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HOUSTON, January 9, 2018 – Onit, a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, is pleased to announce it has received special recognition of its Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions in the 2017 MarketView™ Report on Enterprise Legal Management by Hyperion Research, a leading analyst-based market research firm covering the ELM market. Onit was recognized as a Market Leader in the categories of process automation and enterprise apps and Highly Innovative for its system architecture.

According to the report, “Onit’s vision closely aligns with market demand for a more fulfilling and dynamic user experience. Onit is positioned as a disruptive alternative to the traditional ELM ecosystem…the company’s rapid growth and market acceleration speaks strongly to the enthusiastic reception of its innovative ELM paradigm across the legal ops spectrum.”

“We couldn’t be happier about being recognized again by Hyperion Research,” commented Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “We’ve been working diligently for our customers and Hyperion’s MarketView^TM report is excellent validation that we’ve gone above and beyond in meeting that objective.”

The report continues by stating, “Onit carries a strong ELM pedigree, including the founders of a well-known ELM vendor. Rooted in the principals of business process management (BPM), Onit uses a workflow-based approach to drive corporate legal operations. The system allows users to create and incorporate the discrete capabilities and components of a broader enterprise system ‘as they need them.’”

In its detailed evaluation of Onit, Hyperion underscored some key advantages of the company, “In a direct challenge to the prevailing matter management model, which Onit believes encumbers companies with outsize investments in large applications with features they may not want and won’t use, Onit presents a familiar app-based approach to legal operations management by breaking up ELM into individual task-based solutions and processes.” Further endorsing Onit’s leadership in this market, Hyperion also stated, “Onit’s matter and spend management apps themselves offer the strong functionality one would expect from a leading system.”

In their assessment of Onit Enterprise, Hyperion gave special recognition to the following capabilities:

PROCESS AUTOMATION: Workflow-centric approach that seeks to deconstruct matter management into independent, collaborative functional lifecycles that lawyers and operations managers use on a regular basis; a la carte model empowers users to add capabilities and components as needed.

ENTERPRISE APPS: Capitalizing on the broad applicability of workflow-based task management, Onit is not afraid of expanding into functional areas outside of legal and aggressively solicits customer needs to write custom applications for other corporate-wide departments.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE: Modern architecture showcases class-leading technology and a decidedly SaaS-based approach to legal business application management. Flexible and agile, Onit is designed for rapid deployment, flexibility and agility.

The Hyperion MarketView^TM Report is oriented towards the solution needs of corporate legal departments of all sizes that are seeking integrated solutions that include modern capabilities in spend management, collaboration, workflow and advanced analytics. The report focuses on solutions capable of global law department support and integrated solutions that address the needs of ELM, and includes trends in the solution market and a review and assessment of advanced solution providers. For additional information about this report, please visit the Hyperion Research website at elm.hgp-marketview.com, or contact them via email at [email protected].

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st 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.

HOUSTON, December 4, 2017 – The American Marketing Association, Houston Chapter, has identified Onit as one of 54 finalists for 20 different industry-based award categories for the 2017 Marketer of the Year Awards, December 4, 2017 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

The American Marketing Association’s Marketer of the Year Award (MOTY) recognizes marketing teams across Texas for their yearly marketing initiatives. MOTY distinguishes the top performers in the Texas marketing community for doing what they do best: branding a company, reaching a new audience, growing the business and changing perceptions. At the award ceremony, one finalist will be announced as the overall Marketer of the Year.

To be nominated for the award, Onit was asked questions about their marketing initiatives, the challenges they faced in their industry and how they worked together as a team and contributed to the overall success of their organization.

“I’m thrilled that our company has made the AMA Marketer of the Year finalist list,” says Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “I’m proud of the accomplishments that our marketing team has made during 2017. As a serial entrepreneur, I can say from experience that it’s rare to have this unparalleled level of marketing expertise available to me. It’s a distinct honor for Onit to be considered for this prestigious award this year.”

In addition to the overall and categorical winners, this year Sysco will present a new sponsored award called the Sysco Innovator Award. This new award recognizes an individual or company for vision, purpose, resourcefulness and innovation with regards to marketing.

To purchase tickets to the event, visit www.amamoty.org.

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st 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.

HOUSTON, November 29, 2017 – Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise legal management and business process automation solutions, is excited to unveil its new user interface (UI). The new interface is built on ReactJS and leverages the speed of JavaScript and uses a new way of rendering web pages, making them highly dynamic and responsive to user input.

The new user interface will accelerate user adoption, improve usability and increase productivity. By focusing on the user experience of all team members (knowledge workers, managers, developers, testers, etc.), the interface is more intuitive and delivers faster access to content when necessary.

“We’re very excited about this new UI,” says Eric M. Elfman, founder and CEO of Onit. “Our team has been working tirelessly on this initiative and it’s now available. The new interface is not only a better user experience, but is also an incredible timesaver for developers allowing them to work faster and save significant time by reusing code components. An additional feature of the open-source library is ongoing development among its users allowing open contributions.”

Some of the key features of ReactJS library include:

• A more responsive, modern and intuitive design
• An improved user experience for transaction creation and editing workflows
• More efficient site navigation and grid filtering
• Faster page loading
• The ability to more quickly fix bugs, make upgrades, and spin up new features to support our customer’s business process needs

About Onit
Onit is the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for the 21^st 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.

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 21^st 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 21^st 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.

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 21^st 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.