West km Foundation Services

West km Foundation Services is the core set of software components for West km Enterprise. Installed onsite, West km Foundation Services remains safely behind your network firewall and integrates with your document management system or document collection.

With West km Foundation Services, you can:

• Reuse your organization's best work, regardless of practice area
• Enhance quality, consistency, and productivity
• Share and transfer knowledge
• Collect and classify documents automatically
• Help junior associates benefit from the experience of seasoned professionals
• Get the most value out of your own document management system (DMS)
• Integrate your information archive with Westlaw
• Retrieve documents in word processing format for easy editing

CaRE, KeySearch, and Custom Classifier

• A built-in categorization engine, CaRE automatically classifies documents according to West KeySearch taxonomy
• KeySearch organizes thousands of legal issues into a hierarchy of topics and subtopics
• Optional Custom Classifier lets you create your own categories within the KeySearch taxonomy

Vetting Toolkit

• This optional component ensures selection of appropriate documents and reduces the number of unwanted documents
• The Vetting Toolkit helps you fine-tune rule sets that automatically run against your DMS source collection
• It also includes a visual interface allowing content managers to spot-check and confirm that the right documents are added

Expert consultants

• Our consulting team ensures that you apply the best practices in the industry for knowledge management