BOSTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Contact Networks (http://www.contactnetworks.com/), a leading provider of Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) solutions for professional services firms, today announced that Wolf Greenfield, the largest intellectual property-only law firm based in New England, has selected ContactNet software to better leverage the firm's valuable relationships for business development, client service, and marketing initiatives.

Wolf Greenfield specializes in intellectual property (IP) law, providing clients with senior level strategic counsel, protecting and expanding the intellectual property rights of innovative products and services at Fortune 500 companies, institutions, hospitals, universities, venture capitalists and start-ups. The firm's approach to client service and business development is based on the strength of their relationships. The attorneys expand their business and add new clients based on the strong relationships they've established in the technology community and their reputation as experts in IP law.

As the firm has grown to more than 170 attorneys, technology specialists and staff, it requires an efficient way to track and leverage the many important business connections the team has without relying on individual partners to email constant firm-wide queries and manage responses.

"Our firm's relationship network is one of our biggest assets, because we generate new business through current and past clients and our colleagues' referrals," said Jay Wager, Senior Manager, Business Development. "Prior to working with Contact Networks, we had no system in place to manage all of these important relationships and ensure that we were aware of and leveraging all of our team's valuable business connections for business development efforts, marketing to prospects, and cross-selling services to existing clients."

Wolf Greenfield was looking for a relationship management solution that could easily understand business connections from across the firm and identify which employee had the strongest relationship to a target company, individual or industry. Wolf Greenfield's attorneys and professionals do not have time to manually enter and upkeep information, so the solution needed to automatically search, identify and measure these key relationships, and the installation needed to be fast and simple.

Wolf Greenfield chose Contact Networks' ERM solution, ContactNet, based on its ability to identify and rank important relationships, its fast installation and ease-of-use, and flexible platform that will grow with Wolf Greenfield's needs.

"Innovative law firms, such as Wolf Greenfield, whose relationships are vital to the growth of their business, are using technology to know and leverage relationships to pursue new business and cross-sell and market to existing clients," said Geoffrey Hyatt, Founder and CEO of Contact Networks. "ContactNet is a perfect fit for professional service organizations that need to tap into thousands of relationships that exist across their firm to help expand their business."

ContactNet, Contact Networks' ERM solution, is an enterprise search engine for relationships. It enables professionals to quickly and easily identify which colleagues have the strongest connections to a target individual, company, or industry. ContactNet analyzes electronic address books, CRM systems, and email traffic patterns to uncover valuable relationships, and generates a list of colleagues ranked by relationship strength. It requires no manual data entry and is implemented in a few days. The world's leading global consulting firms, law firms, and financial services firms, use Contact Networks' proprietary technology every day.

About Contact Networks

Contact Networks is the most experienced provider of Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) solutions for professional services firms. Since 2002, the company's ContactNet software has been helping professionals generate more new business by enabling them to leverage their firm's entire extended network of relationships. ContactNet is an automated search tool that immediately identifies colleagues that have the strongest relationships with a valuable prospect. Customers include global consulting firms, law firms and financial services firms such as Mintz Levin, Duane Morris, Sheppard Mullin, Greylock Partners, and Sagent Advisors. Visit http://www.contactnetworks.com/ or call 617-329-4300.

CONTACT: Kerry Metzdorf for Contact Networks, +1-978-463-2575,
kerry@redjavelin.com

Web site: http://www.contactnetworks.com/