Janders Dean set the scene for San Diego

Our thanks to the guys at the Janders Dean for this scene-setter for next week’s Elite User Conference in San Diego…“As the A&O team continue towards assessing the go-live of their London and international finance departments from last weekend, we are expecting Thomson Elite to undertake a massive press drive on the opening day of the 2009 Thomson Elite User Conference (June 9th -11th) with the news about the go-live.“Interestingly, we understand that the firm (in an effort to reduce the visible change impact on users) will not be using the native time recording features of the 3E product in favour of an integration with the firm’s existing Carpe Diem fee earner facing application.“The agenda information for the Elite conference states that Allen & Overy and Baker Robbins & Company will co-present the custom billing workflow used within 3E to improve the firm’s billing process. The presentation will begin with a study of the methodology used to define the specifications and justification for the custom workflow. Next, the session will focus on the approach and lessons learned in building the workflow using the 3E IDE. Finally, the session will discuss the piloting, training and deployment of the workflow along with early results….might be a wee bit early for ‘early results’ though given the timeline at the firm.“The conference should be a useful forum, and delegates should have easy access to Elite personnel given that numbers will understandably be well down on previous years.”