I’ve been thinking a lot about the term e-discovery and how much I’ve grown to dislike and distrust it over the years. At best, it’s an unnecessary term. At worst, it’s a ploy to compound the complexities of an already expensive and time consuming process. It’s led to an onslaught of other made up terms [...]
Archive for the ‘Deep Thoughts’ Category
Taking the E out of E-Discovery
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Discovery, Discovery Cloud, Tips & Tricks on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s a “Cloud” Anyway?
Posted in Cloud, Deep Thoughts, EDD, tagged cloud computing, legal tech, ltny, saas on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The news filtering back to us from LegalTech (#ltny on Twitter) is “Cloud”s the word. As you’d imagine, for a company committed to bringing uncapped storage and processing to the legal industry, it’s music to our ears. Only trouble is, we’re a little worried that there are a lot of folks out there still trying [...]
5 Reasons to Go Cloud Today
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Cloud, Deep Thoughts, EDD, Uncategorized on January 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
1. Security I’m just going to start with security because it’s probably one of the most common “arguments” we hear against moving to the cloud. The truth is when you move to the cloud, you will greatly enhance the security of your data immediately. Is your organization undergoing regular voluntary audits for SAS 70 certification? [...]
Guest Post: Litigation Technology Consulting in the Cloud
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Cloud, Deep Thoughts, Tips & Tricks on January 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We’d like to thank Dave Schaaf for documenting his experience moving from last generation litigation technology to the cloud. It’s a transition that we foresee everybody making soon enough, but he’s a trailblazer with a perspective that we value greatly. Thanks Dave! ————————————————————————————————————————————— I’ve been involved in the legal industry for 7 years now, having [...]
2009 and the Future of Litigation Technology
Posted in Cloud, Deep Thoughts, EDD, In The News on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
2009 was ripe with additions and improvements for the Nextpoint web applications. And rest assured we have an even bigger year ahead of us in 2010. We’d like to thank all of our customers and the community of people who follow us on twitter, read this blog, and inspire us in our quest to build [...]
Falling between the cracks
Posted in Cloud, Deep Thoughts, tagged Cloud, cloud computing, computing power, processing on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that in all the introductions to cloud computing we read, the emphasis on processing power is unaccounted for? The cloud is processing power. The cloud is having 100s or even 1,000s of servers doing work for you for pennies on the dollar. The cloud is about having access to an infrastructure that [...]
There’s web apps, and then there’s Web Apps
Posted in Cloud, Deep Thoughts on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Naturally, I’ve been reflecting about the applications I’ve worked on prior to coming to The Lab, and comparing those applications with what we’ve got here. One of the things that always comes to mind is how the definition of web app can vary so vastly from place to place. I can say I’ve worked on [...]
Review LESS: Leveraging the power of relational databases and normalization
Posted in Deep Thoughts, EDD, Featured Feature, New Features, Tips & Tricks on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everybody is concerned with limiting the amount of data that needs to be reviewed. It’s the number one cost in e-discovery after all. Clearly, the best way to conserve costs is to review less and there is a technique that we software engineers use every day that can drastically reduce the amount of documents in [...]
Simplifying feature design
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Deep Thoughts, EDD on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How do we design new features at Nextpoint? We identify the essence of a feature and get it in the hands of users. Typically it goes something like this: 1. We brainstorm… use our imaginations and throw out a lot of “wouldn’t it be cool ifs” without any real consequence. 2. Identify the major technical [...]
Let Me Out!
Posted in Deep Thoughts on March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently made the switch from 30Boxes to Google Calendar. I was generally happy with 30Boxes but just had to give Google a try when it started grokking the Outlook invites I was receiving. The biggest question I had to answer before I made the leap was: “Just how big of a leap is this?”. [...]
