When organizations buy knowledge and information management technology, they often do so from trusted and preferred suppliers. On the surface, that approach makes a great deal of sense, but a closer look at what is being sold will occasionally make you think twice. Information and knowledge management technology offerings would appear to have evolved in terms of complexity and breadth over the past decade. Yet, some offerings on sale today have long and sometimes infamous heritages, even though their branding and marketing may suggest they are shiny new and "cutting edge." Gaining an understanding of a product's ancestry is essential work to undertake for any technology buyer in today's market.
Longtime KMWorld columnist David Weinberger's latest book is Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. His previous works include, The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything is Miscellaneous. He is a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab...
Some larger law firms have hired chief knowledge officers and provided them with staff and funding that is separate from IT groups...
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Concept-based advanced analytics isn't anything new, and many of the technologies incorporating conceptual analytics are very mature. Numerous case studies illustrate how these technologies help manage costs, trim schedules and increase quality throughout the e-discovery process. Justices, too, are pressing attorneys to use advanced techniques to avoid keyword pitfalls. . . .
All-in-one or best-in-breed? A single software suite or a number of point solutions unified together to operate as a cohesive solution? These two questions have been hotly debated in the e-discovery tech industry for years. E-discovery has many steps, and each step requires software in order to execute. As each part of the process is conducted, the individual pieces of information flow. . . .
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Today's legal environment is very complex. Attorneys are faced with myriad challenges to effectively and efficiently support the digital demands associated with a growing number of cases. Many of these challenges are created by the rapidly advancing technologies in both the corporate and social spheres. When the focus is electronic discovery, the technologies that create these challenges. . . .
This article discusses the importance of viewing in an e-discovery solution and focuses on the five keys for selecting the viewer that meets your e-discovery requirements. Viewing is one of the pillars of an effective e-discovery solution and can be either a pre-integrated viewer, as part of the enterprise content management platform, or a separate use case-based process-oriented solution. . . .