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Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and network connectivity solutions, today announced it is partnering with BigHand – the UK market leading provider of Digital Dictation Workflow technology.

Hummingbird Enterprise™ for Legal seamlessly integrates with BigHand3, the latest version of the award winning digital dictation software, enabling client and matter information to be attached to a dictation, reducing the administration by fee-earners and secretaries. This integration empowers users to maintain a matter-centric workflow environment, thus increasing efficiency and reducing lost time, delivering improved matter management.

“This partnership between BigHand and Hummingbird was initiated following feedback from our complementary and extensive client base within the UK Legal Market,” commented Stephen Thompson, Managing Director of BigHand, “By developing solutions in conjunction with market leading ECM providers, we can provide a dictation solution that synchronises all of a firm’s inherent technology, simplifying the environment within which fee-earners work.”

Integrating BigHand3 with Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal offers customers a comprehensive solution to automate and manage the document lifecycle processes throughout document creation, meeting the compliance requirements relating to the business policies and procedures, as part of an integrated solution.
“By partnering with BigHand, Hummingbird is now able to offer integrated, best of breed digital dictation, adhering to best practice Matter-Centric workflow processes as an integral part of the overall Hummingbird Enterprise for Legal suite,” said Yuri Frayman, Vice President, Legal Vertical Solutions, Hummingbird Ltd.

About Hummingbird Enterprise™

Hummingbird Enterprise provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management that provides global organizations with solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room exchanges, discussions, email or financial data - linking business processes, information and people. Our solutions are designed as modular applications that are fully interoperable with each other, enabling our customers to incrementally build an enterprise content management solution to meet their evolving information needs in a cost effective manner.

About Hummingbird

Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. The Company's enterprise software solutions fall into two principal categories: enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and network connectivity solutions. Hummingbird's ECM solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation. The network connectivity solutions provide a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system.

Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1,500 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through an Alliance Network of partners and resellers. For more information, visit http://www.hummingbird.com

For further information, please contact:

Hummingbird UK contact:
Sally Bellwood
UK Marketing Manager
Tel: +44 (0) 791 9333 482
Fax: +44 (0) 118 978 2700
sally.bellwood@hummingbird.com