Programs that run full-fledged capabilities, including those that run on specific hardware, such as Apple’s or tablet devices, have the edge now over web-based apps. So-called native apps (aka platform apps) can be visually rich and lively. Now, as the newest generation of the code for designing Web pages, called…
An executive from Micro Strategies, Inc., in Met. Corp. Counsel, March 2011 at 33, points out some of the proliferating cloud choices: “software as a service [SaaS], infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and desktop as a service.” SaaS includes such online hosted software as Serengeti Tracker and…
An excellent chart in a recent benchmark report by Otto Henning & Co. based on large German companies provides insights into their law departments and level of use of nine technologies. Based on implemented systems only (Im Einsatz), all of them have access to a corporate intranet (Unternehmens-Intranet). Online research…
Total cost of ownership (TCO) should be a calculation done by all law departments before they select software. An executive of Datacert wrote that the definition of TCO “includes all the upfront costs of procurement, including hardware and software, as well as ongoing operational expenditures such as training, administration, maintenance…
A recent market report from Hyperion Research describes a dozen vendors of matter management and e-billing who are identified as “Market Participants.” The Aug. 2010 MarketView Report of Hyperion Research, “e-Billing and Matter Management Systems for Corporations,” at 14-17 gives thumbnail descriptions of each company, its products, services, and strengths…
The Aug. 2010 MarketView Report of Hyperion Research, “e-Billing and Matter Management Systems for Corporations,” includes a five-page history of those systems. It is a useful summary of where we are in 2011. The comprehensive and detailed report foresees an integration of functions that currently operate from a variety of…
Privileged to review a copy of the Aug. 201 MarketView Report of Hyperion Research, “e-Billing and Matter Management Systems for Corporations,” I will write a few blog posts. This post covers several thoughts. First, the 76-page report offers huge value since it not only analyzes the market for licensed packages…
“The effects of technological innovation are over rated in the short run but underestimated in the long run.” This apercus from Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (Yale Univ. 2009) at 127, who credits Arthure Clarke with the original insight. The quote captures my notion…
Tim Wu, in his stimulating but scary book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Knopf 2010) at 112, makes much of the term “innovation platforms.” The Internet is certainly one of the latest and greatest in a line of innovation platforms: it provides an open structure…
During my annual trek through the aisles of LegalTechNY, I spotted a new entrant, at least for me, in the document assembly group. XpressDox comes from South Africa and boasts that it more than 500 law firms around the globe use its low-cost capabilities for document production. Trial copies are…