eDiscovery

When a company is involved in litigation or an investigation, holds are often placed on documents to prevent them from being destroyed. Much like paper documents, electronic items like emails, PDFs, presentations, audio and video files, and web site relevant to the hold need to be identified, analyzed and produced in order for the company to be compliant. Manually performing searches to find information can be very time-consuming, expensive and risky. Employees make mistakes, e.g. turning over too much or too little information, which can cause more problems. Having a good electronic discovery, or eDiscovery, solution in place can make a noticeable difference. A well-designed solution can lower risk and costs associated with electronic discovery by:

• Allowing organizations to make better decisions related to a case or investigation due to more accurately assessed risk and cost
• Improve accuracy and speed of identifying relevant documents
• Improve accuracy and speed of producing documents

IBM solutions, like eDiscovery Manager, provide the tools legal and IT teams need to effectively discover, preserve and organize documents while providing an environment that is secure, auditable and highly scalable. When used with tools like eDiscovery Analyzer, legal and IT teams have a toolset designed to ease the costs and burden of easy case assessments and to help better understand critical evidence earlier in the case. This could make a significant difference in case strategy and help avoid unnecessary risks and costs.

Our solutions can include the following IBM products:

• Atlas IT eDiscovery Process Management
• Atlas eDiscovery Cost Forecasting and Management
• Atlas eDiscovery Process Management
• Desktop Data Collector
• eDiscovery Analyzer
• eDiscovery Identification and Collection
• eDiscovery Manager