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The iManage alternative for legal document management on Microsoft 365

iManage is the established name in legal document management. EDMS by Sibasi delivers the same matter-centric working model, the same email discipline and the same access controls, inside the Microsoft 365 tenant your firm already pays for, with no second platform to license, secure or renew.

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iManage is established for

Matter-centric document and email management
A deep installed base in large law firms
Ethical walls and need-to-know security models
AI-assisted search and knowledge work

What it costs you every year

Licensed per user per month on a subscription basis, quoted through the vendor and its partners, and renewed for as long as the firm uses it. Sits on top of the Microsoft 365 licences the firm already holds.

Indicative published ranges, not a vendor quotation.

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Where iManage is strongest, and what we deliver there

Taken on their own ground rather than ours. Every row below is a capability the category is known for, with what EDMS by Sibasi does about it.

Capability	What the category is known for	EDMS by Sibasi
Email filed to the matter	The defining feature of a legal DMS, and the reason firms buy one.	One-click filing from the Outlook reading pane, with sender, recipients, sent date and full conversation thread preserved as metadata. Because the add-in is native to Outlook, there is no separate client to install or keep updated.
Matter-centric organisation	Documents and mail organised by matter rather than by folder.	Document sets per matter carrying shared metadata, permissions and retention. A matter file holds every draft, executed instrument, attendance note and email thread under one reference.
Ethical walls and information barriers	Conflict management enforced at the system level.	Information barriers enforced by Microsoft Entra ID and SharePoint permissions, with restriction down to a single document. Every access is logged in the Microsoft Purview audit log, which your administrators cannot edit.
AI over the document estate	AI-assisted classification, search and knowledge extraction.	Azure AI Document Intelligence for classification and extraction, SharePoint Premium for document processing, and Microsoft 365 Copilot for cited natural-language answers, all security-trimmed to the asker.
Security and threat monitoring	Monitoring for unusual access to client confidential material.	Microsoft Defender, Purview insider risk management, DLP over client identifiers, sensitivity labels with encryption that travels with the file, and dynamic watermarking on view and print.
Mobile and remote working	Access to the matter file away from the desk.	iOS and Android apps, offline sync through OneDrive, and Teams integration, all under the same permissions and audit trail as the desktop.

REF / WHERE WE WIN

Four differences that do not change between releases

Features move. Licensing models, where your documents live, how many security surfaces you carry and who is on site when something breaks do not.

WIN-01

No second per-user subscription

Your firm already licenses Microsoft 365. We deliver the document system on it. A separate platform adds a per-seat line that scales with every fee earner and support staff member you hire, indefinitely.

WIN-02

One security surface, not two

Your conditional access, MFA, DLP and sensitivity labels already govern Microsoft 365. Keeping the matter files inside that boundary means one security review, one audit log and one set of controls to evidence to a client or a regulator.

WIN-03

Your documents never leave your tenant

The repository is your own SharePoint. If our relationship ends, nothing moves and nothing is exported. The configuration and documentation are handed over as your property.

WIN-04

Delivered from Nairobi

Sibasi engineers work East Africa Time, travel to site and are reachable the same day. Support routed through an overseas vendor and a reseller layer is a materially different experience when a matter is time-critical.

If your firm runs on Microsoft 365, you can have matter-centric document and email management with enterprise security and AI, without adding a second platform, a second per-seat subscription and a second security review to your practice.

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Organisations that already trust Sibasi with their systems

Regulators, development finance institutions, public utilities, government agencies, humanitarian operations and telecoms across Africa, and further afield where the work has taken us.

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Public utility
Development finance
Government agency
International development
Humanitarian & health
Telecommunications
Digital infrastructure
Financial sector development
Investment & energy
Government & geoscience
Trade & development
Research & science
Airline & transport
Retail & automotive
Agriculture & health
Investment & development

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