Electronic Discovery Navigator

earlyCASE to Launch New Early Case Assessment Software at ILTA 2008 Conference

"Atlanta-based earlyCASE, an innovator in advanced early case assessment for electronically stored information (ESI) and eDiscovery, today announced that Tom Strack, CEO will host product demonstrations at ILTA’s 31st Annual Educational Conference on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to demo the new Web-based application that runs on your local PC and analyzes the ESI your computer can access without ever leaving your computer or network.

earlyCASE allows you to see and understand all of your data before it is processed for discovery. It supports multiple languages, extracts metadata, generates hash values, detects duplicates and creates a local inventory database of documents and e-mails. earlyCASE allows users to make informed discovery decisions and easily cut down the size of data sets through filter and culling rules before going into the discovery process and review.

IBM introduces enterprise content management software

IBM introduces enterprise content management software

"IBM has introduced new enterprise content management software, IBM eDiscovery, for its clients to meet legal discovery requirements.

The new IBM eDiscovery solutions is expected to extend IBM's enterprise content management software platform to enable organizations to proactively take control of electronically stored information across the enterprise, helping to reduce eDiscovery costs and improve responsiveness to litigation.

According to IBM, the new software will allow companies to move from scattered, point-solution approaches to a disciplined approach that controls electronic information, helps support Federal Rules of Civil Procedure compliance, manages risk and delivers ongoing operational benefits."

Integra Saves Small Companies Big Dollars With New Records Management Software

Integra Saves Small Companies Big Dollars With New Records Management Software

"In a down economy, many local businesses are taking advantage of new document management software to streamline their internal systems and eliminate overhead costs associated with paper. By scanning existing files into electronic documents, they are able to eliminate paper storage and eliminate administrative positions and overhead associated with filing and finding records.

In the last 18 months, several document management software systems have come out that have made it affordable for small businesses to convert their paper to digital images with just one scanner and a couple of user licenses. "There are some really cool two to four user systems for as low as $2,500 bucks," according to Gary Maxwell, President of Integra Information Technologies. "All you need to add is a scanner and some minimal training and your business can go paperless for under five grand. In the past, those systems would have cost 10 times that."

Once you scan a piece of paper and put it into a document management system, there are no costs associated with filing, tracking or finding paper. It's available to anyone in the company as an electronic image that can be viewed, emailed or manipulated. The original paper can be shredded and you've now become paperless. "We have proven time and time again that paperless offices are more cost effective and they're definitely greener," says Maxwell."

Autonomy Supports Blackberry(R) Pin-To-Pin and SMS Messaging for FRCP-Compliance

Autonomy Supports Blackberry(R) Pin-To-Pin and SMS Messaging for FRCP-Compliance

"Autonomy Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that its software and hosted services for end-to-end eDiscovery and archiving enable the compliance archiving and search of BlackBerry Pin-to-Pin and SMS messages, helping organizations to manage risks associated with mobile communications and comply with strict regulations such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). The Autonomy eDiscovery and archiving solutions support more than 1,000 data formats, including multimedia attachments, imaged documents, instant messages, BlackBerry Pin-to-Pin messages, SMS, audio, and video logs, and can automate the retrieval of relevant information for risk management through a conceptual understanding of the meaning of the messages and data."

Autonomy announces scalable end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution

Autonomy announces scalable end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution

"Autonomy Corporation plc., a global vendor of infrastructure software for the enterprise, introduced Wednesday its scalable end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution. With 6,000 servers across five data centers, Autonomy is providing hosted eDiscovery solutions for large and complex legal and regulatory matters. Autonomy applies advanced technology in its hosting centers, including analytics for Early Case Assessment (ECA), automatic categorization for prioritizing eDiscovery Review, language independence for international cases, and audio support required for financial services and subprime litigation cases.

Autonomy offers infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software offers complete spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications, including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, media management, information risk management solutions and security applications."

Technology Pathways Releases New E-Discovery Tool for Electronically Stored Information

Technology Pathways Releases New E-Discovery Tool for Electronically Stored Information

"Technology Pathways, LLC announced today the release of e.s.i.DiscoverTM, a new electronic-discovery search appliance which helps companies locate and preserve responsive documents to comply with court ordered discovery requests. The e.s.i.Discover Search Appliance can index millions of documents contained on servers and workstations throughout an enterprise and allow rapid searching based on sophisticated searching techniques to identify the responsive documents such as word documents, spreadsheets or PDF's. Searches typically take only a few minutes and can be easily modified to hone in on the required documents quickly. Once identified, the e.s.i.Discover Search Appliance can collect and authenticate the documents using an MD-5 or SHA-1 hash signature. These documents can then be saved for export to other popular e-discovery work flow products for further processing and presentation."

