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NetDocuments, the leading secure multi-tenant cloud-based content services and productivity platform for law firms, corporate legal teams, and compliance departments, today announced the availability of ChatLink, an integration that links Microsoft Teams to NetDocuments.
With ChatLink, Teams users now connect channels with NetDocuments workspaces and secure threads.
ChatLink enables users to continue working inside the Microsoft Teams interface while maintaining complete access to NetDocuments workspaces and conversations within ndThread to adhere to compliance and governance rules.
As the legal industry is often faced with content and document governance challenges, ChatLink solves for this by easily bringing NetDocuments into the Teams experience. Administrators can manually or programmatically associate a channel with an existing NetDocuments matter or project, making documents available in a tab within the channel. Likewise, an embedded view of associated chats in ndThread, allow for multiple conversations to happen within a matter while securing them to the matter file.
“The challenges caused by COVID-19 have accelerated the move toward new productivity approaches, and tools like Teams and ndThread are in high demand,” said Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer at NetDocuments. “Based on our feedback from customers, we accelerated our development of ChatLink, and this solution can be delivered quickly to customers on our platform without the need for scheduled upgrades or downtime.”
The ChatLink application can be easily installed into Teams by an administrator, where tabs can then be created for each channel. The two tabs include NetDocuments and ndThread.
The NetDocuments Tab is associated with a specific workspace, allowing users in the channel to access related documents and delivers:
The ndThread tab is associated with a specific workspace, allowing threaded conversations to be saved. With this integration, legal professionals can:
Many NetDocuments customers have reported a seamless transition to work-from-home (WFH) thanks in large part to NetDocuments’ proven cloud technology. This latest integration and collaboration enhancement will further facilitate WFH. “NetDocuments’ ChatLink supplies the crucial link to our collaboration and integrated workspace initiative, which can now be delivered inside Teams,” stated Gene D’Versa, Director of Project Management with Husch Blackwell LLP, a Kansas-City-based Am Law 100 law firm.
For more information about ChatLink, please click here.
Founded in 1999, with more than 3,400 enterprise customers worldwide, NetDocuments is the legal industry’s most trusted cloud-based content services and productivity platform. Complete with state-of-the-art built-in security, compliance and governance solutions, NetDocuments offers document management, email management and collaboration technology complete with disaster recovery, enterprise search, and matter centricity features. For more information about NetDocuments, please click here.
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