Should a medium or small law firm invest in a Document Management System? Yes. Enterprise search sounds so powerful… can that be used instead?  Could you instead leave everything as it is, where it is, and apply Enterprise Search to make it accessible firm-wide? I don’t know of a search solution yet, that eliminates the need for a DMS. What does [...]...

June 28 2012 was the busiest day yet on the Cersys blog. More page-views in those 24 hours than we had in an entire month during the first five months of blogging. Now the question – who ARE you people?...

  “Centralized administration of confidentiality is doomed to failure.” Public default security is tantamount to “letting the fox mind the chicken coop.” These are the dramatic teaser quotes from a 2011 blog at prosperoware.com . The article puts forward Prosperoware’s Matter Hub as a way to enable decentralized administration of matter security.  On each matter the lead attorney [...]...

Choosing a simple, complete set of patterns: the meat-and-potatoes of a content migration analysis.  How do you take the ‘raw’ content on a network drive, and move it into a document management system with ‘the right’ metadata? How will you accomplish this on-budget and on-time? Make the hard choices during business analysis – to determine [...]...

Because Content Migration to a Document Management system usually involves a blizzard of details, it’s important to set your targets firmly and keep on track to producing usable requirements. An Environment Baseline represents a thorough, accurate description of the original content – both its structure and file distributions throughout the structure. By analyzing that baseline and characterizing [...]...

An Environment Baseline is the analysis and data collection effort that describes the existing content. The baseline defines the starting context for the content migration.  Any content repository which has grown over time, with contributions from many people, will conceal some surprises.  In defining the Business Requirements for a Content Migration, you best start with [...]...