Consolidated Archive | End-to-End eDiscovery| Challenges of Information

World's first end-to-end eDiscovery solution

The unique capabilities of IDOL, its spectrum of complete operations and marketplace experience, have been combined with Aungate, Meridio and ZANTAZ technology to support the world's first end-to-end electronic document solution. The full Autonomy ZANTAZ solution addresses this challenge by dovetailing the processes used to create and intelligently store electronic information with IDOL-powered discovery operations, as the EDRM model in the diagram above illustrates.

A highly-regarded initiative within the legal industry, the EDRM Project was created in 2005 to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market. The reference model pictured above was subsequently completed by the group to provide a common, flexible and extensible framework for the development, selection, evaluation and use of electronic discovery products and services. Over the past three years, the EDRM project has comprised more than 118 organizations, including 72 service and software providers, 34 law firms, three industry groups and nine corporations involved with eDiscovery.

As the only vendor to address each step of the model, Autonomy ZANTAZ's IDOL-powered solutions set a new benchmark in the archiving, eDiscovery and proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets. Autonomy ZANTAZ has the unique ability to initiate a potential series of events when a document is created, beginning at the desktop with solutions such as Automated Document Tagging and Desktop Legal Hold, and then delivering that same piece of electronic data through to Records Management and eventually eDiscovery operations.

Recognizing the value of a single, standardized data format for all electronic discovery processes, the EDRM Project in 2006 developed and launched an Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard to facilitate the industry-wide transfer of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) from one application to another.

Autonomy ZANTAZ was a key driver within the EDRM Project in developing the agreed-upon common XML code, providing the initial technology foundation on which the standard could be built. This standardization provides a monumental leap forward for the industry, enabling IT departments, legal teams and service providers to reduce valuable time and resources spent converting and transferring ESI from system to system. In addition, the single data format alleviates the corporate risk of manipulated or even lost data that is sometimes a result of converting information from one format to another.

Showing true commitment to the new standard, Autonomy ZANTAZ is the first offering in the market with the ability to fully support EDRM XML across all of its IRM products and services, which include media restoration, consolidated archiving, advanced electronic data discovery, review, production, real-time policy management and analytics. The recent release of Introspect 6, Autonomy ZANTAZ's number one leading eDiscovery review tool, was specifically designed with this capability, enabling legal professionals to immediately begin processing data in accordance with the EDRM standard. Autonomy ZANTAZ extends support beyond the traditionally defined eDiscovery space by also supporting the standard within EAS, the market leading consolidated archive solution.

By supporting this single proprietary data format for the capture, processing and review of ESI, Autonomy ZANTAZ's IRM platform is the only end-to-end solution that allows organizations to proactively manage their data throughout the entire discovery process, as outlined by the EDRM model, all through one single vendor. Enterprises can now seamlessly move their data through the eDiscovery lifecycle - from identification to preservation and collection, review and analysis, production and ultimately presentation - without the need to engage additional parties who could potentially taint the "chain of custody" or negatively impact the consistency of accurate data production.

Key differentiators

• Autonomy ZANTAZ is the only vendor to offer an entire spectrum of proactive IRM solutions on a common platform (IDOL)
• Brings key conceptual advances to the IRM market with the ability to understand the meaning of information and interactions, and to perform advanced analytics on information across operational systems and consolidated archives
• The first and only vendor to create a consolidated archive of all information sources including email, IM, multimedia attachments, enterprise systems, voice and video with support for over 100 languages and a choice to deploy in-house, outsourced or in combination
• The most scalable and secure IRM solution with over 5 petabytes and 20 billion messages stored, 1 billion pages in active litigation review and processing of 1 million files per hour at high-security data centers and a state-of-the-art Network Operations Center with 24/7 monitoring
• Unparalleled understanding of the enterprise: already plumbed into enterprise information sources for many of the Global 2000
• The de facto standard for regulators, securities firms, law firms and enterprises in use at the SEC, NYSE, 14 of the top 20 financial institutions, 9 of the top 10 global law firms and over half of the Fortune 25