Eca News & Articles

This week from a GRC perspective was always going to be about announcements from the International Legal Technology Association’s (ILTA) conference in Las Vegas that runs until tomorrow. Nearly everyone is there including Autonomy, Open Text, IBM and Recommind. But there are others too and we’ll catch up with them next week.

When it comes to e-Discovery, there are so many parts of the process that companies seek to improve through third party solutions. Today RenewData (news, site) has announced the availability of its Anagram Keyword Development, a solution aimed at improving the thought process.

Lateral Data (news, site) has been processing other people’s data for years. They’ve used their own platform from which to monitor and review data and now they’re opening it up to everyone else. Originally launched in January, Viewpoint isn’t exactly new, but it is shiny.

In a recent survey on top providers of Early Case Assessment (ECA) services, Digital Reef (news, site) did not fair all that well. But now, with the release of a new ECA Application, their position on the list of favorites may just change.

Is your data wild? Unruly, even? For data in the wild, StoredIQ (news, site) lets you Analyze Anywhere. That’s the name of their new early case assessment solution (ECA) that enables users to perform early case analysis on data, well anywhere.

CMSWire spoke with Ellis Ishaya, Vice President of Operations about Analyze Anywhere and how it can change how we think about and conduct ECA.

Early case assessment is an important part of the eDiscovery process and Equivio (news, site) demonstrates that with some updates to their product Relevance.

In July Bob Lentz became Digital Reef’s CEO, while Digital Reef's founder Steve Aker took over product innovation. This week they’ve added Larry D’Angelo as the Vice President of Sales.

Having served as the vice president of business operations for Makana Solutions, Larry D’Angleo brings more than twenty years of experience. From sales to marketing and business development, Mr. D’Angelo has worked with Autotask, IMB and Revenio. Digital Reef is confident that with such experience and skill, Mr. D’Angelo will help them reach the company’s 2010 goals of delivering smarter information management to the enterprise.

Digital Reef (news, site), best known for its scalable information management, governance and discovery platform, has been busy establishing partnerships in the eDiscovery, early case assessment (ECA) and electronic data discovery (EDD) space with Anacomp, Boston Litigation Solutions and Reliable.

Digital Reef thrives on partnerships with other companies who offer services that can integrate with theirs so that customers can best utilize out of the box connectivity to more enterprise content management systems. With a skilled executive leadership in place, building upon partnerships and collaboration, Digital Reef seems poised to head into a productive 2010.

Sometimes companies need a little insight when handling legal holds. Thank goodness that Recommind (news, site) has your back. They have announced the availability of Insite Legal Hold version 2.0.

According to a recent survey conducted by The Cowen Group, a search firm specializing in staffing litigation and practice Support and eDiscovery professionals, Early Case Assessment (ECA), while being implemented by roughly 75 percent of the participants surveyed, is still only being used by those in the legal sector. Non-legal corporations accounted for only 37 percent of ECA use.