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Enterprise search platform upgrade

Summary

The document management cloud migration makes the current enterprise search product incompatible. An upgrade to the next generation product is required to retain search and to enable new capability including AI features.

Score breakdown

Category score is the share of that category's criteria answered yes. Contribution is that score times the category weighting.

  • Areas of focus0/1×5%0.0
  • Clients0/3×10%0.0
  • Expansion & global footprint0/3×25%0.0
  • Increasing revenue & profitability0/2×25%0.0
  • People & culture0/2×10%0.0
  • Innovation & service delivery2/2×10%10.0
  • Operational infrastructure3/3×15%15.0
Weighted score25.0

Criteria

Areas of focus

  • Improves growth in the areas of focus: no

Clients

  • Improves client satisfaction scores: no
  • Improves client retention rate: no
  • Improves net promoter score: no

Expansion & global footprint

  • Supports expansion of regional offices: no
  • Supports expansion into new countries: no
  • Increases revenue from international markets: no

Increasing revenue & profitability

  • Improves fee earner revenue: no
  • Improves utilisation rate: no

People & culture

  • Improves employee engagement scores: no
  • Improves staff retention: no

Innovation & service delivery

  • Improves efficiency through adoption of legal technology: yes
  • Improves processes through automation: yes

Operational infrastructure

  • Reduces operational footprint through optimisation and automation: yes
  • Allows for risk mitigation: yes
  • Aligns with the technology roadmap and future plans: yes

Benefits

Reduced infrastructure cost after migrating to cloud, value to be confirmed. Lower operating cost for storage and support. Improved search experience for fee earners. New opportunities for innovation and new knowledge management workflows.

Resources required

Software vendor; managed services partner; internal IT; project manager

Review note

Reads as a dependency driven by the document management cloud migration. Operating cost savings still to be quantified. The people and culture alignment is debatable.

Position

25.0

Weighted score out of 100

#17

of 28

Facts

Sponsor
Grace Milburn — Senior Applications Systems Manager; Owen Pritchard — Senior Knowledge Lawyer
Sponsor identified
Yes
Cost band
£50–£150Kmidpoint £100k
Benefits
Medium tangible benefitsscore 2
Complexity
Highscore 3
Strategic alignment
29%
Schedule
Jan 2027 — Apr 20274 months
Delivery team
Laura Pemberton