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News and Events - 2012



April 1, 2012:  (APRIL FOOL'S Press Release!)

Iridium Technology on Track to Achieve 1.5 Million Law Firm Clients by 2020


Iridium Technology LLC – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on Business Intelligence for law firms – announced today that they are on track with their strategic growth plan to sign up 1.5 million law firms as clients by 2010.   “We have been doubling our client base every six months.” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “Projecting that rate out through 2020 will result in us having 1,572,864 clients by Q4 2020.    We are quite excited about the growth of our client base and the enthusiasm in the legal market for ADERANT’s ClearView Performance BI offering.   We are obviously making plans to scale up our staff to handle more than one million customers – our current plan is to take over the leases on all of the empty Blockbuster stores so we can offer consultants based in all major metropolitan areas”.    

 

“Firms are really responding to our 100% focus on BI for legal and quality implementations.” continues Jones.  “As we extend our client base with large and middle tier firms, we are also looking towards smaller firms.   As a matter of fact to get to 1.5 million customers, we are defining two new tiers: the micro-firm and nano-firm.    We are currently working on a fixed bid implementation of $999 for nano-firms, which will still include a complete implementation of ClearView Performance.    Finally, we are offering a free implementation for our one millionth customer, so firms need to start planning for their BI implementations now.  Please contact Iridium Technology now for more details about this special offer.    And (seriously), please remember that Iridium Technology always offers free consultations for firms looking to implement ClearView Performance or that want to discuss other BI and SSRS projects”.

 

March 3, 2012:

Iridium Technology to Host Encore of BI/ClearView Performance Webinar

 

We had great attendance and great feedback on our webinar last week, so we are going to do one more round of sessions the week of March 12th. 

 

Iridium Technology LLC – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on Business Intelligence for law firms – will be hosting a webinar at the end of February on “Getting Maximum Value from your ADERANT Expert ClearView Performance Cubes (Updated for 2012!)”.   In this free webinar, Iridium will show you what is possible when you maximize the customization capabilities that ADERANT has built into ClearView Performance.  They will also cover a wide range of topics including profitability cube implementation, dashboard options, localization, keeping your cubes properly tuned, and much more.  Extensive examples will be cited based on Iridium's client implementations in all regions.

 

“The first encore session is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 8:00AM - 9:00AM Pacific,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology, “but we will schedule 4-5 more sessions in different slots to make sure that attendees from all regions are able to attend.  Iridium Technology is consulting on ADERANT Business Intelligence 24/7, and has over 15,000 hours of experience working with the ClearView performance and profitability cubes. If your firm is looking at implementing ClearView Performance, then this is a "must attend" session.  This hour will be absolutely crammed with valuable information to help your firm to have a successful ClearView Performance implementation.”

 

All attendees should register for the first session using the link below, and then time slots for addition sessions will be published. 

 

To register for the webinar please visit www.iridium-technology.com

 

Please note that this is a “closed session” and will be limited to employees of legal and professional services firms.

 

February 14, 2012:

Iridium Technology to Host Webinar: "Getting Maximum Value from your ADERANT Expert ClearView Performance Cubes (Updated for 2012!)"


Iridium Technology LLC – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on Business Intelligence for law firms – will be hosting a webinar at the end of February on “Getting Maximum Value from your ADERANT Expert ClearView Performance Cubes (Updated for 2012!)”. In this free webinar, Iridium will show you what is possible when you maximize the customization capabilities that ADERANT has built into ClearView Performance. They will also cover a wide range of topics including profitability cube implementation, dashboard options, localization, keeping your cubes properly tuned, and much more. Extensive examples will be cited based on Iridium's client implementations in all regions.


“The first session is scheduled for Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 8:00AM - 9:00AM Pacific,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology, “but we will schedule 4-5 more sessions in different slots to make sure that attendees from all regions are able to attend. Iridium Technology is consulting on ADERANT Business Intelligence 24/7, and has over 15,000 hours of experience working with the ClearView performance and profitability cubes. If your firm is looking at implementing ClearView Performance, then this is a "must attend" session. This hour will be absolutely crammed with valuable information to help your firm to have a successful ClearView Performance implementation.”


All attendees should register for the first session using the link below, and then time slots for addition sessions will be published.


To register for the webinar please visit www.iridium-technology.com

 

Please note that this is a “closed session” and will be limited to employees of legal and professional services firms.

