Please join me in welcoming, Fulcher Hagler LLP, a Georgia-based law firm engaged in a broad legal practice that is generally concentrated in the areas of litigation, business and commercial law, personal planning and family law. Founded in 1946, the firm’s practice continues to evolve to meet the growing needs of current and future clients,
Join us in welcoming Saul Ewing LLP as a new iManage Cloud customer. The Am Law 200 full-service law firm offers clients the national reach and sophisticated experience of a large firm and the local connections and value of a boutique firm. Founded in the 1920’s with eleven offices in Delaware, the District of Columbia,
Sweden-based Bonava is one of our newest customers and I want to take this opportunity to welcome them to the iManage family. Across eight countries – including Sweden, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Norway, St. Petersburg, Estonia and Latvia – Bonava develops land into affordable, vibrant neighborhoods where housing is adapted to customers’ wants and needs as
iManage is proud to welcome newly-minted Haley Guiliano LLP as one of our newest iManage Cloud customers. Their New York-based boutique firm specializes in patent prosecution and other intellectual property work. Haley Guiliano, like many other dynamic law firms around the globe, are taking advantage of cloud-based solutions to achieve new levels of productivity and
We are pleased to welcome Duggan Bertsch LLC as our newest Cloud customer from right here in our backyard in Chicago. Duggan Bertsch is a growing law firm of multi-degreed, multi-disciplinary attorneys dedicated to thoughtful, innovative and uncompromising legal representation. The firm selected iManage Cloud for their growing roster of modern professionals as it delivers
iManage just completed the second leg of our user conference last month – ConnectLive 2017 London – where we had over 500 customers, CIOs, and partners in attendance. Since then, there has been a lot of continued momentum in the EMEA region, so wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our newest iManage Cloud customer,
The past twelve months have been a mind-blowing ride for us at iManage, and we can’t wait to share our news and plans with you. Meet us at ILTACON at the Mandalay Bay Las Vegas, August 13 – 17. See demonstrations of Work 10, our newest advancement in email and document management and Threat Manager
Please join me in welcoming Faber Daeufer & Itrato, a dynamic law firm with offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The firm has extensive experience handling business transactions in pharma, life sciences and emerging technologies. Their lawyers have run in-house legal departments/practice groups at biopharmaceutical companies, and in some cases had senior
On the heels of our successful ConnectLive user conferences in Chicago and London, hearing first-hand how our customers are using iManage Work Product Management solutions to deliver great client work, it got me thinking that this would serve as a good opportunity to spotlight one of their stories. Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS)— a leading
Please join me in welcoming Fried Rogers Goldberg LLC as a new iManage Cloud customer – an Atlanta-based firm dedicating more than 95% of their practice to handling truck accident and commercial vehicle cases. They are the only law firm in the country to publish Understanding Motor Carrier Claims, a nationally recognized legal treatise on
The Goings Law Firm, LLC is one of our newest customers and I want to take a moment to welcome their growing firm of lawyers. Founded to protect the value of South Carolinians, the firm is devoted to legal excellence and has unique experience defending and prosecuting claims on behalf of both businesses and individuals—as
Please join me in welcoming a new iManage customer — Boutin Jones, one of the largest law firms in the Sacramento Region and one of only two California law firms chosen to be a member of the SCG Legal network. In addition to wanting nothing more than to work hard to help their clients achieve
iManage just recently completed the second leg of our user conference – ConnectLive 2017 London – where we had over 500 customers, CIOs, and partners in attendance. Here are few key highlights from some of the working group sessions: GDPR is fast approaching, and the financial penalties for non-compliance at a firm could be extremely
We are pleased to welcome Johnston Pratt PLLC as a new iManage Cloud customer. The newly minted firm was looking for a secure, on-demand cloud solution for their modern professionals that offered powerful functionality, delivered with unmatched agility, reliability, performance and scale. The firm ultimately selected iManage Cloud as it delivers the industry’s leading Work
Broker-dealers and other financial services firms have struggled, for years, to align the retention of electronic communications with a myriad of regulatory requirements, such as SEC Rule 17-a4, and their general legal hold obligations. Unfortunately, this has created a challenge for firms to demonstrate that they have taken reasonable and defensible measures to preserve email
We are pleased to welcome Patton & Ryan to the iManage family, another addition to a growing list of innovative and growing law firms in our own backyard here in Chicago. Founding Partner John W. Patton has personally tried over 250 jury cases – their partners and associates have tried hundreds more. With so many
