REHAU - Bringing critical information together with harmon.ie

The Legal Department of the REHAU Group selected SharePoint and harmon.ie to optimize and streamline their internal process for storing and sharing case files, legal documents and other important data; allowing them to draw important information together from all points across locations, including Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook.

The Legal Department has branches in multiple countries. Before harmon.ie, this meant multiple file storage systems in several locations. By using harmon.ie within their SharePoint and Office environment, the REHAU Group brought previously disparate information together into one place.

As the legal branch of a multinational corporation, the team at REHAU handles large quantities of sensitive documentation and email correspondence. Before they updated their file storage infrastructure to SharePoint with harmon.ie, they identified two distinct areas that were a source of inefficiency and risk for their business:

• Storing e-mails and documents in separate places meant that people spent a lot of time searching disparate platforms for information or resources.
• Different versions of documents being circulated and stored through different mediums and in different places created a security risk and opened the possibility of ʻdocument chaos.ʼ

With harmon.ie, REHAU can easily store and manage emails and documents. This is a big benefit when it comes to managing cases. Using SharePoint document map technology and harmon.ie metadata, it can organize information like deadlines, resubmissions, negotiations, and other case-related information in a consistent and speedy manner, which is essential in the legal world. And department employees can easily drag and drop documents of record into the right folder in SharePoint for safekeeping.

harmon.ie creates a more secure, more efficient workplace

harmon.ie enabled REHAU to bridge the gap between their email and SharePoint, meaning it could more easily store, organize, and share everything the department needs to work on at any given time, from one central place. The REHAU Group is a more effective and secure business thanks to the efficiencies that SharePoint and harmon.ie have provided.

harmon.ie enabled REHAU to treat e-mails like other legal documents

Storing information inefficiently meant important documents and data relevant to the REHAU legal team was often siloed away in individual inboxes or stored incorrectly in SharePoint, making it almost impossible to find. This was slowing down processes, affecting important decisions, disrupting important management processes, and putting data at risk.

With harmon.ie, the Legal Department can now capture important information accurately and classify case files quickly with the correct metadata. This means that case information is more easily found by the relevant parties when itʼs needed.

Enabling better third-party collaboration

Often, REHAU Groupʼs Legal Department works with several third-party lawyers or paralegals on the same case. Before harmon.ie, they struggled to organize all the different versions of files, documents, and emails that each party was working with. Long email threads with different versions can now be replaced with secure links to the latest version of each important document. This can then be more easily shared with third-parties, securely – saving everybody a lot of time and headaches.