News Type: Press Release

Onit Unveils New Corporate Website

HOUSTON, November 7, 2017 Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, today announced the official launch of its new corporate website. The new website embodies not only current best practices in design and execution, but delivers an exceptional visitor experience that beckons a second, deeper look. Contemporary technology-focused images and graphics reflect the cutting-edge nature of Onit’s company culture and innovative technology.

“We definitely wanted to create a more aesthetic, cutting-edge, interactive experience for visitors, using clean design principles,” commented Eric M. Elfman, co-founder and CEO of Onit. “We also had a strong desire to clearly communicate our expertise and thought leadership in this growing field of enterprise legal management and business process automation. It was also important that our corporate website accurately reflect our company’s extensive growth over the past several years.”

Equally important, the website’s intuitive navigation and page configuration make the visitor’s exploration of the site seamless. An interactive timeline demonstrating Onit’s dedication and innovation in the industry, along with showcasing its software solutions, rounds out the extraordinary user experience. The new website also boasts featured content including blog posts, podcasts, white papers and eBooks.

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit’s solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit and Hyperion Global Partners Host Legal Thought Leadership Breakfast in NYC

WHAT: Legal Thought Leadership Breakfast
WHEN:
  • Wednesday, November 1, 2017
  • Registration and breakfast: 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
  • Presentation: 9:00 -11:00 a.m.
WHERE: The Harvard Club of New York City (Slocum Room)
ABOUT:

Please join Onit and Hyperion Global Partners for a thought leadership breakfast in New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 1. This invitation-only event will highlight how to navigate the complex global legal invoicing landscape.

Join us for an interactive conversation about international legal operations and how to understand and manage the myriad international legal, tax, compliance, regulatory, privacy and data residency policies. The developers of the Global Legal E-Billing Playbook, Hyperion will offer guidelines, insights and opportunities for planning and implementing a successful integrated global legal e-billing program.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Archer Daniel Midland’s David Cambria to Present at ACC Annual Meeting in D.C. on Deploying Metrics & Workflow to Drive Value

WHAT: ACC Annual Meeting 2017
WHEN: Monday October 16 th from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Washington, D.C. (Walter E. Washington Convention Center)
SESSION TITLE: Deploying Metrics, Lean Techniques, and Workflow Tools to Drive Value
SESSION DESCRIPTION: Value journeys often start by gathering information, and they can then take off in many different directions. ACC Value Champions demonstrate that data analytics, change-focused metrics, and carefully targeted spending lead to dramatic improvement in the value of external legal services; and cost-effective workflow tools and simplification can be deployed to drive efficiency internally. Whether you’re interested in how to re-engineer contracting or outside counsel management, you will take away practical, low-cost value practices from this session.
SPEAKERS:
  • David Cambria, Global Director of Operations – Law, Compliance and Government, Relations, Archer Daniels Midland Company (Onit Client)
  • Vincent Cordo, Global Sourcing Officer, Shell Oil Company
  • Woodrow Jones, Assistant General Counsel, Verizon
  • Vincent Montalto, Senior Litigation Counsel, BASF

About David Cambria

David Cambria is the Global Director of Operations – Law, Compliance and Government Relations for Archer Daniels Midland Company. An attorney and proven leader with broad business, legal and technology experience, he engages and influences stakeholders across organizations to realize improved business outcomes and returns on investment.  He continually seeks out the “voice” of employees, clients, end users and executives to gain insight necessary in formulating the vision, strategy and action plans for technology-enabled process improvement and organizational transformation.

David is a thought leader in legal operations and enterprise legal management and has published numerous articles on technology and innovation in the legal industry. Under his leadership in 2017, Archer Daniels Midland Company won the Transatlantic Legal Department of the Year and was awarded a Value Champion by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). He is a founding member of Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) and the ACC’s section on Legal Operations as well as the co-founder of the Forum on Legal Evolution.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st  century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements.  By focusing on process, Onit; solutions help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800- 281-1330.

 

Onit to Participate in ILTACON 2017

WHAT: International Legal Technology Association Conference (ILTACON) 2017
WHEN: Tuesday, August 15
WHERE: ILTA is taking place at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Resort. Onit will be at table 24 at the Corporate Corner in the Shoreline Exhibit Hall (Level 2 of the South Convention Center).

Onit is delighted to be participating in ILTACON 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas on Tuesday, August 15.

ILTACON is the premier educational and networking event for the legal sector. Drawing on the personal and collective strengths of law firm and law department professionals, ILTACON is the best place to learn what works, what doesn’t and what’s next in legal technology. Through a variety of session formats, topic experts deliver examples, inspiration and takeaways that can be applied to the challenges and opportunities you face within your team, your organization and the industry. This four-day event features extensive networking opportunities and educational content inspired by and developed by peers, with a volunteer planning committee that works collaboratively with peers, vendors and experts to ensure each session provides value to a variety of professional roles.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit, Equinix and Archer Daniels Midland to Present at ACC Legal Operations Conference

WHAT: ACC Legal Operations Conference 2017
WHEN: Monday June 5, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Chicago (Rosemont)
SESSION: A Better Way to Run Legal Operations: The Enterprise Legal Management Paradigm Shift is Now (Session 601)
SPEAKERS:
  • Julie Lee, Director of Legal Operations, Equinix
  • David Cambria, Global Director of Operations – Law, Compliance and Government Relations, Archer Daniels Midland
  • Matt DenOuden, Vice President of Global Sales, Onit

For nearly two decades, enterprise legal management (ELM) has focused on matter management and spend management. It’s fair to say that effective ELM platforms were, and still are, good at what they do best – only matter and spend management.