Join us in welcoming Foley & Mansfield as a new iManage customer. Their law firm is committed to a value-based business model, delivering results-oriented and cost-effective legal solutions that best meet their clients’ needs – a seamless match with the commitment we have always had for our customers. Foley & Mansfield evaluated several leading DMS
Contrary to popular belief, even law firms based out of Hawaii have to get work done! Kidding (and jealousy) aside, I want to take a moment to welcome the law firm of Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher, a leading Honolulu business law firm, recognized for their expertise in real estate law, commercial transactions and complex
iManage bought together CIOs and IT professionals, attorneys, legal administrators in Chicago this week for their ConnectLive event. For those of you who missed iManage’s ConnectLive event in Chicago here’s the latest video overview: It’s not too late to sign up to ConnectLive London on the 27th and 28th June at the Intercontinental Hotel. See the
There are many exciting things going on at iManage. Not only did I just wrap up my keynote at our biggest user conference to date just hours ago, ConnectLive Chicago 2017, but now I have the great honor to officially announce that we are revolutionizing the way companies find, extract and act on key information
Here at iManage we have been busy gearing up for our second annual user conference – ConnectLive 2017 Chicago – scheduled for May 24-25th. As we bring together existing customers to share ideas on how professional work is changing, we want to pause for a moment to welcome a new iManage Cloud customer, Sills Cummis
One of the most common questions I get from customers and partners, who have watched us over the last 18 months as we transformed our products with Work 10 or the Work 10 Cloud, innovated with new offerings for security and governance, and markedly revamped our global customer support, is: “How has iManage been able
Just last week, I ran into a close friend that is running his own business. We started chatting about old times and then he told me about some issues he’s finding difficult to solve at work. Adding value to his growing customer base and increasing efficiency and productivity are paramount to his business. He told
We are living in an era where productivity requires information to be readily accessible and available to professionals at all times. Keeping that information secure, however, is non-negotiable — and clients are demanding that more care is taken with their confidential materials. Segregating and securing sensitive content on a need-to-know basis, rather than utilizing the
The secret is out: professional services firms make attractive targets because they have large volumes of privileged client information. High profile cyber-attacks such as the Panama Papers incident have made information security a top priority at the C-level executive suite. Traditional security approaches and perimeter defenses, however, are no longer sufficient. Over the past few
When iManage became an independent company just over a year ago, we spent hundreds of hours talking to our customers, getting their feedback about what was working and what wasn’t with our Work Product Management products. During these conversations, we learned that there were a few areas where we needed to “Raise the Bar”. Co-Authoring
Recently, we were pleased to announce iManage Work 10, which is a complete rethink of our market-leading document and email management application, packed with powerful new features that help today’s modern professionals work more productively on any device from anywhere. We wanted to develop an experience that works the way professionals work, so we started
As we look towards the future of technology, a key focus of RBRO Solutions’ is the need for a greater sense of community in the applications that serve our clients. We believe that a perspective of offering value while making space for others will distinguish successful solutions from subsisting solutions. During our time working with
When we set out to reimagine our flagship product, iManage Work, we had two main goals: raise the bar and strengthen the core. The release of iManage Work 9.4 raised the bar by translating end-user desires into a user experience unlike anything else on the market, with powerful features that save time, alert users to
When iManage became an independent company just over a year ago, we spent hundreds of hours talking to our customers, getting their feedback about what was working and what wasn’t with our Work Product Management products. During these conversations, we learned that there were a few areas where we needed to “Strengthen our Core”. OCR
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018. Four years in the making, this will bring a much greater emphasis on compliance with much harsher penalties. And this law is not solely limited to organizations based in Europe. Any organization that has data on EU citizens is subject
Written by Ben Di Marco, Chief Information Officer, De Grandpré Chait As is common with growing law firms around the globe, the lawyers at De Grandpré Chait have become more tech savvy and independent – less reliant on IT. They also expect to access their information anywhere, anytime, from any device – but at the same
