11 Aug 2006

ZDNet Australia by Renai LeMay - Legal Aid Western Australia will shortly finish implementing a new Web-based content management system based on Hummingbird's RedDot software, with the assistance of services group Alphawest. Speaking with ZDNet Australia late last week, the statutory body's information manager, Terry Gaston, said Legal Aid WA was "probably the largest legal firm in the state, in terms of the numbers of lawyers and paralegals".

"We already had a legal resources database, which was something that we developed in-house with ASP.NET," Gaston explained. "It was doing a reasonable job, but the user base really required an update, an improved system and an improved way of managing the content."

Legal Aid has migrated a considerable amount of legal content into the new Red Dot environment, and is currently completing user acceptance testing as a last step before going live. Gaston picked RedDot due to its enterprise-level capabilities, in addition to its compatibility with other Hummingbird apps in use across Legal Aid WA.

"One of the key reasons for going with RedDot is we're committed to Hummingbird's suite of document and records management tools," said Gaston. "We've already implemented records management across the organisation, and document management across mainly the business component of the organisation."

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