Pontus’ platforms for managing corporate legal processes deliver a unique combination of people, process and technology to the corporate legal industry. The result: a value proposition with cascading benefits and a return on investment never before imagined.
Pontus was founded on the simple premise that it is possible to simultaneously increase capabilities AND reduce costs in the corporate legal industry. There is an alternative to technology focused solutions that involve painful implementation projects, huge upfront investments and long return on investment cycles. Through Strategic Legal Management, which combines people, process and technology into an integrated management platform, Pontus is able to deliver this combination now.
While the precise benefits of adopting Pontus’ platforms vary from customer to customer depending on their individual requirements, one benefit that transcends all of our customers is an immediate return on investment that continually increases as your processes are refined. For example, one large public company who is a Pontus customer is saving nearly $1,000,000 per year by utilizing our SLM – Contracts platform while simultaneously experiencing a revolution in internal capabilities and process optimization. The advantages of Pontus:
Simple:
A Pontus platform is truly a plug-and-play experience. The Pontus technology platforms are all fully hosted on dedicated, secure servers. You do not need to allocate any IT or other resources for implementation or ongoing management of the technical aspects of our platform as this is all handled by Pontus. Our joint attorney and engineering teams handle all critical minutiae required to manage a complex corporate legal process efficiently and effectively. This includes the gathering, organizing and cleansing of all legacy and ongoing data.
In addition, all security methodologies, process workflow creation, data entry and even special legal related projects can be managed by our teams directly. Rather than focusing on training, orientation and adding more complexity to your process, your attorney, financial and business users can focus on doing their strategic tasks more effectively while our experts take care of the rest.
Comprehensive:
We recognize that there is no technology ‘silver bullet’ that can manage any given legal process. These processes are complex and our goal is to manage this complexity so that it is easy for your teams. With decades of corporate legal experience managing public company legal processes, Sarbanes-Oxley implementations and other mission-critical legal functions, our teams have developed comprehensive, flexible platforms which cover all aspects of the given process.
With flexible security parameters and detailed workflow and approvals routing, our platforms can be applied to all levels of corporate legal processes. Best of all, because of our integrated approach, our platforms are designed to include all data, including historical and 'non-standard' information, ensuring that there are no critical gaps in your process. From the 3 person contracts department to the 100 person corporate legal department our platforms have shown great value across many different environments, consistently delivering optimized processes and a real return on investment.
Effective:
Our legal and process engineers work with your teams to deliver the most efficient process for you. No longer is the square peg of a ‘technology-only’ solution applied and later thrown out as a result of the round hole inherent in your process. With highly adaptable platforms, we work to determine the most efficient process for you, balancing cost savings with security and process requirements. The end result is a fully scalable and standardized process platform with underlying flexibility to mold itself around your specific needs - creating a truly unique return on investment for you. Pontus presents an opportunity for the General Counsel, Finance Officer or other executive who manages corporate legal processes to deliver a corporate legal process platform which delivers significant value to shareholders - thus transforming the legal process from a cost overhead into a strategic player.
Affordable:
If we can’t deliver an immediate, significant and quantifiable return on investment to your company, we will not choose to engage with you. From the outset, our experts will work with your team to understand and map your existing processes and streamline them to produce quantifiable cost reductions. These will be determined before we engage with you and the return on investment will escalate as your process becomes more refined over time. Our experience shows that most companies find that Pontus costs far less than their current costs of managing legal processes- in hard dollars, while simultaneously providing a quantum leap in internal capabilities.
