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INNOVA: An Innovation in the Document Creation Process

By Alan Pearlman
March 30, 2004

Like it or not, in order to produce and collaborate on documents, the legal community is dependent on more and more software products which are increasingly sophisticated and interdependent. To maximize the financial investment in these products, it's optimal to leverage the integration opportunities that they offer. Firms have the option to take on custom development to achieve this goal, or to invest in a third-party product where the software vendor is responsible for keeping their product updated to integrate with new versions of other programs on the desktop. Innova, developed by SoftWise Corporation, is an example of a comprehensive, feature-rich, template program that standardizes and simplifies the document creation process. It integrates with a variety of contact management, document management and fax server programs typically found on a legal desktop.

Formerly known as MacroSuite, Innova incorporates all of its predecessor's functionality and adds a whole lot more. It tackles the everyday things that users need to do, such as creating letters, memos, faxes, pleadings etc. It also offers a visually intuitive solution to that area of

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