Kazeon News & Articles

While EMC’s (news, site) SourceOne suite of modular integrated software enables email management, archiving, records management, search and eDiscovery, the company says it is expanding it to enable users make a speedier and more efficient move to Microsoft Exchange 2010.

No longer rumored in the halls of the ILTA conference, the intent of Enterprise CMS and storage vendor EMC (news, site) to acquire Kazeon (news, site) is now official. The unconfirmed deal size is at about US$ 75 million.

What does that mean for the two companies? How did the eDiscovery industry take the news? Let’s take a look at some first reactions and thoughts.

In May, Kazeon (news, site) released their fourth generation eDiscovery software. Opening it up to the likes of corporations, legal service providers and law firms, working smarter and faster got easier. Continuing in the same direction, Kazeon recently announced the arrival of the Kazeon eDiscovery Domino Manager.

The Domino in question refers to IBM's Lotus Domino, which provides enterprise-grade e-mail, collaboration capabilities and a custom application platform. With Kazeon's Domino Manager, companies can implement a streamlined and transparent workflow for litigation responsiveness. By combining Kazeon’s eDiscovery solutions with Domino, direct native connectivity can deliver comprehensive and defensible eDiscovery across the enterprise.

Kazeon (news, site), provider of eDiscovery software, is now offering integration with Microsoft SharePoint. As a part of its fourth generation eDiscovery software, Kazeon's eDiscovery Sharepoint Manager lets Kazeon's resources, including data analysis and review, and concept search be shared across platforms and even into content repositories.

A recent trend among the eDiscovery industry is that more companies are bringing the process of search, discovery and document management in house. Companies that once saw eDiscovery as third-party expense left to off-site experts have now come around and have begun implementing cost-saving solutions that allow them to take control of their eDiscovery needs.

Today, Kazeon Systems (news, site) announces the availability of its fourth generation eDiscovery software for use by corporations, legal service providers and law firms. Kazeon's solution solves a wide range of customer challenge such as in-house eDiscovery, internal investigations, audits, legal hold retention management and GRC.

Recently, we had the opportunity to talk with Karthik Kannan, Kazeon’s VP of Marketing and Business about v4 and the future of eDiscovery.

The skyrocketing cost of eDiscovery has made headlines recently with several court cases setting precedents in favor of supporting huge eDiscovery costs. For example, a January circuit court decision required the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight to spend $6 million (totaling 9 percent of its annual budget) to comply with a subpoena for electronic documents; and another recent district court ruling enforces preservation and production of metadata.

These rulings make taking control of eDiscovery costs more important than ever, and with many eDiscovery options available, corporate counsel and law firms are realizing that they can significantly reduce costs by bringing eDiscovery in-house.

But going in-house with eDiscovery cannot be over-complicated by having to fit technologies together that were never intended for the task of eDiscovery. Many “eDiscovery” solutions that vendors are selling include hard to manage and unnecessary processes, such as archiving, that are the result of vendors pushing legal features onto technology platforms that are inappropriate for what is needed. This adds unacceptable and unnecessary costs, weaker eDiscovery processes and a hard to manage infrastructure.

Kazeon has been hard at work. We first profiled their work within the eDiscovery industry in October, and then again last week we covered the benefits of their Information Server, which allows for agent-less eDiscovery analysis.

Now, Kazeon has announced the launch of KazForensics, a comprehensive set of forensics capabilities that creates new standards for complete authenticity of data and meta-data, as well as maximum defensibility of the eDiscovery process.

Kazeon Systems, who we introduced to you not too long ago, has been hard at work increasing the functionality and capabilities of their eDiscovery solutions. They’ve garnered the attention of new companies as a result. Despite financial chaos, the eDiscovery industry is proving to be recession proof.

In our quest to better understand eDiscovery and everything it has to offer, CMSWire has spent time talking with various companies that tackle the very essence of search and discovery of electronic documents.

In part one of this initiative, we reported on two companies that focus on the right side of the popular Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). The right side focuses on the processes involved in synthesizing and analyzing the data.

In our part two, we focused on the left side of the model — the one that deals with the information management part of the eDiscovery process.