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Kazeon Partners With Catalyst and CAAS to Streamline E-Discovery Processes
Seamless Integration of Technology and Services Delivers Unprecedented Productivity, Control and Cost Savings to Organizations Involved in Litigation
| Source: Kazeon
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 29, 2007 -- Kazeon, the leader in Information
Management, today announced an alliance with Catalyst, a provider of
litigation document review and extranet software, and CAAS, a legal and
information risk management consulting company, to deliver the industry's
most advanced, end-to-end e-discovery and records management solution. This
groundbreaking partnership leverages Kazeon's Information Server IS1200-ECS
to dramatically decrease the time and cost of the manually intensive
e-discovery process by as much as 90%. Catalyst's litigation support
platform enables legal teams to easily organize and collaborate on search
results generated by Kazeon while CAAS' end-to-end discovery process
management plays an integral role in guiding those organizations through
the legal aspects of the e-discovery process for litigation and records
retention. The partners' integrated solution delivers unprecedented
productivity, control and cost savings to legal and IT staff managing
litigation within an organization.
"Our alliance with Catalyst and CAAS is built upon Kazeon's Search the
Enterprise™ vision for automating, managing, and securing documents
during the e-discovery process," said Tom Thimot, Chief Operating Officer
of Kazeon. "Catalyst and CAAS provide the next steps in technology and
services to help legal staff take advantage of Kazeon's enterprise search
capabilities for records management and e-discovery preparedness. Together,
we are offering an end-to-end solution that promises to change the rules
for the new age of litigation."
Instead of reverting to panic mode and paying top dollar to respond to
e-discovery demands, organizations can now leverage Kazeon's alliance with
Catalyst and CAAS to implement an end-to-end solution for discovery
preparedness that eliminates the business disruption and skyrocketing costs
of e-discovery mandates. With a prescribed records management process in
place and the ability to quickly and easily search billions of documents,
corporate general counsels can now quickly and easily conduct pre-discovery
while allocating more time to strategically preparing a case rather than
manually searching through thousands and thousands of documents.
"As discovery experts, our clients are asking us to create powerful,
defensible and cost effective ways to conduct discovery in their
enterprise. We worked with Kazeon and Catalyst to integrate their
breakthrough technologies so that we could extend our litigation discovery
expertise further into the information and records management continuum.
This approach provides a much better cost containment, information
corporate governance, compliance and risk management value proposition to
corporations and law firms that employ our integrated solution for records
management, litigation document review, and internal information audits,"
noted CAAS' Director of Litigation Risk Management, Richard Davis.
In the wake of new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
(FRCP), companies must find new ways to mitigate increased legal risks due
to rapidly growing data stores. Under FRCP Rule 26(b), parties in
litigation must produce all electronically stored information that is
relevant, not privileged and "reasonably accessible," which includes
information that resides online on desktops, laptops, servers, and
networked storage systems. In reviewing legal discovery requests, a
requesting party may identify electronic sources containing information
that the responding party is neither searching nor producing. Consequently,
businesses must now build sufficient processes and capabilities into their
IT infrastructure in order to satisfy these new legal requirements.
John Tredennick, Catalyst's founder and CEO, added, "With digital content
exploding, corporations and insurers are looking for new ways to manage
electronic documents and take control of their litigation. By combining our
repository product with Kazeon's collection systems and CAAS' deep
experience in the litigation process, we think we can offer our clients a
better way to manage document review and a quick way to cut their
litigation costs."
Kazeon's IS1200-ECS automates the e-discovery process by indexing and
identifying relevant documents (MS Office, PST, PDF, etc) and email
messages stored on servers, storage systems, desktops and laptops. This
enables legal and IT staff to quickly determine the scope, breadth and
depth that this electronically stored information might be pursued during
discovery. Powerful features are combined with an easy-to-use web-based
user interface to enable legal and IT staff to tailor and meet the
organizations requirements for the workflow of document review during
litigation. These features enable the legal and IT staff to automate and
take consideration of any claims and defenses, preservation demands,
disclosure requirements, and discovery demands.
Legal and IT staff can now, for the first time, quickly identify
potentially discoverable electronically stored information across the
enterprise, accurately assess the data that has been gathered, and preserve
the integrity of the collected information by automatically protecting it
against destruction or alteration. The overall data set collection can
also be reduced by setting aside duplicate and irrelevant documents and
email messages based on file content, email thread analysis, and more.
About Catalyst Repository Systems
Catalyst is a leading provider of secure online repositories to help
professional teams manage large volumes of electronic documents and work
together on complex legal, insurance and business matters. Its repository
product, Catalyst CR, is one of the first grid-based litigation support
platforms. Even with documents collections in the tens of millions, its
search engine routinely delivers sub-second search times for very large
queries (750 terms). Its case collaboration software, Catalyst XE, is used
by some of the largest corporations and insurers in the world to connect
counsel and share litigation files worldwide.
About CAAS
Constantine & Aborn Advisory Services, LLC provides electronic discovery
consulting, proactive litigation response planning, investigative services
and SIC code based records retention programs for corporations and law
firms. CAAS offers superior resources to assist their clients strategically
address all facets of information discovery and risk mitigation. Their
professionals provide a unique set of advisory services that speak to the
governance, risk and compliance issues in ways that optimize organizational
performance. CAAS clients include general counsel and CIOs of the world's
leading corporations.
About Kazeon
Kazeon is recognized as the industry leader in Unstructured Information
Management. The Information Server product line provides the foundation
for corporations to search, manage, and secure their digital assets.
Through innovative data indexing, classification and search technology,
Kazeon has helped hundreds of customers worldwide drive out excessive cost,
risk and drain on productivity associated with the rapid growth of
information to tackle the challenges of Legal Discovery, Compliance, and
Data Privacy. In securing partnerships with Google and Network Appliance,
Kazeon has quickly gained wide market acceptance for its award-winning
products, as recognized by Gartner, Storage Magazine, Network World,
Datamation, and InfoStor. Leading global organizations like SAP, GE,
Cisco, Bosch, ING Group, Phillips, Novartis, and INVESCO rely on Kazeon
solutions.
Founded in 2003, Kazeon is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For
additional information about Kazeon, please visit http://www.kazeon.com.