Document management systems (DMS’) may be, in the words of a senior executive at one of the main vendors, “a thoroughly boring area of technology”, but for most large and many medium-sized firms, they are also the lynchpin of the IT function. Documents are a firm’s lifeblood: we have heard it all before. But the winds of change are once again blowing through the legal industry segment of the document and content management systems (CMS’) market.
The most visible symptom of law firms’ obsession with DMS’ can be seen in the sheer number of gawpers and onlookers that the pilot implementation of Hummingbird’s DM 5.1.05 system, at Eversheds, has attracted. Doubtless, the firm would rather get on with its testing and rollout in peace.
