NEW YORK -- (Marketwire) -- 02/03/09 -- NetDocuments, a leader in collaborative document management services, and Verdatum, the award winning digital dictation workflow system created exclusively for lawyers and law firms, today announced the integration of their products as part of a new strategic partnership.

The new combined offering allows NetDocuments users to leverage the easy, secure Web-centric Software as a Service (SaaS) they use to manage their content by adding digital dictation workflow support from Verdatum. This integration adds digital dictation capabilities within the security and familiarity of a document management system relied upon by the thousands of NetDocuments users worldwide.

"Verdatum is extremely proud to join with NetDocuments in creating a combined solution for lawyers and law firms that encompasses the content creation and management cycle that ranges from dictation and document generation to document storage," said John Methfessel, president and chief executive officer of Verdatum. "NetDocuments has demonstrated that the Software as a Service model delivers tremendous ROI, while giving law firms the flexibility of on-demand documents and built-in business continuity. This combination allows NetDocuments users to leverage the powerful ROI of their document management software to obtain even greater value by adding integrated digital dictation."

NetDocuments and Vedatum have joined forces because law firms are finding that application integration and interoperability helps them realize on greater return on their technology investments. Moreover, product integration typically increases employee efficiency and satisfaction, making business critical systems more robust in their productivity for the firm.

"With our integrated offering, attorneys and assistants utilize NetDocuments profile screens they are already familiar with to now profile and manage dictation," said Alvin Tedjamulia, CTO, of NetDocuments. "Additionally, the firm's management and IT departments are assured that dictation is tracked and secured by NetDocuments just as the firm's documents are, and, when combined with Verdatum's mobile solutions, we can assure accessibility and business continuity at all times. This is an important strategic partnership for our company and we look forward to working closely with Verdatum as we roll out the new offering worldwide."

According to Methfessel, the product integration allows for recordings and their transcribed document counterparts to be linked and archived directly into NetDocuments, so that audio evidence is easily tracked, transcribed and secured.

About Verdatum

Verdatum, the 2008 Law Technology News Gold Award Winner for dictation systems, produces digital dictation systems (DDS) designed to replace analog (tape-based) dictation so that dictation may be tracked and managed on the network just as documents are. Verdatum solutions either tightly integrate with the law firm's document management system or operate as a stand-alone solution with the integrated document tracking system. The company is headquartered in New York, NY and serves law firms in the US and Canada. Its management has over 50 years combined experience in legal practice, law firm management, and legal IT administration. The company counts as customers law firms ranging in size from 10 attorneys to over 600. To learn more, visit the company's website at www.verdatumsys.com.

About NetDocuments

NetDocuments is leading the industry trend for On Demand document management and collaboration services. Organizations of all sizes can save tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars by eliminating the hardware, system and client software, and ongoing administration of a legacy client-server technology model. With the NetDocuments patented service simply "turned on," business professionals can immediately begin storing, managing and sharing documents throughout the world and on any Internet-connected service device. Founded in 1998 and based in Orem, Utah, NetDocuments has 75,000 users in over 128 countries. For more information about the company and management, go to www.netdocuments.com.