The cheetah is the fastest mammal on Earth. But Wolters Kluwer’s new Cheetah seemed to have one of the slowest rollouts ever for a legal research product.
After starting to build Cheetah early in 2012, WK announced its imminent launch at the July 2014 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, but it would be another year still before the launch would actually occur—and then only for limited practice areas.
Was the wait worth it? Compared to WK’s older research platform, IntelliConnect, Cheetah is faster and more flexible to search, cleaner and more responsive in design, and more intuitive to use and navigate. It should be a welcome improvement for subscribers who depend on WK products to research regulated and specialized areas of law such as corporate finance, securities, tax, banking and health.
