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Financing and Leasing Technology Is a Strategic Advantage

By Scott McFetters
September 02, 2017

Advances in technology and software are being made at an increasingly rapid pace. As a result, IT hardware obsolescence cycles are shrinking too. This period of exponential improvement with which we are all now familiar has shown time and again that there will continue to be breakthroughs in technology that deliver better, less expensive, and/or more robust products. Law firms may want to leverage a specific law firm management technology to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, but might not want to purchase those tools outright. How are you equipping your firm to succeed both in the present day and into the future?

Changing Technologies

On Jan. 10, 2023, Thomson Reuters Elite will cease support for all versions of its Enterprise platforms, with all bug fixes for all versions ending on Dec. 31, 2022. The platform is over 25 years old, and according to the company, is no longer feasible to maintain compatibility with new technology. In addition, Microsoft will terminate related technologies over the coming years, which means that by January 2023, all enterprise versions will be running on unsupported Microsoft technology.

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