Category: Electronic Discovery

Huron Consulting set to fix Autonomy services in the wake of Microsoft search acquisitions

If Huron approaches a client about “eDiscovery process improvements” without any product offering it typically falls on deaf ears. However fixed priced eDiscovery is sure to generate a lot of buzz and listeners. If you are buying into V3locity, Huron’s next step is to deploy Autonomy/ZANTAZ into your environment as your intelligent preservation and collection system. While this is a win-win for both Huron and Autonomy, it may turn out to be a life saver for Autonomy.

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Don’t be intimidated by legal technology

The mood with legal counsel is still one in which they feel a bit intimidated by the information technology jargon that is thrust their way by eDiscovery. Their comfort zone rests in writing a document (e.g., retention policy management) that they believe should be taken literally. Of course such documents should be followed to the letter. However, when a CEO, CFO, or VP Sales has to save a document to a thumb drive

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Intelligent collection and preservation for eDiscovery costs savings

Synopsis Part 2: Intelligent collection and preservation contains eDiscovery costs savings
Synopsis Part 1: Legally, what’s a retention policy? How to educate IT? What’s a CIO to do? — Electronic data discovery Interview – Michele Lange, Esq., is the director of legal technologies for Kroll Ontrack (Part 2 of 2) — Joshua Konkle: What is causing the need for intelligent preservation/collection by the corporation? — Michele Lange: Cost Containment. eDiscovery can be costly if not well managed.

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Archiving and ECM are first steps to intelligent collection and preservation

Electronic data discovery Interview – Aaref Hilaly, Chief Executive Officer, Clearwell Systems (Part 3 of 3)
Aaref brings extensive technology, entrepreneurial management, and Fortune 500 consulting expertise to his position. Prior to Clearwell, he was Co-Founder, President and CEO of CenterRun, which he led from inception in 2000 to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems (NYSE:SUN) in August 2003. CenterRun was a leading provider of application provisioning software and today forms the basis of Sun’s data center automation product suite.

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Electronic Data Discovery and Archiving Alert: Microsoft/FAST gives leverage to Zantaz/EAS users upgrading to Autonomy

I always credit Microsoft with putting together a great developer network and supporting partners. MSDN is one of the many Microsoft successes that should concern Autonomy. Autonomy must evaluate Microsoft’s developer network focus as they continue to charge clients for upgrades, training, etc with respect to Zantaz/AltaVista and Autonomy IDOL. Microsoft’s broader services and development focus is verified by Jeff Raikes quote in InfoWorld “I can simply say that part of what we will look at … will be to marry the strengths we have with our software-plus-services model with what FAST is doing.”

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CIOs and their IT departments learn legal concepts to solve data retention problems

Electronic data discovery Interview – Aaref Hilaly, Chief Executive Officer, Clearwell Systems (Part 2 of 3)
Aaref brings extensive technology, entrepreneurial management, and Fortune 500 consulting expertise to his position. Prior to Clearwell, he was Co-Founder, President and CEO of CenterRun, which he led from inception in 2000 to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems (NYSE:SUN) in August 2003. CenterRun was a leading provider of application provisioning software and today forms the basis of Sun’s data center automation product suite.

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