SaaS Increasingly Popular Among Small Businesses, Survey Finds – Midmarket from eWeek
According to IT research firm AMI’s latest worldwide SMB Cloud Services Practice, there are roughly 750,000 (12 percent) small businesses and 20,000 (24 percent) medium businesses already using software as a service (SaaS). In addition, the survey found by looking at today’s SaaS users, 78 percent of SBs and 31 percent of MBs are leveraging a SaaS plus on-premise mix (or hybrid model), while approximately only a third of SaaS users are using an actual pure-SaaS product.
With an anticipated growth of up to $95 billion in global SMB cloud-related spending by 2014, the firm said it isn’t a surprise to see over half of US SMBs looking into SaaS as a potential solution. Approximately one in five US SMBs plan to use SaaS. However, AMI said it believes that SMBs are easing into the concept of local plus cloud-based computing rather than leapfrogging into a pure-play platform.
via SaaS Increasingly Popular Among Small Businesses, Survey Finds – Midmarket from eWeek.
e-Discovery Insights: 2010 ABA Legal Technology Survey
2010 ABA Legal Technology Survey
Nothing like a Friday afternoon to examine six volumes of law & technology statistics from the ABA. I was somewhat amused when I accessed their page and discovered that they’d received an endorsement – from yours truly. Somebody apparently liked something I said about last year’s survey and quoted me.
The ABA provided me with some excerpts, so I reviewed them and picked out a few that I thought would be of interest.
continued e-Discovery Insights: 2010 ABA Legal Technology Survey.
Global Survey of In-House Lawyers Shows Where the Money Is | Corporate Counsel
Thinking of moving abroad to work in-house? Brazil may be your best bet, according to a new survey (pdf) of in-house salaries around the world by the international legal recruiting firm Laurence Simons.
There’s been a huge influx of law firms into Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and that’s pushing up salaries for both in-house lawyers and those in private practice.
“Lawyers with solid experience in corporate banking, compliance and tax are the most in demand and able to command a premium to move in the current climate,” said Pedro Amaral Dinkhuysen, Laurence Simons’ Latin American managing partner.
Two years ago, in-house jobs were lucrative and plentiful in the Middle East and Russia, according to the survey, which analyzed the salaries of more than 14,000 in-house lawyers over the last six years.
Over the last four years, salaries for in-house lawyers in Russia increased more than in any other county in the world. The average pay for those with two years of experience jumped 81 percent after 2004, from €25,000 ($30,963) to €45,250 ($56,043) today.
“By 2004, the concept of an internationally staffed in-house legal department had become accepted by local Russian companies keen to float on the international stock exchanges,” said Meeta Dutt, Laurence Simons’ manager for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.
Dubai has had its share of well-publicized economic woes since the recession. But salaries for in-house lawyers haven’t suffered. In the Middle East, pay for those with five years of experience rose 41 percent, from €123,000 ($152,329) in 2008 to €173,000 ($214,203) today.
Despite such gains, the boom is over in both Russia and the Middle East. “Candidates with good international experience are still demanding high salaries,” Dutt said. “But looking to the future, the expectations of huge pay increases so common in the boom years have been consigned to history.”
via Global Survey of In-House Lawyers Shows Where the Money Is.
Disconnect Between Legal and IT Getting Worse, Recommind Survey Reveals
Comparing results against the company’s inaugural survey in 2009, this year’s report indicates that the departmental disconnect is getting worse. The survey, which examined the collaboration strategies of senior IT managers at enterprises averaging 13,000 employees, found that IT and legal teams aren’t collaborating on a number of issues, and are spending too much time questioning each other’s commitment to and understanding of e-Discovery and regulatory compliance.
At a time when e-Discovery and regulatory issues are gaining momentum, these results don’t exactly instill confidence across the enterprise. As well, with more e-Discovery platforms moving in-house, more IT departments are being called upon to help integrate technologies and train staff. While vendors make their products and services seem like the perfect marriage between IT and legal, the truth may indicate that there are tensions.
For example:
- In 2009, 67% of respondents described the relationship between the two departments as “good” or “very good”; in 2010, only 54% did.
- In 2009, 37% of respondents reported that IT and legal were working more closely together than the year before; only 27% reported that they were in 2010.
- In 2009, 40% of respondents stated that their IT department considered eDiscovery to be a high to very high priority; yet in 2010, only 26% said that it was.
- In 2009, 82% of respondents said that IT was “very involved” in eDiscovery technology purchasing decisions, with legal being “very involved” 48% of the time. Again, in 2010, those numbers dropped from 82% to 78% and 48% to 33%, respectively.
via Disconnect Between Legal and IT Getting Worse, Recommind Survey Reveals.
2010 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey « Socha Consulting LLC
2010 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey
It is not too late to participate in the 2010 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey.
We want your input (if we don’t have it already).
You can tell us about your organization’s electronic discovery activities. And give us your thoughts about the state of electronic discovery last year, this year, and in the years to come. All via a website that you should find easy to use; in a phone call with one of us; or both.
We will gather information for this year’s report through the end of June 2010.
If you are interested, contact us at:
2010-both@sochaconsulting.com: Web site and interview
2010-web@sochaconsulting.com: Web site only
2010-interview@sochaconsulting.com: Interview only
via 2010 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey « Socha Consulting LLC.
International Arbitration Survey Gathers Pace | White & Case LLP
A major survey on international arbitration by the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), sponsored by global law firm White & Case, is canvassing the views of in-house counsel in key markets worldwide.
