If last year’s rendition of iManage’s ConnectLive show was big, then there aren’t even words for the size of this show. A document management system shouldn’t be drawing crowds like this to a conference, should it? Probably not. But that’s the whole thing with iManage in 2019 — is it even fair to call it a document management system anymore?
CEO Neil Araujo looks back on the history of iManage and notes that “it’s morphed from being a DMS to really addressing the bigger problem of how organizations handle information.”
We’ve already established that iManage offers far more than the traditional “record keeping” features that most people think of when they think of a DMS.
When it comes to the base functions of a DMS, iManage is leading the charge to the cloud and all of its advantages in both storage and security. According to Araujo, cloud growth is up 7.5 times over the last three years and that growth is accelerating. And with that expansion has come increasing concern over the legal status of data that can technically reside elsewhere. With its unique geolocking tool, iManage is getting ahead of these concerns by letting clients dictate where data resides and where it can go. read the rest here