MindServer Search to provide leading UK City law firm with quick and easy access to relevant information and colleague expertise

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO, 22 October, 2009 – Recommind, the leader in search-powered information risk management (IRM) software for enterprises and law firms, today announced that Macfarlanes LLP, one of the leading City law firms in the UK, has chosen Recommind’s MindServer Search solution to enhance the firm’s knowledge management capabilities.

Recommind’s MindServer Search will provide Macfarlanes’s 300 lawyers with the means to quickly and efficiently access a wealth of internal and external resources. The platform will integrate with the firm’s existing data repositories, including its Solcara Knowledge Management system and Autonomy iManage document management system, as well as a number of other internal systems such as its Intranet, library catalog, InterAction CRM and Thompson Elite practice management system. Macfarlanes will also be able to search external sources such as PLC as well as accessing LexisNexis and Westlaw via integration with the firm's Solcara SolSearch solution.

The comprehensive solution will provide Macfarlanes’s staff with quick and easy access to relevant information across the entire firm, regardless of where the information is stored, saving employees valuable time in their daily work. Furthermore, with Recommind’s Matters & Expertise module, Macfarlanes’s staff will be able to identify colleagues with expertise in or knowledge of a specific query within a matter of seconds – a crucial tool as the firm continues to expand. Plus, by using Recommind’s unique QwikFind search bar, all staff will have instant access to MindServer Search from within Microsoft Office applications (i.e. Word, Outlook, Excel) or from the desktop toolbar, negating the need to launch a separate browser window or application in order to perform a firm-wide search.

Macfarlanes considered several leading search solutions before selecting Recommind’s MindServer Search. MindServer Search’s ability to integrate seamlessly with other systems and Recommind’s stellar reputation as a technology partner in the legal sector itself closed the deal.

“The sheer volume of information circulating in today’s legal environment means that it is more important than ever for lawyers to be able to pinpoint the right material quickly, easily and accurately,” said David Coleman, knowledge management partner at Macfarlanes. “We value the ability to work efficiently and intelligently in all aspects of our work. Recommind’s all-encompassing search platform gives our firm a best-of-breed solution that should integrate exceptionally well with our existing systems and ensure that our staff have ready access to the information they need to serve our clients as effectively as possible.”

“Effectively managing any organization's electronic data is a huge responsibility and an extremely taxing undertaking in today’s business climate. But for lawyers, time is literally money, meaning that pooling knowledge resources into a single search is crucial to success – the more time saved in searching for relevant data, the more time available to dedicate to clients and revenue-generating activities,” said Simon Price, European director at Recommind. “The legal industry has demonstrated the need for flexible and comprehensive enterprise search solutions that can help organizations intelligently handle this unification of various data sources in harmony with their existing systems. Investing in such a solution suggests that Macfarlanes has every intention of staying ahead of the industry curve.”

About MindServer Search

Recommind’s MindServer Search substantially reduces the time and costs involved in conducting research, while improving the quality of work produced by the end user. Using Recommind’s patented CORE™ platform, MindServer Search dramatically improves access to a wide variety of information across large, distributed enterprises and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and ‘actionability’ of the information. MindServer Search utilizes powerful concept-based search technology to connect relevant information in document management, records management, portal and e-mail systems and myriad other applications and databases with the users that need it.