Professional Service Providers

Bridgeway Software, Inc.
6575 West Loop South, 3rd Floor
Bellaire, Texas 77401
Contact: Andrea Woronuk
Phone: 888-272-4699 or 713-599-8300
Fax: 713-599-8301
Email: andrea.woronuk@bridge-way.com
URL: http://www.bridge-way.com

Product/Service Name: Secretariat™

Product Description

Secretariat is the market-leading software solution designed specifically for the Corporate Secretary, according to the recent General Counsel Roundtable survey ¹. Bridgeway's Secretariat is the highest rated product overall in the Corporate Secretary software category with results encompassing market share, overall satisfaction and cost/value satisfaction.

Product History

Bridgeway began developing software for the corporate secretary's office in 1989. From the beginning, the company has relied heavily upon client feedback for its product development.

"Our first clients helped us solidify the framework for the Secretariat solution we offer today," states Pat O'Donnell, president and founder of Bridgeway. "And as we design new Secretariat features, our clients' participation plays an important role through focus groups, enhancement surveys and the President's Advisory Council. I believe significant client involvement is the foundation of our success."

Secretariat Features

Tracks Information in Corporate Minute Books

Secretariat makes it easy to track and report on all the important information in your corporate minute books, so you can keep your information current and find what you need quickly. Secretariat has a document repository, and provides tight integration with HotDocs® for generating and creating documents. Build simple to complex reports from Secretariat data with the sophisticated search and reporting feature. Enjoy Calendar integration with Microsoft Outlook® and Lotus Notes® / Lotus Domino®. Secretariat is designed with extensive client collaboration and a best practices approach. It is the most user-customizable corporate secretary system in the world. This is the technology you need, the way you need it.

Offers a Global Compliance Solution

• Automatically monitors key compliance indicators and alerts individuals via email when pre-defined events occur.
• Distributes vital corporate information securely to others in the organization (HR, Treasury, Tax) through an easy-to-navigate self-serve web portal.
• Provides site-specific security on a segmented entity list at decentralized offices while maintaining global control at corporate headquarters.
• Works seamlessly with Bridgeway's eCounsel matter management system to reliably share legally correct entity and people names, mailing addresses, positions, ownership information, and legal matters between the corporate secretary and legal department.

Provides Benefits to You

• Demonstrates your department's commitment to corporate compliance excellence.
• Improves response time and reduces risk by putting corporate information at your fingertips via email reminders, alerts and easy to access reports.
• Provides economy and efficiency through standardization and management of your documents.
• Puts you in sync worldwide wherever you do business.
• Standardizes the entity management process using your directive.
• Enables you to meet your forms and filing requirements.

And More..

• Arrives pre-configured with all major entity types and an unlimited flexibility to define new types, fields and tabs to meet your specific needs.
• Supplies information at your fingertips, such as director and officer current and historical information, company lookups by current name, former names and DBAs, and current and historical minute books on-line.
• Provides document management using a built-in document repository or through integration with Hummingbird™, iManage™, Filenet®, and Documentum™.
• Streamlines repetitive tasks with wizards that create documents and assist in making global database changes for director and officer retirements, annual meetings, mergers and more.
• Offers a web or Windows interface, centralized databases with decentralized control, global corporate views and international support for foreign currencies and field labels - all configurable using your business rules.
• Disseminates company data sheets, graphical subsidiary charts, and more through your company's intranet.
• Supplies an audit log that tracks user ID, date and time for additions, edits and deletions on all fields in the database.

Expand Secretariat

Expand your corporate legal record keeping power.

• CorpCharts produces accurate, easy-to-read corporate hierarchy charts from Secretariat data in minutes. The flexible design allows you to pick what information is included, change display shapes based on entity type, change colors and fonts based on specific criteria and display multiple owners with footnotes instead of complicated lines.
• Smart Link, automatic monitoring tool, provides continuous oversight of the Secretariat database (and other critical systems) and alerts key individuals when potentially risky events occur that require immediate attention.
• SuperViewer distributes real-time Secretariat corporate entity information through a self-service web portal to those with designated privileges.
• WorldView is a global data-sharing system for companies with decentralized corporate secretary offices. Users can maintain separate Secretariat views, security and access privileges from multiple locations while corporate maintains the global view.
• InsiderDirect is Bridgeway's web solution for SEC Section 16 Forms 3, 4 and 5. Print a local copy, and file online via EDGAR.
  

Historical Information

Date product was introduced: 1990
Date of last update: October 2005
Date of next anticipated update: twice per year, ongoing

¹ 2005 General Counsel Roundtable publication "Evaluating Legal Department Technology."

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