What is bigHand Digital Dictation?
BigHand is a Microsoft Gold Partner and ILTA Silver Sponsor specializing in voice
productivity software. BigHand's leading product for legal, BigHand Digital Dictation
software, allows a user to dictate directly to your network using a handheld microphone,
headset, remote device, BlackBerry, cell phone or via the web. A compressed and
encrypted sound file is then transferred instantly to available secretarial support,
wherever they may be located in North America or the world. Importantly BigHand
software is built to respond to the way you work, whether you are a small, medium
or large organization.
Why is bigHand Suited to Your Users?
BigHand is the only digital dictation product based on extensive market and product
research from attorneys and IT support professionals, which was undertaken in advance
of designing the product. This initial research highlighted that four 'User Qualities'
were regarded as being the key elements of the "ideal" digital dictation system:
- Ease of use
- Stability
- Scalability
- Flexibility
BigHand adopted these 4 user qualities as the cornerstones of the BigHand3 end user
experience.
How is it Better Technically than Competing Solutions?
BigHand3 Digital Dictation represents a new generation of digital dictation workflow
software. With a unique, service orientated back-end and technical firsts across
multiple areas of functionality BigHand technology wins 8 out of 10 RFIs in which
it is entered. Benchmark application testing found it to be the most powerful and
flexible digital dictation system currently available, more feature rich and more
secure than any other product. BigHand3 offers 4 specific Technical USPs:
- On-Demand Information
- Any Remote Access
- Pure Thin Client
- Complete Integration
Clients have reported these four technical areas put us ahead of our competitors
and give peace of mind to IT staff.
Where is bigHand Positioned in the Market?
Based out of Chicago, London and Sydney BigHand is the leading digital dictation
vendor in the global legal sector, maintaining the five largest sites at international
law firms and with more legal installations in total than all other suppliers combined.
A Microsoft Gold Partner, BigHand was nominated as "Best of Breed System of the
Year" at the Legal Technology Awards 2007. BigHand was named as the fastest growing
legal software developer in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league tables
for both 2006 and 2005. BigHand was also recognized by Deloitte as one of the 500
fastest growing software vendors in Europe in 2006. Additionally BigHand was voted
"Best Legal Office Technology System 2004" from votes from over 14,000 lawyers and
IT managers across the legal sector at the LOTIE Awards. BigHand's leading product
also won the Society for Computers & Law IT Award in 2003 for "the most outstanding
application of information technology to the law".
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