Autonomy Announces Scalable End-to-End Hosted eDiscovery Solution

Pub. 6.13.08 by vendor

Autonomy Corporation plc., a global vendor of infrastructure software for the enterprise, introduced Wednesday its scalable end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution. With 6,000 servers across five data centers, Autonomy is providing hosted eDiscovery solutions for large and complex legal and regulatory matters. Autonomy applies advanced technology in its hosting centers, including analytics for Early Case Assessment (ECA), automatic categorization for prioritizing eDiscovery Review, language independence for international cases, and audio support required for financial services and subprime litigation cases.

Autonomy offers infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software offers complete spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications, including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, media management, information risk management solutions and security applications.

Autonomy's customer base comprises of various global companies and organizations, including 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Autonomy also has over 300 OEM (original equipment manufacturers) partners and more than 400 VARs (value-added resellers) and integrators, including BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. Autonomy has its US headquarters located in San Francisco, California.

The Autonomy Group includes Autonomy ZANTAZ, a provider of archiving, e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets, Autonomy Cardiff, a provider of Intelligent Document solutions, Autonomy etalk, a provider of enterprise-class contact center products, Autonomy Virage, a provider of media management and security and surveillance technology, and Autonomy Meridio, a provider of records management software.

"As litigation portfolios increase in size and complexity, law firms and corporations are demanding hosted eDiscovery solutions that offer high levels of scalability, security, speed of processing, as well as support for foreign languages and audio," said Dr. Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "Organizations often face new technology challenges that arise in large complex litigations. With Autonomy, since we develop all of our own technologies, we have the unique ability to partner with leading law firms and corporations to meet these challenges. Autonomy offers highly scalable, world-class data centers, experienced team and an end-to-end platform that allow customers to manage all data via a single interface regardless of language or file type, eliminating the risks inherent in passing it from vendor to vendor."

Autonomy's end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution is a fully outsourced, comprehensive technology and services solution, providing data preparation, ECA with pre-review analytics, full EDD processing, advanced review and production, all on a powerful platform. The hosted environment is fully flexible yet secure, enabling multiple parties involved in litigation to work together on the identification of custodians and hot documents and review of responsive data, generating ROI (return on investment) in terms of time saved during processing and review and a 50 percent cost savings when compared to other solutions.

As data is maintained with a single vendor, there is less risk of data spoliation, and chain of custody remains intact from beginning to end. Detailed reports can be provided to track the data at each step of the process, demonstrating an auditable and defensible practice in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Autonomy's end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution consists of Aungate Investigator and Early Case Assessment, which enables legal teams to pre-review electronically stored information (ESI) and assesses the merits of a case using powerful and user-friendly analytics. Aungate Investigator allows legal professionals to accurately identify ESI as responsive, non-responsive or privileged, and prioritize that data in hours and days, instead of weeks or months.

The new Autonomy eDiscovery solution also includes Introspect EDD On-Demand, which processes terabytes of ESI, including more than 100 languages and 1,000 data types, and filters and culls the data to quickly reduce volume and gain visibility to the information contained within massive data sets. The Introspect processing services team manages the critical processes of batch tagging and exporting the resulting set of documents, de-duplicating and extracting the metadata and preparing documents in a litigation-ready format.

The new Autonomy end-to-end hosted eDiscovery solution also includes Introspect Review and Production On-Demand, which provides a flexible high-performance online environment for combined image, native file and foreign language review, including voicemail messages and video files, multilevel foldering and full production. This massively scalable solution reduces costs by enhancing traditional keyword and Boolean search with conceptual understanding to automatically identify similar, near-duplicate documents, increasing efficiency with bulk coding and speeding the tagging of non-responsive data. Introspect ensures customer's search is FRCP-compliant and improves review and production effectiveness and quality.

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