EDD Update

PSS Systems: Atlas Compliance Automation Connector

My colleague Heather Schultz and I recently enjoyed a telephone briefing with Rani Hublou, vice president of marketing for PSS Systems (www.pss-systems.com), and Laurie Gibson, a public relations consultant with Kickstart Consulting.

They  discussed with us the recent partnership between IBM (www.ibm.com) and PSS Systems that was created to develop the Atlas Compliance Automation connector for IBM's eDiscovery Manager.

According to Hublou, once an organization's attorneys establish a legal hold, alerts are sent to all relevant parties, including legal, IT, and business users. The alerts are key to making sure employees properly save or destroy documents during the data purging cycle.

The software also provides an automated write-blocker that prevents any data that has been put on hold from being accidentally destroyed.

Release here.

Applied Discovery Partners with EMC

Applied Discovery (www.applieddiscovery.com) is partnering with EMC (www.emc.com) in a deal that means AD can offer EMC's SourceOnce eDiscovery Kazeon early case assessment service  -- to help  users collect, cull, and analyze EDD data, and then move it into AD's processing and review services.

Press release here.

Evident Discovery & Content Analyst

Evident Discovery & Content Analyst have announced a new partnership, and jointly offer a new product, The Evident Discovery review platform.

Release here. 

KPMG Partners with Archer, Thomson, & Guidance

KPMG has created several new partnerships:

* With Kansas-based  Archer Technologies (www.archer.com) which provides governance, risk and compliance software and services. The pairing is designed to help organizations improve risk controls. The alliance leverages KPMG's experience with business processes, and Archer's automated services, the two companies note.

* With Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com). KMPS now provides Paisley GRC software to clients, helping them manage internal audit, governance, risk and compliance processes.

* With California's Guidance Software. Under the alliance, KPMG offers Guidance’s EnCase eDiscovery software as part of KPMG's Forensic Technology Services. EnCase helps users with early case assessment, identification, preservation, collection and processing of electronically stored information.

Anacomp and Cohen & Grigsby

Cohen & Grigsby has purchased Anacomp Inc.’s CaseLogistix litigation support software to help organize, review, and produce electronically stored information. Kevin Sullivan, the firm’s director of technology, said that the firm chose CaseLogistix based on its ability to manage documents in their native file formats. He also pointed to the advantages of the software’s Unicode capabilities, which will help the firm process foreign language documents for international clients.

The firm also purchased Anacomp's CaseProduction, the system's production module. It helps users manage document production, and can handle native file, image-based or mixed productions. It  features formatting options and image endorsements,  including the ability to add Bates numbering, redactions or confidentiality statements.  It is capable of rule-based, high-volume metadata export into any format. 

Anacomp Inc. (www.anacomp.com) is headquartered in California; Cohen and Grigsby (www.cohenlaw.com) is based in Pennsylvania. Press release here.

iConect & D6 Consulting

California's iConect Development (www.iconect.com) has partnered with Texas-based D6 Consulting, (www.d6llc.com), which offers e-discovery and forensic technology services. Under the accord, D6 will provide iConect’s ConectnXT software to its clients, helping corporations and law firms with web-based hosting, review, and collaboration services.

IConectXT features native file and e-mail review tools, bulk tagging, concept searching and clustering.  The scalable software can import, search, organize, and review more than 250 languages, including Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.

D6's e-discovery services include processing, productions, and complex data analysis and preservation. It also provides computer forensic examinations and data collection. Press release here.

Reliable Partners with Digital Reef

Reliable is now using Digital Reef’s software to power its EDD processing services. Full release here.

Kraft Kennedy Provides Consulting/Integration for Equivio

Kraft Kennedy will provide technology consulting and integration services for Equivio’s products, under a new partnershpi  Full release here.

Clearwell Integrates Information Graphics' Brava!

Clearwell has integrated Informative Graphics’ Brava! electronic redaction technology into the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform 5. Full release here.

CaseCentral & StoredIQ Offer EDD Software

CaseCentral has partnered with StoredIQ to provide EDD software tto help users handle all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model. Full release here.

Huron Opens D.C. Review Center

Illinois’ Huron Consulting Group has opened a document review center in Washington, D.C.

