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them as unwieldy and unsustainable. This has had an adverse effect on modern knowledge management efforts for many firms; however, there are a handful of firms making huge strides in modern knowledge management efforts, which is driving their revenue and giving them a strong competitive advantage. Nearly all of these modern success stories see SharePoint playing a pivotal role.
SharePoint Has Penetrated Legal SharePoint is a collection of technologies that allows
organizations to create, present and distribute content and data. These are key definitional elements of knowledge management. There are firms that have successfully integrated SharePoint into their legal-specific
applications. This SharePoint integration has given them the ability to put their content into powerful, meaningful context via business intelligence routines that leverage data from a variety of sources. SharePoint can be modeled to fit your firm's taxonomy and provide rich integration to your organizational model. The platform supports many of the core elements of knowledge management and provides the foundational toolkit that can be leveraged as the superstructure for a modern and advanced knowledge management platform. As I conduct presentations on SharePoint, I poll attendees on their use of it. Most firms are utilizing it to provide their extranet, intranet or both. A smaller percentage are using it for some type of critical practice management solution or perhaps a key administrative
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