Legal IT Insider asked senior legal IT leaders for their tech predictions for 2022, and here’s what our Chief Technical Officer, Javier Magaña García, had to say…
Lexsoft Systems is in Legal IT Insider’s Orange Rag
Our Chief Technical Officer, Javier Magaña García, is among nearly 40 senior legal IT leaders quoted from across the industry, across the globe, offering tech predictions for 2022:
Global firms now need centralized, multi-lingual repositories, according to Javier Magaña García, chief technical officer at Lexsoft Systems, who says: “The KM function undoubtedly delivered significant benefits to firms during the pandemic. At the same time, it brought to light the function’s limitations, mainly due to configuration and structures as country-specific repositories. The sudden switch to remote working and now the new hybrid work environment, has created a business need for firms to expand their KM systems so that they serve as centralized global, yet multi-lingual-enabled knowledge repositories, working as effectively and intuitively in each of the identified languages.
“In 2022, multi-jurisdictional firms will focus on revisiting the taxonomies and document classifications in their KM systems so that searches for knowledge deliver results equally and effectively, regardless of the language in which the search is conducted. For example, if a document is classified or labelled as ‘tax’, the same document must surface if it is searched for in Spanish as ‘impuestos’ or in Italian as ‘le tasse.’”
Unifying knowledge across both internal and external repositories will be key to saving time for lawyers, who routinely search both. Magaña García says: “In 2022, firms that have reached a reasonable level of maturity in their KM functions, will actively work with technology solutions providers to attempt to create enterprise-wide knowledge portals to facilitate holistic searches across all repositories and resources.”
