments in hardware required and no changes in working practices, the return on investment is significant.

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The popularity of Solcara SolSearch knows no bounds as the information and knowledge management company Solcara has taken new orders from six law firms (and a major intelligence organisation) in the past two months.

Middlesex, England, UK -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/31/2006 -- One of the seven, an international firm with 16 international offices, has already gone live, rolling the solution out across their intranet, also provided by Solcara.

Knowledge workers from the professional services and other industry sectors are realising the benefits of simultaneously searching multiple resources. Solcara Director Charlie O'Rourke commented, "Simplicity is the key to the continued success of SolSearch. Providing one query box, with the ability to search many pertinent resources together, reduces complexity while improving results for researchers. In addition SolSearch can provide access to content where enterprise indexing technologies cannot tread: the 'deep web,' containing highly valuable, content secured in online (often) subscription based, databases."

The next release of SolSearch, due in November, will benefit from the addition of entity extraction. Users will be able to filter search results by conditions such as people, locations and companies making result navigation easy, immediate and relevant.

SolSearch is delivering benefits to firms of all sizes. With no major investments in hardware required and no changes in working practices, the return on investment is significant.

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Communication experts at Severn Trent Water are managing their media relations with the help of Solcara PressBureau, the market leading reputation management tool.

Middlesex, England, UK -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/24/2006 -- Solcara PressBureau is a sophisticated media management system that enables press officers at Severn Trent Water to associate and categorise the vital information they distribute and receive on a daily basis.

It helps them manage media enquiries by connecting them to issues, contacts and associated documents, producing a three dimensional overview of events.

Able to report on this and monitor media coverage ensures Severn Trent Water's communications team has all the information they need to maintain consistency thus enhancing their corporate reputation.

Severn Trent water is part of Severn Trent Plc, a FTSE 100 company, generating revenues of £2.081 billion and employing more than 15,000 people across the UK, US and the rest of Europe.

Firmly embedded in Severn Trent's corporate strategy is a commitment to corporate responsibility, particularly health and safety, environmental performance and sound financial management.

In such a large organisation, managing media contact is vital. Jo Smith, External Communications Manager at Severn Trent Water said, "Solcara has improved the way we track media calls, making it much quicker and easier to share information and provide consistent, accurate messages with colleagues and the press. Team members working remotely can see the current status of calls and incidents as they progress, which is invaluable when incidents need someone to be on site, rather than in the office. The ability to react quickly and accurately is invaluable."

Charlie O'Rourke, Sales Director for Solcara remarked: "As reputation management becomes more vital to organisations nationwide, more and more communication experts turn to Solcara PressBureau to improve their responsiveness to questions from the media, shareholders and other stakeholders. We are thrilled PressBureau has become an essential cog in Severn Trent's communications armoury, and look forward to working more closely with the team to ensure PressBureau continues to add value and automate hitherto manual processes."

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Solcara Crisis Control Centre is the latest software tool in the armoury of business continuity managers worldwide.

Harefield, Middlesex, UK -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/09/2006 -- Implemented across multiple sectors - airline, retail and bank ing - this new release will make information sharing during emergency services easier than ever before.

Solcara Crisis Control Centre is the online virtual incident room, replacing whiteboards and flipcharts as the means of capturing and disseminating information during an incident.

Solcara's unique so ftware provides easy to use capabilities that can be invoked in seconds whenever you need them:

- Quickly make facts available to all key decision makers
- Assess the impact on vital corporate assets: people, premises, process, providers
- Identify and prioritse actions required
- Retain control and ensure consistency of access and response
- Appraise records post-crisis, for best practice review
- Track key stakeholder messages and co-ordinate actions with public authorities
- Easily integrate with your business continuity plan
- Adds significant value to your business recovery strategies

CCC creates a platform for the capture of information, its validation and quick distribution of the facts to the Crisis Management Team. Delivering the right information to the right people in this way can save lives and protect resources.

Version 1.5 of Solcara Crisis Control Centre will showcase this October in the Solcara Risk and Resilience seminar.

For more information on Crisis Control Centre, or to register for the seminar, please call 0207 070 0450.

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From the 15th-17th June 2006 Solcara will be exhibiting at BIALL

Harefield, Middlesex, UK -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/17/2006 -- It is a significant challenge for firms today to find a quick and easy way for fee earners and their support staff to access, share and reuse critical information, best practices and know how.

Solcara's know-how applications reduce duplication of effort, maximise employee productivity and reduce the cost of managing information.

Exhibiting its substantial range of legal solutions, Solcara experts will be demonstrating the enormous benefits and features of Know How solutions at this years BIALL exhibition, at the Hilton Brighton Metropole from the 15th-17th June.

Visit www.biall.org for more information on this year's exhibition for the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.

Call 0870 333 2966, visit www.solcara.com or email info@solcara.com NOW! for more information on this award winning technology.

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Solcara SolSearch smoothes the transition to the new LexisNexis Butterworths legal service

Harefield, Middlesex -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/16/2006 -- SolSearch, the coveted one-query solution from the leading software applications provider Solcara, is now searching the new legal sources available from LexisNexis Butterworths.

