Our most popular blog post this year was a look at our long-time partner iManage's RAVN software. With an eye toward its usefulness for legal professionals, senior consultant Brian Piatek explained what the software does:

iManage RAVN is many things: indexer, drafting assistant, field extractor and artificial intelligence engine. RAVN is not magic – it is the product of deep thinking by very smart people in England and Chicago who had an idea of making it easier and faster for law firms and corporations to process information.

For iManage users, RAVN is an indexer. It replaces the old, tired IDOL Indexer. RAVN is 25  to 35 percent faster, scales better in both power and replication and is inherently redundant – all while using fewer CPU cycles.

This Indexer is now used in all upgrades.

• iManage Indexer powered by RAVN works only with iManage DMS server v10 and above
• Uses fewer CPU cycles for most installs, especially when clustered
• Uses more RAM than the IDOL indexer