Posts by Adaptive Solutions
Passwords, Passwords, Passwords
A repair, upgrade, or evaluation. Not a week goes by where an engineer at Adaptive Solutions can’t assist by guessing a password, even with customers without a previous business relationship. This isn’t an iManage problem, indeed, it often stems from old systems that are now being upgraded or moved to the Cloud.
Read MoreWindows 10 – Time to Wake Up the Baby Tips for a smooth upgrade
A year or so ago, a group of us at Adaptive gave a series of presentations up and down the east coast, focusing on the merits and perils of upgrading the legal desktop to Windows 10. One of the first slides in the presentation bore the title “The traditional legal desktop; never wake a sleeping…
Read MoreThe Challenge of Law Firm Technology Innovation What Can Be Done to Improve Success
There is no shortage of evidence to demonstrate why law firms should be more focused on technology and process innovation. Hardly a day goes by without some focus by the legal world on the importance of innovation. The 2017 Altman Weil ‘Law Firms in Transition’ report states: “Firms that pursue thoughtful efficiency initiatives and stick…
Read MoreA Fox, Chicken and Sack of Grain
Most people have heard the riddle of the fox, a chicken and a sack of grain – You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How…
Read MoreSuccessful Law Firms Invest in Technology
Over the past few years the need for law firms to enhance processes and become more efficient in big law has become increasingly important. There have been, and continue to be, big changes in the use of technology to improve the practice. Firms are investing in AI, expert systems, sophisticated search to deal with big…
Read MoreWho Are We? Should Law Firm Technology Leaders Think a Little More Like Industrial Engineers and a Little Less Like Technologists?
Having been both a CIO in large law firms and a consultant to many others, I have seen both sides of this question, which is basically how we should spend our time and on what should we focus. According to the 2016 ILTA Purchasing Survey, the top ten biggest law firm technology challenges (in the…
Read MoreNetwork Connectivity
The name ‘Adaptive Solutions’ is synonymous, to many people, with two things: Providing high quality professional services across a wide range of tech related projects and initiatives The legal industry The former comes courtesy of the many talented individuals who work every day to provide our clients with the very best service and resolutions. The…
Read MorePlanning a new or upgrade of your Document Management System? Here are 10 “do’s” to streamline the process
Many firms are looking to improve their Document Management Systems and vendors are making major improvements to their offerings. Making changes to your DMS is a challenging effort and will have a significant impact on users. There are many ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ and below we have listed ten do’s that should be considered. Ask for…
Read MoreDell Rapid Recovery comes to the rescue of an Adaptive Solutions' client after Center City fire.
On June 20th 2016, a fire, caused by an electrical fault, broke out at 2000 Market Street, Philadelphia – home to several prominent Philadelphia law firms, including longtime Adaptive client Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP. The fire caused the evacuation and shutdown of several floors of the building, including those housing Weber Gallagher’s data center. In the not…
Read MoreThe Death of Windows Server 2003 and SQL 2005 – What’s your plan of attack?
Hopefully, by now you have migrated all your servers off Windows Server 2003. Support for Server 2003 ended on July 15th 2015, meaning that if you still have servers in production which are running this OS , you are at heightened risk for security breach and will not be in compliance with any regulatory standards…
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