OpenSource, Inc.

openSource, Inc., has had a long and productive relationship with LexisNexis Group and its publisher Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., a leading provider of analytical legal research information in print, CD-ROM, and via the Internet. Matthew Bender's authoritative, comprehensive, and accurate legal information spans every major practice area and is authored by leading experts in the legal community. The company offers more than 1,500 publications in print and electronic formats tosubscribers in more than 160 countries.

Business Need - openSource personnel have put their data-conversion and data-management expertise to work on a variety of Matthew Bender projects, most recently developing a program to convert Matthew Bender's treatise data for use on both the LexisNexis dial-up legal research system and lexis.com®, the company's flagship Web-based legal service. Prior to this effort, openSource played a key role in helping Matthew Bender to extract treatise and primary source data from multiple formats and platforms and to convert that data to generate a uniform and cohesive electronic product.

Why openSource? In addition to these data-conversion initiatives, openSource has also developed tools to assist in the processing and maintenance of Matthew Bender data. For example, automated quality-control tools that make use of Web technology allow editors to see at a glance a list of production problems in a publication or to monitor the structure of an entire publication even before it has gone through the production cycle. openSource's efforts helped Matthew Bender reduce production costs and shorten time to market while at the same time improving quality and consistency in production.