With Imanage Cloud, Asian Development Bank's Ogc Makes Impressive Productivity

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) -- iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, has announced that the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) of Philippines-headquartered Asian Development Bank (ADB), which serves 68 member countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, has achieved impressive productivity, efficiency and collaboration benefits from the adoption of iManage Work 10 in the cloud for document and email management.

Replacing the previous fragmented approach to information management with iManage Work 10 has significantly reduced time spent on printing, filing, organising, and searching for documents and emails, cutting it from 2,400 person hours per month to just 600 hours, a 75 per cent increase in efficiency.

OGC’s 110 employees, some of whom are spread across the different offices, countries and time zones, can securely access files anywhere, at any time, while custom workspaces provide the flexibility to accommodate the different workflows among the different teams in the OGC.

Additionally, iManage Work 10 has allowed the OGC to take a big leap towards near-paperless operations, as part of the bank’s sustainability agenda. Traditionally, every document, email and correspondence would be filed physically, and searches would require locating and reviewing those files.

“ADB is a prime example of the way that smart organisations invest in technology to make the lives of their professionals easier and to boost the overall efficiency of the organisation.

“With the iManage Cloud in place, ADB’s Office of the General Counsel is well positioned to continue solving complex business challenges and enabling better business outcomes,” said iManage Asia Director of Sales & Business Development, Cheng Kwee Chua in a statement.

Meanwhile, Asian Development Bank Assistant General Counsel, Colin Gin said: “Thanks to iManage, we now have a reliable, secure knowledge work platform supporting our legal team that allows us to operate in a highly efficient and collaborative manner. This has freed up our legal professionals to focus on higher value activities.”

ADB worked closely with iManage partner Business Network Solutions (BNS) to deploy iManage Work on iManage Cloud. As part of the migration, BNS helped move around 5 terabyte (TB) of data from legacy systems like Lotus Notes and assorted data stores, including local drives, laptops, and shared drives, into the iManage platform, successfully completing the project within 13 months.

-- BERNAMA