Onit Pairs with Johnson Controls for Smart Process App Webinar

HOUSTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Onit, a leading provider of Smart Process Apps, today announced that its client Johnson Controls will be leading a webinar-based discussion on how it regained control of its quote and contract process with Onit Smart Process Apps.

The webinar, scheduled for Wednesday, November 6 at 11:00 a.m. CT, features Johnson Controls’ Legal Quality Manager Mark Barron who will discuss how Smart Process Apps from Onit helped the company process hundreds of contracts and quotations representing more than $1 billion as well as decrease cycle times, gain increased visibility into transaction status and improve compliance with business policies.

Attendees will learn first-hand from the Fortune^® 100 corporation’s experience how to:

• Create processes that are collaborative, transparent, and repeatable
• Move process initiation and approval out of email for increased transparency
• Manage workloads and workflow and gain a quick overview of all on-going transactions

For many law departments, growth in their business is leading to unrelenting demand for urgent legal services and a constant challenge to provide improved and expanded legal services. Light-weight, flexible and cloud-based Smart Process Apps from Onit – which are often created and deployed within days – represent the next generation of business solutions. The Apps offer expansive capabilities that collect data, enable flexible workflows, optimize business processes, support and encourage team collaboration, enhance visibility and eliminate IT costs.

To register for the webinar, visit https://www.onit.com/webinar-case-study-contract-approval.

About the Speaker

Mark Barron is the Manager of Quality and Continuous Improvement for the Johnson Controls Law Department. In this role, Mark supports the global law department strategic focus on quality planning and is accountable for the progress of the department on its quality plan. Most recently, Mark and his team have worked with Onit on the functional requirements for the App Builder to assure appropriateness as a workflow technology that will enable law department core legal processes. Mark has held previous roles in quality, engineering, and intellectual property management and received his Juris Doctor and Electrical Engineering Degrees from Marquette University.

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 2010, Onit deploys Smart Process Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. The 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 www.onit.com or contact 1-800-281-1330.