[Editor’s note: The cloud document management company NetDocuments held its second-annual Elevate conference Oct. 6-8 in Salt Lake City. I was not able to attend, but e-discovery consultant Brett Burney was there and files this report. Be sure to scroll down for Brett’s video from the conference.]
How many of you would be surprised to hear that the cloud is inevitable? That was certainly a big takeaway from Elevate 2019, the annual user/partner conference hosted by NetDocuments in Salt Lake City Oct. 6-8.
It’s not just because NetDocuments happens to be a cloud-based document management company boasting over 2,700 customers (491 of those added over the past year). The recent 2019 ILTA Tech Survey reported that 72% of law firms predict their use of cloud computing would increase in the coming year with 31% planning to migrate their DMS to the cloud (topped only by email systems at 39%). There’s no denying the trend. There are a lot of law firms floating in the cloud and NetDocuments is enabling the inevitable.
Platinum Anniversary
One reason NetDocuments is successfully leading this charge is because the company is now 20 years strong. The platinum anniversary theme reverberated throughout the sessions, speeches, announcements and awards. Alvin Tedjamulia, NetDocuments’ cofounder and CTO, boldly declared in his keynote that platinum is a metal “more rare, more pure, higher value, more durable, and more stable than gold … just like NetDocuments.”
While there are a few other legal software companies that can trace their history back 20 years, the vast majority are either gone or have been acquired or incorporated into other products. It’s truly significant that any company in this space — much less a cloud-computing company — is not only still in existence but actually thriving more than ever. NetDocuments placed its bets on a new-fangled