When your Records Manager solution has over 550,000 active users, you are presented with a rich opportunity to learn about your product — not just what people like about it, but how it can improve. That’s precisely what we did with the latest version of our market-leading records management product, iManage Records Manager 6.4. Part
Last week, from August 28th through September 1st, thousands of legal professionals gathered at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD for ILTACON 2016. This was the second ILTACON we’ve attended since becoming an independent company last July, and a good opportunity to check in with our customers. In addition to
Corporate legal departments are facing significant increases in workload due to increasing corporate litigation, consolidations, mergers and acquisitions. At the same time, these groups are under greater pressure to govern and secure information completely to comply with corporate guidelines, and also to cut operating costs. These pressures are driving corporate legal departments to seek solutions
When we released iManage Work 9.3, just months after our buyout from HP, we knew it was a defining moment for us as the new iManage. We set a new standard for release quality with multiple, iterative beta releases. We addressed long-standing concerns and user frustration points identified though focus groups and by monitoring online
We’re on our way to ILTA in National Harbor, MD, August 28 – September 1, and we hope to see you there! iManage has been hard at work, getting back to innovation with high impact product updates delivering powerful new features and reduced cost of ownership, all available in the iManage Cloud. Join us as
Security has always been an important issue for professional services industries because of the sensitive nature of the client data they work with. In order to protect their clients’ information, they have historically been cautious of technology changes that could put work product at risk. When cloud computing first started making waves 10 years ago
Today’s professional services firms are under a great deal of pressure when it comes to matters of security. Not only externally from the cybercriminals who are increasingly targeting them to gain access to privileged client data, but internally from clients themselves who are reacting by demanding more stringent procedures and precautions be taken with their
If you’ve worked in professional services for any length of time, it’s more than likely that you or your business has experienced a hack. Even with excellent perimeter security measures in place, a recent study by FireEye estimates as many as 97 percent of all firms will be breached at one point or another. This
If there ever was a moment that projected the spirit, passion and power of iManage, it was at the opening keynotes during ConnectLive in Chicago and the following week in London. It’s hard to describe the feeling in the room in words, but I know that anyone who was there walked away with a sense
Are the professionals in your legal firm as effective as they could be? Could they deliver more services per hour and provide better service to your clients? If you suspect there is room for improvement, take a hard look at your collaboration strategies. There’s a good chance that’s where the bottleneck is. The most common
How K&L Gates used attorney feedback when selecting a new global document management solution. When it comes to selecting a mission critical system like document or email management, what should a firm in today’s legal market consider in making that decision? Vendor claims? Consultants or third parties? And what are the criteria used in such
Due diligence is a time consuming necessity in every deal. It’s essential for assessing risk and for strategically structuring transactions, and gives buyers and sellers a clear view of their position. For financial services firms buying or selling assets, due diligence is a core part of the business. For some firms, a core part of
“Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action.” When we announced iManage’s return to an independent, management-owned company back in July 2015, we promised our customers two things: that our commitment to them was as strong as ever, and that we would continue down our aggressive product roadmap to help a
RAVN & ILTA collaborated to run a successful AI for Law Firms Conference in March, with over 100 attendees from top 200 law firms as well as major consultancy and other firms. Today, law firms are holding vast volumes of information containing their learned know-how and experience, as well as client data. Lawyers must be
Be honest. When you think about mobile professionals, the first image that comes to mind is the road warrior, armed with a laptop or iPad and a suitcase that fits in the overhead bin. But for the vast majority of today’s legal professionals, mobility is more about being able to work untethered within their own
Today, in response to increasing regulatory requirements, banks and other participants in the OTC derivatives market need to improve their ability to manage counterparty exposures and the corresponding collateral obligations. There are a number of solutions on the market that can help with the static data but they still require the manual extraction of the
