Category: Electronic Discovery

Data mapping helps you answer “How long do I have to keep my data, really?”

When these two groups meet, the language and focus is decidedly different. Fios consultants use skills of communication and collaboration to bridge this gap. This has been the focus of Fios since our inception nearly a decade ago. We pioneered the concept of litigation readiness in 2003, well before the amendments to the Federal Rules were in place, and have built an entire portfolio of discovery planning services to help both IT and legal prepare for discovery challenges. For example, in the data mapping process, we help them focus on eDiscovery as a business process that incorporates:

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Electronic Discovery behind the firewall and AXS-One vision, will it be 20/20?

As CEO I’m happy to say my sales, engineering and operations teams are executing against our shared vision. AXS-One latest functionality includes a very sought after Case Manager module. It is providing our customers with a true self-service discovery and review capability. If I may indulge a bit on my team’s hard work; the Case Manager enables our customers to:
* Conduct initial searches themselves
* Review and modify the results of the searches
* Add dispositions to the searched results
* Package the search for additional review by outside counsel/other 3rd party

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AXS-One is educating legal on IT, but CIOs and IT must fend for themselves

Joshua Konkle: One of the most frequently asked questions by CIO’s and others worried about the cost of data management is “how long do I have to keep my data, really?” What do you say when you get asked that question? — Bill Lyons: We can help is the first thing I say. We have been providing record compliance solutions for many years. In all cases, we discuss the need to plan for secure destruction and work with customers on implementing appropriate technology to manage the retention, disposition, preservation and destruction of data.

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EMC content archiving group still talks about possibility, not reality

Carl Frappaolo, AIIM Vice President, Market Intelligence says “Unstructured information drives numerous business processes…” The logical option here would be to deploy a business process management suite (BPMS) of tools. Step one is to identify what departments, project groups and individuals are involved in the business processes. Step two; identify the information that results from those individuals, groups and departments. Step three, once the business process is mapped to the information you simply associate it with a retention management product and policies.

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AXS-One agrees Spitzer and financials drove email archiving, what’s next for blogs and wikis?

Prior to 2007 the drivers for archiving were two fold 1) operational efficiencies and 2) SEC 17a4. The latter required financial services companies to maintain a record of every email sent and received from the company. These two issues drove the systems to retain and manage data, largely email initial. The early success of products from KVS, Inc, now Symantec, are clear examples of people buying for specific applications.

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Managing legal risk using early case assessment to reduce reviewed documents

I would agree with that 70% of the time reviews require more data from the source, in fact, it is probably higher. The reason the source data needs to be recalled during review is based on a simple fact – “the review phase is the FIRST time a qualified reviewer has looked at the data qualitatively, i.e. custodians, concepts, context etc.” Waiting until the data is in a review system to evaluate it is causing companies thousands if not millions annually. Those dollars would be much better spent as pennies, which is the cost of ECA tools in terms of review budgets. The goal’s are simple 1) reduce data sets going into review 2) improve data review during collection.

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Legal and business issues IT must know when choosing an early case assessment tool

Joshua Konkle: In companies with multiple litigations and complex IT the argument is often made for soup-to-nuts approach, preservation to production what are your thoughts on such a system? — Greg Buckles: First let me say that information management is one of the most important pieces of the eDiscovery reference model. Second, the soup-to-nuts approach may lack flexibility by design and could create inefficiency depending on the scale of a matter. For example, a system that works for a small HR case, may not work for a shareholder lawsuit.

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Suntech offers Call/IP Detail Record (CDR/IPDR) retention to US eDiscovery and investigation market

Although the data elements are small, they are numerous. For example, a medium sized company with 3000 users using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system would generate 24000 calls if each person received one call per hour throughout an 8 hour work day. In two years time that would equal at least 18 million call records and requires companies implement automated solutions to capture and manage these call records. Moreover, those automated systems must scale well beyond 18 million records on a daily basis. Working with carrier grade companies, those that serve the general public, Suntech experienced very high data retention requirements early in the development cycle.

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Education brings IT and Legal groups together for legal risk management

We often ask our clients to bring IT and Legal together for a conversation. We use our experienced staff to help coordinate between the two groups on legal issues, retention policies and key technology concerns. For example, we don’t expect GCs to understand storage area networks (SAN) and host bus adapters (HBA), but we do want them to know that the equivalent to a post-it note on a contract is meta-data properties like blind-carbon copy on emails. We also encourage our clients and prospects to educate themselves using white papers, publications and blogs.

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