Showing posts with label partnerships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partnerships. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2008

IKON and WorkProducts Partner to Deliver MatterSpace Appliance

MALVERN, Pa. & FAIRFAX, Va.-- June 25 -- IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the largest provider of legal document services in the U.S., today announced that its Legal Document Services team has partnered with WorkProducts to offer customers the leading Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM) solution, MatterSpace(R). This partnership will be showcased during the LegalTech West Coast trade show at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 26-27, Exhibit Booth 427.

MatterSpace, offered as a security-permissioned appliance for corporations and law firms, seamlessly combines corporate record management systems with downstream eDiscovery services to support preservation communications and the collection, identification and preservation of both structured and unstructured data for legal discovery. MatterSpace crawls the corporate network for specifically targeted employees identifying, preserving, collecting, indexing and de-duplicating accessible structured and unstructured electronically stored information (ESI).

Regardless of where employees and documents are located, legal users can facilitate collaboration among concerned parties and track all matter-specific preservation communications and events, such as litigation holds. Through the automated and repeatable appliance-based MatterSpace processes, legal professionals can fully maintain preservation compliance, while meeting eDiscovery deadlines and cutting expenses. This solution also provides simple set-up for data backup needs and automatically secures the information in an off-site facility. Since all data is digitally encrypted and signed, it can never be read or tampered with by unauthorized personnel.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Attenex and Kazeon Announce eDiscovery Alliance

Mountain View, Calif. --- May 6, 2008 --- Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, and Kazeon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent eDiscovery solutions, today announced an alliance to provide enterprise customers, legal service providers and law firms with a combined offering of their complementary software applications. Through the alliance, corporate legal and IT departments can ensure consistent and targeted eDiscovery processes across the company in a repeatable, defensible manner—facilitating early case assessments and improving productivity. The joint offering also enables corporations to measurably reduce the risk, duration and cost of eDiscovery matters while increasing visibility and control over electronically stored information.

”Corporations and law firms recognize that they need to align their legal challenges and IT capabilities to streamline and enhance the eDiscovery process,” said George Socha, president of Socha Consulting LLC and co-founder of the EDRM Project. “The alliance between Attenex and Kazeon is representative of a best-of-breed approach for repeatable, defensible and scalable eDiscovery.”

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Attenex and StoredIQ Announce eDiscovery Alliance

SEATTLE, WA - April 22, 2008 – Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, and StoredIQ, a leading provider of enterprise-class Intelligent Information Management software, today announced an alliance to provide enterprise customers with a combined offering of their complementary applications to reduce the cost, risk and time associated with e-discovery. Through the alliance, corporate legal and IT departments can ensure consistent and efficient e-discovery processes from identification through legal review in a repeatable, defensible manner. The joint solution provides measurable cost and time savings through an integrated workflow that scales to manage large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI).

“E-discovery is a complex process involving many different steps, and so corporations are eager to find applications that can help to streamline and improve the process,” said George Socha, president of Socha Consulting LLC and co-founder of the EDRM Project. “This partnership offers corporate legal and IT departments the opportunity to develop a repeatable process combining StoredIQ’s ability to identify, collect and preserve email and user files across a broad range of IT systems with market-leading processing, analysis and review software from Attenex.”

Corporate legal and IT departments benefit from a repeatable and more transparent e-discovery process, including:

- Efficient management of tasks across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) using proven, enterprise-class e-discovery software currently employed by leading corporations and e-discovery providers
- Repeatable and predictable workflow for managing data from collection to review for investigations, early case assessments or response to electronic discovery requests
- Simplified e-discovery project management with complete audit trail of documents, attributes and actions throughout the e-discovery process

kCura Announces Integration of Relativity with Equivio

Chicago, IL, April 22, 2008– kCura Corporation, a software company providing the kCura™ Relativity web-based litigation support platform, today announced the integration of Equivio technology for near-duplicates and email threads into Relativity. The Equivio technology suppresses redundancy in the document review process, reducing costs while helping litigators zoom in on the information they need to build a case.

“Our job is to help our customers in any way we can to improve the efficiency of their document review projects,” said Andrew Sieja, Chief Executive Officer of kCura. “That’s why we’ve integrated Relativity with Equivio.”

Sieja continued, “Equivio’s best-of-breed near-duplicate and email thread technology gives Relativity customers the ability to slice right through the redundant data, and zoom in on what’s important. That’s key in reducing the time it takes to complete any document review project.”