One of the most popular requests from users since iManage has become an independent company, has been for the return of our annual user conference. There’s no substitute for bringing the user community together to learn about new products and advanced features, to exchange tips and best practices, and to see how others have deployed
It is surprising, if not shocking to see the number of firms where someone in the records management group has the opinion that managing only paper (physical) records is sufficient as a risk management and governance practice in 2016. These firms, usually midsize or smaller, are under the false impression that the only information they
The question of whether or not law firms should “go cloud” vs. on-premises seems like yesterday’s (last year’s) debate. The discussion in 2016 shouldn’t be whether or not to use the cloud but how to best use it based on your firm’s specific situation and needs, and what kind of cloud architecture, features, and deployment
iManage is at LegalTech New York this week. Come visit us at Booth 110 or set up a meeting in our briefing center in the Lincoln Room at the Hilton New York. In conjunction with the show we are making two strategic announcements. We are excited to launch the new iManage Cloud, our enhanced cloud
Originally posted on Insurance People Magazine, Feb 2016. Peter Wallqvist believes Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise the insurance sector, and explains how greater efficiency and better customer service can be combined with reduced costs via the automation of operational processes The insurance sector is a highly competitive market which has recently faced
One of the key underpinnings of iManage going independent was our ability to focus our investments on things that matter most to customers. This starts by taking the products our customer base has deployed today, strengthening them to make sure they are current and address key frustrations being experienced by end-users. The iManage Work 9.3
With high-profile hacks of government agencies, retailers and other businesses making the headlines, any business that needs to protect confidential data is likely growing more concerned and seeking new ways to bolster their security posture. The legal industry is no exception. International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) recently surveyed more than 185,000 individuals at 420 firms
Since day one as an independent company, one of our core focuses has been building close relationships with our partners and customers. We’ve studied attorneys work styles and engaged them to deeply understand what they need from their technology solutions. Sharing ideas and brainstorming with them on product innovation has enabled us to deliver solutions
Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source search engine and best of all it’s free so I downloaded it (https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch) to see what it could do. It was extremely easy to get going and you could start indexing simple JSON objects and start searching for them which was a nice feature. However, then I got
When you have almost 200 IT professionals register for a webinar one hour after sending invitations, you know the topic being discussed has great importance to them. And that’s just what happened when we announced the first of a series of webinars focused on the topic of matter-centric refresh last month. In the first webinar,
Just 100 days ago we made it official – completing our buyout of iManage from HP and returning the company to its roots as an independent, management-owned company. We take pride in being one of the largest independent software companies focused on improving the productivity and satisfaction of legal, accounting and banking professionals. During the
I have just returned from an exciting week of iManage EMEA CIO meetings, partner briefings and a user group meeting with nearly 200 attendees in London. We were very pleased to have participants from many of the leading legal, accounting and financial services firms and select corporate legal departments from almost every country in Europe,
The response to this event was heartwarming. With barely 20 days’ notice, we expected no more than 20 CIOs to be in a position to join us. Instead, 34 CIOs and other top executives from some of the most prestigious global law firms came – they cancelled meetings, skipped vacations, altered plans, and arrived at
It has been predicted by many that the adoption of Artificial Intelligence will become a significant focus for the legal Industry in the next few years and now it looks this is becoming a reality as law firms across the globe are beginning to investigate, invest in and introduce this technology. Law firms have vast
The countdown has begun for the official start of ILTACON 2015. We are looking forward to seeing many of our customers and partners for the first time since we announced our management buyout from HP last month. We will be exhibiting in booth 234 and 235 during the four day conference and hope you will
There is no denying it for the hundreds of thousands of professionals who first set out from college and law school back in the mid 1990’s or earlier – our work and clients today are vastly different than the work and the clients that first greeted us. Remember? There was actually a time before email.
