Aderant today (12 June) announced a new partnership with BigHand, which provides strategic financial data insights including pricing and business intelligence solutions.
While Aderant has historically competed with BigHand with its BI solution Aderant Spotlight, this partnership is said to allow Aderant to focus on its AWS-hosted practice management system Sierra and new AI cloud platform Stridyn.
This is the first time that BigHand and Aderant have officially partnered and BigHand is the first partner to join the Aderant technology partner program at gold level. While Aderant has long had a services partner programme, this technology programme in itself is a new initiative.
Aderant said that the partnership will ensure that law firms that use Aderant Expert and Sierra have “unparalleled access to additional market leading technology and support” and a press release out today said that this partnership will enable Aderant to continue building a roadmap that aligns with their current client needs. It is not immediately clear at the time of writing what this means in terms of the Spotlight roadmap. In any event, technology partnerships such as these enable customers to develop far more efficient ecosystems and Josiah Chaves, general manager of business law solutions at Aderant said: “At Aderant, our partners are essential to our success, helping us produce and support better outcomes for our clients.”
BigHand has been expanding its financial data insights practice since its acquisition of DW Reporting in 2018 and Iridium in 2022.
“BigHand are delighted to be Aderant’s first gold partner in their new partnership strategy,” said Rob Stote, chief product officer at BigHand.
“Aderant is aware of our progress and plans for our BI and Pricing solutions: surfacing strategic financial data in an AI-enabled data and insights platform. With Aderant’s focus on Sierra and Stridyn, we believe the partnership gives our mutual customers the best technology and experience. The two organizations have always worked closely together but this formal partnership will enable a more proactive approach across all areas from development & integrations right through to our client-facing teams,” Stote said.
Chaves said: “We are beyond proud to announce this new partnership with BigHand as part of our new Aderant technology partner program. As a gold partner, BigHand is a highly-valued collaborator, contributing their deep expertise particularly in BI, data and insights development. Working together, Aderant and BigHand will more beneficially service our mutual clients to provide seamless integration and an optimal client experience.”
Aderant and BigHand will be running joint events, webinars and marketing activities on the benefits of the partnership and BigHand will be unveiling new AI capabilities within its BI solution at BigHand’s user conference on 26 June.