Respond quickly, accurately, and defensibly to
eDiscovery requests

Essentially, all organizations need to find and manage content for litigation, compliance, and internal or regulatory investigations. Responding in a quick and cost-effective manner is directly related to how effectively an organization can identify and act on potentially responsive information. Today, most business communications and activities take place electronically and the volume of electronically stored information (ESI) is growing exponentially. This information exists in a wide and ever-expanding variety of disparate systems and locations across the enterprise. Many of these sources are unmanaged, unorganized, and continually changing. As a result, the eDiscovery process—the identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, and review of potentially responsive ESI, can be an extremely time-consuming and costly endeavor.

Compound this information management challenge with the standards set forth by various regulatory bodies and the amended US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and it becomes apparent that, now more than ever, corporate legal and IT teams need an integrated solution supported by industry best practices to address the eDiscovery challenge. EMC enables organizations to effectively manage information in-house according to business value and risk and to respond rapidly and accurately to discovery requirements—while also controlling costs and reducing overall risk and exposure. EMC SourceOne™ eDiscovery - Kazeon is a fast-to-deploy solution that integrates all aspects of the eDiscovery process to enable an automated, in-house eDiscovery process that is forensically-sound, complete, and accurate. With EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon, organizations can quickly gain visibility and control over the eDiscovery process by automatically searching, processing, preserving, analyzing, and reviewing terabytes of files and e-mails from information sources across the organization.

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon also provides ongoing value by supporting good information governance practices to reduce the operational costs and risk associated with inefficient and insufficient information management practices. This allows the organization to manage its information based on value and risk, and apply retention policies—keeping what it needs to keep for as long as it needs to be kept, and disposing of what it does not need once all legal and regulatory obligations have been met.

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon is a quick-to-deploy appliance-based solution that automates the in-house identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, and review of content that resides in live and archive data sources such as desktops, laptops, Common Internet File System (CIFS) and Network File System (NFS) file shares, Microsoft Exchange, Symantec Enterprise Vault, and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, and in corporate archives and content repositories, such as EMC® Documentum®.

Collection and legal hold: The tight timelines imposed by the FRCP and other regulations have made the process of discovering and collecting relevant information in a fast, defensible, and transparent manner critical to ensuring that legal teams gain visibility into the matter early in the process so they understand the merits of the case and can determine appropriate legal strategies including avoiding litigation or associated legal fees.

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon provides flexibility, speed, and accuracy in transparently collecting relevant ESI in a defensible manner complete with auditing and data verification capabilities. With a simple user interface, legal teams can perform collection in a single step without requiring IT resources. And with today’s increasingly distributed and mobile workforce, collecting data from remote offices, desktops, and highly mobile laptops can be particularly challenging. EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon accomplishes this through a local, self-managed VMware-based agent or agent-less using federation. Legal hold is a key component of an in-house eDiscovery strategy. EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon offers a rich, policy-driven capability to identify, notify, manage and release legal holds across the enterprise.

Processing, analysis, and review: Analysis and review comprise the majority of costs associated with eDiscovery. Sifting through large volumes of documents and e-mails associated with an eDiscovery request requires tremendous time, money, and resources. Reducing the time and resources required for processing, analysis, and review substantially reduces overall eDiscovery costs.

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon provides the tools legal teams need to quickly preview and tag documents, filter non-relevant information, and identify the precise set of relevant content relevant to a matter or investigation. With a collaborative architecture to support distributed legal teams, single-click review, and fast-tagging capabilities, reviewer efficiency is maximized. When combined with advanced analytics, such as dynamic concept clustering, query analysis, e-mail thread analysis, and search visualization, review costs can be reduced as much as 90 percent.

Case management: Case-based management ensures that legal supervisors, investigators, and reviewers have access only to the information pertinent to their role. Reviewers from outside counsel see only what they need to see and those working on multiple cases have a secure and definite separation of case documents and e-mails. Legal supervisors can easily track the progress of case review and legal workflow status through dashboards and reports. Both built-in and customized reports such as data maps can be quickly prepared and exported for meet-and-confer sessions.

With EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon, organizations can:

• Analyze active data residing across the enterprise in hours or days vs. weeks or months
• Recognize and process more than 400 different file types in their native format
• Collect and preserve to litigation hold repositories while documenting chain of custody
• Employ advanced culling analytics to reduce the volume of collected information
• Leverage advanced analytics and a robust review platform to maximize legal team productivity
• Gain insight into the business value of information and take action based on policy
• Generate load files such as EDRM XML to support industry-standard review platforms
• Produce out-of-the-box data maps for meet-and-confer meetings

• Reduce costs and risk through in-house, accurate, and defensible eDiscovery processes
• Leverage in-house collection, processing, and analytical culling for downstream cost reduction
• Conduct early case assessment with extensive searching, analytics, and first-pass review
• Enforce defensible litigation hold and eDiscovery workflows with complete chain of custody
• Apply sophisticated analytics to identify privileged, relevant, and non-relevant data
• Optimize search and analytics with advanced, dynamic concept search
• Perform collaborative and distributed review and provide detailed case management reporting