February 7, 2012:

Iridium Technology Announces Results of Legal News and Social Media Survey

Iridium Technology – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on business intelligence for law firms – recently announced the results of their customer satisfaction survey. As part of the survey, Iridium included questions about legal media outlets and their client’s interest in social media. The majority of respondents to the survey were CFOs and Financial Reporting Managers. Key findings:

  • The Orange Rag / Legal Technology Insider, Legal IT Professionals, and TheKnowList were cited as the most important sources of legal IT news and information
  • Iridium provides regular updates to their client base through monthly update emails and more than 90% of the clients rated this content as “Valuable” or “Highly Valuable”. However, when asked if they were interested in following Iridium on Facebook, 83% of the respondents replied “No Interest”. Additionally, when asked if they were interested in following Iridium on Twitter, 92% of the respondents replied “No Interest”

“Firstly, kudos to Rob Ameruun, Charles Christian and Daniel Brown,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “The results clearly showed that these three fine publications are where Iridium clients go for legal news and information. Secondly, it is good to know that our clients are not interested in following Iridium on Twitter or Facebook. This will save Iridium time from posting updates which we already provide through our newsletters, allowing us to continue to focus on providing high quality BI implementations for our expanding client base. Tweet that!”

Iridium’s customer satisfaction survey was independently run by Adept Alliance LLC, a Reno-based business services firm.

February 4, 2012:

Iridium Technology Announces (Great!) Results of Annual Client Satisfaction Survey

Iridium Technology – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on business intelligence for law firms – is pleased to announce the results of their 2011 annual customer satisfaction survey which was completed in January. The results show that more than 90% of the respondents gave Iridium rankings of “Highly Satisfied” or “Very Satisfied” on the following attributes:

  • Overall satisfaction with Iridium Technology as their BI vendor
  • The business practices and ethics of Iridium Technology as an organization
  • Technical capabilities and product knowledge
  • Professionalism
  • Responsiveness and availability
  • Quality of work
  • Understanding clients’ needs and requirements
  • Project planning and management
  • The value that Iridium provides

Additionally, 100% of the survey respondents say that they would recommend Iridium as a vendor.

“We are obviously very pleased with these results,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “Providing our clients with outstanding service and value is extremely important to us, and we take customer satisfaction very seriously. Our clients have provided us with excellent feedback and we look forward to integrating their suggestions into improving our operations, and continuing to provide world-class service and implementations as our client base expands."

Iridium’s customer satisfaction survey was independently run by Adept Alliance LLC, a Reno-based business services firm.

January 24, 2012:

Iridium Technology Opens New Zealand Office to Support Expansion of Global Business Intelligence Consulting

Iridium Technology – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on business intelligence for law firms – is pleased to announce that they have opened an office in the Albany suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. This office will be the center of Iridium's global consulting and client support operations.


“As our client base and staff has expanded, we need to expand our infrastructure,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “The new Auckland office will provide us with a centralized location as we continue to grow our BI consulting staff, as well as a solid infrastructure to support our rapidly expanding client base. The office is also well positioned to support the increasing number of firms in Australia and New Zealand that are looking to Iridium Technology to handle their mission-critical BI implementations."


"Opening the New Zealand office is a logical extension of our goal to provide world-class implementations of BI solutions for law firms in all regions", continues Jones. "By consolidating our consulting resources in one facility we will get increased synergy: more great ideas, more powerful and intuitive dashboards, and more SSRS content built on top of the ADERANT ClearView Performance and Practice products."

January 2, 2012:


Iridium Technology Signs Up Four AMLAW 200 Clients in Q4 for ClearView Performance Implementations

Iridium Technology – the consulting firm that is 100% focused on business intelligence for law firms – is pleased to announce that in Q4 2011 Iridium signed up four major North American law firms for implementations of the ADERANT ClearView business intelligence platform. Baker Donelson LLP, Troutman Sanders LLP, and two other AMLAW 200 firms have all engaged Iridium Technology for implementation of both the ClearView Performance and Profitability cubes.


“We are thrilled to add these four prestigious firms to our expanding client base!” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “Implementations are already well underway with three of the firms, and the fourth should kick off next week. We have a strong pipeline of upcoming implementations, and I look forward to announcing additional new Iridium clients soon.”

“The choice was clear when we were looking for a vendor to implement ClearView Performance for our firm”, states Thomas Cheairs, Director of Financial Reporting for Baker Donelson PC. “Iridium provided us with excellent references for their successful implementations of ClearView Performance. Additionally, we really appreciated that they have developed a repeatable methodology for implementing the ADERANT BI solutions. The combination of the outstanding references and the structured methodology provided Baker Donelson with the confidence that our implementation will be efficient and successful. The implementation is already progressing well, and we are extremely pleased with the progress to date.”


