LinkSquares vs. Thomson Reuters HighQ

For any small legal department, it is a must. It's like having a paralegal keeping you organized. I'm not sure how a large legal department might us it, but I have a hard time thinking it would be any less useful to them. I am a big fan of all of the time it saves me when managing hundreds of supplier agreements and I need to survey a specific term across all of the agreements. I'm not sure how I would do that without LinkSquares' help.

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Well suited for Extranets where: Sites where lots of documents will be shared Where workflows need to be defined and tracked Sites where complex permissions are required Sites that need to be accessible by anyone with Internet access Sites that require several different functionalities, such as wikis, calendars, task assignment, etc. Not well suited: Where integration with existing on-prem databases is required. Sites with complex or extensive workflows.

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• Full text search capabilities.
• Organization of contracts so you can see the relationship between documents.
• Reporting
• Ability to tag all contracts for easy searching.

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• Document sharing. This product makes it easy to upload, review and organize documents related to a particular project or matter.
• Permissions. Collaborate allows very granular permissions to be assigned for shared documents and administrative activities such as workflows.
• Reliability. The product is cloud-based and rarely, if ever, unavailable.

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• I would love to see integration with Adobe Sign so I could edit contracts right in LinkSquares and send through Adobe seamlessly.

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• It is just not that exciting. We host documents on there for clients but the extranet sites have ultimately turned out to not be a product that our clients are clamoring for or that we are regularly pushing.

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It helps us work better as a legal department and understand our contract ecosystem.

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Great customer support and very responsive engineering (when we raise ideas for product enhancements).

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The interface is easy to use and overall the software seems pretty robust (I haven't had any crashes yet), so I haven't had to use the support very often. Likewise, I don't think I've ever had a client e-mail me with questions or issues - the software is pretty idiot-proof.

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I compared LinkSquares to a number of other tools and found LinkSquares to be right-sized and flexibly priced for our use case.

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There are a large number of file sharing solutions out there. We do not use services like Dropbox and Box because they do not meet our document security requirements. Some clients use Sharepoint to host documents and share them with external organizations. I find the interface clunky and overall harder to use. For one-off requests, we use have a "Secure File Transfer" service (it seems to be a whitebox solution that we slap our logo on, so I'm not sure which software it actually is). That works well for one-off requests but does not have many of the key features that HighQ Collaborate does for long term document sharing.

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• Better contract reporting.
• Easily searchable contract database.

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• Positive ROI for both us and the clients from reducing the number of one-off requests for access to documents.
• Negative ROI because it is not software that has taken off in our organization.

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