With the emergence of data privacy laws in the USA and European Union, companies are facing an uphill battle. The Data Subject Access Request’s legal framework poses strict rules on processing and responding to requests. Failing to respond to a DSAR can mean serious...
The Access to Information and Privacy Act (ATIP) of Canada came into effect in 1983. With this act, under the control of a federal government institution, Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or other individuals or corporations in Canada have the right of...
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) codifies government transparency and ensures citizens access to public records of interest. Despite these admirable intentions, often the volume and speed of public records request fulfillment results in frustrated citizens and...
The number of FOIA requests backlogs has been rising for years. Now, federal agencies that deal with FOIA request processing are starting to realize they need to improve their processes. One of these improvements should be for agencies to start using FOIA software...
The Legal Sector is a workflow-dependent, document-heavy sector that relies on Legal Case Management software to function properly. These software solutions will have some level of Workflow Management and Document Management. And since the daily work of legal workers...
In order to increase the security among Federal agencies, several agencies created the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). These agencies are: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Did you know that the industry standard for manually transcribing 1 hour of clear audio is 4 hours? That is a 4 to 1 ratio. Poor audio could take as much as 9 hours to transcribe 1 hour (9 to 1 ratio), which means a lot of manual hours are needed to transcribe audio...
50 years after the historic Gideon vs. Wainwright, many legal advocates believe that the justice system is still failing the poor. Many think that it’s a class issue, that the poor don’t deserve the same legal protection. But I think there’s a different perspective on...
Western societies take liberty seriously. We have our governments tied with legal frameworks to keep track of everything they do, and after a set time, these documents become publicly accessible through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA). But sometimes, this...
In the Case Management world, automation is not an unknown word. On the contrary, in Case Management, automation and digitalization have been a hot topic for the last few decades. From classification to automated workflows, automation has been present in the world of...
"The use of smart machines by enterprises can be transformative and disruptive. Smart machines will profoundly change the way work is done and how value is created. From dynamic pricing models and fraud detection to predictive policing and robotics, smart machines...
Legal professionals use court case videos to verify the authenticity of information and to increase the transparency of the judicial process. Lawyers, judges, and other legal personnel use these case videos as any other case-related documents. This means that these...
Being present in the Legal world for so many years, you have probably witnessed a number of buzzes. “Something new, innovative and life-changing has occurred.” “A new technology, an innovation that will change the industry forever.” You’ve been probably hearing the...
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the legal sector evolves, so does the fear among legal workers. Many legal professionals fear that AI will make such a change in the legal sector that human effort will no longer be required. But, the truth is that many of the...
Do you want to learn how a modern correspondence management solution can improve workflows in your organization? How organizations manage correspondence can reflect their professionalism, capabilities, and internal organization. And, if you want to take a serious step...
When most people think about Law Enforcement, they probably imagine a bunch of police officers running down the street, chasing the bad guys. Bringing law to practice. But police work involves digging for clues from surveillance cameras, interviews, court videos etc....
I have talked about Armedia’s Legal Case Management Module so many times now, and every time I finish writing a blog post, I feel like I have left something out. Going through my recent blog posts, I’ve realized that I haven’t spent much time explaining the Artificial...
We’ve been in the Digital Age for quite a while now, and many companies have adopted a fully-digital mode of operations. So nowadays, you may be wondering if there are still companies that need a correspondence management software in this age of digital omnichannel...
Over the years we've worked with various organizations in modernizing their case management software. And again and again, we find ourselves going back to ArkCase as a solid platform for handling large organizations needs. In this text, we'd like to paint a picture of...
In the world of Legal Case Management Systems, we don’t raise the issue of the environment too often. But it’s worth discussing, so we can all understand and appreciate the importance of having an environment-helping modern legal case management system. Here’s what we...
There is always a clash between established people/companies/products, and new upcoming stars that challenge the status quo. There’s always a Goliath and always a David, eager to challenge the status quo. In every industry, we see a Ford that is challenged by a young...
The technology-driven world in which we live can be a world filled with challenges for some and a world of promise for others. Some choose to live in a ‘paper-based world’ where their organization suffers from inefficiencies, lack of transparency and inability to...