It also announced the relocation of its Rock Hill, S.C. center to Charlotte, N.C. Full release here.

Ji2 Becomes Alliance Partner with Catalyst

California-based e-discovery and forensics company Ji2 has become a Catalyst Repository Systems Alliance Partner.  Full release here.

CT Bolsters iBlaze, Partners with Rosen

CT Summation has introduced an e-discovery version of its iBlaze litigation support software.

The company also announced a partnership with Rosen Technology Resources, to integrate Rosen's ALCoder autocoding software, ALFind near-duplicate identification tool, and conceptuAL concept search tools into iBlaze.  Full release here.

iConect Adds SQL Connector

California’s IConect Development has added a Microsoft SQL Server Connector to help vendors, law firms, and corporations add document review and collaboration to their existing SQL servers and use iConect’s web interface. The connector helps users manipulate, import, export, and edit document data as well as use custom SQL programming. Firms can also use third-party applications like Crystal Reports to generate reports from stored data. Full release here.

Fios Expands Information Governance Services

Fios has expanded its information governance services to help clients reduce costs of managing electronically stored information in response to litigation and governmental investigation. The information governance consulting services include assessment and planning for records management and retention policies. Full release here.

Iris Data Opens Perth, Australia Office

Iris Data has expanded, opening new offices in Perth, Australia. The e-discovery company’s services include tape restoration, computer forensics, e-discovery, and online review with their Unify review platform. The production center is located in Joondalup, a suburb of Perth. Full release here.

DTI Partners with Legal Solutions Inc.

Document Technologies Inc. has partnered with Legal Solutions Inc. to provide collection, discovery processing, hosting, and attorney review services. Full release here.

Equivio Partners With eDiscovery Solutions Group

Equivio has announced a partnership with eDiscovery Solutions Group to provide consulting, training, and system integration support for Equivio’s near-duplicate and e-mail thread technology.

The partnership will make available eDiscovery Solutions Group staff to assist Equivio clients with e-discovery consulting, document review best practices, and user training for document management platforms.

EDiscovery Solutions Group staff will also be able to help software vendors to integrate Equivio into internal legacy systems and will sell Equivio as a component of its e-discovery services. Equivio’s products group near-duplicates, capture e-mail threads, and compare documents, powering e-discovery, records magnement, e-mail archiving, and data retention applications. Full release here.

FTI Webinar on Search Technology for EDD

FTI Consulting Inc. has announced that its FTI Technology division will hold a webinar on June 23 at 1pm. The webinar, "The Myth and Promise of Search Technology for E-Discovery" will feature Vivian Terro of IDC and Joe Looby, senior managing director of FTI Technology as speakers. Full release here.

Forensics Consulting Solutions Offers Clearwell's 4.5 EDD Platform

Forensics Consulting Solutions announced the addition of Clearwell's upgraded 4.5 e-discovery platform and the Clearwell Mobile Solution to its offerings. Clearwell's upgrade includes support for multiple languages during processing as well as "stop word indexing" to help with search and analysis. Full release here.

Digital Reef Partnerships

Digital Reef has formed a partnership with Mimosa Solutions to discover, manage, and analyze content during litigation.

Mimosa says Digital Reef’s early case assessment feature integrates well with its e-mail, file, and SharePoint archiving system. Mimosa’s NearPoint software provides users with archiving, search, and tagging for Microsoft Exchange servers, SharePoint file systems, and both laptops and desktop computers.

Digital Reef enhances onNearPoint by providing case management, analysis of case data, and an enhanced culling ability, the two companies note.

Digital Reef also announced the launch of its Digital Reef Partner Program, which will help partners use Digital Reef technology to complement their own product offerings.

Partners can offer Digital Reef’s search, analytics, automatic data classification, and data management capabilities to complement their own EDD or risk management products. Full release here.

Hobs Legal Docs Announces Partnership with Tricom

Hobs Legal Docs Ltd. has announced a strategic partnership with California’s Tricom Document Management Inc. an e-discovery outsourcing company, which specializes in data management, capturing, and processing services, including litigation coding, indexing, and legal process outsourcing. Hobs Legal Docs is a reprographics and technology company that provides services to law firms. Full release here.