News and Events - 2011


December 5, 2011:

Iridium Technology Celebrates Two Years of Providing “Business Intelligence for Law Firms. Period.”

Iridium Technology, the only consulting firm focused 100% on business intelligence for law firms, today announced their two-year anniversary, having opened for business on December 1, 2009. “The market response to our 100% BI focus and delivery of high quality ADERANT ClearView Performance implementations has been incredible,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “Iridium is clearly recognized as the premier implementer of the ADERANT business intelligence products. Our 100% focus on installing and customizing ADERANT’s ClearView Performance BI offering allows us to provide world-class implementations. We want to especially take this opportunity to thank our clients for their ongoing support and for providing strong references for Iridium’s services.”

Jones continues, “We continue to expand our base of satisfied clients and deliver rapid and successful implementations of ClearView Performance. We are working with clients in all regions, and our pipeline for adding new clients in 2012 is very strong. We continue to offer free BI consultations, and we encourage firms to take us up on our offer to call Iridium anytime when they have questions about BI or reporting projects based on Microsoft technologies.”

“The ADERANT ClearView Performance product provides a flexible and high-performance BI ecosystem,” states Martin Vizner, Iridium’s CTO. “The customization capabilities are spectacular, and we take pride in the fact that we have been able to successfully deliver on every one of the hundreds of customization requests that we have received from our client base. Firms are especially impressed with our ability to customize ClearView Performance to exactly match the firm’s requirements – with no compromises. We have a lot of exciting initiatives lined up for 2012, and we are excited about entering our third year of delivering premier BI solutions for law firms.”

November 7, 2011:

Iridium Technology Hires Preet Sangha to Expand Global BI Consulting Team

Iridium Technology announced that they have hired Preet Sangha to join their expanding global consulting team. As a Principal Developer/Consultant, Sangha will be focused on implementing and customizing ADERANT BI products for Iridium clients in the UK, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Sangha brings over 25 years of consulting and development experience to Iridium Technology, and previously worked as a member of the ADERANT development team in Auckland. In his role as Principal Developer/Consultant he will be implementing and customizing ADERANT ClearView Performance cubes for clients.Sangha has detailed knowledge of the Expert table structures, experience with the business of law, and excellent skills on the entire Microsoft BI technology stack. Prior to joining ADERANT, Sangha worked as a self-employed consultant for more than 14 years, developing custom database and financial applications for businesses in the UK and New Zealand.

“We are extremely pleased to add an employee of Preet’s caliber to our consulting organization,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “Our client base is expanding rapidly as firms recognize Iridium’s success as the only consulting firm focused 100% on business intelligence for law firms. Preet has the perfect skill set for implementations of ADERANT ClearView Performance cubes: legal finance experience and a deep understanding of the industry standard Microsoft BI technologies. We are also excited by his deep experience as a consultant and his ability to work closely with clients to develop business intelligence solutions. We are signing up new clients quickly as firms recognize Iridium as the company best positioned to successfully implement the ClearView Performance cubes. We have a strong pipeline of implementations scheduled for 2012; Preet will help us get those clients up and running quickly with superior implementations and solutions that are 100% customized to match firm requirements.”

“I am very pleased to be joining the team at Iridium Technology,” states Sangha. “This role will provide an excellent opportunity to apply the legal, financial, and BI knowledge that I acquired as an ADERANT employee for the past five years. The Iridium team is just overflowing with enthusiasm and exciting initiatives, and I am looking forward to working with them to provide leading edge BI solutions to clients in all regions.”

August 30, 2011:

Iridium Technology to Host Free ClearView Performance Webinar

Iridium Technology – the only consulting firm focused 100% on Business Intelligence for law firms – will be hosting a free webinar titled “ClearView Performance Best Practices Implementations - With No Compromises!”. The first session is on September 13th, and 5-6 additional sessions will be scheduled to cover all regions and attendee schedules. "In this free webinar we will show you how your firm can get the ADERANT ClearView Performance cubes implemented quickly and customized to perfectly match your firm's requirements” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “We will discuss the real results that Iridium has had with our clients in all regions - allowing you to learn what can be achieved with a best practices CVP implementation. If your firm is interested in CVP, then this is a "must attend" session. This hour will be absolutely crammed with valuable information to help your firm to have a successful ClearView Performance implementation.”