The incorporation of Equivio’s near-duplicate and email thread capabilities reduces review time and costs, while ensuring the consistent treatment of similar documents. When reviewing near-duplicates, the compare feature allows the user to immediately access each document’s unique, value-added content.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

GlobalOptions Acquires First Advantage's Investigative Unit

NEW YORK & POWAY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2008--GlobalOptions Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLOI), a leading provider of domestic and international risk management services, and First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ: FADV), a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider, today announced a new strategic alliance in which both companies will cross-sell each other's complementary risk management services. The two companies also announced that GlobalOptions has acquired the surveillance assets of First Advantage's subsidiary, First Advantage Investigative Services. The transaction does not include First Advantage Investigative Services' due diligence operation, which provides unique, data driven services mainly for hedge fund investors.

Under the terms of the strategic business alliance, GlobalOptions and First Advantage will offer their existing and prospective clients a combined portfolio of services. First Advantage will have the opportunity to offer its clients GlobalOptions Group's three main areas of service: fraud and SIU investigations, crisis management and preparedness services and security consulting and investigations. GlobalOptions will be able to draw upon First Advantage's diverse client base and comprehensive suite of global talent acquisition solutions.

"We are pleased to partner with GlobalOptions, which has built an organization that combines the very best in experience and expertise across the risk management space," said Anand Nallathambi, president and chief executive officer of First Advantage Corp. "This strategic alliance will benefit both our companies with an expanded suite of service solutions and enable us to deliver premier risk mitigation services to our valued clients."

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

FTI Consulting and DiscoveryBox Enter Partnership Agreement

CHICAGO, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- DiscoveryBox, designer of the only enterprise-class, fully-integrated, end-to-end legal hold and electronic discovery management software, announced today that its product has been selected by FTI Consulting, Inc. ("FTI") NYSE: FCN to be implemented on a beta test basis. The agreement also provides that FTI will provide consulting services to DiscoveryBox and to clients seeking to implement an in-house legal hold solution.

"To truly see a significant ROI on an e-discovery solution, our clients require a comprehensive solution that makes the electronic discovery process more efficient and effective. DiscoveryBox has tremendous promise for delivering on this vision," said Adam Bendell, Senior Managing Director of FTI. "Particularly for clients with existing Documentum infrastructure, DiscoveryBox provides perhaps the quickest path to a legal hold solution that will scale across the enterprise."

With its unique Legal Hold Repository, DiscoveryBox allows companies to preserve documents in an independent repository that is free from normal document destruction policies. Through a Legal Hold Manager, managers and high-level executives have the ability to manage the full range of e-discovery matters, assign review responsibilities and issue and track all legal holds across the enterprise. Significantly, DiscoveryBox also creates tremendous value to companies by allowing documents to be re-used across multiple matters. Frequently, multiple lawsuits spring from the same set of facts, and companies waste untold amounts of time and money collecting and reviewing the same documents over and over again. DiscoveryBox puts an end to needless duplication of work.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Mimosa Systems Partners With Index Engines To Deliver Proactive eDiscovery Solutions For Enterprises

Mimosa Systems, a leading provider of live content archiving solutions and Index Engines, the leader in enterprise discovery solutions for off-line data recently announced a joint partnership to meet comprehensive organizational eDiscovery requirements for on-line and off-line data solutions. The partnership of Mimosa and Index Engines blends the best of on-line and off-line eDiscovery technologies to address the myriad business challenges posed by compliance regulations and changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (FRCP).

“The December 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for Electronic Discovery ushered in the use of email archiving for legal document retention and preservation," said Vivian Tero, Senior Research Analyst, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. "The eDiscovery rule changes eliminated the need of emails to pass the hearsay test; hence, more companies are deploying email archiving applications to manage critical email as business records and to address future discovery burdens, as opposed to just meeting mailbox management and storage optimization needs."

Courts are getting tougher on companies that fail to provide documents, especially email. One of the main problems stemming from compliance and electronic discovery mandates is companies’ failure to find documents and email because they’ve been deleted. However, the deletion of documents is often not a reasonable defense when a company is faced with a discovery request. Together Mimosa and Index Engines address the many challenges of eDiscovery by enabling organizations to implement a powerful, litigation-ready, eDiscovery solution to rapidly, discover and retrieve time-sensitive data stored in email and offline tape repositories. Mimosa NearPoint provides award-winning, proactive archiving of on-line data stored in Exchange. The solution gives enterprises a cost-effective and robust offering to perform searches, implement retention policies and provide data protection and business continuity. While NearPoint offers an ideal solution for dealing with active data, organizations are also faced with accessing years of messaging data stored in back-up tapes which are notoriously expensive and time consuming to restore and search.