This year’s survey, entitled “Choices in International Arbitration”, will consider the key factors that influence corporate choices about international arbitration. In doing so, the survey revisits and expands upon some of the themes of the first survey conducted by QMUL in 2006 which examined corporate attitudes towards arbitration.
The 2010 survey aims to have an extended geographical reach to consider international arbitration in some of the emerging markets and will include the following themes:
- Policies about arbitration: whether organizations have policies in place regarding the dispute resolution mechanisms to be incorporated into their contracts and how they implement those policies.
- Choice of law governing the substance of the dispute, the seat of arbitration and arbitration institution: the main reasons why respondents choose the key aspects of an arbitration including legal considerations, commercial factors, convenience, neutrality and proximity to evidence and witnesses.
- Selecting arbitrators: key attributes for arbitrators, concerns regarding arbitrator performance and proposals for increased transparency.
- Confidentiality: the importance organizations place on confidentiality and how corporate expectations interact with increasing challenges to confidentiality.
- Effectiveness: how proactive corporate choices seek to maximise the benefits of arbitration and minimize the pitfalls including concerns regarding cost and delay.
“Arbitration is the dispute resolution method of choice in cross-border transactions and broadening our research into emerging markets and industry sectors will help to take our previous very well received surveys yet another step further,” commented Professor Loukas Mistelis, Director of the School of International Arbitration at QMUL.
The survey questionnaire can be accessed at http://www.arbitrationonline.org/survey and corporate counsel are strongly encouraged to participate. Those who wish to contribute have until the end of June to complete their responses. The report is expected to be launched at the IBA in Vancouver in autumn 2010.
“The survey will provide significant insight, not now available, into current trends in international arbitration and how the use of arbitration has developed in recent years, particularly in some of the emerging economies. The views of corporate counsel towards international arbitration, particularly in respect of the factors that drive their choices and confidentiality, will be of certain interest to all those within the community,” commented Paul Friedland, head of White & Case's global international arbitration group.
via White & Case LLP – News – International Arbitration Survey Gathers Pace.
1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld
Positive press and word of mouth from very satisfied owners has convinced one-in-five U.S. consumers to buy an Apple iPad, a survey published today said.
In a poll of nearly 3,400 consumers, ChangeWave Research found that 7% are “very likely,” and 13% “somewhat likely” to buy an iPad at some point. Those numbers, noted Paul Carton, ChangeWave’s research director, are significantly higher than the 4% and 9% who answered the same way in a February survey taken after Apple CEO Steve Jobs had unveiled the media tablet, but before it went on sale in early April.
While 19% of those who plan to purchase an iPad said that they would do so in the next 90 days, the majority of consumers who want an Apple tablet will buy one in six months or more. And that has to make Apple happy this holiday season.
“Apple’s going to have an iPad holiday,” said Carton. “We’ll see a holiday spending wave on the iPad.”
Of the consumers who said they plan to buy an iPad, 24% said they would do so in 6 to 12 months, with another 24% saying they would pull the buying trigger in 12 to 24 months.
via 1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld.
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SDL Survey Says Automated Translation Gains Momentum
For the second consecutive year, the recently consolidated under one brand SDL releases the results from the 2009 Automated Translation Survey. Read on below for all the statistics.
Automated translation, also known as machine translation, is the concept of using software to translate content from a source language into any number of target languages. The idea of using automated translation for some amount of content is gaining momentum throughout many global companies. How much momentum? SDL asks the same question and offers the results of its Automated Translation Survey.
What did the Survey Reveal?
28% of the surveyed organizations are either using or planning to use automated translation, a 5% increase since the inaugural version of the survey
According to 76% of respondents, concerns about quality continue to the key roadblock to adoption
Compared to two years ago, 50% of the surveyed organizations are more likely to use automated translation
Due to the aforementioned concerns about quality, 37% of respondents would not use a public Internet-based service; 28% consider the usage of a public service to be inappropriate
Technical documentation is the leading candidate content type for automated translation at 60%
57% of the surveyed organizations are more likely to adopt automated translation when coupled with human post-editing because of improved quality
French, Italian, German and Spanish (FIGS) are the dominant languages in demand, according to 80% of respondents
Advisers rate top technology concerns – Investment News
Simplifying and better integrating compliance tasks, improving customer relationship management and developing more-robust portfolio management tools are the top technology concerns among financial advisers affiliated with independent broker-dealers, according to an online survey conducted by InvestmentNews this month.
In the survey, which had more than 1,000 respondents, advisers were asked to rate the importance of CRM, document management, portfolio management, practice-management tools, financial planning tools, client self-service tools and compliance integration/simplification.
They also were asked which areas they'd most like to see their broker-dealers improve and, in a separate question, how they ranked these same areas in terms of their own spending.
The two technology areas that advisers deemed most important for their broker-dealers to address were compliance integration and CRM systems — rated as very important by 38.7% and 38.2% of respondents, respectively. The third-most-important area was portfolio management, at 31.7%
via Advisers rate top technology concerns – Investment News.
EDD Update: 2009 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report Now Available
2009 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report Now Available
The full 2009 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report is now available for purchase. For detail, please contact George Socha (george@sochaconsulting.com, 651.690.1739) or Tom Gelbmann (tom@gelbmann.biz, 651.483.0022).
We are in the final stages of preparing the participant report and will be distributing that to part
via EDD Update: 2009 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report Now Available.
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