eTERA Consulting and StoredIQ to Host Webinar on eDiscovery Challenges of Microsoft SharePoint

StoredIQ will be joining eTERA Consulting to present a webinar focused on the eDiscovery challenges of Microsoft SharePoint reliability and cost efficiency.

Speakers for the webinar will include eTERA Consulting’s John Rubens, Managing Director of Corporate Analysis; Alan Brooks, Vice President of Marketing; and StoredIQ’s Amir Jaibaji, Director of Product Management. The webinar is part of eTERA Consulting’s ongoing series of training and education initiatives to help clients stay abreast of critical issues surrounding electronic discovery and electronically stored information (“ESI”).

In this complimentary webinar, attendees will learn about:

• SharePoint’s expanding presence within organizations
• How SharePoint’s increasing social media capabilities challenge standard preservation and forensic collection
• How case law such as Pension Committee and Victor Stanley is relevant to SharePoint legal hold and preservation
• Understanding the SharePoint environment through the eTERA Consulting and StoredIQ Risk Assessment Program

The complimentary webinar will take place on Tuesday, May 24 at 2:00 pm EDT / 1:00 pm CDT. To reserve a webinar seat now, please visit the registration page. For additional information please email info@storediq.com.

MGM Studios Selects StoredIQ for In-House eDiscovery

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (“MGM”), the production and distribution company, whose name is most synonymous with Hollywood has deployed StoredIQ’s Information Intelligence Platform to gain actionable insight from its expanding electronically stored data (ESI) – allowing the IT and legal teams to better collaborate and enhance eDiscovery strategies, while reducing risk and cost in the process.

As is the case with most organizations these days we were faced with a growing amount of electronic data across our enterprise and needed to ensure complete control of that information. With StoredIQ we better understand the state of our data and work in tandem with our legal team, so they can formulate legal strategies earlier in the process and as a result significantly reduce eDiscovery-related cost.

– Carol Campbell-Larson, executive vice president and CIO, information systems at MGM

Every company deals with exponentially growing data volumes, but the entertainment industry is unique when it comes to eDiscovery and IP protection. Disputes over copyright, trademark, right of publicity and idea submission claims – to name just a few – are ever-present in the motion picture business. MGM is one of the forward-thinking companies who have moved the eDiscovery process in-house and are proactively managing their information to protect their data assets to reduce related risk and cost.

Market-leading companies like MGM use StoredIQ to respond rapidly and efficiently to legal matters, litigation, and investigations. Utilizing StoredIQ, corporate legal teams can locate, analyze and act upon unstructured electronically stored information much more comprehensively and efficiently. As a result, companies can better manage their legal risk and reduce expenses, while formulating superior legal strategies. With StoredIQ, MGM and other companies can:

• Proactively manage their corporate data assets to meet their eDiscovery and regulatory compliance mandates
• Quickly locate matter-relevant ESI with advanced search technology
• Analyze electronic documents “in the wild”, where they natively reside without having to move data to a separate location
• Leverage a user-friendly legal and IT workflow and a scoreboard that keeps track of review costs as data is identified, preserved and collected
• Preserve and collect only the smallest legally defensible dataset to a secure legal hold repository, preserving all metadata and context
• Perform first-pass reviews on documents before exporting data downstream
• Act on and manage potentially relevant data in a legally defensible manner with audit trails and a robust chain of custody.

With StoredIQ, MGM streamlines eDiscovery, leverages early case analysis and reduces cost while proactively managing their IP data assets.

To learn more about StoredIQ, visit our website, or email us at info@storediq.com.

Early Case Assessment Finds Its Proper Place in the EDRM

For the past year we at StoredIQ, like everyone else in the eDiscovery space, spent quite a bit of time talking about our early case assessment (ECA) capabilities. Which is why our ears perked up last week when George Rudoy contributed an article to Law.com reflecting on ECA, its definition, and its evolution from a novel feature to finding its proper place in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). In his post, Rudoy states:

“While the debate on the usefulness and effectiveness of ECA continues, it should be noted that how the term is defined continues to evolve. Some of the service providers adapted quickly enough to have ECA as part of their “arsenal” a few years ago. Many of these tools were designed to filter metadata after collection and help the company decide how much a case will cost. This is a noble objective, but not completely in line with the original intent of ECA — which was to help an organization determine its risk exposure and make strategic decisions about a case based on that analysis.”

We couldn’t agree more. In fact, we’ve been talking about the importance of performing ECA at an earlier phase of the EDRM for a while now. We believe that for ECA to have its greatest potential impact it needs to be performed during the identification phase of EDRM, prior to collections. StoredIQ’s ECA technology, Analyze Anywhere, indexes unstructured electronic data and makes it available for searching and analysis without affecting metadata or content, prior to any movement or collection of data.  This ability to do ECA on data “in the wild” allows legal counsel to assess the merits of a dispute, formulate a legal strategy, and make decisions concerning the matter significantly faster than post-collection ECA. Additionally, it makes the data set that is ultimately produced for downstream, formal review not only qualitatively enriched and context aware, but also considerably smaller, thereby significantly reducing legal costs and risks. According to Rudoy:

“The premise of early case assessment is to give legal teams the ability to conduct up-front, fast, intelligent data gathering, with probative queries on the dataset to reduce it to a relevant universe that can be assessed.  Legal teams have a need to see “what they got” faster than what traditional EDD services typically can provide. “

StoredIQ can form threads, comparisons, relationships and statistics much faster than human reviewers can. Our user interface includes dynamic visuals, detailed reports and an intuitive dashboard to accomplish in-depth analysis of once unwieldy amounts of discovered data.  As the data set is culled —by custodian, file type, email domain, date range, key terminology, etc. — the StoredIQ Scoreboard presents a running count of the files retained (and eliminated from consideration) and automatically calculates the potential savings from the downstream review cycle.

By accomplishing ECA near the beginning of the eDiscovery workflow, ECA finally achieves the goals it originally set out to accomplish for improved legal strategy decisions and cost reduction.