Big changes are happening. We can all feel it; it has been going on for years, but as it is happening across many spheres, it is tough to pin down. When I returned to this company three years ago I encountered a customer base that was reeling from changes, but was having a hard time
Welcome to the newly independent iManage. Today, with our management buyout of iManage from HP now finalized, we are returning the company to its roots as an independent, management-owned company focused 100 percent on just one thing – delighting our customers. For almost 18 years, we have been listening, innovating and responding to our customers
Here at RAVN HQ we were very excited with the news from the Ignite conference that took place last week. Especially the news around Enterprise Search. We were enlightened with the news that SharePoint 2016 will still be using the “kernel” SharePoint 2013 Search Server, this makes a lot of sense since Microsoft spent a
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) technology isn’t just the latest buzzword. It has now become a practical reality. By 2024 the market for Enterprise Artificial Intelligence systems will increase from $202.5 million in 2015 to $11.1 billion (according to a report from Tractica). There have been misconceptions that machines will soon take over the world and all
In this blog I describe how to perform Auto Tagging in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with the new RAVN Pipeline 5.0. Auto Tagging including extracting people and locations that are mentioned in the document text and then tagging them to a Managed Metadata column in a SharePoint Document Library, as well as, automatically building up the
The Problem Large, geographically diverse organisations are very likely to have document content located around several different locations. Often it is housed in a distributed Document Management System (DMS), and just as often housed on shared drives in local offices. This situation can become problematic if the employees in these organisations are expected to access,
RAVN Systems, experts in Enterprise Search, Unstructured Big Data analytics and Knowledge Management solutions, recently held an event on enhancing the value of Microsoft SharePoint in the Legal Sector. Around 50 delegates attended from various international legal organisations. The first informative session opened with Gina Jennings, Director at Outer Circle on the subject of challenges
What’s MongoDB Days? MongoDB is one of the leading NoSQL databases. MongoDB Days is a global event for developers and administrators using MongoDB. Hosted in different cities around the world, every 12-18 months in each one, it is a great opportunity to learn more about the database and how to get the most out of
Implementing NER There are multiple ways we go about implementing NER. A simple method would be to have a dictionary of words that belong to a certain type of entity (e.g. a list of all the countries in the world) and do simple string matching against a provided document. Despite the simplicity of this approach
Introduction Here at RAVN Systems we’re always looking for new ways to deal with unstructured data. Approaches we’re using on a day-to-day basis include: Indexing/searching: RAVN Pipeline connects to multiple repositories that can contain unstructured data (such as filesystems, CMS systems and so on). The documents it crawls are typically indexed into RAVN Core which
Type Accelerators are a great PowerShell feature that allows shortcuts to .NET classes. When writing .NET code, once a namespace is imported with the ‘using’ directive, types in that namespace can be used without referencing the namespace itself: [csharp]using System.Collections.Generic; List l = new List(); // Instead of: System.Collections.Generic.List l = new System.Collections.Generic.List();[/csharp] However, it’s
We recently finished an interesting piece of work for a large Law firm in London. They needed to migrate some of their “Know How” documents that were stored in their Document Management System (DMS) into SharePoint 2013. This was part of the company upgrade to SharePoint 2013 and the project to bring together documents from other systems.
After a hard week of knuckling down building state of the art enterprise search solutions there’s nothing RAVN like more that to have a nice relaxing sit down meal in the trendy Old Street area. It’s important we line our stomachs for Beer O’clock later that day! We’ve put together a run down of our
When managing and maintaining our client’s Autonomy infrastructures, it’s often beneficial to thread the underlying scripts. At some installations, we manage tens of servers and thousands of services so running maintenance tasks in parallel saves plenty of time. Powershell jobs are great for executing quick background tasks, but they can be too resource-intensive and cumbersome
Big data is not only a buzzword… here is an attempt to describe it in a short and simple fashion. Big In today’s world, we use a computer to do more or less everything. All of these actions generate and consume data in a heterogeneous way. Obviously, the rate we are doing this is constantly
The State of the Art in Search If you are interested in search technologies, you might have come across an excessive amount of articles regarding the use of graph search in the social media environment and how much insight it can deliver. I have noticed that people are very enthusiastic about it and more and
While developing some Search Web Parts for a customer, we came across a unique problem. The customer required multilingual web parts but without the use of any Language Packs. We agreed that sometimes it is unnecessary to download these very large Language Packs on every SharePoint Server just to translate a few words in a
SharePoint 2013 provides a pretty decent implementation of basic search feature OOB, but you do have to bear in mind that lots of assumptions are made and were probably necessary to satisfy a big group of users. Sorting is a pretty basic search option and one of the first things to which people turn when
We often get asked about Enterprise Search and Big Data; some of the questions that typically arise include: What is Big Data? What is it all about and how will it help us? How should we treat it in our organisation? At RAVN Systems, we have noticed that even though the technology has been around
May 04, 2012 at 4:17 PM Hello World! Part of the Ravn team packed their bags with banners, added some amazing gift items and ventured off to another Silicon Milkroundabout. Following the success of the first event where we met and actually hired two of our developers!