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LexisNexis® Global Platform
(March 2004) By Julie Webster-Matthews, Librarian Relations Consultant
LexisNexis has taken a huge step in providing easier access to our content internationally -- the launch of the first release of a single global technology platform that will deliver information products and services in the United States and worldwide. A single technology platform gives LexisNexis the ability to quickly develop and share advances in information services applications and tailor features and functionality to meet the needs of each individual country and customer group.
Customers in France and Australia have already begun benefiting from enhanced online legal products on the new platform. In addition, LexisNexis has begun releasing enhanced news and business research and business intelligence products on the new platform to companies and information specialists in Germany. Over the next several years, LexisNexis customers in Europe, North America, New Zealand, Asia and Latin America will migrate to enhanced versions of LexisNexis research products utilizing the global platform.
As the platform is applied in each market, customers will realize the benefits of enhanced functionality, advanced taxonomy and more seamless searching and linking. Also, the system enables LexisNexis to develop further advanced information services for more rapid worldwide adoption. These include products that are designed for the electronic filing and retrieval of court documents and other public records and electronic discovery, as well as those that integrate information and tools into customer portals, business intelligence processes and Knowledge Management systems.
LexisNexis customers in the United States will be key beneficiaries of the new technology as well, gaining enhanced functionality and advanced taxonomy evolving from the global platform.
The demand for global information is increasing. The results of a 2003 LexisNexis global survey conducted in conjunction with the International Bar Association (IBA) indicate a keen interest in legal and business information across country borders. Seventy-three percent of Australian lawyers said they had increased their use of international legislative information in the past year, and 60 percent have sought to gather more international news about their practice areas. In France and Germany, over half of the lawyers surveyed have increased their use of global legislative information and are using more international information to support their practice specialties (Canada Newswire, December 12, 2003).
In the long-term, a single technology platform will allow LexisNexis customers around the globe to efficiently search for and access information from other countries.
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