In 2014, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) formed the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee to improve Federal Agency FOIA Operations. The purpose of creating the FOIA Advisory Committee was to explore procedures and...
Would you agree that Legal workers love technology? I think they do. Well, maybe they don’t dream of technology per-se, but they love the benefits of technology more than anyone else. The vast range of General Counsel Operations like compliance reporting management,...
As information volume grows daily, companies and organizations are facing the ever-growing challenge of managing all the data, for all their cases, all of the time. To complicate things further, organizations and end-users want this data to be accessible 24/7,...
Public defenders need legal case management software that can solve their high volume practices and address the specific challenges of criminal defense. By using such software, public defenders will be able to track and manage all aspects, from initiation to...
Public defender offices across the country rely on software solutions to move from one case to the next, as fast as possible, as efficiently as possible. The challenge is that different offices rely on a different set of software solutions to capture, store, process...
Are you looking for a legal case management software that is right for your law firm? If yes, you will find this very interesting. Armedia has been working in the Enterprise Content Management industry for over 2 decades, and we’ve found all sorts of ECM solutions...
Are you looking for ways to improve the productivity in your law department? Perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind is gaining new staff members. However, that is not the only way. A legal case management software can provide your law firm an increase in...
Within the past few decades, IT (information technology) has become a massive part of nearly every organization and office, and it’s difficult to predict how any business can manage their processes and be more productive without the help of the many contributors in...
Do you want to improve the efficiency and client service of your law firm? Then look no further than a modern legal case management software. More and more law firms and legal departments are investing in these systems as a way to boost their efficiency and client...
The first legal case management software rolled out in the early 90s. Since then, thousands of law firms and legal departments have invested in such software as a way to improve efficiencies and provide better client service. Although the benefits of legal case...
Case management is all about the process of taking a case (medical, law enforcement, complaint, FOIA and so on) from start to finish with as little blind spots as possible. But this work gets harder because the process usually is not rigidly structured. It’s dynamic,...
Case management software can help a law firm or Office of General Counsel (OGC) manage its cases, firm matters, and clients. While case management software has been around for some time, there are still firms who haven't invested in it yet. But, recently, more and...
Usually people think of the Human Resources departments when there is a new hire or there is a problem with someone in the organization. Both big and small HR teams own the task of improving and maintaining the quality of work environment for all employees. Whatever...
In this video post, the ArkCase experts show you the features available in the new ArkCase 3.1 For more information, email our team for a full demo. Contact us today.
In this video, ArkCase demonstrates how to seamlessly integrate Ephesoft's document capture solution with the ArkCase Case Management solution. Contact our expert ArkCase team today to learn how we can help you!
In this blog, we wanted to show you another great video from the team at ArkCase! In this video blog, you will see how easily ArkCase allows you to customize your dashboard. This intuitive feature allows for increased user experience through delivering the users the...
We are excited to show another video blog from the team at ArkCase! ArkCase allows users to update their profile based on groups or departments that the end user has been added to. This allows for the user to be able to control the information they receive based upon...
ArkCase intuitive case management solution allows for better management of your electronic case files. Allowing you to track cases throughout the entire lifecycle, ArkCase provides enhanced investigative case management through Collaboration, Automation, and Security,...
New video blog from ArkCase!! In this video, you will see how easily ArkCase allows you to search for information. By just quickly clicking a button, you can access any information you are looking for.
New blog from the experts at ArkCase!! Quick access to your case files is essential when you are on-the-go and in need of rapid application response. ArkCase provides that! Check out the new video to see how this is accomplished.
We have uploaded a new video to the Armedia YouTube Channel! In this video, we demonstrate how users can update or change their profile information within Armedia Case Manager. These changes could include items such as groups that the user belongs to or subscriptions...
Check out our new video blog giving you an inside look at Armedia Case Manager! In this post, Ronda Ringo demonstrates how users can generate a report within Armedia Case Manager. Stay tuned for more videos coming soon! To see all of our Armedia Case Manager Videos,...