Informative Graphics Forms Alliance with Trinity Technologies

Informative Graphics Corp. has joined forces with Massachusetts’ Trinity Technologies  to integrate IGC’s Brava! and Redact-It Enterprise products into Trinity’s Legal ISE content management and e-discovery software. Trinity Technologies configures, integrates, customizes, and implements content mangement systems for EMC Corp.’s  clients who use Documentum software.

Brava offers multi-format, Microsoft Corp. Windows-based viewing of documents and images from Word, Excel and .tiff, PDF, .xps, .dwf, and .csf.

Brava and Redact-It provide redaction by automatically removing sensitive content through user-defined controls. Full release here.

Teris Offers iConect Software

iConect Development announces that litigation support/EDD provider Teris will offer iConectNxt litigation support software as part of its services. Full release here.

Rational Retention and Alfresco Software Form Alliance

Alfresco Software Inc. has announced a partnership with Rational Retention, a document lifecycle management and EDD company. The partnership adds Alfresco's open-source content management system to Rational Retention's EDD software so that customers can control documents from creation through litigation. Full release here.

DTI and kCura Form Partnership

Georgia’s Document Technologies Inc. has joined forces  with Illinois’ kCura to add kCura’s Relativity web-based document review and management systems to its e-discovery services.

Relativity allows clients native file review, embedded imaging and production tools. DTI offers forensic data acquisition, advanced file processing and data conversion services, the companies note. Full release here.

Catalyst Repository Systems Partners with Z-Axis

Catalyst Repository Systems reports that it has created an new alliance with trial presentation software provider 
Z-Axis. 

Z-Axis’s software helps users with multimedia, scientific forensics work, and on-site trial support. 

The partnership provides users with complete litigation support, including processing, culling, review, analysis, and production and contract review teams if necessary.

DiscoverReady Launches Ringtail Practice Group

DiscoverReady has announced that FTI Consulting Inc.  offers both Attenex Patterns and Ringtail Legal eDiscovery Software. DiscoverReady also announces that it has launched a Ringtail practice group. As a Ringtail partner, DiscoverReady can now offer data processing and hosting services and provide technical assistance to Ringtail clients. Full release here.

Kiersted/Systems Forms Alliance with Equivio

EDD/legal technology consultancy Kiersted/Systems is using Equivio’s software to help its users manage near-
duplicate documents and e-mail threads during reviews, and identify differences between documents. 
Kiersted/Systems’ KEPS online review system helps legal teams review and categorize native files. Kiersted also provides forensic data collection and corporate legal department consulting on legal holds and discovery management

Full release here.

Daticon EED & eMag Solutions Partner for Int'l EDD

Daticon EED has partnered with eMag Solutions to reduce the cost of and risk of EDD for companies that work on reviews for international cases. The partnership uses eMag's U.K.-based office to combine eMag's EDD and data management with Daticon EED's Discovery Partner hosted e-discovery platform. Full release here.

Alexander Gallo Holdings Acquires Sanction Solutions

Alexander Gallo Holdings has acquired Verdict Systems' Sanction Solutions. The company says the expansion broadens the company's national reach and adds EDD and computer forensics services through sibling company Esquire Litigation. Alexander Gallo Holdings trial consultants will be managed under the Sanction Solutions brand. Full release here.

iConectnXT Partners with Precision Discovery

IConect Development has partnered with Precision Discovery to offer Precision customers iConectnXT's web-based hosting and review software on top of Precision's EDD software. Full release here.

DTI Adopts Clearwell's EDD Platform

Document Technologies Inc. has adopted the Clearwell Systems Inc. E-Discovery Platform for the processing, analysis, and review phases of e-discovery. The companies say that the addition of Clearwell’s platform strengthens DTI’s technology for litigation support by providing a tool to quickly cull through data. Full release here.

CT Summation Partners with Pinpoint Labs

CT Summation has joined forces with Pinpoint Labs in a partnership the two say will streamline the process of collecting and reviewing electronically stored information. Through the partnership, CT Summation will offer Pinpoint Labs' SafeCopy 2. Full release here.