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Confusion Carries the Day in E-Discovery

Confusion Carries the Day in E-Discovery

"Lawyers and vendors look for ways to create common standards in e-discovery.

As the market for electronic discovery software and services continues to grow and mature, making sense of exactly what it is e-discovery vendors are selling is not always easy. "I've been hearing from providers for years, 'look, you don't understand e-discovery. We've got the ultimate solution -- those other guys you've talked to don't know what they're doing,'" says George Socha, an attorney and e-discovery consultant in St. Paul, Minnesota. "Well, they all can't be right. But there was and is no way to verify a lot of the claims vendors are making."

Lawyers trying to find out the cost to process electronic records for litigation often run into a confusing array of data and terminology that can obscure the issue. Everyday terms such as cull, image, document, and duplicate take on new meanings in e-discovery projects and legal processes like early case assessment, and production varies depending on the discovery query and the data set. And that's not even considering the variation in local rules in different jurisdictions."

Open Text Extends eDiscovery Offering

Open Text Extends eDiscovery Offering

"Open Text, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today announced that it has extended its new eDiscovery solution to its Open Text eDOCS customers. Now organizations, particularly corporate legal departments, will be able to significantly minimize the need for third-party processing and control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information.

Launched in December (http://www.opentext.com/2/global/press-release-details.html?id=2154), Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment is being offered through a strategic relationship with Recommind, the leader in search-powered information risk management (IRM). The solution combines Recommind's Insite Legal Hold application with the Open Text ECM Suite. The combination not only addresses the critical need for eDiscovery in an age of growing regulatory and legal challenges, it also lets customers tightly integrate eDiscovery within their broader ECM initiatives. Open Text eDOCS customers will gain expanded eDiscovery capabilities woven into their overall content, records and email management practices."

Electronic Evidence Discovery Moves Custodian Notification to Latest IBM Platform

Electronic Evidence Discovery Moves Custodian Notification to Latest IBM Platform

"Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. (EED), a leading international provider of eDiscovery services, today announced the upcoming availability of eDiscovery Process Manager 2.0 (eDPM 2.0). When combined with the technology and expertise of IBM's industry-leading enterprise content management (ECM) platform, eDPM 2.0 enables corporate legal organizations to effectively and efficiently manage the evidence discovery lifecycle. This new release from EED is the first custodian notification application to support the IBM P8 4.0 platform.

The strategic alignment of eDiscovery software on existing ECM investments enables corporate legal departments to effectively preserve electronic content for compliance, investigation and potential litigation needs while avoiding additional expenses. Significant savings in time and reduction of risk are the key benefits of automating the custodian notification process with EED's expanded support for IBM's ECM platform."

Guidance Software's EnCase eDiscovery on a Pay-per-Use Basis

Guidance Software's EnCase eDiscovery on a Pay-per-Use Basis

"Guidance Software Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID), the World Leader in Digital Investigations(TM), today announced that Koch Industries, Inc., the largest private company in America with more than $110 billion in revenues, has signed an agreement to use EnCase(R) eDiscovery on a Pay-Per-Use basis.

Guidance Software's revolutionary Pay-Per-Use program allows customers to pay for eDiscovery investigations through operating budgets on a per case, per custodian basis and at a fraction of what it would cost to outsource the function. It offers organizations the option of paying for only what they use, with charges tied to the amount of data searched, collected, processed, and output into load files."

Taking Email Archiving to Another Level With GFI MailArchiver 6

Taking Email Archiving to Another Level With GFI MailArchiver 6

"A new version of GFI MailArchiver for Exchange, an email management and archiving solution, is being released today. GFI MailArchiver 6 integrates with Microsoft's Outlook email client to allow users to access their archived email faster and in a more transparent manner. GFI MailArchiver is the first email archiving product to offer integration with Outlook without the use of stub files. This reduces the load on the Exchange Server while greatly reducing client complexity issues and administration. With Microsoft discouraging the use of stubs in email archiving products, it was an easy decision for GFI not to use stub files as other email archiving vendors are doing and to take an innovative and more effective approach.

GFI MailArchiver is the leading archiving solution for SMBs. Shipping at the lowest price on the market, the software archives all corporate email, reduces dependency on troublesome PST files, permits employees to access old and deleted emails at any time and from any location and helps companies meet eDiscovery and legal compliance requirements.

A first choice product for many small and medium sized businesses, GFI MailArchiver 6 now allows end-users to search and access all their old and deleted emails from a folder in their Outlook email client. Integration with Outlook means that archived email can be assessed from Outlook as if it were their Exchange mailbox or local PST file. GFI MailArchiver users can now enjoy a faster and improved experience than those using stubs."

