AI Issue 11 2017

Acquisition International - November 2017 5 Irish Financial Institution Improves RiskAssessment Process UsingOnlineMethods An independent health and safety auditor to OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) standards described the organisation’s approach and procedures for managing DSE and ergonomics as “exemplary”. As part of its wider drive to embed a culture of safety and sustainability, the organisation switched to the ErgoWize system that has helped to streamline ergonomic training and risk assessments. The organisation employs over 1,500 people, yet, despite their size, had originally been training and ensuring DSE assessment compliance using paper-based procedures. Not only did this consume considerable resources to manage, the assessments left lots of room for ambiguity. The company found that employees were interpreting the questions in different ways, making issues difficult to prioritise and solve. The organisation has praised EssentialSkillz for its easy-to-use ergonomic training programme, ErgoWize deployed through its cloud-based O-LAS system. ErgoWize software helps companies achieve DSE compliance across an entire workforce, giving managers peace of mind that all staff are assessed and remain continually compliant. ErgoWize has been proven to significantly reduce time and costs spent administrating the process. The Health & Safety manager at the firm said: “We had been looking to introduce an online system for eLearning and assessments to provide an audit trail and verify compliance. We’ve been using ErgoWize since 2012, and it does everything we want it to. Our old paper trail methods were a huge drain on admin resources, so we wanted an eLearning approach that would enhance the quality of the training and assessment processes and would help to automate many of the time-consuming aspects, while providing an up-to-date dashboard of compliance across all departments and the organisation as a whole. “We had a very robust specification when we went to tender for the software, and ideally, we were looking for a system that offered both training and assessments in one. We didn’t expect to find one. Not only does ErgoWize achieve this, but it allows us to tailor our course content to suit our employees and the type of hardware and software that we use – meeting our specification in every way and more.” The software has given them in-depth insight into the issues employees face. It also allows its partner ergonomists to review issues remotely and quickly, before addressing them when on site with the individuals. The efficiency of the process was praised by the external auditors. The manager continues: “It’s hugely beneficial to be able to extract and analyse data from ErgoWize. We’ve used it to identify and flag trends or issues and sort data by any category we want, such as by our 30 plus departments or by the issue employees are experiencing. We can control access levels, giving access to the local DSE Assessor for each department.” The organisation is not set to rest on its laurels. It has plans to expand and invest further in sit- stand desks, complete with monitor arms, using quantitative data from the ErgoWize to support the investment. The Health & Safety manager concluded: “The comments we had from the auditors highlighted a major milestone for us as we continue to improve our working environments for the benefit of our employees’ health and wellbeing. The information has even helped us build cases for investing in further changes, demonstrating priority areas and trends across the organisation or by activity or department. We’ve now switched everyone’s workstations to 100% sit stand ergonomic desks in one of our facilities, partly based on the data collected by ErgoWize.” Shane McAllister, the Account Manager for EssentialSkillz, commented: “Organisations that are still using a paper-based system to record DSE (or any other) risk assessments are in danger not only of failing to stay on top of critical issues that are raised during the assessments themselves, but also missing out on wider reporting data. This trend data can help to inform health & safety strategy and justify spend across the organisation.” A leading financial institution based in Ireland has received excellent feedback on its Display Screen Equipment (DSE) training and compliance procedures following an independent audit. On the 10th November 2017, the leading secure cloud-based document management, email management and collaboration software platform for law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), NetDocuments announced that two seasoned software industry executives have joined the management team. Josh Baxter has been named President and Chief Operating Officer, and Michael Gibson has joined as Chief Revenue Officer, effective immediately. Baxter brings deep expertise in software operations, having previously served as Executive Vice President of Customer Success & Services at Ivanti. At NetDocuments, Baxter will oversee the services and engineering operations and lead M&A execution and integration. “The NetDocuments team has built a tremendous platform and I see many exciting opportunities to help drive growth. Our team’s ambitious product roadmap will serve as our foundation for organic growth, which we will complement with our buy and build platform strategy in partnership with Clearlake,” said Baxter. An experienced senior sales executive, Gibson joins NetDocuments from ECi Software Solutions, where he served as SVP Worldwide Sales and Marketing. At NetDocuments Gibson will oversee worldwide sales, marketing, and business development initiatives. “NetDocuments has brought together incredible products and talent into a leading secure technology platform, and I am eager to join the team and help accelerate the industry’s transition to the cloud for knowledge workers,” said Gibson. “We are thrilled to attract these high calibre executives with deep experience scaling software businesses at such a critical time of growth for NetDocuments,” said Matt Duncan, CEO of NetDocuments. “These additions better prepare the company to manage our next phase of growth as a cloud-based market leader. Law firms and corporations are embracing the NetDocuments platform more than ever to solve their current content management and security challenges and better position themselves for the future. We are excited for the next chapter of global growth as more firms and companies are making the switch to our secure and trusted cloud platform.” “When we initially partnered with the NetDocuments team our goal was to invest in the Company to accelerate growth and rapidly scale the product development and sales strategy,” said Behdad Eghbali and Prashant Mehrotra of Clearlake. “With the additions of Josh and Michael to the team, we feel the company is better positioned to execute on this long-term platform growth strategy and more aggressively capitalize on NetDocuments’ position as the leader in secure cloud-based content management.” Clearlake Capital-Backed NetDocuments Expands Executive Team to Drive Accelerated Growth NEWS / From Around The World