Monthly Archives: January 2009

Rocket Matter T-Shirts – Haute Couture for Online Legal Practice Management

Hot off the presses!
Rocket Matter T-Shirts Arrived, a must-have for the legally sassy. Look for people walking around in these at the upcoming LegalTech Show in NYC next week.

IDC Revises 2009 SaaS Growth Projections Upwards

IDC, a leading provider of market intelligence, has revised its SaaS growth projections upwards for 2009 due to the economic downturn.
Recent IDC surveys and customer interviews support the finding that the harsh economic climate will actually accelerate the growth prospects for the software as a service (SaaS) model as vendors position offerings as right-sized, zero-CAPEX [...]

How I initially didn’t get Twitter and how I came to embrace it

A while back I was implored by Grant Griffiths, my social media Obi-Wan Kenobi, to get on Twitter. I signed up and followed a few people, and I’ll be honest:  I didn’t get it.
Now I get it.  It took me a while to learn the ropes, but gradually I began to appreciate the appeal of [...]

Another benefit of online legal practice management: Avoid worms!

Recently a worm, a self-replicating mailicious computer program, has been infecting Windows computers worldwide.  An estimated 30% of all Windows machines has been stricken with what’s known as the Conficker or Downadup worm.
These infected machines could have easily been protected had their security patches been applied in October.  But many people do not have adequate or [...]

More news about SaaS growth

Here’s another survey showing the rapidly growthing adoption of enterprise level Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. The author of this article discusses that since SaaS has become such a trusted and dominant IT trend, much is to be learned from SaaS vendor operations.  To read more, click here.
THINKstrategies’ most recent survey of over 100 mid- and large-scale [...]

Take our New Training and Support Site for a Spin! New Design, More Videos, More Options!

Take a second and click on “Support” in the upper-right hand corner of Rocket Matter:  Our Support and Training site has been completely revamped!
The same easy-of-use and design principles we apply to Rocket Matter are utilized to deliver our Training Mission:
To empower users to maximize their experience with Rocket Matter, through open access to a [...]

More Legal Technology Predictions for 2009

Last month we published a list of online legal practice management and time and billing predictions in Law Practice Today. Recently we came across two more lists of 2009 legal tech predictions by people we hold in high esteem: Ross Kodner over at the Ross Ipsa Loquitur Blog, and Neil Squillante at TechnoLawyer.
From [...]

Why we made Rocket Matter easy to learn and easy to use

When you think of legal practice management programs, generally one thing does not come to mind:  ease of use.
But Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is changing this perception.  Talk to users of Rocket Matter.  They will tell you RM is easy to learn, easy to use, even fun.
So why make a simple and fun software product?  The answer [...]

Business of Software 2008 Talk – How to Launch Your Socks Off For Little or No Money

I had the pleasure of giving a brief, 6 minute talk at Business of Software 2008 about Rocket Matter’s public debut.  In this post, I mention a number of things that made our public beta launch successful and distill them into four principals – which you can watch the video to discover!
 

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Gartner survey reports boom in Software-as-a-Service

According to a recent Gartner survey, some 90% of enterprises are planning to increase or maintain Software-as-a-Service deals.  One of the more interesting points of the survey is the following, concerning firms changing their IT environments wholesale:
“Interestingly, Gartner found that 37 per cent of respondents are changing their IT environment completely, moving from current on-premise [...]