Index Engines addresses a critical need for companies to perform discovery on data stored in an off-line format such as tape for eDiscovery. Index Engines’ patented technologies automate information access and retrieval by streamlining discovery and eliminating the need to restore offline tape content in order to retrieve actionable data. The company’s technology dramatically reduces the time and cost required to restore backup tapes in order to make information discoverable. Index Engines also supports common backup formats, so tapes acquired through a merger or acquisition can be scanned and indexed, even when the tape format is not still being actively used.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Anacomp and IPRO Announce Strategic Technology Alliance to Streamline E-Discovery Workflow

SAN DIEGO, CA, AND PHOENIX, AZ, FEBRUARY 6, 2008 - Anacomp® Inc., a leading business process solutions company, and IPRO Tech, Inc., an innovative leader in e-Discovery software, today announced a joint technology alliance in which Anacomp will integrate IPRO's eCapture software application into its CaseLogistix® litigation support solution. The integration will increase and enhance CaseLogistix's document ingestion and production capabilities, allowing users and hosting partners to produce and process significantly higher volumes of litigation documents much more quickly, and accelerate the litigation document production and review workflow.

CaseLogistix is one of the most powerful and versatile litigation review and integration platforms available today, providing a complete solution for electronic document organization, annotation, discovery management and production. The integration between IPRO eCapture and CaseLogistix eliminates batch transfers between the applications and the associated human and system overheard. Users will be able to load large sets of unknown documents, files, and materials more rapidly and in a completely native workflow, eliminating the costly and time-consuming process of converting native files to TIFF images and extracting the text files. The integration creates an easier, faster and more cost-effective e-Discovery solution than previously existed.

"Integrating IPRO eCapture with CaseLogistix streamlines the discovery and review process, increases efficiency, reduces costs and minimizes risks," said John Turner, Anacomp's Chief Technology Officer. "This deep technical integration is the first step in an alliance that will benefit our mutual customers by delivering greater value and solving complex litigation challenges."

Thursday, February 07, 2008

E-discovery, archiving vendors team up at LegalTech

Interesting article about data archiving and e-discovery companies that are partnering up to address the "proactive" litigation readiness market. In addition to the many companies that are listed in the article, I know that WorkProducts, an Evidence Lifecycle Management company has partnered with DS3 DataVaulting, an online data archiving company. WorkProducts offers their MatterSpace appliance which helps companies comply with the FRCP litigation hold requirements, by managing the identification and preservation of both structured and unstructured data for legal discovery.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Recommind and iCONECT Partner to Create Document Review and Analysis Platform

SAN FRANCISCO & MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for law firms and enterprises, and iCONECT Development, LLC, a world leader in litigation support and collaboration software, jointly announced a strategic alliance that will combine Recommind's Axcelerate(TM) eDiscovery application with iCONECT's nXT and eXT Web-based review platforms to create a powerful new litigation review and analysis solution. With the integration of these two leading products, customers will immediately benefit from the extensive use of automatically generated insight into a document collection, including each document's responsiveness, priority, privileged nature and relationship to issues and subject codes, thereby greatly enhancing attorney efficiency and significantly reducing review timelines and costs.

iCONECT will utilize the rich data about people, documents, concepts and phrases that is automatically generated by Axcelerate eDiscovery throughout the nXT EDD platform, greatly extending the utility of this data throughout the review process. Among other benefits, Axcelerate eDiscovery provides unique, language-agnostic tools like conceptual search, First Pass Review(TM) and One Click Coding(TM) functionality to greatly expedite document review, thereby lowering eDiscovery costs while simultaneously improving reviewer accuracy.

"With the vast amount of data being processed, document databases will continue to increase in size. Firms need products that will allow their teams to review, analyze, code and manage terabytes of data, not just gigabytes. Having the capability to grow with their needs will be crucial," said Ian Campbell, Chief Operating Officer of iCONECT Development, LLC. "This integration provides a robust and scalable end-to-end solution for eDiscovery review."

Applied Discovery and Hudson Legal Announce Joint Offering

Bellevue, WA, January 27, 2008 - Applied Discovery announces a new joint service offering with Hudson Legal to provide law firms and corporations a total discovery solution implemented as packaged services of document review by Hudson's highly qualified review experts using the award-winning Applied Discovery online review application.

Hudson Legal is already recognized as a leading provider of end-to-end project solutions with its Discovery Solutions suite of services, including the Managed Solutions offering that assembles a top-notch review team to manage part or all aspects of the discovery cycle. This joint service offering enables the Hudson contract teams another opportunity to maximize efficiency by leveraging the Applied Discovery industry-leading processing capacity, short turn-around time, and easy-to-use interface.