A federated search engine with sophisticated topic extraction and a single, simple search interface across all sources, Solcara SolSearch is a favourite with top law firms such as Clifford Chance, Clyde & Co, Macfarlanes and Irwin Mitchell.

"The Solcara solution is delivering real returns for fee earners, significantly reducing the time they spend online and speeding up response times to clients…

…Solicitors are able to do basic research themselves, in the knowledge that the single search interface means that they don't miss out on any key materials available to them."
Catherine Kenwright, Head of Legal Information, Irwin Mitchell

The new LexisNexis Butterworths global platform offers a wealth of new features and provides access to numerous additional sources. Transitioning to new versions can be tricky but Solcara SolSearch makes it easy. Using the same simple search interface, Solcara SolSearch smoothes the transition to the new version, and we are delighted to offer this service to our current clients and all of those law firms that use the LexisNexis Butterworths service.

Ray Jackson, Managing Director of Solcara, remarked, "Solcara SolSearch is a truly scalable, cost effective solution that benefits our clients on an hourly basis. We are delighted to announce that we now include these valuable new sources from LexisNexis Butterworths and this will significantly help our customers maintain continuity throughout the transition. Solcara SolSearch offers one, easy to use search interface across multiple internal and external information sources. Solcara SolSearch is the single, most cost effective solution for information management in law firms."

For more information on Solcara SolSearch and other solutions visit www.solcara.com or email info@solcara.com

About Solcara
Solcara dramatically increases the value of an organisation's information.

We do this by providing web based software and solutions that connect people to information that matters. With Solcara you spend less time searching for information and more time putting information to work.

Our software enables users to capture, store, share and re-use unstructured and structured information regardless of its format, type or location. By improving access to this information we enable our clients to drive efficiency and productivity gains through knowledge intensive business processes in order to significantly impact the bottom line.

Solcara is one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative software companies. We service the needs of clients across many sectors including government, professional services, pharmaceuticals and the media.

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Solcara PressBureau users at Dorset Police have praised Solcara, the market leading software solution provider, for its excellent level of support.

Harefield, Middlesex -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/15/2006 -- This comes after an upgrade to the latest version of Solcara PressBureau, a move that not only enhanced the existing functionality of the system but also offered many new features and benefits.

An essential link between the police and the press, Dorset Police's busy media department is responsible for maintaining and promoting the reputation of the police force. Advising staff at all levels on media issues, the innovative police department receives 12, 500 calls a year and saw the benefits of Solcara PressBureau a year ago, went it first went live with PressBureau version 3.2.

Solcara PressBureau has proven to be a vital tool at Dorset Police for capturing and sharing information, ensuring that the right information reaches the right people at the right time. Version 4 offers Dorset Police even more for its Media Relations department, where internal and external communications are a high priority.

As such an integral part of the Media Relations department, good communication between Dorset and Solcara was essential during the PressBureau upgrade. Solcara takes pride in its high level of customer support, and such praise confirms the company is hitting the mark in this field.

"With enhanced reporting abilities, Solcara PressBureau version 4 has an incorporated and centralised homepage and the ability to create news releases from within the application. That has made us even more efficient than ever before." said Paul Breakwell, Head of the Media and Corporate Communication Department at Dorset Police.

"There is excellent two-way communication between us and Solcara," continued Mr Breakwell. "PressBureau is extremely useful because it gives us access to the current situation and we are even more effective with the solution. We work even more efficiently now. The support that Solcara offered during and after the upgrade has been second to none. We are very pleased with both the current upgrade and the Solcara team," added Mr Breakwell.

Charlie O'Rourke, Sales Director at Solcara, commented, "Solcara PressBureau is already the de facto standard for press offices nationwide. To be known also for our first rate support is a wonderful compliment for the company and a reward for the hard work and dedication the team have for every customer. We are delighted Dorset Police is seeing real returns on its investment and we look forward to maintaining and exceeding its software expectations."

About Dorset Police
The Media and Corporate Communication Department is based centrally at Dorset Police's Winfrith Headquarters, near Wareham. From dealing with the day-to-day media enquiries to managing the media interest in cases of serious crime and major incidents, the work of the media relations office is very varied. The department also includes the photography, video and graphics units.

The Media and Corporate Communication Department looks after the reputation of the Force and promotes the positive work of officers and support staff. Responsibilities include the production of the Annual Report and the annual Policing Plan. It also produces many corporate documents and maintains a good relationship with the local media and departments and divisions across the Force.

Promoting the Force Corporate Communications Strategy, from which all other communication strategies should flow, is an important element of the PR section's work.
The department works in liaison with the Police Authority and provides support and advice on promoting sponsorship agreements.

About Solcara
Solcara dramatically increases the value of an organisation's information.

We do this by providing web based software and solutions that connect people to information that matters. With Solcara you spend less time searching for information and more time putting information to work.

Our software enables users to capture, store, share and re-use unstructured and structured information regardless of its format, type or location. By improving access to this information we enable our clients to drive efficiency and productivity gains through knowledge intensive business processes in order to significantly impact the bottom line.

Solcara is one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative software companies. We service the needs of clients across many sectors including government, professional services, pharmaceuticals and the media.

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