ZyLAB Introduces New Version Of EDRM Aligned eDiscovery & Legal Production System

ZyLAB, a leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, recently announced the availability of its new version of the ZyLAB eDiscovery & Production system built to empower IT and legal departments to efficiently manage the most expensive and tedious elements of litigation in-house with automated tools. This system delivers the industry's highest quality archiving, searching and retrieving capabilities, plus has the tools to accommodate the interrelationships and contexts of information.

The ZyLAB eDiscovery and Production system addresses all key aspects of e-discovery, from information management to producing relevant data for opposing counsel as well as for use in litigation software. The system offers more advanced third-party product compatible features than any other eDiscovery solution on the market today. It can be completely integrated with other litigation software and common repositories such as Microsoft SharePoint, databases, as well as ECM, CRM and ERP systems. The platform is built around an XML data repository and provides authorized reviewers with access via standard Internet browsers. This helps accelerate case analysis and document review, as well as enables discovery activities to be automatically performed in-house, thereby allowing customers to maintain control and minimize costs.

The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) focuses on reducing the cost and complexity of e-discovery through the development of standards such as EDRM XML. The ZyLAB eDiscovery & Production system is aligned with all critical EDRM phases. Organizations gain the following benefits of such a comprehensive solution:

• Information Management – The system is based upon the ZyLAB Information Management Platform and includes Records Management & Archiving (RMA) and E-Mail Archiving. The system supports 700+ file formats, 400 foreign languages, multiple servers, third-party databases, ECM systems, SharePoint® and voice mail – enabling organizations to perform early case assessments well before legal hold.
• Identification – After determining relevant custodians, repositories and IT administrators, the legal hold workflow helps to implement and enforce the steps required in a legal hold process, including issuing legal hold reports for IT, providing custodian notification, real-time tracking of milestones, and audit and chain-of-custody tools to diminish the risk of court challenges.
• Preservation and Collection – The system includes legal collection to automatically copy potentially relevant ESI from network drives, shares, computers, laptops, etc. to a litigation hold server. In addition, it is possible to collect from Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and other repositories supported by ZyLAB. The module filters files by various criteria to reduce the irrelevant data submitted for processing. Collected data is audited, and a chain-of-custody is easily created.
• Processing, Review and Analysis – The system provides automated document culling, indexing, negotiated Boolean matching, forensic data extraction, automatic document de-duplication (near and exact), and auto- coding, categorization and foldering. The sophisticated underlying technology helps organizations facilitate early case assessments, test theories, find patterns, and expose hidden connections between people and data, and even uncover deliberately hidden information. The ZyLAB eDiscovery & Production system streamlines the review and analysis pipeline with its collaborative, web-based interface from which reviewers may easily annotate files, assign them to other users, set follow-up dates and more.
• Production – The system helps organizations meet court-ordered criteria and deadlines to disclose the information that is deemed relevant for outside entities. Protect confidential data with redaction and privacy tools, and customize the appearance of Bates stamps. Export redacted TIFFs or EDRM XML without altering the original document. Deliver DVDs or external hard drives loaded with relevant data and the ZyLAB search engine.

"Approximately one percent of organizations are prepared for full-scale eDiscovery activities," said Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer for ZyLAB. "As a result, the vast majority of organizations facing litigation are forced into a costly reaction mode in order to respond to discovery requests within court-imposed timelines. The ZyLAB eDiscovery and Production system significantly reduces overall litigation costs and outside counsel is relieved of the risk of spoliation and related sanctions, unknown liabilities, and premature settlements due to the inconvenience of complex discovery activities."

About ZyLAB
ZyLAB's modular e-discovery and enterprise information management solutions enable organizations to manage all data, in any format, to mitigate risk, reduce costs, investigate matters and elicit business productivity and intelligence. For 25 years ZyLAB has been a market leader due to its unique ability to provide modular solutions to meet specific customer requirements as well as deliver advanced capabilities for multi language support, searching, content analytics, document reviewing, and e-mail and records management. The ZyLAB eDiscovery & Production system is directly aligned with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and features modules for forensic sound collection, culling, advanced e-mail conversion (Exchange and Lotus Notes) and legal review. ZyLAB's products and services are used on an enterprise level by corporations, government agencies, courts, and law firms, as well as on specific projects for legal services, auditing, and accounting providers. ZyLAB systems are also available in a Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) model.

Currently the company has sold 1.7 million user licenses through more than 9,000 installations. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we also serve our local markets from our regional offices in New York, Barcelona, Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Singapore. For more information visit http://zylab.wordpress.com/.

SOURCE: ZyLAB