Press Releases
Electronic Evidence Discovery Introduces eDiscovery Process Manager for IBM ECM platform
Product helps corporate legal departments and IT gain control of eDiscovery processes to reduce skyrocketing litigation costs and procedural risks
KIRKLAND, Wash. – February 4, 2008 –Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc., the leading provider in the eDiscovery market, today introduced eDiscovery Process Manager (eDPM), the first legal eDiscovery solution based on the IBM ECM enterprise content management platform. Enabling customers to further leverage their investment in IBM’s solution, eDPM automates current manual eDiscovery processes for custodian legal hold notification and enables corporate legal departments to gain control of eDiscovery processes and reduce rising eDiscovery costs and risk. eDPM enables IT teams to easily and effectively support the legal department with their existing IBM ECM implementation.
eDPM is a web-based solution that provides corporate legal departments easy access to eDiscovery content and processes. eDPM establishes a critical control function for corporate legal departments building defendable processes under the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and brings front-end eDiscovery functions in-house.
“Corporate legal departments want more control over the eDiscovery process and the associated costs,” said Dave McCann, chief executive officer of Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. “eDPM automates many of the processes that litigation professionals have had to do by hand and now they can automate eDiscovery workflows with the same IBM BPM technology that 60 percent of the Fortune 500 currently use as a standard. This solution will have a dramatic impact on their ability to more effectively manage legal content and processes.”
eDPM, when combined with EED’s other offerings including eDiscovery process consulting services, Discovery Partner®, for processing and review, and Discovery Process eXcellence (DPX), provide a unique suite for corporations looking to reduce eDiscovery cost and risk.
The first release of eDPM provides automated planning, execution and tracking of the custodian notification process by leveraging the workflow capabilities of the IBM ECM platform. eDPM features legal hold notification, matter file creation, and automated identification of custodians and sources. Legal professionals will be able to use eDPM to manage records associated with legal hold actions; create, distribute and manage notification acknowledgements; and move documents into a secure litigation repository and out of custodian information lifecycle control when necessary.
“eDPM is a direct result of the demands from both the IT and legal departments, which are equally involved in eDiscovery,” noted Ken Sokol, director of program management at Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. “Along with IBM, we are able to deliver comprehensive eDiscovery products and services that meet the growing needs of corporations, from managing time pressures to gaining control over mountains of unstructured data.”
About Electronic Evidence Discovery
eDiscovery. Discovered Here.™
Electronic Evidence Discovery (EED) is the pioneer of litigation hosting technology and electronic discovery services. For more than a decade, we have reduced the cost and time required for eDiscovery in thousands of high risk cases. Our eDiscovery experts, who come from law firms, corporations, and the technology industry, understand the complexity and risk involved in evidence management for large matters. Our clients — 60% of the Fortune 500 and 45% of the NLJ 250 — value our unmatched expertise, thought leadership and results. Through integration of our proven methodology, people and tools, EED delivers results that meet and surpass our clients’ expectations. EED is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.
For more information, please visit www.eedinc.com.
Media Contacts: |
Chris Warfield Sterling Communications, Inc. 206-388-5758 cwarfield@sterlingpr.com |