Tag:analysis

Enterprise Search: ready to replace Document Management?
Enterprise Search: ready to replace Document Management?

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…

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Confidentially: Trouble lurks in law firms | Pondering Prosperoware Matter Hub

  “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…

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Import design patterns – Content Migration best practices
Import design patterns – Content Migration best practices

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…

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Import Requirements guidelines – Content Migration Series
Import Requirements guidelines – Content Migration Series

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…

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