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NetApp enhances Thomson Reuters' WestlawNext

Dubai, August 4, 2011

Thomson Reuters recently embarked on a journey to take WestlawNext, its legal research service that stores more than 5 billion documents and is used by approximately 98 per cent of the largest law firms in the United States, to even greater heights.

The goal was to create an innovative, intuitive research and workflow tool that would make legal research as easy as Internet search.

To realise this goal, Thomson Reuters needed to enhance its existing private and public cloud infrastructure to support WestlawNext, which they launched in 2010.

With a storage infrastructure built on NetApp, WestlawNext not only became a reality but set a new standard for online professional search.

To date, more than 20,000 law firms, corporate law departments, and government customers have adopted WestlawNext, and it was named the New Product of the Year for 2011 by the American Association of Law Libraries.

“We consider NetApp to be a key strategic IT partner, and the choice to build on the NetApp storage foundation was clear,” said Rick King, chief technology officer, Thomson Reuters Professional Division.

“WestlawNext is a revolutionary product that required a storage foundation that would deliver the dynamic search capabilities and unique customer experience we were looking for. Working with NetApp enabled us to fundamentally transform how legal research is conducted and provide the legal industry with the most powerful and innovative product of its kind in the market,” he said.

Manish Goel, executive vice president of Product Operations, NetApp said: “Information is the backbone  of Thomson Reuters. How they leverage and deliver that information is what sets them apart from the rest of the industry. When Thomson Reuters approached NetApp with their vision for WestlawNext, we were excited to roll up our sleeves and partner with them to make it happen. The broad acceptance from the legal industry is proof that the storage infrastructure a company builds on can make the difference between success and failure.”  - TradeArabia News Service

 

 




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