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Darrin Dyson

Director of Development and Systems Integration

Venable LLP

June 17, 2010

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Brief overview of our firm and our current

environment

Overcoming challenges

Planning for silverlight and sharepoint 2010

The road ahead

Q&A

agenda

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our law firm

AM LAW 100

7 Offices all located in the US

540 attorneys

600 support staff

65 it staff

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our desktop environment

Windows XP

Office 2003

Opentext dm 5.1.0.5

MOSS 2007

Workshare Professional

pdfdocs

Over 50 additional apps

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the problem

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business drivers

Dynamic and richer content

Connectivity to lob data

Entity categorization (directory of firm assets)

Matter centric focus

Common look and feel

Engagement of practice areas, marketing

constructs and staff

Business process automation

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transformation

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how we got there

Find a product that will address the technical

requirements

Target big wins out of the gate

Establish phased rollout plan

Partner with companies that have the same

technical vision and a roadmap that is focused on

our business goals

Revamp and revise (iterate)

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sharepoint environment

Windows 2008 64-Bit (started 32-bit MISTAKE!!)

Single Farm

Web Front End (Virtual)

Application Server (Virtual)

3rd Party Application Server (Handshake)

3rd Party Application Server (K2 BlackPearl)

Dedicated SRS server (Virtual)

SQL Server (Shared Metal)

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what was successful

Integration of lob systems (3rd party tools played a

significant role)

Give us more, faster !!

Time to market

Client/matter portal

Relevancy of content

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oops!!!

Where do I find…?

We want OUR content on the home page

Enterprise search YAY!! … wait, I can see ALL of

these documents

So, where did the Internet go?

How do i print…?

Classifieds, classifieds, classifieds…

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challenges that surfaced

Content is available but digesting it is sometimes

difficult

Search engine is too exacting

Can you improve performance?

Can you make it faster?

MAKE IT FASTER !!!!

Make it ‘shiny’

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next

Revamp interface to leverage silverlight

Sharepoint 2010

Executive dashboards

Continue to leverage lob data

Engage with business analyst to leverage K2

Blackpearl investment

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silverlight

Identified as a key technology early on in

deployment

Richness of design and access to .net framework

Lob data access

Huge community support

3rd Party vendor support

Sharepoint 2010 webpart

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examples

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sharepoint 2010 features that compel

Silverlight web part

Visual Studio integration

Enhanced search (FAST)

Social networking

SharePoint Designer

Business Data Services

Managed metadata services

Architecture decoupling

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planned desktop

Moving to VDI

Windows 7

Office 2010

SharePoint 2010

DMS??

SQL Server 2008 R2

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summary

Develop a strategy that leverages the firms

strategic plan

It’s about the data

Open your mind and lose your inhibitions

Partner with technology companies that share

your vision

Revamp and revise

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the road ahead for ABC CORPORATION

Questions??