More e-Discovery Announcements From LegalTech New York 2012 #ltny

By Marisa Peacock (@marisacp51) Jan 30, 2012

Today begins LegalTech New York 2012 and, as you can imagine with it comes an onslaught of announcements and product releases. We rounded up a few of the ones being made today, for your convenience.

IGC

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), best known for its viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, has two announcements: A general release of its Brava! 7.1 and the results of a Redaction Survey.

The most notable additions to Brava! 7.1 come in the enterprise version, which now includes the new Brava Changemark Viewer for smartphones, video collaboration and improved enterprise readiness and performance for very large deployments. Smartphone users can participate in collaboration workflows, as well as add comments and markups to any video clip using the Brava Flash client.

IGC’s Redaction Survey aimed to benchmark user adoption and attitudes toward electronic redaction software. Results showed that nearly 65% of the survey respondents were from law firms and that over 25% of participants still do redaction manually, with markers or redaction tape. 32% redact electronically, and nearly 38% use a combination of paper-based and software-driven redaction.

Daegis

When we last spoke with Daegis, it was predicting the future of e-Discovery. Among its list was a focus on the discovery lifecycle and the roles that people and technology played in the process. Today Daegis follows through with its Cross-Matter Management methodology, which is designed to streamline the e-Discovery lifecycle by proactively managing electronically stored information (ESI) and attorney work product across multiple matters, saving corporate and law firm clients an average of 30% or more across the e-Discovery lifecycle.

A key element of Daegis’ Cross-Matter Management is the Master Repository. The Master Repository serves as a central location where clients can retain custodian data and attorney work product which has been collected across multiple matters.

BIA

Social media and e-Discovery have traditionally gone together like oil and water. Until now. Business Intelligence Associates (BIA), a leader in e-Discovery collection, announced that the data collection features of its TotalDiscovery.com product are receiving a significant upgrade. Scheduled for release in March 2012, the upgrade will offer the ability to initiate collections for social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, as well as collections form Webmail and Apple systems.

Index Engines

Index Engines has taught us how to manage corporate data more efficiently. Today it continues to offer more efficiency, as well as compliance. With the launch of Octane Forensic Archive for Litigation Hold, Index Engines helps to index MS Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes email messages, allowing for content and metadata culling. Once the relevant set of email or custodian mailboxes are defined, the culled content will be preserved at a bit level in the archive.