E-discovery News & Articles

Since the ILTA conference in Las Vegas there have been a number of developments in GRC. Open Text for one has introduced new services and software to ensure SharePoint 2010 sites conform to corporate governance guidelines, while Guidance offers to bring e-Discovery in-house.

With e-Discovery and compliance at the heart of Symantec’s (news, site)  information management strategy, the company has just announced the release of its upgraded archiving software Enterprise Vault enabling combining emails from Microsoft Exchange Online with on-premise archived content.

Open Text (news, site) has been offering a number of SharePoint based solutions and services for a while now. But thanks to their recent acquisition of Burntsand, they now have a full end-to-end implementation service offering for SharePoint 2010.

Seems security has been high on everyone’s list of priorities this week with FaceTime releasing its Socialite software to secure social networks, and HP buying Fortify to add application security at the blueprint stage. Not surprising though, after recent research from Gartner showing security software is a priority for enterprises.

One of the new releases from this year’s LegalTech West conference in LA, which is just wrapping up today, comes from FTI Technology in the shape of its enhanced Ringtail Analytics, part of FTI’s (news, site) e-Discovery platform.

This week there has been a whole spate of new releases in the world of GRC, most of which -- unsurprisingly -- have been focused on better security. There have also been a couple of acquisitions as well as increasing interest in services and cloud computing.

In a week that has seen a number of new releases on the GRC front, IBM has decided that the best way to deal with security is to build it into applications at the blueprint stage. Social media content is also being vetted for unstructured content that could end you up in e-Discovery hot water.

With e-Discovery a top priority for most enterprise organizations, the decision on which software vendor product to use can be difficult. There are many products and solutions on the market today that claim to help you organize and keep track of your data. For many, research reports from the top analysts are a tool to help in the decision making process.

This is a good thing for ZyLAB, an information access solutions vendor. They have just received the highest rating possible in analyst firm Gartner's MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors, 2008. 

ZyLAB, a developer of Information Access solutions, recently announced the release of ZyIMAGE 5.0 service pack 7.

The upgrades to their solution are aimed to empower legal, eDiscovery, compliance and law enforcement users with enhanced operational efficiencies.

IBM has released new extensions to it’s ECM platform designed to support eDiscovery and help its clients manage compliance better.

The new eDiscovery software integrates with IBM’s auto-classification and records management technology as well as it’s BPM capabilities.

Forrester Research says that the North American eDiscovery market will grow to almost $4.89 billion by 2011. That’s a massive increase over 2006 when it was $1.45 billion. So why wouldn’t ECM vendors want a piece of that pie?

Interwoven had decided to get its piece of the eDiscovery pie through the acquisition of on-demand e-discovery provider Discovery Mining Inc.

Oracle has taken it’s Universal Content Management solution to a new level by announcing two new components: Universal Online Archive and Email Archive Service. Both of these components are just the latest in the long line of integrated products to support the growing needs of content management.

Autonomy, an enterprise infrastructure software purveyor, has just announced its purchase of ZANTAZ, which specializes in content archiving and e-discovery solutions software.

The pairing is expected to “redefine” information risk management by combining e-discovery, analytics, real-time policy management and consolidated archiving into one system.

In more positive news for ECM vendor Open Text, Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS), the largest of Vermont’s 21 utility companies, just implemented the company’s Livelink ECM. Livelink will assist in managing CVPS’s e-documentation and records for compliance purposes and e-discovery.

You can never quite escape the high school popularity contest, and that’s okay as long as you’re on the winning team. Gartner, a technology analyst firm with worldwide accolades, just labeled Vamosa a Cool Vendor in Content Management. Vamosa is a market leader in processing, analysis and content migration. This comes hot behind Vox’s acquisition of a Shiny Media award for Best Web 2.0 Innovation, kicking off awards season in the enterprise content management world.