IBM Announces New eDiscovery Software

IBM announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software designed to help clients meet challenging legal discovery requirements. The new IBM eDiscovery solutions extend IBM's ECM software platform to enable organizations to take control of electronically stored information across the enterprise. IBM's eDiscovery software helps companies manage the eDiscovery process by enabling them to automate the collecting, searching and classifying information across multiple content sources, while maintaining security and the ability to track changes. The new eDiscovery software integrates with IBM's auto-classification and records management technology to help IT departments manage information for compliance and electronic discovery requests. IBM eDiscovery software also integrates with IBM's content-centric business process management (BPM) capabilities to help organizations standardize, control and automate legal discovery workflows and enable third-party components as needed. The main component of IBM's solution is the new IBM eDiscovery Manager, which enables organizations to control the eDiscovery process by bringing key eDiscovery tasks in house. This helps clients more easily manage electronically stored information; provide earlier insights into collected evidence; and prioritize downstream evidence review, analysis and production. eDiscovery Manager helps authorized IT and legal users search, cull, hold and export case-relevant email evidence. Utilizing IBM's ECM technology as a base, eDiscovery Manager helps customers address the crushing volumes of uncontrolled, electronically stored information and enable a more productive, agile response to litigation. IBM eDiscovery Manager utilizes IBM's email archiving solutions, leverages IBM's ECM repositories, and supports an easy-to-use interface. http://www.ibm.com