These applications can be sold independently or in groups of applications to meet the customers needs. ICLE asked Dickinson Wright firm member Claudia Rast to explain a bit more about the system. It is not really a system. The unique part is that it is an affiliate of a law firm and is focused on the professional service marketplace. But let me explain how TCP does its work.
Notes is basically the collaborative engine behind our internal and external communication.
When clients have Notes already installed on their systems, as was the case with Chrysler Financial, we can develop and install a proprietary database which links the Chrysler Financial people directly with the Dickinson Wright attorneys working on the Chrysler project. The database we developed for Chrysler Financial allowed 28 Chrysler Financial zones across the country to communicate simultaneously with their headquarters and with the Dickinson Wright attorneys all working on the same project in a secure setting. But a client need not have Lotus Notes installed to use TCP services. An example of this would be the Intellectual Property databases developed for Thrifty Car Rental systems and Dollar Rent A Car systems in which the trademarks for these companies are maintained in a database that a client can access through any web browser, again protected by I.D. and password. The simple answer is that clients kept requesting it.