Defensible Process

One fundamental aspect of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments is that organizations must now be more prepared to identify where discoverable content is located in order to respond and to preserve. Advanced preparation of any anticipated legal action is an absolute requirement. Companies are obligated to provide strict digital chain of custody during the discovery process to ensure a Defensible Process and compliance with the FRCP. A policy-based approach to electronic records management simplifies the process of establishing retention best practices that allow "good faith" destruction of data, as well as identifying content for pre-trial discovery conferences.

Autonomy ZANTAZ solutions automatically evaluate documents for their fiscal, legal, operational and historic value. Autonomy ZANTAZ solutions assess the meaning and the context of records automatically in order not only to capture potentially relevant documents from enterprise information, but also to make that content available in a common, searchable format. Searches can be performed and material content easily exported to standard formats to meet new document production requirements. The responsive party still has a "duty to preserve" data reasonably anticipated to be material to an action. Therefore, responsive parties need an email records management system that allows them to:

• Locate and isolate relevant records
• Preserve those records in a defensible and integral manner
• Continue normal business processes with non-material records

Autonomy ZANTAZ is a single vendor whose products and services provide an end-to-end solution with the ability to proactively automate the full spectrum of consolidated archiving, eDiscovery, analytics and real-time policy management uniquely in a single system.