Christine Gilsinan, a general civil practitioner with a concentration in estate planning and elder law, opted for Time Matters when looking for a document-management solution. Time Matters works well with their WordPerfect estate planning document templates, notes Gilsinan. Users enter client information once in Time Matters-supplied forms and their own custom forms set up in Time Matters. The document-management system in Time Matters 3.0 integrates with its document assembly capabilities. As with document-management programs, files are created via Time Matters.
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According to Feldberg, as the distribution and use of documents becomes more collaborative, more people are becoming stakeholders. The Web is playing an increasingly significant role in the process, with all of the major document management systems now offering Web access modules. Web thin-client interface, Burke says users report that they expect all of their applications to follow the same direction within five years. Document managers will need a robust Web client, he says, in order to play the game in the future. The application's success ultimately depends on whether everyone in the firm uses the document-management system.