"According to the fifth-annual Socha-Gelbmann survey, the total spend on electronic discovery in 2008 is projected to be more than $3.3 billion and could grow to as much as $4 billion by 2009," says Jon Resnick, Applied Discovery vice president of sales and field operations. "With staggering figures like these, it is crucial for corporations and law firms to aggressively pursue cost-controlling measures.

Leveraging buying power with this packaged offering that consolidates pricing from two of the leading providers in our respective fields is a critical first step."

"On top of efficiency, both accuracy and project management are paramount to the success of any discovery project," said Marc Zamsky, executive vice president, Hudson Legal. "Our collaborative offering with Applied Discovery affords Hudson Legal another chance to reduce clients' discovery spend and better manage litigation through our complete suite of litigation support services."

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Attenex and PSS Systems Announce E-Discovery Alliance

Seattle, WA — January 22, 2008 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, and PSS Systems, the innovator who launched the legal holds and enterprise retention management software arena, today announced an alliance to provide enterprise customers with an end-to-end e-discovery solution. Through the alliance, corporate legal departments can ensure a consistent and efficient e-discovery process from legal hold through legal review — increasing control and reducing costs and risks associated with e-discovery.

The joint solution provides corporate legal departments with a greater amount of transparency into the complex e-discovery process, including:

- End-to-end software tools for managing the e-discovery process from triggering event through review
- Document-level visibility and tracking from custodian collection to review and coding
- Reports that aggregate matter data from scope of hold to document production
- Tools and information that help corporate legal departments better estimate costs, reduce data volume and track custodian metrics

"PSS Systems and Attenex have proven track records of success helping Fortune 500 customers more defensibly and efficiently manage discrete steps in the e-discovery process," said Steve Wampler, group product manager for Attenex. "This partnership enables corporate legal and IT departments to administer a comprehensive solution that combines our leading e-discovery platform for processing, analysis and review with PSS Systems' market-leading software application for legal holds management."

Friday, January 18, 2008

ONSITE3 Launches Intelligent Collections Service for eDiscovery, Expands Partnership With Deepdive Technologies

ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwire - January 17, 2008) - ONSITE3™, a global provider of litigation support and electronic evidence solutions for law firms and corporations, and Deepdive Technologies®, a leading provider of automated electronic data discovery solutions, today announced an expanded partnership in conjunction with the availability of ONSITE3's new Intelligent Collections™ service. Powered by Deepdive Technologies, the new service facilitates electronic discovery by automating the collection of electronically stored information from active network systems.

"ONSITE3's new Intelligent Collections service demonstrates our dedication to providing clients with the best eDiscovery tools and technologies available from across the industry," said Robert Ballou, chief executive officer, ONSITE3. "When combined with our traditional forensic collection services for near-line and offline data sources, ONSITE3 can provide clients with one of the fastest, most complete, and lowest cost data collection solutions available in the industry."

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Syngence Corporation Announces Partnership With Encore Legal Solutions

DALLAS and SEATTLE, Jan 07, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Syngence Corporation, an industry leader in e-discovery and content-analytics solutions, today announced its partnership with Encore Legal Solutions, a leading provider of electronic discovery services, which will make Syngence's Synthetix Processing Suite available to users through Encore's full-service production facilities.

"Our ability to provide knowledge-based electronic discovery services to a growing number of legal markets, coupled with Syngence's innovative and powerful technology, will allow us to offer our clients cost-effective, customized solutions," said Encore's chief executive officer Greg Mazares.

The announcement comes just ahead of Syngence's planned release of its latest solution, SynthetixND(TM), which identifies and groups similar documents known as near duplicates -- reducing review time while increasing the accuracy of privilege or responsiveness reviews.

Autonomy's blazing sales start to the year

Adobe has signed an OEM deal with Autonomy. Here Adobe customers use its products to create and distribute unstructured content. Now Adobe will provide products based on Autonomy's IDOL so that customers can manage that content in e-discovery and compliance terms.

EMC has also signed an OEM deal with Autonomy. The technology involved has not been specified.

