BA Insight and LexisNexis Partner

Lexis Search Advantage Combined with BA Insight’s Software Portfolio Provides Legal Professionals with Enhanced Search, Validation and Insights capabilities through Microsoft SharePoint

Boston, MA – June 6, 2016 –BA Insight and LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced a strategic alliance that integrates Lexis Search Advantage natively into law firms’ Microsoft SharePoint environments using the BA Insight Software Portfolio to optimize legal research, drafting and review processes. By layering Lexis Search Advantage capabilities on top of their BA Insight knowledge management systems, law firms open up access to the full capabilities and content of LexisNexis research solutions – reaping significant efficiency and quality benefits.

Lexis Search Advantage enriches and simplifies the legal research workflow by enabling legal professionals to search and vet their firm’s internal documents easier, and then validate and extend their research to the extensive portfolio of LexisNexis legal research tools and resources such as Lexis Advance, Shepard’s Citation Service, LexisNexis Litigation Profile Suite, as well as the open Web.

The new offering integrates Lexis Search Advantage content enrichment and services with BA Insight’s products such as Visual Refiners, Smart Previews, Expertise Locator, Matter Comparison and User-Generated InfoSites.

“Our partnership with BA Insight empowers law firms to maximize the benefits of their SharePoint environments to deliver a higher quality research experience to their users through the value-added services from Lexis Search Advantage,” said Jeff Pfeifer, Vice President, Product Management at LexisNexis. “The deep integration with Lexis Advance puts trusted legal resources and validation tools at users’ fingertips, providing greater search precision, direct access to deeper insights and real-time tools to validate the findings—all just one click away.”

Attorneys and legal professionals can work directly within SharePoint and enjoy seamless, powerful access to the resources they need, when they need them, in a way that is a natural fit for their everyday workflow, such as:

  • Locate relevant background information on legal entities and citations in your documents and emails via links that are added in real-time.
  • Quickly confirm that citations on legal documents are still good law. This is done by associating citation analysis from the LexisNexis Shepard’s Citations Service directly to citations contained within documents returned by BA Insight.
  • Conduct more effective research by adding metadata via the LexisNexis categorization service and surfacing it with BA Insight’s Visual Refiners, enjoying quicker and more intuitive exploration across a broader range of criteria.

“Through this partnership, the capabilities of Lexis Search Advantage are made available to all SharePoint customers, streamlining the research process for legal professionals and reducing the time spent searching for relevant content,” said Massood Zarrabian, CEO of BA Insight.  “When combined with the BA Insight Software Portfolio, users benefit from a range of capabilities that provide an intuitive search experience to quickly surface relevant information and resolve client issues more efficiently.”

Additionally, Lexis Search Advantage users can further boost their productivity by leveraging the service’s integration with Lexis for Microsoft Office, an industry-leading workflow tool that brings the documents, insights and value-add from Lexis Search Advantage directly into the user’s Microsoft Word or Outlook documents.

About LexisNexis® Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of content and technology solutions that enable professionals in legal, corporate, tax, government, academic and non-profit organizations to make informed decisions and achieve better business outcomes. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. Today, LexisNexis Legal & Professional harnesses leading-edge technology and world-class content to help professionals work in faster, easier and more effective ways. Through close collaboration with its customers, the company ensures organizations can leverage its solutions to reduce risk, improve productivity, increase profitability and grow their business. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 175 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

LexisNexis Media Contact:

Christine Alberti
Sr. Director, Communications
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
christine.alberti@lexisnexis.com
212.448.2118

About BA Insight

As an innovator in the Cognitive Search Market, BA Insight’s best of breed approach helps companies  make search intelligent by providing technology that connects machine learning, cognitive computing, and enterprise systems, powering a new generation of intranets and cognitive search solutions.  Our customers have the freedom to leverage the best search engines and cognitive computing capabilities available, providing users with an internet-like search experience while saving them precious time looking for needed information.  We support multiple search platforms including Azure Search; Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud; and SharePoint search (online, on-prem, and hybrid).

Our modular software product portfolio features SmartHub, delivering a personalized, internet-like user experience; connectors, providing secure connectivity to a wide variety of systems; classification, increasing findability using auto-tagging, text analytics, and metadata generation; and analytics, providing valuable data to make intelligent decisions about your intranet.

Hundreds of organizations and over 3.5 million users benefit from BA Insight’s software on a daily basis to provide compelling intranets that people love to use.  This includes respected organizations such as the Australian Government Department of Defence, CA Technologies, Chevron, DLA Piper, Keurig Green Mountain, Mars, Pepsi, Pfizer, and Travers Smith. BA Insight is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a member of the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance, and an Elastic Partner.

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Media Contact:
Debbie Ferolito
BA Insight
339.933.4060
dferolito@BAinsight.com