WHAT IS BIGHAND DIGITAL DICTATION?
BigHand Digital Dictation software allows a user to dictate directly to your network using a handheld microphone, headset, remote device, PDA, mobile phone or via the web. A compressed and encrypted sound file is then transferred instantly to available secretarial support, wherever they may be located in the world, with industry leading sound quality. Importantly BigHand software is built to respond to the way you work, whether you are a small, medium or large organization.
WHY IS BIGHAND SUITED TO YOUR USERS?
BigHand software is the only digital dictation product based on extensive market and product research from lawyers and IT support professionals, which was undertaken in advance of designing the product. This initial research highlighted that four ‘User Qualities’ were regarded as being the key elements of the "ideal" digital dictation system:
• Ease of use
• Stability
• Scalability
• Flexibility
BigHand adopted these 4 user qualities as the cornerstones of the BigHand3 end user experience. For more detail on these specific user qualities, click here.
HOW IS IT BETTER TECHNICALLY THAN COMPETING SOLUTIONS?
BigHand3 Digital Dictation represents a new generation of digital dictation workflow software. With a unique, service orientated back-end and technical firsts across multiple areas of functionality BigHand technology wins 8 out of 10 RFIs in which it is entered. Benchmark application testing found it to be the most powerful and flexible digital dictation system currently available, more feature rich and more secure than any other product. BigHand3 offers 4 specific Technical USPs:
• On-Demand Information
• Any Remote Access
• Pure Thin Client
• Complete Integration
Clients have reported these four technical areas put us ahead of our competitors and give peace of mind to IT staff. For more detail behind these technical USPs, click here.
WHERE IS BIGHAND POSITIONED IN THE MARKET?
Based out of Chicago, London and Sydney BigHand is the leading digital dictation vendor in the global legal sector, maintaining the five largest sites at international law firms and with more legal installations in total than all other suppliers combined. BigHand3 was nominated as “Best of Breed System of the Year” at the Legal Technology Awards 2007. BigHand was named as the fastest growing legal software developer in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league tables for both 2006 and 2005. BigHand was also recognized by Deloitte as one of the 500 fastest growing software vendors in Europe in 2006. Additionally BigHand was voted "Best Legal Office Technology System 2004" from votes from over 14,000 lawyers and IT managers across the legal sector at the LOTIE Awards. BigHand's leading product also won the Society for Computers & Law IT Award in 2003 for "the most outstanding application of information technology to the law". For an overview of our market share, please click here.
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