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OpenText unveiled a new cloud application for the legal technology sector, along with a new suite of products offering what the company said Aug. 20 are “strategic integrations” designed to “better serve the needs” of the legal market.

The company’s new offerings are part of a growing variety of products from OpenText targeted at legal customers and are being touted by it at ILTACON, the annual educational conference for the legal sector, in National Harbor, Md., through Aug. 23.

“This enhanced focus will enable new and innovative solutions combining the industry’s leading legal applications,” including eDOCS, Axcelerate, EnCase and Decisiv, OpenText said in its announcement.

OpenText Legal Center is a new cloud-based Enterprise Information Management (EIM) application that the company said was designed to integrate with OpenText eDOCS to manage client onboarding and document sharing. The application “brings a cloud-based, process-centric approach to addressing use cases in legal like client onboarding, external sharing & collaboration, and document management,” OpenText said. Legal Center will enable users to “leverage and extend existing DM repositories like OpenText eDOCS, whether on-premise or in the cloud,” according to the company.

Pointing out that its customers include “many of the largest agencies, firms and governments in the world,” OpenText said these customers “need professional tools to securely manage, forensically collect, and intelligently review the most sensitive legal data” for litigation, compliance and investigations.

“Law firms, governments, and corporate legal departments must continually evaluate their processes to remain effective and competitive in a rapidly changing climate,” OpenText CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea, said in the company’s news release.

He added: “OpenText is a leader in legal tech with solutions to help our customers manage the huge volumes of data they collect and generate, while incorporating the benefits of automation and AI. OpenText is committed to expanding our leadership in the legal tech field and helping our legal customers manage information and apply next-generation solutions to improve operational effectiveness, deliver insights, and maximize existing technology investments.”

Through the company’s acquisitions of Guidance Software and Recommind, OpenText has “expanded and enhanced our solution set,” Barrenechea went on to say, adding: “Combining these solutions with our industry-leading EIM platform, new AI and ML capabilities, and our experienced professional services organizations allows OpenText to provide a range of solutions unmatched in the legal market today.”

OpenText bought Recommind, a provider of eDiscovery and information analytics, in 2016 and closed on the purchase of Guidance Software, a provider of software for digital investigations, in its fiscal year ended June 30.

Along with OpenText Legal Center and eDOCS, which the company called its “cornerstone technology” for the legal market, it is also using ILTACON to demonstrate Axcelerate, a complete, end-to-end eDiscovery platform combining processing and analytics with predictive coding; EnCase for evidence collection; Decisiv, which provides conceptual search to help legal practitioners find relevant content and people with expertise across multiple systems and now includes supervised machine learning capabilities to predict content likely to be useful based on documents saved by the user to their research view; and professional and managed services designed specifically for the legal sector, OpenText said.