IBM Software Helps Thomas Miller Group Meet eDiscovery Demands

IBM Software Helps Thomas Miller Group Meet eDiscovery Demands

"IBM today announced that The Thomas Miller Group, a global organization that specializes in the management of mutual, captive and other specialist insurance companies, has chosen an e-mail management solution from IBM and Neocol UK to meet its increasing number of e-mail management and legal discovery requirements.

The integrated solution from IBM and Neocol allows Thomas Miller to archive more than 30,000 e-mails per day and meet its corporate governance and regulatory compliance mandates. Additionally, the solution is enabling Thomas Miller to locate, store and retain business-critical e-mail records for eDiscovery and legal audit requests."

Attenex and StoredIQ Announce E-Discovery Alliance

Attenex and StoredIQ Announce E-Discovery Alliance

"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)."

Colonial Bank, N.A. Chooses Guidance Software's EnCase(R) eDiscovery

Colonial Bank, N.A. Chooses Guidance Software's EnCase(R) eDiscovery

"Guidance Software Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID), the World Leader in Digital Investigations(TM), today announced that leading financial services company Colonial Bank, N.A. has purchased Guidance Software's EnCase(R) eDiscovery to conduct in-house electronic data discovery and collections.

"Since Colonial Bank, N.A. is a leader in the financial marketplace, we chose the leader in eDiscovery for our investigative needs," said Michael D. Peters, Chief Information Security Officer, Colonial Bank, N.A. "The forensic and eDiscovery demands on Colonial's Legal department and Information Security departments are ever-increasing. Our ability to obtain, provide, and preserve rock solid evidence is paramount and Guidance Software delivers the technology we need."

Guidance Software's EnCase eDiscovery is a complete, end-to-end, automated eDiscovery solution that allows organizations to search, identify, cull, collect, and process electronically stored information (ESI) across the enterprise and export it to the attorney review platform of their choice. It is a versatile, scalable, and ultra-efficient product that streamlines the eDiscovery process to save time and money. EnCase eDiscovery can search and collect ESI across the enterprise from a central location from workstations, laptops, file servers, data repositories, and removable storage media without the need to take the target machines offline. Organizations using EnCase eDiscovery can reduce eDiscovery costs up to 90% with its extensive native search, collection, preservation, and processing capabilities."

Recommind Selected as Finalist for 2008 Codie Award

Recommind Selected as Finalist for 2008 Codie Award

"Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today announced that the company’s MindServer™ Enterprise Search product has been selected as a finalist in the category of “Best Enterprise Search Engine” for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)’s 23rd Annual Codie Awards. The coveted “Best Enterprise Search Engine” Codie Award recognizes MindServer Enterprise Search as a solution that best brings relevant information to users through the use of sophisticated indexing and retrieval tools within corporate networks, intranets or portals.

“Recommind is honored that MindServer Enterprise Search is being recognized by SIIA as a leading enterprise search solution” said Robert Tennant, CEO at Recommind. “MindServer Enterprise Search is powered by sophisticated, patented machine learning techniques that automatically deliver highly relevant results with maximum context, making information useful and actionable to knowledge workers. And as a conceptual search technology, our system works the way our customers do – by allowing users to find the information they seek whether or not they get the keywords exactly right. We are proud of the technology we have built and very pleased that the industry is validating our hard work and innovation.”

Recommind’s MindServer platform is a comprehensive software suite that integrates an enterprise’s numerous applications and information repositories, enabling fast, easy access to relevant information. The platform substantially reduces the time and costs involved in searching, while improving the quality of work delivered to the end client. Using patented search technology, MindServer dramatically improves access to a wide variety of information across large, distributed organizations and returns results in context for more accurate understanding and ‘actionability’ of the information. Recommind’s enterprise search technology specifically utilizes powerful concept-based search capabilities to connect relevant information in document management, records management, portal and e-mail systems and myriad other applications and databases with the users that need it."