There has been a distinct paradigm shift and evolutionary branching off from those older ELM systems. Today, the most effective ELM platforms facilitate engagement, are focused on “process,” offer an environment where the user experience is crucial and can be augmented to manage other legal processes. Today’s definition of ELM includes all of the following tasks — contract management, legal service requests, NDAs, and legal holds (to name a few).

This session will highlight how innovative legal departments have acknowledged the evolutionary ELM paradigm shift and have implemented solutions to get ahead of the curve.

  • The importance of process, workflow, and collaboration
  • How a business automation tool solves needs beyond e-billing and matter management
  • Key benchmarks and metrics that drive innovation and transformation in legal operations

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit Plays Strategic Hardball with New Heavyweight Executive Team

HOUSTON, May 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Onit, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions, today announced the appointment of Joe Kazemieh as Vice President of ELM Sales, EMEA. In addition, Chris Driver was promoted to Vice President of ELM Sales (Central Region). Both will be reporting to Matt DenOuden, the Vice President of Global Sales. Onit’s executive management team now includes dynamic thought leaders from all the major legal e-billing and matter management companies. These strategic moves provide Onit with an industry leading management expertise unsurpassed in its history to drive growth.

“We are elated to be bringing Joe on board at Onit,” said Eric M. Elfman, CEO and founder of Onit. “His addition to the team rounds out our deep expertise in the legal e-billing and matter management space. He will help lead our effort to not only sustain, but surpass our already significant growth momentum. Joe brings a wealth of experience to Fortune Global legal departments and has a proven track record of successfully building groups of thought-leading clients. Joe will be a highly valued and strategic player in our company’s success.”

With more than two decades of experience focused on optimizing legal and risk departments and changing the way law departments and law firms work together more efficiently, Joe Kazemieh will work with European corporate legal department clients to optimize service delivery and develop strategies that define the value of legal services within the corporation.

Prior to joining Onit, Joe was the executive vice president of sales for a major legal services management and technology corporation, where he spearheaded the firm’s new products and initiatives focused on changing how general counsel and corporate legal departments think about legal spend management software. Before that he was regional director of sales at a global enterprise legal management firm.

Joe has a strong penchant for standardization, metrics, analytics and efficiencies, and has led innovation in the business of law for more than two decades. His experience includes executive business development leadership positions at organizations offering ELM solutions to leading law departments globally and helping technology companies evolve their products and grow their business. He frequently speaks on the business of law, risk department optimization, data analysis and reporting and legal technology.

Joe holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in electronic engineering from the University of London.

Onit also recently promoted Chris Driver to Vice President of ELM, Sales (Central Region). In this new role he will be responsible for establishing and growing corporate client relationships to insure client satisfaction through assisting in improving and expanding the use and value of Onit’s products and services. Prior to joining Onit, Chris was a manager of strategic accounts at Datacert. Chris is a graduate of Texas A&M University. He has worked in the ELM market for more than a dozen years.

The new management team includes:

  • Eric M. Elfman, co-founder of Onit and Datacert
  • Eric Smith, co-founder of Onit and Datacert
  • York Richards, CFO
  • Matt DenOuden, VP, Global Sales (formerly with TyMetrix)
  • Chris Driver, VP, ELM, Sales (Central Region) (formerly with Datacert)
  • Cole Morgan, VP, ELM Solutions (formerly with Datacert)
  • Joe Kazemieh, VP, ELM, Sales (EMEA) (formerly with Quovant, ELM Solutions and Mitratech)
  • Jill Black, VP, Marketing (formerly with Datacert)
  • John Gilman, VP, Products (formerly with Datacert)
  • Bernie Barcio, VP, Development (formerly with Datacert)
  • Brian Hauf, VP, Customer Success

About Onit

Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit Apps help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit Announces Strategic Partnership with iManage

CHICAGO, May 24, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Onit, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with iManage, the leading provider of Work Product management solutions for legal, accounting and financial services firms and the corporate departments they serve. Onit will showcase the integration at iManage ConnectLive Chicago, May 24-25 where the company will sponsor and exhibit.

Corporate lawyers spend a large percentage of their time working on matter documents and emails. They are under intense pressure to meet escalating client demands for responsiveness, productivity, and security. By joining forces with iManage, legal departments can now serve their clients more effectively by improving productivity and workflow using best of breed solutions for enterprise legal management and document and email management. This technical integration is currently available.

