Aderant Handshake vs. Amazon CloudSearch

The user of Handshake takes a certain amount of user computer literacy and the user needs to be resourceful. When building our site, I needed to google quite a bit. On the contrary, if budget allows, Handshake developers will do it all for you.

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Amazon Cloudsearch can be suitable for some queries that require fast data. For example, in our case, we used CloudSearch, in a tool called Global Search. That will search everything like names, emails and a lot of stuff in our application. If you want fast data and you have a simple query, Global Search isn't appropriate for you.

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• The main reason we got Handshake was to display visual gadgets for our accounting systems. We always provided spreadsheet type reports, but pictures and more engaging. Attorney gets a dashboard in real time of where they stand financially.
• Additional use as FAQ's in different departments in the firm, that is, accounting, IT, and office services.
• Knowledgebase - How to's and software.

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• Really fast queries
• Good Reporting
• Reduce the cost of the server

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• Documentation is weak, but hopefully, since Aderant just acquired the company, that will improve

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• Can take some time to implement
• The initial configuration can be tricky
• Takes some time to update the values

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None. Always need about Handshake's interface with Aderant, way before Aderant purchased them. Seemed like a natural fit.

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I didn't investigate the best alternatives to CloudSearch, but did help with implementing this feature in our application. But from what i tested and used - Cloudsearch is very fast to get queries. Some negative points can be the time to implement this and some configurations that can be tricky.

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• Hard to say, but ultimately putting knowledge in the hands of fee earners immediately it is positive.

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• Positive Point - Reduced the server load
• Negative point - Not suitable for all queries
• Negative Point - Time to implement this feature

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