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Now that I am no longer wearing a market analyst hat or doing formal paid briefings, I love getting feedback from the providers on my blog perspectives. Mitratech management responded promptly to my Pacman analogy blog with this quote, “Mitratech is continuing development on both the eCounsel and TeamConnect platforms as our flagship products for the corporate enterprise and SMB markets, respectively.” So their strategy seems to be TeamConnect for the big enterprise market and eCounsel for the SMB consumers. They also indicated that they have invested in migration tools to eCounsel for both Lawtrac (2014 acquisition) and CaseTrack. Mitratech may indeed have privately communicated their long term plans to phase out Lawtrac to existing customers, but that message in not apparent on Mitratech’s website and they are still advertising recent Lawtrac sales. How many matter management offerings with different code bases can exist in one company? My opinion remains that in the long run, you can only thrive when you have a single platform underlying your offerings to different market segments. That opinion aside, it takes years to migrate and spin down an acquired product without burning customers and your reputation. Mitratech has done a better job of communicating their intentions than the vast majority of providers that I have covered over the years. The important message to prospects and customers seems to be that Mitratech is focusing on TeamConnect and eCounsel development now that they own a much larger share of the matter management micro-market. eDJ will be pulling Lawtrac and CaseTrack off of our RFP materials and hoping that we get some more cloud based start ups to fill those spots soon. We like competition and options for our clients.
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