iManage Focuses on Legal Matter Workflows: Whither WestLaw?
Content collaboration services provider iManage has announced a new version of their already successful WorkSite suite that focuses even more closely on how legal firms collaborate on creating and consuming content in "matter-centric" workflows. Content management and collaboration services providers continue to focus more and more on specific business problems that need to be solved, instead of providing generic but adaptable content publishing solutions, from legal matters to regulatory compliance to scientific research. With these platforms that take maximum advantage of the interests of people who are both active publishers and content consumers, there is beginning to be a bit less daylight between their efforts and products from publishing-oriented companies such as Thomson's West division of workflow-oriented legal content products. Recognizing that audiences are key publishers in most professional workflows is critical to owning the context of their desktops, a recognition that many publishers have been slow to accept.