EDiscovery

When we first looked at the new MetaVis Technologies tools for SharePoint, we knew there would be a lot of interest from enterprise struggling to manage and control their SharePoint implementations.These tools which include taxonomy support and metadata management for SharePoint — both MOSS and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 — are any SharePoint architect's dream, helping with the creation, deployment and management of SharePoint sites.Today they are generally available to the public and CMSWire caught up with Steve Pogrebivsky, MetaVis CEO and Co-Founder, to check on how the products are being received.

Open Text has partnered with Recommind, a provider of enterprise search and eDiscovery solutions, to offer a new product called Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment. The solution promises to minimize the need for third-party processing and help control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information before it goes for review by outside counsel.

DiscoveryBox, a Honolulu-based developer of a state-of-the-art legal hold and electronic discovery platform, and Black Letter Discovery, a national leader in legal document review solutions, announce recently a partnership making DiscoveryBox's platform available to Black Letter Discovery customers. "We are extremely excited about the availability of the DiscoveryBox platform," said John Sanchez, Black Letter Discovery's CEO. "The web-based platform gives us the ability to offer our customers an affordable, elegant and seamless process for performing high-quality document reviews and managing all aspects of the electronic discovery review process. With this partnership, we can utilize DiscoveryBox's electronic discovery workflow management capabilities to ensure superior document review services."

IBM has announced a family of products for archiving email, classifying content and searching multiple information sources -- independent of where and how the content was created, processed and archived called the Content Collection and Archiving products. IBM said its Content Collection and Archiving offerings will help clients move beyond e-mail archiving to provide organizations with management capabilities for virtually all their business content, including file systems, Lotus Quickr, Microsoft SharePoint, instant messages and other information. The products offer functionality to meet legal eDiscovery and records management requirements as well as de-duplication and integration with records retention services, helping to reduce storage and electronic discovery costs.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has a new friend in Autonomy Corp. The information compliance vendor has recently unveiled ControlPoint, enabling real-time, policy-driven control over SharePoint content. This SharePoint extension, while allowing organizations to comply with corporate, legal and regulatory standards, can and will assist enterprises with maintaining eDiscovery requirements — a critical task in today’s world.

Not content to just help manage content storage for SharePoint, ECM provider Open Text has come out with a new solution that will help SharePoint solve its Lifecycle Management issues. Called the Open Text Content Lifecycle Management Services for Microsoft® SharePoint®, eDOCS Edition, the solution was actually developed by SeeUnity Inc., an Open Text partner. You have a SharePoint installation, but as you know, it’s rather weak in terms of LifeCycle Management. Which isn’t really a good thing considering all the regulations, compliance and eDiscovery requirements your organization faces today.

Never one to be left behind when it comes to offering solutions for the most prevalent issues facing enterprises today, IBM has come out with a whole new slew of solutions designed to help get your content under control. Pick just one product or mix and match to suit your business needs. IBM calls it the IBM Content Collection and Archiving Family. It’s a modular set of products based on the IBM ECM platform and designed to take advantage of its capabilities in advanced classification, records management, eDiscovery and search.

Recommind has released Version 3.0 of its Axcelerate eDiscovery software. The product include Recommind's First-Pass Review and One-Click Coding, which are designed to work with any language and any type of structured or unstructured data. Recommind says the technology enables Axcelerate eDiscovery to automatically organize even multi-terabyte document sets prior to review for deep, early case assessment while also automatically "pre-coding" an entire collection based on each document's subject matter and priority.

StoredIQ, Inc., whose innovative eDiscovery technology revolutionizes the way companies address eDiscovery and litigation readiness, announced recently 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.

IBM has announced the release of new enterprise content management (ECM) software specifically designed to meet the needs of clients dealing with complex legal discovery requirements. The company's eDiscovery solutions expand on IBM's ECM platform used to manage digitally stored documents, with an eye toward streamlining the discovery process and reducing costs. According to IBM, the new software provides a variety of automated processes, including collecting, searching and classifying critical data across a variety of content sources, as well as the ability to track changes. The main component of the solution is IBM's eDiscovery Manager, which allows authorized individuals to search for, and retrieve, key documents.

If you work for a mid-tolarge-sized company—say, one with more than $500M in revenue—you probably are familiar with the problems of eDiscovery. Your enterprisemay routinely face five or more litigation matters each year, and you have terabytes ofunstructured information that you need to sort through in order to find relevant information and place it on litigation hold. Submitted by StoredIQ, Inc.