I am fairly new to legal industry but it is becoming clear to me that the demand for Alternative Fee Arrangement are on the rise. Majority of transactional legal work like drafting and reviewing documents are the prime target for some kind of alternative fee structure as opposed to billing by the hour. Aided by technology like enterprise search and knowledge management – corporations are increasingly asking for better deals on doing legal transactional work. At … read more →

I came across this article on BusinessWeek which prompted me to get me to put down some of my own thoughts: Link [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/technology_at_work/archives/2009/07/the_failure_of.html](http://www.businessweek.com/technology/technology_at_work/archives/2009/…) Commercial Open source models are starting to resemble proprietary software models. In fact open source software providers want to take advantage of all the free community work they can get like adding new piece of code, debugging, testing and spreading the word for the product but when it comes to the supported version … read more →

Collaboration is a broad and all encompassing term which comprises of many technologies and application. Web meetings/conferencing, internet forums, desktop sharing, instant messenger, emails, shared calendars, online project management, wikis, social networking (Facebook, Linkedin, twitter), ranking and voting applications, online document or spreadsheet editing are all examples of collaborative applications. My interest is more in defining document collaboration and how to categorize various ways collaboration happens around documents or content. With a variety of choices in … read more →

LinearCube’s document management systems offer simple solutions for sharing, editing, and controlling your company’s important data, with one major benefit: affordable price points for smaller businesses. Houston, TX September 16, 2009 — Many businesses have struggled with data storage options over the years. Options included servers managed by IT departments that required meticulous planning regarding filing, retrieval, security, archiving, and disaster recovery methods. On-demand document management and storage systems, on the other hand, were largely cost-prohibitive … read more →

After doing our market research for the past few months, I am coming to the conclusion that it is tough to sell the value proposition for a horizontal Document Management System in the SMB market place. Even if the cost are very low as is the case with a hosted SaaS based offering, unless the business is just looking for standard DMS features, they are not willing to spend any money. There are a few reasons … read more →

I have outlined 8 steps that a customer needs to go through when evaluating an On-DemandDocument Management System. I have organized them based on highest to lowest priority. The priorities could be different based on a customer’s business model and document usage patterns. Search – What type of search capability exists on the system? Does it have attribute search as well full test keyword search? Can you search the whole document or just title? Security – … read more →

I am starting this forum to get a dialog going around the coming together of Software-as-a-Service, Virtualization and Open Source and how they apply to Document Management Systems. I will also discuss what size of businesses and what industry segments can most benefit from this emerging trend. My company LinearCube is a provider of Open Source Software-as-a-Service based Document Management System. I will share some of my experience as we go to market and learn what … read more →