Legal KM

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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.

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Document management systems Alfresco Cognidox ColumbiaSoft Content Manager Computhink's ViewWise DocCenter's DocLanding DocPoint Documentum Filehold FileNet Hummingbird DM Hyland Software's OnBase ImageNow by Perceptive Software ImagePlus Infonic Document Manager UK Interwoven's Worksite Invu ISIS Papyrus KnowledgeTree Laserfiche Livelink Main//Pyrus DMS M-Files Nuxeo O³Spaces Objective OpenKM Oracle's Stellent Questys Solutions Redmap Report2Web SAP KM&C SAP Netweaver Saperion Scanfile SharePoint Teamwork TRIM Context Version One Ltd Xerox Docushare

A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of Content Management Systems and is often viewed as a component of Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM) and related to Digital Asset Management, Document imaging, Workflow systems and Records Management systems. Contract Management and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) can be viewed as either components or implementations of ECM.

Since its foundation in 2000, Nuxeo has been proposing a robust and extensible open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform to the most demanding organizations worldwide. Nuxeo Platform and all products from the Nuxeo Galaxy suite bring cost effective with no-license costs solutions to meet today's requirements of information management.

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Open Text legal solutions provide law firms with an integrated product offering developed specifically to support law firms’ business practices and proactive compliance needs throughout the matter lifecycle – from client intake through to final disposition: Conflicts Management New Business Intake Records Management Reporting/Auditing Document Management Legal Information Management Email Lifecycle Management

Open Text has partnered with Recommind, a provider of enterprise search and eDiscovery solutions, to offer a new product called Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment

The solution promises to minimize the need for third-party processing and help control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information before it goes for review by outside counsel.

The goal here is to let organizations quickly assess the legal merits of a case and defensibly manage legal holds and collection for eDiscovery, regulatory and compliance requests.

What's the relationship between a document management system (DMS) and an enterprise collaboration suite like Socialtext?

Would Socialtext replace the DMS? Would the two work together?

The first thing that companies should understand is that document management and collaboration are distinct activities.

Records management, or RM, is the practice of identifying, classifying, archiving, preserving, and destroying records. The ISO 15489: 2001 standard defines it as "The field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records".

records management can be seen as being primarily concerned with the identification and management of the evidence of an organization's business activities.