Thursday, June 26, 2008
IKON and WorkProducts Partner to Deliver MatterSpace Appliance
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
”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
“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
“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
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
"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
“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
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
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Recommind and iCONECT Partner to Create Document Review and Analysis Platform
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
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
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
"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
"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
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
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
FTI Hosting Partnership with Commonwealth Legal Extends the Ringtail Legal Channel Ecosystem into Canada
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Anacomp and Pitney Bowes Sign Strategic Alliance Agreement
"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."
