Familiar Faces
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.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Hi Jason, thanks for the mention!
January 12th, 2010 at 9:14 am
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.
February 26th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
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…