iManage WorkSite has a client-and-many-server application architecture. The profile records, structure, and metadata are stored in a relational database – SQL Server or Oracle. The content itself is stored on a file server – which can be encrypted to be HIPAA-compliant as of WorkSite 9.0.  The client machines – running FileSite or DeskSite – never [...]...

WorkSite application architecture is mainly a client-server communication. The client (FileSite or DeskSite) communicates only with the WorkSite Server. The WorkSite server then delegates requests out to  the SQL Server, the File Server, and the Indexer to fulfill the client’s requests. This product design provides scalability: but it also adds complexity and scenarios for possible [...]...

The iManage WorkSite Communication Server (WCS) for 8.5 provides server-side filing of emails, above and beyond the ‘classic’ 8.2 Send and File functionality.  In implementing this server-side functionality, WCS now has more interdependencies with Microsoft Exchange. These touch-points mean that greater care must be taken in upgrading or changing the Exchange Server. The following should [...]...

So, a proposed takeover of Autonomy by HP for $10+ billion US.  Favourite links through August 21, 2011: Could Oracle now snap up HP? NY Post Financial analysis from, yes, the NY Post Reuters summary of HP’s strategic path to this point HP’s press release Cnet - HP saying goodbye to WebOS, PC unit HP Studies [...]...

In WorkSite 8.2 and 8.5, Email Duplicate Detection is implemented as a simple matching of the message ID value of the email.  This search for duplicates is restricted to workspace-level by default.  Duplicate detection can be disabled, or can be set to process the entire WorkSite database: both approaches carry performance and/or usability penalties....

If the user does not know the matter name, there is no way to locate the document by browsing through a workspace. The user will need to search for the document throughout WorkSite, using the search dialog. Searching for emails Goal:  Find an email belonging to a matter you are not working on, and in general you do [...]...