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PEER TO PEER: THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF ILTA | SUMMER 2018
by Dan Anderson
The October 2017 issue of "The Legal IT Insider" noted that NetDocuments owns
at least 16.5% of the AM Law 200 market while iManage, which offers both on-premise
and cloud DMS, owns about 70.5%, and firms that have used iManage on-premise for
a while have been steadily transitioning over to the iManage Cloud. The 2017 ILTA
Technology Survey showed how the conversation about the cloud has shied from,
"Will we adopt a cloud DMS?" to "When are we going to do it?" Fourteen percent of
firms surveyed through ILTA were already using a hosted DMS, with the highest
percentage coming from smaller firms. Just in the past few months, we have seen
larger firms begin to take the leap to SaaS DMS. As we see this trend grow, let's think
about what firms should consider when selecting which route is best for them.
Over the past couple of years the legal market has begun to trend away
from on-premise document management systems (DMS) as more and more
firms flirt with the idea of cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) DMS.
Considering a
Transition from
On-Premise to
SaaS-based DMS?
