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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
RAVN Systems, experts in Enterprise Search, Unstructured Big Data analytics, Knowledge Management and Cognitive Computing technology, feature in this week’s BBC Tech Tent podcast on the subject of Artificial Intelligence Technology within the Legal industry. First broadcast on Friday, RAVN’s CTO, Jan Van Hoecke, discusses a new application of RAVN’s Applied Cognitive Engine with BBC
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!