Category Archives: Blog

Using cloud computing and secure collaboration in the public sector to reduce costs, improve operations and create a better future

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Bob Carnell

Overview – doing more with less is the minimum requirement

The financial crisis has resulted in severe budget reductions in the public sector and cost base reductions in the commercial sectors. There has been an increased demand for collaboration that will enable joined-up government to improve citizen-centric services in the public sector and help the commercial sectors to better engage with customers and suppliers. Now more than ever, it has become imperative that organisations do more with less, or otherwise risk financial and operational failures.

HighQ Forum reveals ambitious product roadmap to facilitate better internal collaboration and legal project management

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Simki Barr

By Chris Crowe, Editor of TheKnowList.

At the HighQ Forum on 29 March, HighQ unveiled the stunning new features, functionality and design that are coming with the imminent release of HighQ Collaborate 2.3 and then HighQ Collaborate 3.0, which will be released towards the end of the year.

At the Sky Bar in the Grange Hotel, overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral and the River Thames, 62 members of the legal and legal technology community gathered to discuss a range of topical issues and challenges that are being faced by the legal profession and learn more about the development roadmap for HighQ Collaborate as well as the capabilities of HighQ Publisher, HighQ Dataroom and other products. Forum attendees included representatives from law firms such as Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Simmons & Simmons, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Bird & Bird and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.

Join us at one of our North American ILTA roadshows

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Michael Worth

On February 8th in Toronto, we will be launching the first of our North American roadshows. In partnership with ILTA, we will be hosting a number of events to discuss “Strategies for Client Extranets: Requirements, Platforms and Solutions”.

This open discussion on client extranets will begin by exploring the driving factors that have initiated client extranets and we will discuss the components of successful implementations (secure document exchange, team collaboration, knowledge management, client relationship sites etc.), best practices and business objectives. The presentation will also include a review of the various extranet platforms and how firms are using them today.

Ben Wightwick wins TheKnowList award for Legal IT Rising Star

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Ajay Patel

HighQ congratulates Ben Wightwick for winning Legal IT Rising Star at TheKnowList Awards 2012.

TheKnowList Awards for the legal technology community brings together over 300 technology professionals and senior decision makers to recognise their achievements of the previous year. More specifically, the award for Legal IT Rising Star acknowledges Ben’s individual successes to date and celebrates his contribution to the advancement of legal technology.

Secure, social, cloud – mutually exclusive or perfect partners?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Stuart Barr

This article looks at two of the hottest topics in technology today – social software and cloud computing – and asks whether cloud-based social software is inherently risky for enterprises looking to take advantage of the new wave of technology innovation or whether it is possible to have your cake and eat it.

In the last five or so years, enterprise social software and cloud computing have both transitioned from the fringes of corporate IT policy to become serious business priorities.

The benefits of cloud computing and software as a service in particular are generally well accepted and represent an effective way for organisations to reduce the costs associated with running their own data centres and developing applications in-house.

In addition, the adoption of enterprise social tools is increasingly seen as an effective way of improving workforce productivity, communication and knowledge sharing both internally and externally. This is often characterised simplistically as “Facebook for the enterprise” and usually involves some combination of file sharing, blogs, wikis, microblogs, task management, people profiles and activity streams.

Secure document exchange and enterprise collaboration for life sciences

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Jacob Mathew

Life sciences organisations globally operate in a demanding, constantly shifting environment. The intense competition, combined with stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, leads to long development and approval life-cycles, resulting in pressure to reduce costs and increased time to market.

Due to the nature of their work, life sciences organisations collaborate with a number of academic groups, universities, outsourcing companies, corporate researchers, health care providers and industry competitors around the world. Many companies are faced with the traditional problem of sharing sensitive confidential information, often across multiple teams and locations, both inside and outside of their corporate network. To manage these important but complex relationships, technology solutions must foster collaboration and ease the exchange of confidential data across technological and geographic boundaries. Companies need solutions that are flexible, easy to use and highly secure, so that intellectual property and critical data is available to the right people, at the right time.