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Blending In: Lexum’s Approach to Cloud-Based Services

Blending In: Lexum’s Approach to Cloud-Based Services. Pierre-Paul Lemyre <lemyrep@lexum.com> . Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2013. Mobile devices and applications Cloud computing The Internet of Things Big Data Actionable analytics. Source: Gartner (February 2013) .

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Blending In: Lexum’s Approach to Cloud-Based Services

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  1. Blending In: Lexum’s Approach to Cloud-Based Services Pierre-Paul Lemyre <lemyrep@lexum.com>

  2. Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2013 • Mobile devices and applications • Cloud computing • The Internet of Things • Big Data • Actionable analytics Source: Gartner (February 2013)

  3. Public Cloud Market Growth

  4. The Business Models of the Cloud • Infrastructure as a Service (SaaS) • Amazon Web Services, IBM SmartCloud, AT&T, Rackspace • Platform as a Service (PaaS) • Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Google App Engine • Software as a Service (SaaS) • Netflix, Dropbox, Salesforce, Apple ICloud

  5. The Rationale • Organizations aiming for efficiency should: • Focus on their core business • Avoid getting entangled in IT issues

  6. The Benefits • Savings • Hardware, software, support, management • Capacity increase • Resources on-demand, improved features, more focused HR • Improved availability • Uptime, response time

  7. What About Legal Information Providers? • Decision making bodies, governing bodies, legal publishers • They share common outreach needs and objectives • They have archive of legal information (judicial, legislative, doctrinal) • They need to disseminate it for free or for a fee

  8. What’s in it for them? • Back office • IaaS & PaaS • Pay & time sheet management, productivity tools, case management • Front-end • Are customized (handcrafted) websites the only solution?

  9. What Legal Information Providers Actually Want • A powerful search engine • A versatile content management system (CMS) • Automated or very efficient update processes • Security and confidentiality

  10. A Powerful Search Engine • Advanced full-text search algorithms • Sub-phrase querying, stemming, computing of citations • Intelligent features • Auto-completion, noteup, auto-correction • Display mechanisms • Snippets, keywords in context, side-by-side comparison

  11. A versatile content management system (CMS) • No intervention from technical staff • WYSIWYG content editor, automatic document conversion, dynamic updates • Generic features • User access rights, versioning, current awareness • Specialized features • Adapted structure, fields, relationships

  12. Automated or very efficient update processes • Data extraction tools • Parsing and ripping from file bodies • Data exchange tools • APIs • Outsourcing of data entry tasks

  13. Security and Confidentiality • Physical safeties • Secure facilities, redundancy, backup sites • Coding best practices • Encryption, password policies • Contractual environment • User rights management • Redaction of documents

  14. Lexum’sApproach to Blending In • A SaaS offer for legal information provider websites • Decisisa: for decisions • OyezOyez: for regulatory material • Zoupio: for books and manuals • Skinned to the look and feel of each client’s website • Accessible under each client’s subdomain

  15. Enough with the theory…

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