StoredIQ’s Intelligent eDiscovery Solution

• Quickly locate matter-relevant electronic documents with advanced search technology
• Analyze electronic documents in-place with detailed data topology maps, advanced analytics, and precise data explorers
• Preserve and collect data to a secure legal hold repository, preserving all metadata and business 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

StoredIQ's Intelligent eDiscovery solution can help organizations respond rapidly and efficiently to legal matters, litigation, or investigations. Utilizing StoredIQ eDiscoveryManager, corporate legal teams can locate, analyze and act upon unstructured electronically stored information (ESI) much more comprehensively and efficiently. As a result, companies can better manage their legal risk and reduce expenses, while formulating superior legal strategies.

The critical need for legally defensible eDiscovery
Today, the eDiscovery process is frequently managed through a combination of point applications and process documentation applied in a reactive fashion.  Often, in order to manage legal matters and execute eDiscovery processes, legal and IT teams utilize three or more stand-alone, disjointed applications. This inefficient approach requires multiple processing steps, increases costs and lengthens the discovery schedule; worse, the entire process may not be repeatable or defensible.

Employee self-collection also increases legal risk. Unfortunately, many companies still rely on this method. The employees, not the legal team, make the primary decisions about the relevance of their documents, and self-collection often alters ESI metadata. This approach is also not repeatable, verifiable or defensible, thereby increasing the risk of sanctions and inference judgments.

At the same time, however, court rulings regarding the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are placing greater demands on the eDiscovery process with respect to speed, accuracy and defensibility. These rulings emphasize that controversies over the scope of discovery will likely be resolved by balancing the burdens and costs of providing the discovery against the potential benefit and value of the discovery.

A proven, industry-accepted model
StoredIQ eDiscovery solutions align with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), the industry standard accepted by service and software providers, law firms, industry groups and corporations.

StoredIQ and EDRM

StoredIQ's capabilities cover the majority of the EDRM stages, ensuring a comprehensive, efficient approach to eDiscovery.

Information Management
The StoredIQ solution automatically discovers, indexes, classifies, and manages unstructured data throughout the data lifecycle, mitigating legal risks and reducing costs. For more information, see StoredIQ's Litigation Readiness solution.

Identification
StoredIQ creates auditable data topology maps and analytics of all unstructured ESI under management, and provides powerful search technology that can be utilized to find potentially matter-relevant data “in place” across the industry’s broadest set of data sources.   Reports are highly customizable to meet specific dimensional criteria.

Collection
Once ESI is identified, StoredIQ collects relevant data and places it on an immutable legal hold repository, without altering it--and without disrupting end users.

Preservation
StoredIQ authenticates collection and preservation by maintaining an audit log of the collection and by creating a hash value before and after collection. In addition, access control lists (ACLs) and security identifiers (SIDs) are preserved, proving file ownership as tracked by the file system.

Processing
StoredIQ culls ESI to the minimum legally-defensible sub-set of potentially responsive data, de-duplicating globally or by custodian.

Analysis
Organizations can better prepare for FRCP Rule 26(f) conferences, improving their ability to negotiate with the opposing counsel with StoredIQ’s advanced analytics, even before data is collected. This accurate, real-time insight can help organizations improve legal strategies and control litigation costs.

Review
The StoredIQ eDiscovery solution facilitates first-pass review, providing a preview of the document’s content, highlighting key-word search terms, and enabling tagging for additional actions and considerations.

Your benefits with StoredIQ Intelligent eDiscovery
StoredIQ's Intelligent eDiscovery solution provides a range of business-critical benefits, including:

• Reduces eDiscovery time by providing faster collection, preservation and processing to make better legal decisions, meet deadlines and avoid sanctions
• Provides a fixed-cost solution that provides legal cost predictability
• Repeatability, transparency, defensibility of the entire eDiscovery process
• Facilitates and manages the entire matter lifecycle
• Mitigates the impact and burden on IT
• Produces legally defensible audit trails of all actions performed throughout the entire eDiscovery process

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