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The Dutch law firm Dirkzwager has become the first legal practice worldwide to sign up for the Legal Information Management Solution (LIMS) – Open Text's new Microsoft Sharepoint-based document management system.

The project will encompass both document and email management – and also see Open Text being integrated to Dirkzwager's Aderant practice management system.

After several years of running with Open Text (previously Hummingbird) as its DMS platform in London and Interwoven Worksite in New York, Clifford Chance has standardized on Open Text DM as its global document management system and is swapping out Interwoven from all its American offices

KWizCom is a Canadian company that specializes in Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics CRM solutions. You could compare them to Bamboo Solutions when it comes to the number and types of web parts and add-ons they have for SharePoint.

Their latest solution is the Wiki Plus for SharePoint - for both MOSS Standard and Enterprise Editions. it is built on top of the MOSS infrastructure so it's tightly integrated with the full SharePoint functionality.

What's Different From the MOSS built-in Wiki?

example of an Australian property development company with 750 staff that implemented a document management system with the following project team: Project Manager - 60% full time; Information Manager - full time; Change Manager - 50% full time for 6 months; Classification Specialist - 2 months full time; and DMS Administrator - full time for 6 months.

Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a top international law firm, has chosen Recommind's MindServer(TM) Legal platform to power its internal information retrieval system. The MindServer Legal platform enables Shook, Hardy & Bacon's partners, associates, analysts, and paralegals in nine offices around the world to more effectively search, access and manage information to support client objectives in a cost-effective manner.

"We selected Recommind's MindServer Legal platform because our lawyers, analysts, and legal staff found it intuitive to use, identifying not only relevant documents and files, but also the on-point expertise of individual lawyers and analysts in the firm," said John Anderson, CIO at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. "In comparison with other platforms, Recommind's platform was more effective and will take employees less time in the searching process, leaving more time for clients."

Shook, Hardy & Bacon has chosen to deploy the following MindServer Legal components: -- Enterprise Search, which utilizes powerful, concept-based search capabilities to connect relevant information in document management, records management, portal and e-mail systems and myriad other applications and databases with the attorneys that need it. -- Matters & Expertise which provides a comprehensive, firm-wide view of matters, deals, cases, and the vast array of expertise contained within a firm by tapping into a variety of information sources such as time and billing systems, CRM applications, intranets, internal firm databases and other information repositories.

Given the explosive growth of cloud computing, it should be no surprise that it presents numerous legal issues for businesses. Two of the most significant are privacy concerns and the implications of cloud computing for pretrial discovery.

For example, a very common argument is that people are unwilling to share what they know. Well, they may not be necessarily unwilling to do so, but it does take low priority when people try to meet their goals and deadlines. That was the fallacy of the early KM era, in which employees were asked to step outside their work and 'contribute' to a fancy KM tool (aka database).

People need to realize that in most cases, knowledge-sharing is not an activity but in fact a by-product of people's work. That's why it is so important to implement these kind of tools into people's workflow.

This leaves us with the last three barriers (applications not part of user's workflow, time effort > personal value, complex applications).

The Small Stuff. By little KM, I mean meta data; but not the hierarchical, taxonomic stuff of older KM approaches.  it’s not about asking your lawyers to profile, or select prescribed meta data, for their documents when saving them in a document management system.  Rather, little KM is about on-the-fly, user-generated tagging, commenting, and rating.  Little KM is also about self interest; and that’s important.

Little KM is not substantive.  it points or directs people to the substantive stuff (the big KM).

Self Interest. Altruism may be alive and well, but for the most part, we do things to help ourselves, personally.  The good thing is that with little KM, the side effect is that it also helps others.  When someone tags, comments on, or rates a piece of content (presumably to help themselves find, or make sense of, it later) others get the benefit of that person’s efforts.

But, I think there are some that are suddenly realizing that the decision to go online only for some types of research tools, such as treatises, was not the best decision in the long run.

On top of this, I'm also wondering if there is an ethical line that we've crossed along the way by charging the client back for the online version of the treatise when we would not charge for researching the print version.

First of all, is it fair for an online provider to charge a standard rate of $825.00 an hour for an online treatise that you can purchase for $499.00 a year for the full print version? Secondly, is it fair for firms to pass the cost of these online charges (granted, some have deep discounts, so it could only be $100.00 an hour) on to the client when they would not pass along the same charges for using the print version?

Enterprise 2.0 is not about implementing Web 2.0 tools inside a company. It is about the transformation of a company to be aligned in this new world of work.

The real transformation it is about a new architecture of companies and help them make ready for the next 20 years of business.

To understand that the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 is more than the implementation of a single or a set of tools, think about these 10 themes around Enterprise 2.0. These themes envision the angles of every company that needs to be changed to fully adopt the Enterprise 2.0 vision.

When it comes to departmental file sharing or collaborative workspaces, Microsoft's SharePoint has legions of fans in midsized companies. But for those not interested in paying for SharePoint (the basic version is free), or who find some features immature in the latest version, there are SharePoint alternatives.

The move to MOSS 2007 seems to be natural once users install Office 2007.

Midmarket companies accounted for 35% of the respondents, and among this group, half said price was not an inhibitor for MOSS deployments. Although nearly half -- 46% -- said the price was higher than they expected.

Most companies have loads of tools to help employees share and store information. Because we have so many of these tools, it can be hard to decide where to share and store my information.

(Our) Current IT solutions To support (our) employees the following solutions are provided: FTP servers Shared network directories (SND) Wiki’s Blogs Discussion fora Compass Sharepoint Document Archive/Vault

When to use what solution?

Recommind has continued its success in the legal sector in 2008 with deployments announced with law firms including Simmons & Simmons, Reed Smith, Addleshaw Goddard and Eversheds. Recommind’s MindServer™ Enterprise Search platform enables law firms to search all databases and core knowhow across multiple locations, allowing lawyers to easily access and share the information they need.

Recommind, a provider of enterprise search, email management and eDisclosure systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that it has been shortlisted in the ‘Best of Breed System of the Year’ and ‘Most Customer-Focused Supplier of the Year’ categories for the Legal Technology Awards 2009.

Open Text hat versprochen, die "eDOCS"-Produktelinie, die durch die Übernahme des Konkurrenten Hummingbird vor rund zwei Jahren in den Stall von Open Text gekommen ist, auch im nächsten Jahr noch weiterzuentwickeln, und gleichzeitig eine Roadmap für 2009 vorgestellt. eDOCS-Anwender sollen also auch weiterhin die Wahl haben, ob sie bei ihrer bisherigen Plattform bleiben oder auf die Open-Text-ECM-Suite migrieren möchten.