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Microsoft Says Matter Center For Office 365 Available In Limited Preview(dpa-AFX International Compact Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) REDMOND (dpa-AFX) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) on Monday announced a preview version of Matter Center for Office 365 at the International Legal Technology Association annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Matter Center for Office 365 is available in a limited preview. According to the company, Matter Center, an intuitive document management and collaboration solution catered toward law firms and law departments, works seamlessly with Office 365 and offers legal professionals a way to easily find, organize and collaborate on files without leaving the familiar Microsoft productivity tools they use the most. The company noted that Matter Center for Office 365 offers benefits to both legal professionals and IT. The firm said that Matter Center works with OneDrive for Business, providing 1 TB of individual storage and a personal briefcase, which automatically synchronizes Users's documents so they can access them online and offline from virtually any device. "Microsoft has built a security-enhanced, cloud-based document management application that allows our professionals to quickly locate and collaborate on documents with our counsel from virtually anywhere. We've decided to make this solution more broadly available at the request of our outside counsel, who want to utilize it in their own environments," said John Frank, vice president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft. "Matter Center for Office 365 is the product of months of collaboration between Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) division, outside law firms, and our Office 365 product engineering teams. We are very excited to bring Matter Center to market in the near future," said Tejas Mehta, group product manager for Matter Center at Microsoft. Copyright RTT News/dpa-AFX |