Baker Robbins & Company and Traveling Coaches, Inc. describe how to increase the effectiveness of your iManage WorkSite environment to manage the electronic client file in current economic times.
Remember that a financial crisis is a terrible thing to waste. The current productivity drop is pushing firms to price, staff and deliver servicesdifferently. Some organizations are re-think associate compensation, re-think staffing models for the delivery of legal services. The IT community must take this into consideration in planning and project delivery. You must enable lawyers to become an “enhanced practitioner” (Susskind) that blend legal skills with deal/project delivery. They need different tools for different times. We believe there is a shift in delivery models emerging, including Customized, project pricing for major transactions, “unbundling” legal services, push work to offices where it can be most efficiently performed and develop serious project management skills. The objective is to blend Legal Services with effective project delivery.
Based on the economic backdrop in 2009, the mandate to IT is clear. With productivity drop is pushing firms to price and deliver differently – where do you start.IT has to demonstrate value to the business through prudent, cost effective innovation using existing toolsEmail communication demands clear policy and efficient product to respond to staff ratios and volume.Learning services have to respond with new techniques, including social networking and scenario based solutions.
The cost of distributed iManageWorkSite environments continues to increase. WAN reliability and price-performance ratios continue to drop. Tools to consolidate libraries are very strong with Shamrock and other solutions. Second, email filing initiatives will place more pressure on Worksite library growth. Successful organizations should be filing 5 emails for every document, year over year. Expect spikes as change management and email wellness campaigns are launched. YourWorkSite infrastructure must evolve to address centralization and growth. We recommend 64-bit hardware and operating systems. Even though WorkSite application server is (and will likely remain) 32-bit, critical pathways such as SQL Server and Autonomy IDOL should be deployed exclusively on 64-bit platforms to support larger memory address space. As your sites grow, performance is frequently connected with memory available. Chase the Space model to permit storage growth. Allocate LUNS on SANs is an art and a battle. DocServer balancing 500GB SAN LUNs (some much less), but it’s very awkward to add a new docserver if the first volume fills up (and most bigger firms doing email filing will file more than 500GB each year). Chase the Space is a best practice that pre-allocates ten or more document servers and randomly assigns these servers to users. Check with us for the docusers trigger that initiates Chase the Space for existing and new users.Enterprise Virtualization can save up to $100k over 2 years based on servers, maintenance and licensing in typical firm reducing server count by 30. This also provides built-in platform for disaster recovery.Reduce administrative overhead using Integration Appliance to automate key meta data.
Based on the economic backdrop in 2009, the mandate to IT is clear. With productivity drop is pushing firms to price and deliver differently – where do you start.IT has to demonstrate value to the business through prudent, cost effective innovation using existing toolsEmail communication demands clear policy and efficient product to respond to staff ratios and volume.Learning services have to respond with new techniques, including social networking and scenario based solutions.
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Based on the economic backdrop in 2009, the mandate to IT is clear. With productivity drop is pushing firms to price and deliver differently – where do you start.IT has to demonstrate value to the business through prudent, cost effective innovation using existing toolsEmail communication demands clear policy and efficient product to respond to staff ratios and volume.Learning services have to respond with new techniques, including social networking and scenario based solutions.
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