BigHand has today announced its plan for the convergence of the BigHand and
nFlow technologies. A new converged product; BigHand v4, will be launched on
Nov 4th 2010 at the BigHand Annual User Conference and will combine
the best features of both technologies in a new BigHand product. BigHand v4
will enable all customers within the BigHand Group to access an unrivalled
voice productivity toolkit and will enhance their document production and
mobile efficiency even further.
Rob Lancashire,
BigHand Managing Director for UK Legal & Professional Services commented:
“Since the
acquisition of nFlow I have spoken with customers about the best way forward
and there has been overwhelming support for the convergence of the product
streams as it offers both nFlow & BigHand customers the best of both
worlds. Equally we acknowledge a customer desire for flexibility and a caveat
to the convergence plan is that we intend to allow firms to do this at their
own speed and not be forced to upgrade by any set deadline. I believe the plan
we have in place delivers BigHand and nFlow end-users a combination of product
improvements and technical consistency, and is a result of engaging quickly and
directly with the customer base post-acquisition. We will continue to evolve
the plan to ensure a seamless migration path to the converged version, and an
upgrade that delivers significant value.”
Asif Ali, BigHand
Head of Products, commented:
“The BigHand Group is
committed to the long term support of users on current versions 4 and 5 of the
nFlow system, including the nFlow mobility apps, and there are no plans to discontinue
either product. As testament to our support, BigHand’s Analytics package
comprising a suite of Crystal reports will be integrated with nFlow software,
and be made available this summer. However, following the next service release
for nFlow v5, nFlow development resource will then be concentrated on the
converged product which will effectively become the next major release for the
nFlow product stream. This will also mean that a number of the innovative nFlow
functions will be available to BigHand users as part of their upgrade to
BigHand v4.’’
BigHand will honour
all existing nFlow Annual Maintenance and Support contracts for all firms
including those wanting to migrate to BigHand v3.4 or future v4 products.
Furthermore, the migration will replicate the existing nFlow configuration as
closely as possible making the process simple and straightforward, but give
access to significantly enhanced mobility, workflow and voice-to-text
functionality including:
·
BigHand for BlackBerry® v4
·
BigHand for iPhone™
·
BigHand Integration with
Microsoft® Office
·
Email Notification +
Document Return
·
Advanced Reporting +
Analytics
·
Server-based Speech
Recognition
Existing
BigHand v3 users will be able to seamlessly upgrade to BigHand v4 as per their
standard process to date and with little or no change to their existing infrastructure
or system set-up.
More information is
available at a series of breakfast briefings being held at the following
locations:
Weds 23rd June 8am-10am Liverpool
Thurs 24th June 8am-10am Leeds
Fri 25th June 8am-10am Newcastle
Thurs 1st July 8am-10am Edinburgh
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