Oracle too has signed a new OEM licensing agreement for some of Autonomy's e-discovery, document management and compliance software. It signed a previous deal in April, 2007, before Autonomy bought Zantaz. That deal referred to the integration of Autonomy's IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) into Oracle's products. The new deal follows on from the Zantaz purchase and the introduction of e-discovery and Desktop Legal Hold products into Autonomy's product range.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

ANACOMP AND RECOMMIND JOIN FORCES TO ACCELERATE LITIGATION REVIEW PROCESSES

San Diego and San Francisco, Ca, December 4, 2007– Anacomp® Inc., a leading business process solutions company, and Recommind®, a leading provider of enterprise search and automatic categorization systems for law firms, corporate legal departments and enterprises, today jointly announced an alliance that will combine Recommind’s Axcelerate™ eDiscovery technology with Anacomp’s CaseLogistix® litigation support solution. With the integration, CaseLogistix customers can benefit from more accurate and insightful litigation review processes and significantly reduced processing times and costs.

CaseLogistix is the most powerful and versatile litigation review and integration platform available today, providing a complete solution for electronic document organization, annotation, discovery management and production. By incorporating Axcelerate eDiscovery’s unique, language-agnostic technologies – including First Pass Review™ and One Click Coding™ functionality – CaseLogistix users can gain deep insight into a document collection before the review process even starts. By automatically organizing and coding documents for privilege, priority, responsiveness and relationship to issues or subject codes, users save significant amounts of review time and resources. In addition, Axcelerate eDiscovery offers law firms and enterprises more accurate and extensive document culling and filtering of virtually all document types, including both structured and unstructured data. The solution automatically filters duplicates and near-duplicates between and across custodians and parties, and, by applying 17 distinct filter types, offers contextual email thread analysis, dramatically reducing the number of documents to be reviewed.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

WarRoom Document Solutions Announces Partnership with Trial Solutions to Provide Increased Technology Offerings to the Boston Market

Boston, MA and Houston, TX, December 4, 2007 – Trial Solutions, a market leader in providing single source wholesale litigation support services, On-Demand litigation document hosting and review software, computer forensics, eDiscovery, document review staffing and trial preparation services announced today that WarRoom Document Solutions, Inc (WarRoom DSI), has agreed to become a Premier Reseller and in addition to it’s current services will offer the Trial Solutions’ Litigation Support Ecosystem™ suite of products to new and existing customers.

As a Premier Reseller, WarRoom DSI will begin to offer Boston and Providence based law firms and corporate legal departments the broad array of advanced litigation services, OnDemand technologies, training and consulting available through the Trial Solutions Litigation Support Ecosystem™. In addition, they will also now have the litigation document processing power of the Trial Solutions’ global service provider network to be able to support very large and complex litigation projects with requirements for discovery, collection, translation, imaging and coding across multiple international locations.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

ZyLAB Announces Partnership with SuperiorGlacier

Vienna, VA and New York, NY – November 19, 2007 – ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, and SuperiorGlacier, a leading and tenured provider of electronic discovery and traditional litigation support services, today announced a partnership to provide organizations with the latest integrated technology solution for efficient and effective e-discovery. This partnership provides the legal community, including law firms and corporate legal departments, access to SuperiorGlacier’s expert staff for installation, configuration, data handling and support of ZyLAB’s ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform for e-Discovery and on-line legal review.

FTI Hosting Partnership with Commonwealth Legal Extends the Ringtail Legal Channel Ecosystem into Canada

FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced an enhanced FTI Partnership Program to extend the market penetration and availability of the firm’s industry-leading Ringtail® Legal™ document review technology. FTI also announced a Ringtail Hosting partnership with Commonwealth Legal, Canada’s leading national litigation support services firm, to extend the availability of Ringtail Legal’s technology offerings in Canada.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Anacomp and Pitney Bowes Sign Strategic Alliance Agreement

SAN DIEGO, CA, AND STAMFORD, CT, NOVEMBER 6, 2007 – Anacomp® Inc., a leading business process solutions company, today announced a strategic alliance agreement with Pitney Bowes Legal Solutions (PBLS), a leading provider of electronic discovery and corporate compliance solutions. PBLS is a division of Pitney Bowes Management Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI). Through the alliance, Anacomp will incorporate PBLS' advanced e-Discovery and processing capabilities as part of its CaseLogistix® litigation support solution, greatly expanding the footprints of both companies within the legal market. In addition, the firms will collaborate and engage on various joint go-to-market activities to develop opportunities in the litigation realm.

"We're excited to offer our law firm and corporate counsel customers the enhanced litigation processing capabilities that are available through this alliance," said Wayne Ford, Anacomp' s Senior Vice President of Marketing, Channels, and Strategic Alliances. "We look forward to working with PBLS on all business fronts, including the product development side to investigate possible bundled services to our joint customer base in the future."