Valuable information in any organization can be spread across a variety of databases, intranet pages, and of course, document management systems.
I'm convinced that we need to stop requiring attorneys to figure out which data store contains the information that they need, but rather, provide a search engine that will pull all the firm's resources together, and present the appropriate content based on the search terms. Everyone wants something "Google-like", and I don't see why they can't have it! Apparently the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb agrees. Brenton B. Miller describes their search for just such a product in a recent article in the Legal Times, The Engine that Could.
Among the products considered were Autonomy Inc., IBM (Discovery Server), Recommind Inc. (MindServer), Triplehop Technologies (MatchPoint) and Verity (K2 Enterprise and Ultraseek). And the winner is......Recommind!
By the way, Recommind announced this week that Paul Hastings has also selected their product for their enterprise search engine.
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