The European dairy farms cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina has selected Contract Manager 2.0 from Dolphin Software for its contract management needs. This news comes from the November Technology Insider. “The system, which runs on SharePoint, will initially be rolled out in the company’s procurement department, but will ultimately also be used…
Advances in virtualization, where portions of computers or servers are cordoned off for specific purposes, may lead to a welcome flexibility for in-house lawyers. According to the Economist, Nov. 20, 2010 at 75, “Companies can install a secure virtual heart on private machines, doing away with the need for a…
Hard on my post about a contract approval matrix (See my post of Nov. 8, 2010: approval matrix and templates.), someone pointed out to me even more planets orbiting the contract sun. They particularly noted other kinds of software that improve the whole contracting process. Contract intake systems are like…
Vendors see trends that might surprise the rest of us. In Met. Corp. Counsel, Sept. 2010 at 28, a software provider, WorkShare, promotes its applications that assure the integrity of documents – the original has not been altered – and that remove metadata from documents. They then add a zinger.…
You don’t have to design, host and maintain your own extranets. Service providers will let you contract to user their extranet capabilities – also known as e-rooms, but there may be a difference in definitions – and make the step easier to take. One legal department I know enters into…
Many software companies send me notices of their products, nearly all of which I set aside since there is nothing specific to legal departments or no legal department identified. I broke my own rule, however, when up popped an invitation to a webinar about software so specialized I was amazed.…
Based on a recent consulting project, I realized there are as many as four levels of people who can help in-house lawyers and others best use their software applications. The first responders are the admins who among themselves can solve many questions. Next to be called in are power users.…
Am. Legal Tech. Insider (#24) July 2010 passed on some research commissioned by Recommind. They found that the disconnect between legal and IT departments has deteriorated over the past 12 months. Last year, 67 percent of respondents described the relationship between the two departments as “good” but in 2010 that…
This blogger has questioned extranets offered by law firms for their clients on the grounds that law department staff do not want to learn many different systems (See my post of April 8, 2008: extranets with 13 references.). But that view may be misguided. Few law departments have enough uses…
Met. Corp. Counsel, June 2010 at 9, has two quotes that twisted my mind from an interview of the CEO of Datacert. Bear in mind that the speaker leads a company that has just announced a “platform” with patented software that integrates and makes easier development of software. “One of…