Autodesk, Inc., founded in 1982, is an American multinational software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media, entertainment, and wireless data services fields. They are a world leader in design innovation technology whose products and services, including AutoCAD® and Revit® help customers design and create digital models and workflows.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (SPE) is the television and film production/distribution unit of Sony whose global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home video acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, development of new entertainment technologies and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries worldwide.

A competitor’s database was being used in 2007 when Entity Pro was found to be better suited to their needs. The location of all corporate data in a single Web based place accessed from a user’s computer anywhere in the world is one of the most key features for SPE.

Jan Magness, Corporate Paralegal at Sony Pictures and Entertainment, states when asked questions like “Who is the parent of this company?,” instead of having to individually reply to everyone needing the information, Entity Pro “cuts down a lot of my work, because I can give them access to the information they want when they need it.” She also notes that Entity Pro’s security is important as well as accessibility, “Everything that we upload is not going to be kept here [on site at Sony], instead the upload resides on NRAI’s secure server,” says Magness. The application allows users to work from home or abroad, and if something goes wrong, the service provider can help with that quickly as well.”

Autodesk, Inc., founded in 1982, is an American multinational software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media, entertainment, and wireless data services fields. They are a world leader in design innovation technology whose products and services, including AutoCAD® and Revit® help customers design and create digital models and workflows. Autodesk was named number 25 on Fast Company’s list of "The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.” Located in San Rafael, California, Autodesk earned $2.17 billion in fiscal 2008 and employs about 7,000 employees worldwide.

Spreadsheets were being used to track corporate data which were found to be “not robust, lacking reporting functions and unable to track historical data” according to Diane Cree and Nancy Thiel, Corporate and Securities Paralegals for Autodesk, Inc. After implementing Entity Pro in 2007, they have noticed a significant difference. Among the many useful features, they especially enjoy the Reporting functionality and the Web based platform which allows unlimited users and users in other offices to access the data. Officer and director tracking, historical reporting and the ability to customize much of the database are also important to them. Diane adds that the application is “user friendly with great features”. Nancy sums it up by saying that Entity Pro “is God sent.”

Coventry Health Care, Inc.

Coventry Health Care, Inc. is a national managed health care company operating health plans, insurance companies, network rental services companies and workers’ compensation services companies. Through its Commercial Business, Individual Consumer and Government Business, and Specialty Business divisions, Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services to a broad cross section of individuals, employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and plan administrators. Currently, they serve more than 4.6 million members in all 50 states.

NRAI was Coventry Healthcare, Inc’s Registered Agent Service provider in 2006 when they turned to Entity Pro to track their corporate entity records. Prior to Entity Pro, entity information was being tracked in various spreadsheets and documents. The most immediate and obvious relief came from the ability to locate crucial entity information in one reliable and convenient place. The Personnel and Jurisdictions areas are quite frequently accessed by Coventry to retrieve vital data. Dinah Donaldson, Admin Specialist III, remarks that, “I love the system! Having the data in one place let’s you find everything you need.”

Prime Income Asset Management, LLC and its affiliates are based in Dallas, Texas and manage over $3.5 billion of commercial real estate for both public and private real estate entities including American Realty Investor’s, Inc. and Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc.

John Daugherty, Tax Manager explains, “Our prior database was basically using word documents to track pertinent entity information. This was very time consuming and made historical information tracking almost impossible.

There are so many helpful things in Entity Pro; it is hard to nail down to just one. One would be the ability to give access to various users at various security levels has been great. It has also allowed us to give access to our database reports to our attorneys and accountants that need and ask for the information on a regular basis. Now they can retrieve it for themselves on a real¬-time basis via the web.

Mass elections of officers or retirement and replacement of officers if very efficient – what used to take days with several staff people can now be done in a matter of minutes by one person.”

Crain, Caton & James is a full-service law firm, located in Houston, Texas, serving clients from around the world and comprised of over 30 attorneys. The Firm’s shareholders average 20 plus years of legal experience per attorney.

Jamie Perkins, Legal Assistant, has been using Entity Pro since February of 2008 when she started using Entity Pro for service of process representation. Entity Pro is used to track a number of the firm's clients' corporate data as well as when annual reports and other deadlines approach. Prior to this time, Jamie was using spreadsheets and her Outlook calendar to track such items. Entity Pro “is such a timesaver”, she says. At the first of every month she uses Entity Pro’s Calendaring module to bring up the deadlines for the month and with just a couple clicks, “Boom there it is!” She adds that the application has really been a “lifesaver” for her.

Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP is one of the nation’s largest law firms with experience in more than 45 practice areas and represent clients in a full range of corporate, transaction and litigation matters locally, nationally, and internationally including Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses and individuals, as well as not-for-profits. With more than 360 attorneys in nine offices and five states, they address virtually every type of legal challenge.

Cheryl Duren, Paralegal, explains that Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP was using a homemade database before finding Entity Pro in 2007 which had a lot of restrictions on what it was able to do such as being searchable. With Entity Pro, “Basic info shows up on the main screen and it is very easy to search.”

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. is a lodging real estate investment trust (REIT) which has interests in 45 hotels with an aggregate of 15,354 rooms primarily in the upper-upscale segment operated under nationally recognized brands such as Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, Starwood and Fairmont.

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. was using spreadsheets to track their entity data before realizing the need for a database and finding Entity Pro in 2007. Senior Legal Manager, Jenny Kessler, finds the Annual Report calendaring and tracking the most advantageous and notes that the application is very “easy to understand”.