The Onit/iManage integration allows users to store documents in iManage Cloud and access them in Onit solutions such as Contract Management, Matter Management, Legal Service Request and all other Onit solutions. This bi-directional feed lets business and knowledge workers access documents and emails in iManage Cloud using a single log-in. Users within Onit are now linked directly to a workspace within iManage and have a user experience that mirrors the experience similar to directly logging into iManage.

“Onit is enthusiastic about this strategic partnership,” says Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO, Onit. “The partnership coalesces together industry-leading billing and matter management with document and email management solutions. Today’s legal departments are often inundated and sometimes overwhelmed with the myriad of issues that arise daily. iManage helps these organizations improve productivity and governance through the creation, sharing, and security of their work. Going forward, we anticipate and welcome even greater outcomes from our partnership with iManage.”

“We are very excited to announce this strategic partnership with Onit and the availability of the integrated solution that helps corporate legal teams better serve their clients,” stated Sandeep Joshi, VP of Business Development, iManage. “iManage offers secure collaboration, records management, knowledge management and governance products – work product management – to help make corporate legal departments more productive and manage risk. Together with Onit, we have a partner that can help drive process improvements for the legal industry.”

About Onit

Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements.By focusing on process, Onit Apps help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit to Exhibit at iManage ConnectLive 2017 in Chicago

WHAT: iManage ConnectLive 2017
WHEN: May 24 – May 25
WHERE: The Marriot Magnificent Mile, Chicago
ABOUT:

The iManage ConnectLive 2017 user conference is all about creating connections. Between customers and partners. Between those that are working with advanced technology – using it every day in the service of their clients – and others that are still searching for solutions to important issues in their businesses.

Across four days and two continents, iManage will bring together CIOs and IT professionals, attorneys, legal administrators and more. We’ll welcome them to ConnectLive in Chicago and London. We’ll share the latest technology advancements and celebrate our successes and work together.

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit and PayPal to Present at CLOC Corporate Legal Operations Institute

WHAT: Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Institute 2017
WHEN: Tuesday May 9, 3:15 – 4:15 P.M.
WHERE: Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas (Grand Ballroom 1)
SESSION: Next Generation Enterprise Legal Management (ELM): People. Process. Automation.
SPEAKERS:
  • Lauren Giammona, Director of Operations, Business Affairs & Legal, PayPal
  • Eric M. Elfman, CEO and Founder, Onit
ABOUT: PayPal and Onit will discuss how legal departments can provide “continuous” value to the company, drive operational improvements and allow employees to work in the systems they prefer. The session will highlight:

  • The importance of process, workflow, and collaboration
  • How a business automation tool solves needs beyond e-billing and matter management
  • Key benchmarks and metrics that drive innovation and transformation in legal operations

About Onit

Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2011, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support.

Businesses have processes for everything — whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper intensive and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.

Onit Appoints New CFO to Take Company Through Next Phase of Growth

HOUSTON, April 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Onit, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management solutions, today announced that it appointed York Richards as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

York brings a wealth of software industry finance and accounting experience to Onit and his background will be instrumental in the company’s growth. York is a seasoned executive with extensive experience managing finance organizations for high-growth companies, most recently serving as CFO at Riversand Technologies, Inc. where he was responsible for overall financial operations and reporting.

“York’s dynamic background in software finance and accounting impressed me from the beginning. His breadth of experience in partnering with other executives to achieve aggressive growth, balanced with fiscal discipline reinforced my decision that he was the right executive leader to join the team,” said Eric Elfman, CEO and founder of Onit. “York brings remarkable skills to our finance and accounting team and will be instrumental in providing the finance vision, strategy and leadership to help the company get to the next level. With York at the finance helm, I’m confident we’ll be well positioned to meet our growth goals moving forward.”

As CFO at Onit, York will be responsible for ensuring the finance organization can enable the company to drive growth, capitalizing on the accelerating demand for software solutions that drive greater efficiency and process automation across a spectrum of global businesses.

York comes to Onit with more than 15 years of finance and operations experience and has held CFO positions at several privately held companies in the Internet and technology industries. During his career, he has built large, multi-national finance organizations, completed many strategic acquisitions and divestitures, raised capital in debt and equity markets and managed multiple shareholder exits.

His background includes serving as the CFO of Idera Inc., where he designed and implemented back office operations including accounting, finance, tax, human resources, legal, IT and maintenance renewals. In addition, York managed the development and execution of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program for BMC Software. During his career, he held a number of senior financial positions and served as director of finance of NetIQ Corporation, controller at PentaSafe Security Technologies and senior auditor of Price Waterhouse Coopers.

York holds a master’s degree in science and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas A&M University.

Onit’s bookings and revenues each grew by more than 75 percent in 2016. The company also closed an $8.25 million round of funding, led by Level Equity, a technology-focused growth equity firm, to help propel Onit’s next phase of growth. Participation from previous and new investors including Austin Ventures, The Texas Halo Fund and angel investors were also part of this round.

About Onit

Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21st century. Brought to you by the same team that created Spend Management a generation ago, Onit is transforming the way legal departments drive operational and process improvements. By focusing on process, Onit Apps help customers drive tremendous gains in efficiency, accelerate transaction velocity and reduce costs. For more information, visit onitprostg.wpengine.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.