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.

StoredIQ Helps Companies ‘AIIM’ for Information Intelligence at Info360 Conference

StoredIQ will be a conference presenter as part of the eDiscovery track during next week’s AIIM Info360 conference. The AIIM Info360 conference focuses on helping companies find new ways to capture, store, analyze, access, and deliver enterprise information.  AIIM Info360, will be held March 21 – 24, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

As part of the AIIM Info360 eDiscovery conference track, StoredIQ will be discussing the risks and costs of inefficient information management. Our goal is to help attendees understand the value of information intelligence across all their data sources, so information can be organized and managed according to specific policies and leveraged as an asset for eDiscovery, records management, governance and compliance.

WHERE: Walter E. Washington Convention Center —Washington, DC

WHEN: Wednesday, March 23 from 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM ET

TOPIC: Synchronize Your Approach to Information Management

DESCRIPTION: Organizations are forced to deal with vast and increasing amounts of unstructured information. IT departments have to operate on tighter budgets, and managing data is overwhelming. Organizations take a siloed approach to information management, dealing with eDiscovery, compliance and data storage separately; resulting in higher cost and increased business risk. Join StoredIQ vice president of field operations, Ellis Ishaya, as he discusses:

• How a synchronized approach to records and information management enables organizations to cut costs and gain more insight and control over their critical data needs, especially in today’s highly-regulated business world.
• How to properly find, classify and manage all information according to business value and risk.
• How to ensure a comprehensive, secure and efficient approach to meeting their governance and compliance needs.
• How to automate retention rules according to existing records retention schedules.

In addition to presenting, StoredIQ will exhibit our information intelligence solution at booth 1633 during the three-day event. Booth visitors can register to win a free data assessment service. Attendees that would like to schedule a meeting in advance should contact Jacqui Galow at info@storediq.com or +1 512-334-3156. For more information about AIIM Info360 or to register, visit www.aiimexpo.com.