The number of matter management solutions on the legal tech market grew by one this week. On Tuesday, alternative legal service provider Elevate released its new cloud-based Ecosystem Legal Management, or ELM, software, a single platform through which users can pursue tasks such as matter management, contract and e-signature management, reporting and budgeting or billing.

Kim Lanza-Russo, director of product management at Elevate, indicated that the company was targeting a lingering problem inside of corporate legal departments, which are in some cases deploying a variety or patchwork of solutions to deal with the various needs inside their organization. The result is that data can very quickly become siloed across multiple applications or email accounts.