August 24, 2011:

Iridium Technology to Ship FOUR TONS of Care Packages to Deployed U.S. Marines

Iridium Technology - the only consulting firm specifically focused on Business Intelligence for law firms - is proud to organize and sponsor “Operation Sam’s Club” again this year to provide support to deployed U.S. Marines in Afghanistan. “We shipped 1.3 tons of care packages to deployed Marines last year,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “This year we are going to collect and ship four (!) tons of donations over the weekend of October 8th. Operation Sam’s Club is Iridium’s biggest community service event of the year. We have organized a team of local volunteers to support our efforts and I fully expect to exceed our goal in collecting four tons of donations over the weekend.”

“While the initiative is named "Operation Sam's Club" to thank Sam's Club for the use of their premises, this effort is 100% organized, managed, and sponsored by Iridium Technology.“ Jones continues, “There are three major goals for the ongoing campaign: (1) To provide direct support to our deployed Marines by sending them care packages, (2) To thank our Marines for their service and remind them that they have strong support from the American people, and (3) To encourage people to learn more about the Adopt-a-Marine program and to sponsor a deployed U.S. Marine deployed in Afghanistan.

To learn more about Operation Sam’s Club and how you or your firm can support deployed U.S. Marines please visit www.iridium-technology.com.

July 11, 2011:

 

Iridium Technology Achieves Significant Growth for Business Intelligence Services in 2011

Iridium Technology, the only consulting firm focused 100% on business intelligence for law firms, today announced significant growth in both revenue and client base since opening for business in 2009, with a major increase in the first half of 2011.


“Iridium is focused on business intelligence, so let’s put it in BI terms,” states Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology. “All of our KPIs are green, and continuing to trend upward. While we are very pleased with the financial results, we are far more excited about our other accomplishments. Our 100% focus on installing and customizing ADERANT’s ClearView Performance BI offering allows us to provide world-class implementations. We continue to expand our base of satisfied clients and deliver rapid and successful implementations of ClearView Performance. We now are working with clients in all regions, and we will continue to add new clients through 2011 and 2012."


“We have clearly established Iridium as the thought leaders for legal BI. The market response to our 100% BI focus and to delivering high quality ClearView Performance implementations has been incredible. Firms are especially pleased by our ability to customize ClearView Performance to exactly match the firm's requirements - with no compromises. We are pleased that our recent webinars were highly attended, and we will continue to offer free educational content on BI to the legal community. We also offer free BI consultations, and firms are continuing to take us up on our offer to call Iridium anytime when you have questions about BI projects based on Microsoft technologies.”


January 26, 2011:

Special Update: Martin Vizner joins Iridium Technology as Partner

Iridium Technology, the consulting firm focused solely on Business Intelligence for law firms, is pleased to announce that Martin Vizner (previously Director/CTO Ultimate BI Solutions) is joining Iridium as a partner. This announcement follows the strategic partnership announced by Iridium and Ultimate BI Solutions late last year focusing on global implementations of ADERANT Expert ClearView Performance.

Tom Jones, President of Iridium Technology LLC, states, “Martin is making a tremendous impact on our client implementations. With Iridium’s expanding client base, we needed to add resources and Martin is the clear choice. Iridium can now boast a combined 10,000 hours of experience with the ADERANT Performance and Profitability cubes. Iridium Technology continues to be the clear choice for handling your ADERANT ClearView Performance implementations and customizations, and we can provide excellent references from our ClearView projects to prove it.”


Martin Vizner, Director/CTO of Ultimate BI Solutions, states, “I am very excited to be joining Iridium Technology and look forward to working with Tom to build the organization. I can apply my deep product knowledge to making sure that clients get the highest quality implementations and customizations for their ADERANT cubes. The ClearView performance offers unmatched customization and reporting capabilities, and it is very exciting for me to put those capabilities that I helped design to use for Iridium clients.”

News and Events - 2010


September 21, 2010: (Archived)

Iridium Technology Supports Deployed U.S. Marines with "Operation Sam's Club"

 

August 5, 2010: (Archived)

 

Iridium and Accola Announce Strategic Partnership

 

April 20, 2010: (Archived)

 

Iridium Technology supports UK children's hospital

 

February 12, 2010 -- Media coverage in the Legal Technology Insider   (Archived)

 

Tom Jones has left ADERANT to launch Iridium Technology

 

January 29, 2010 - Media coverage in The Orange Rag   (Archived)

 

Tom Jones leaves ADERANT to form business intelligence consultancy

 

January 19, 2010 -- Media coverage at InsideLegal.com   (Archived)

 

Tom Jones leaves ADERANT to launch Iridium Technology

 

 

Media contact: Tom Jones, President - Iridium Technology LLC: tom.jones@iridium-technology.com