In today's video, we give you a tour of the ArkCase configurable dashboard. This dashboard provides a quick an easy way for users to access commonly needed components of their case management solution. The dashboard is also customizable so that users can put things in...
Background ArkCase is a framework for developing case management applications. Data Access Control ensures each user sees only records they are authorized to see, and are prevented from seeing unauthorized records. Data access control is applied to individual...
What, No Full Text Search Already? My project ArkCase is a Spring application that integrates with Alfresco (and other ECM platforms) via CMIS - the Content Management Interoperability Standard. ArkCase stores metadata in a database, and content files in the ECM...
ArkCase is both a framework and an application. As a framework, ArkCase provides a scaffolding to write case management applications tailored to custom-fit a specific customer. As an application, ArkCase provides pre-built web application archives (WAR files)...
A while back I said Armedia was investing in the next generation ArkCase. I promised occasional updates. Since then I've written a few technical stories (CLICK HERE to view all of our ArkCase blog posts). Today I want to describe how we've started to achieve...
Over the past several months, I have written several blogs about my project, the ArkCase framework. In this post, I will cover how we have gotten ArkCase to work with Spring Security. It is important to note that each organization has their own user directory, their...
In case you missed today's webinar in which we walked through our ArkCase solution framework with Alfresco Records Management, here are the slides from the presentation!! Acm and seamless records management integration webinar 3-4-14 from Armedia LLC ArkCase is...
Thank you to everyone who turned out for our presentation this morning at Content.gov!! In case you missed the presentation, here are our slides from the event. For more information about ArkCase, CLICK HERE to learn about our upcoming webinar! Content gov2014 armedia...
It's been a long time (OK, a few years) since I last wrote about ArkCase. What's been happening since then? We wrote the ArkCase framework using Spring and Spring MVC. It was successful: we supported a few customers. One customer was very large and required many...
Did you miss our webinar yesterday with Alfresco? No Worries!! Here is the presentation highlighting our ArkCase Case Management and Alfresco ECM Integration:
In our last blog, we talked about the benefits of case management. Now lets look at a presentation showing how the Armedia team implemented a Case Management solution. This presentation shows how Armedia implemented an open source case management solution to help...
The benefits of case management solutions are similar to other types of information management solutions: they help companies and organizations optimize and effectively use information and content in order to gain a competitive advantage. In this vast growing...
Did you miss Alfresco's Content.gov event today in Washington, DC? Dont worry!! Here are the slides from Armedia's presentation. http://www.slideshare.net/ArmediaLLC/armedia-nci-content-govalfresco20120124v10 For more information about ArkCase CLICK...
Sharepoint Designer 2010 provides a great quick way to add simple actions to your SharePoint application. I have a project that I wanted to add a couple buttons that would allow the user to navigate away from a "Drop-Off" library to the libraries where files are...
Now that we have covered the basics of "What is Case Management," and you have developed a pretty good sense of the various Benefits of Case Management, lets talk about a comparison of ArkCase and NIEM. Is there any doubt that ArkCase wins this battle? But how so?...
For the last few blog posts, we have discussed answers to different aspects of the question "What is Case Management". With the several roles that are involved in controlling and managing components of a Case Management system. Lets discuss a few more: A couple more...
In my last post, I answered the question "What is Case Management." Now, lets look at another question: What are case managers? Who is it that does all this case management? The answer to the question "What are case managers?" has several components which make up the...
So many times, we hear the same response from clients "what is case management? I've heard of content mangement and records management, but what is CASE management?" Armedia writes about case management, and we help our customers implement case management solutions,...
As it relates to Case Management, NIEM is very important. The need for sharing information is vital for the war on terrorism as well as combating domestic crimes (i.e. drugs, sexual perpetrators and etc.). Law Enforcement agencies have to be able to share case...
What is NIEM and how it relates to the world of Enterprise Content Management
There are well over 35 proprietary document management systems, an astronomical number of homegrown document management systems, and billions of sources for information to come from. As technology changes, new and better features are added to current systems, new...
There have been a large number of articles published regarding electronic health records. I wanted to share my thoughts given that Health IT an area that I believe has a tremendous amount of potential. This topic is nothing new, it has been discussed, tried,...