White Paper Highlights Role of Redaction Technology in Ensuring Secure Information Disclosure

White Paper Highlights Role of Redaction Technology in Ensuring Secure Information Disclosure

" Informative Graphics Corporation, a leading provider of viewing, collaboration and intelligent redaction technology, today announced the availability of a new white paper titled Redaction Defined: Meeting Information Disclosure Requests with Secure Content Delivery. This paper discusses the challenges of protecting sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, while making public information available electronically in response to federal and state mandates. Using redaction software to automate the removal of sensitive content or privacy information, along with any hidden text and metadata, reduces the risk of having such information inadvertently revealed due to human error. A free copy of the white paper can be downloaded by going to http://www.redact-it.com/whitepapers."

Busy Week For E-Discovery

Busy Week For E-Discovery

"Three new product releases aimed at the electronic discovery market close out the last week of summer.

The waning days of summer are usually a slow time for the technology industry. Big announcements were rolled out at the spring tradeshows, or are being plotted for post-Labor Day releases. Employees are on vacation. The industry recharges.

But apparently not in the e-discovery market. Clearwell Systems, Kazeon, and StoredIQ took advantage of the lull to make some noise about product advances."

Guidance Software Unveils EnCase eDiscovery

Guidance Software Unveils EnCase eDiscovery

"Guidance Software, a provider of digital investigations, announced new in-house eDiscovery processing capabilities, connectors for archiving and content management solutions and a work-flow driven interface in version 3.1 of its EnCase eDiscovery solution.

Guidance Software said its EnCase eDiscovery now offers the ability to create EDRM-compliant XML load files, along with load files for Concordance and Summation attorney review platforms. With this push-button load file creation capability, collected data can be quickly processed and delivered into the hands of attorneys for review, the company said."

StoredIQ eDiscovery Appliance 4.6 Increases Functionality Leadership with Expanded Platform Support and Enhanced eDiscovery Features

StoredIQ eDiscovery Appliance 4.6 Increases Functionality Leadership with Expanded Platform Support and Enhanced eDiscovery Features

"StoredIQ, Inc., whose innovative eDiscovery technology revolutionizes the way companies address eDiscovery and litigation readiness, announced today expanded platform integration support and enhanced eDiscovery functionality designed to improve the efficiency of IT and legal teams performing work within the eDiscovery lifecycle.

"StoredIQ automates more of the eDiscovery lifecycle than any other solution," said Steve Killan, Enterprise Server Manager at James Hardie, the world leader in fiber cement technology. "StoredIQ delivers unparalleled functionality in both breadth and depth from information management through the identification, collection, preservation and processing of electronically stored information."

StoredIQ V4.6 includes:

Expanded Platform Support
- Ability to insert unstructured information as records into the most current version of EMC Documentum and place those items under litigation hold
- Ability to insert, retrieve and manage information within Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint 2007

Deeper eDiscovery Capabilities
- Improved query report analytics to assist with "meet-and-confer" sessions
- Ability to harvest additional email server objects such as tasks, contacts, calendar items, and notes
- Support of the EDRM XML V1.0 load file format
- Enhanced usability and productivity for pre-collection investigations"

Guidance Software Lowers the Threshold to In-house eDiscovery with new "Pay-Per-Use" EnCase(R) eDiscovery Pricing

Guidance Software Lowers the Threshold to In-house eDiscovery with new "Pay-Per-Use" EnCase(R) eDiscovery Pricing

"Guidance Software now offers organizations the option of paying for only what they use, with charges tied to the amount of data searched, collected, processed, and output into load files. Pay-Per-Use pricing enables them to allocate litigation costs through internal charge-backs, and to seek insurance reimbursement for electronic discovery costs, with monthly invoices that break down charges on a per case basis.

"We want every organization to experience the benefits of using EnCase eDiscovery," said Victor Limongelli, President and CEO of Guidance Software. "Pay-Per-Use pricing now makes our industry-leading solution available to those who pay for litigation costs through operating budgets. With EnCase eDiscovery, every litigant can build a proven, credible, and defensible in-house eDiscovery process."

With Guidance Software's Pay-Per-Use pricing, customers pay no upfront license fees. Pricing is tiered - the higher the annual dollar commitment and the longer the term committed, the lower the pricing. Customers get the same EnCase eDiscovery software that perpetual license customers do - installed behind the firewall, and providing unmatched search, collection, and processing of electronically stored information."