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Stratify eVantage™ Delivers on the Promise of Integrated, Defensible eDiscovery for General Counsel
General Counsel can Practice Better Law with Stratify eVantage Intelligent Processing and Advanced Filtering Technologies
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, September 29, 2009 –
Stratify, Inc. a market leader in eDiscovery and subsidiary of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage services, today announces the introduction of Stratify eVantage™, an on-premises eDiscovery early case assessment solution that safeguards corporate proprietary information. The Stratify eVantage solution allows general counsel to reduce the cost and risk of eDiscovery by going beyond statistical data culling with advanced technologies that drive more intelligent, qualitative analysis on all matters and internal investigations in their eDiscovery portfolio.
“When completing an early case assessment, general counsel need the appropriate insight to make critical case strategy decisions to increase the likelihood of favorable outcomes,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Given the amount of electronically stored information that pertains to any given matter, the only way companies can cost effectively attain this insight is to utilize technology like the Stratify eVantage solution, which enables companies to quickly filter and cull large data sets, and more importantly, deeply analyze information to gather the necessary facts. The benefits are pretty clear: enhanced control over the electronic discovery process facilitating faster, more informed decision making to mitigate legal risk.”
Strategic eDiscovery for corporate counsel
With the Stratify eVantage solution, general counsel can now implement transparent and defensible early stage search, filtering and analysis on a reliable and secure enterprise-class platform. Paired with the hosted Stratify Legal Discovery® service, general counsel are able to employ an integrated eDiscovery strategy that scales with the size and complexity of each matter, offering seamless transition from on-premises early case assessment to high productivity review. The solution addresses three primary objectives for corporate legal departments:
- On-premises Early Case Assessment. General counsel can take a smarter approach to early case assessment using the advanced technologies and capabilities of the Stratify eVantage solution to quickly analyze fact and communication patterns while efficiently filtering large collections of raw data.
- On-premises First- level Document Preview and Tagging. The Stratify eVantage solution enables general counsel to examine the content of documents and emails so they can move beyond mechanical culling criteria to analyze fact patterns during internal investigations and assess the relevancy of documents for review.
- Seamless Integration with High-productivity Hosted Review. When matters require review by outside counsel and/or external experts, documents and work product from the Stratify eVantage solution can be seamlessly migrated to the Stratify Legal Discovery® service for hosted review to take advantage of in-depth review capabilities including Matter Portfolio Management, infrastructure support for distributed review teams and disaster recovery, and 24 / 7 / 365 project management.
“The days of addressing eDiscovery by blindly churning through data are over. Today’s matters require a comprehensive approach that efficiently manages high volumes of data while simultaneously illustrating the facts of the matter,” stated Ramana Venkata, chief operating officer, Iron Mountain Digital. “We are proud to bring Stratify’s advanced analytical technologies and intense focus on usability to corporate counsel in an easy to deploy on-premises solution. The Stratify eVantage solution will enable general counsel to reduce the overall cost of eDiscovery and develop legal strategies to minimize corporate liability – with the additional benefit of a flexible solution that empowers them to start small and scale up as needed.”
Powerful technology drives in-house eDiscovery efficiencies
The advanced capabilities of the Stratify eVantage solution include:
- Extensive data processing: The Stratify eVantage solution removes the barriers to utilizing corporate information for internal investigations and early case assessment. The appliance processes 300+ file and archive formats (including Encase, FTK and other forensic data files) together with Microsoft Exchange and UNIX mail, and automatically removes system files and duplicate documents.
- Granular search: The Stratify eVantage solution delivers in-depth search capabilities that enable general counsel to locate critical information regardless of how or where it lives on the network. Attorneys can interrogate data sets using full-text and metadata search, as well as keyword, phrase, wildcard, proximity, and sophisticated Boolean searching. Attorneys can also search in multiple languages, including complex character based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.
- Real-time filtering: Metadata-based “faceted search” provides general counsel an extraordinarily powerful filtering tool to accelerate early case assessment and efficiently identify key documents while reducing the volume of data for review. Metadata-based search “facets” can include concepts as well as structured information such as create date, senders, receivers, etc. Attorneys can combine and manipulate these search facets in real-time to refine search results, drill down into data sets and iteratively test hypotheses.
- Automated concept-organization: Stratify’s automatic concept organization technology groups documents and emails together by concepts that are specific to a particular matter, enabling attorneys to quickly assess relevancy of related documents. All search results in the Stratify eVantage solution are broken down by concepts that attorneys can use to quickly focus their investigation. From an overall matter perspective, the matter concept hierarchy provides general counsel with an intelligent, overall view of documents in a given investigation.
- Advanced analytical capabilities and multi-language support: The Stratify eVantage solution provides near-duplicate detection and sophisticated email thread analysis, as well as robust multi-language support. The appliance auto-detects documents in multiple-languages, organizes non-English language documents into language-specific concept folders and indexes character-based languages (such as Japanese, Chinese and Korean) to optimize search.
The Stratify eVantage solution will be available to corporate clients within 30 days.
About Stratify, Inc.
Stratify, Inc. a subsidiary of Iron Mountain Incorporated, is one of the largest electronic discovery solution providers in the world today, serving a large portion of the AmLaw 200 and leading Fortune 500 corporations. The Stratify Legal Discovery® service provides one of the most comprehensive, easy-to-use and reliable technology-assisted eDiscovery solutions for early case assessment and efficient review. Stratify is headquartered in Mountain View, California and maintains a significant regional presence in Boston, Massachusetts, with datacenters in San Jose and Sacramento, CA and Bangalore, India. For more information about Stratify, please visit www.stratify.com.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 140,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin American and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.
Stratify, Stratify Legal Discovery, Know What You Have and Iron Mountain are registered trademarks, and Stratify eVantage is a trademark, of Iron Mountain.
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