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few days before our f light across the pond
from our native Cork, Ireland we shared a post
about our excitement and anticipation ahead
of ILTACON 2022. The event marked not only
our first event following the global pandemic
but also our first U.S. legal tech event and our maiden ILTACON
conference.
As part of our recent launch into the North American legal
world, we were interested to see if conference goers would have the
same need for cloud document binding and bundling as they do here
in the Ireland and the UK, as well as PDF editing, which we chose to
launch during ILTACON.
On a (discovery) mission
Leading up to ILTACON22, we asked conference attendees to take
a 1-minute survey to help the Bundledocs team better understand
ILTA members' PDF editing and binding practices, as well as most
used features. We know the UK and Asia-Pacific markets needs and
requirements well but wanted to reach out directly to US firms as part
of our conference discovery mission.
Of the 57 respondents (thanks again to everyone for making
time to help us with this!), 25% consider PDF editing/binding tools
as part of a 'cloud first' strategy. Surprising to us, 42% said they did
not know how this functionality figures into their cloud strategy. In
the UK and Australia, we have seen a surge in cloud adoption around
document bundling and now PDF editing so are keen to engage with
US and Canadian firms to share best practices and lessons learned
around the cloud and what we are labelling 'PDF as a Service'. Equally
interesting was feedback we received regarding "most widely used
features in a PDF Editor after viewing". Top five responses included:
• Splitting/combining/manipulating PDF files (91%)
• OCR of PDF files (73%)
• Annotating and redacting PDF files (69%)
• Converting files to Word or other (69%)
• Text editing (42%)
B Y B R I A N K E N N E A L LY
Confessions of an
#ILTACON22
First Timer
