Looking back on 2009 there seems to be a few familiar names that have branched out from the large Legal IT companies to set up their own businesses aimed at Legal IT.
I mentioned Paul O’Connor from Interwoven/iManage UK and the GS Link Warden product he’s been working on for Grant Select back in August.
There are two more that I thought worth pointing out.
The first is Simon Ellison-Bunce who some of you may know from Tikit. He has started a company called FellSoft Limited. They are focused on CRM and in particular InterAction and have recently released a product called Feed Watch.
Feed Watch is an add-on product for InterAction that basically can bring in content from the web (via RSS) into InterAction.
The second is Keith Lipman who some may know from Interwoven/iManage. He has started a company called Prosperoware. They are focused on information management and have a product available called Milan.
Milan is an add-on for Autonomy iManage WorkSite and adds a number of useful tools for managing the environment.
I think 2010 will be an interesting year for Legal IT as there does seem to be a wave of new software companies providing innovative add-ons and expansions to the “core” Legal IT products.
Hi Jason, thanks for the mention!
We’re interested in the FeedWatch product, particularly for sucking in Google Alerts; in fact you could say that we’ve been waiting for it to be ‘invented’. Thanks for flagging it up Jason, and good luck to Simon and FellSoft Ltd.
Although not a spinoff more a heads up ‘one-to-watch’ is Aderant PMS. GoldenGate release SP1 is due for release this year, which is a complete rewrite of their core service layer. This is written in .NET 4 (currently RC) taking advantage of Workflow Foundation (4) WCF, Entity Framework & Linq. This will present a cutting edge product in the guise of an update to their existing CMS/PMS product. 2010 will certainly be an interesting year…