Accola introduces Epona’s ContactManager to North American Legal Market

July 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Accola, a legal technology and IT services company and joint venture between Epona and Timesoft, today announced the availability of ContactManager, a proven legal contact management system, in the North American legal market. Developed by Dutch-based Epona, ContactManager is currently being utilized by thousands of legal, marketing and secretarial professionals in large, medium and small legal organizations.

ContactManager is a pragmatic contact management system uniquely designed for the legal services market. Conceptualized in conjunction with lawyers and legal marketing departments, ContactManager satisfies the needs of users in information and knowledge driven organizations. Developed independently, ContactManager is not reliant on third party technology vendors and is easy to install and use.

ContactManager provides legal professionals with various benefits including:
•   Enable efficient use of contact information with an accurate centralized contact database and save costs and fiasco of erroneous mailings or undelivered communications;
•   Increase the opportunity for targeted client communications and dynamic promotions with a feature rich CRM that delivers relevant and reliable content;
•   Extend the relationship life cycle and opportunities for business development by quickly terminating dead connections and identifying new prospects effectively;
•   Leverage key client data to optimize services and lengthen client retention periods;
•   Integrates with existing systems to facilitate comprehensive client relationship management including financial practice management and document management systems.

“The joint venture with Epona and our introduction of ContactManager to the North American legal market is perfectly aligned with Accola’s strategy to provide practical software and implementation services,” stated Eric-Jan van Alten, President of Atlanta-based Accola. We have a great opportunity to deliver proven products to the legal space as evidenced by our partnership with ADERANT to provide implementation services around the rapid adoption of Practice Manager and ADERANT Expert.”

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About Accola: Accola delivers proven systems to small and midsized North American law firms. Accola has proven that small and midsized firms can use the exact same systems as larger national and multi-national firms, but at more attractive prices.

About Timesoft: Timesoft has been supplying solutions for firms with 'Time Based Professionals' for more than 30 years by deploying proven, fully integrated, total solutions that are used worldwide on a daily basis.

About Epona: Epona enables thousands of professional services workers to focus on what they do best, by optimizing business processes through first-rate IT products and consulting services. Established in 1993, Epona is a leading software consulting and productions company operating out of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Frankfurt (Germany). Servicing several industries and hundreds of organizations since its inception, the company has proven sustainability and continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.