E-Discovery

More and more companies are being sued by disgruntled shareholders, customers, partners, and employees.  When sued, companies are required to identify, locate and produce specific electronic documents as evidence within a very tight schedule. This process is called e-discovery.

Most organizations have millions, if not billions of pieces of information scattered across many different systems and locations. According to Forrester Research, only 5% of this information is properly organized, leaving the remaining 95% without any means of easy identification and location. The inability to produce the required information for judges, juries and counsel is one of the most costly failures in the litigation process.

Standard Keyword Search Tools

Standard keyword-based search tools aren’t designed for or address the needs of e-discovery. Keyword-based search tools use popularity-ranking algorithms which deliver results that are derived from a combination of the most popular, the most linked to, or the most visited documents. While this type of search may provide thousands of results, it may well not deliver the right results or all the right results, or even the same results at different points in time. Furthermore, the many permutations of a keyword are often missed because of ambiguity. For example, an e-discovery search based on the keyword “Chevrolet" will not include relevant results for "General Motors Inc.", which owns the Chevrolet brand.

The time and resources needed to sift through all the keyword-based search results in order to find the exact right piece of information can make the e-discovery process prohibitively expensive. As a result companies may even decide to settle rather than go to court, even if they believe they can win.

E-discovery is about relevance not quantity. A case can be decided on a single email if it’s the relevant one. Therefore, companies need an e-discovery solution that can quickly, easily and automatically find all and only the relevant information across all data stores in the organization.

Be Ready for E-Discovery with AccessLogic

AccessLogic gives you the exact information you need to be ready for e-discovery – quickly, easily and automatically – so you can produce evidence in hours not months!

With AccessLogic you can immediately and automatically find all relevant information associated with a specific business entity, such employee, customer, partner or even project, stored in any data repository across your organization - even if the entity is referenced differently by other users or applications.

Additionally, AccessLogic can identify information based on a specific format such as email, or created during a defined time period. It can also identify all possible copies or versions of a document, irrespective of its actual file format or name, and it even indicates the extent of changes between different versions  - so you don’t miss a thing but you also don’t get flooded with unnecessary information.  Using AccessLogic’s advance search options you can further filter the information based on specific issues related to the case.

With AccessLogic for e-discovery you will:

• Quickly pinpoint the exact information needed for e-discovery (structured and unstructured) – no matter where the information is located or how it is named
• Be prepared for a potential e-discovery process in advance - it’s far more cost effective
• Easily understand the connection between different business issues and events across the organization
• Mitigate risk by quickly assessing the extent and merit of a case early on in the process or even before litigation