Compared to other industries, the legal sector has been reasonably innovative when it comes to technology: new developments and working practices have been welcomed and there is an underlying commitment to use it to improve operations. We work very closely with both the legal and real estate sectors at Calvis and I can say hand on heart that the former is head and shoulders above the latter in terms of technology adoption.
However, this pioneering attitude seems to have created some unexpected issues – especially in relation to integrating some of the ‘best of breed’ solutions that have been installed as the promise of interoperability seems to have been a false one. Conversely, in real estate this is not a problem. Due to its technological reticence, the property sector is in a position to learn from the mistakes of other sectors and bizarrely is now more agile in relation to software implementations.
