eDiscovery Alliance Between Attenex and Kazeon

Attenex Corp. and Kazeon Systems, Inc. announced an alliance to provide enterprise customers, legal service providers and law firms with a combined offering of their complementary software applications. Through the alliance, corporate legal and IT departments can ensure consistent and targeted eDiscovery processes across the company in a repeatable, defensible manner — facilitating early case assessments and improving productivity. The joint offering also enables corporations to measurably reduce the risk, duration and cost of eDiscovery matters while increasing visibility and control over electronically stored information.

”Corporations and law firms recognize that they need to align their legal challenges and IT capabilities to streamline and enhance the eDiscovery process,” said George Socha, president of Socha Consulting LLC and co-founder of the EDRM Project. “The alliance between Attenex and Kazeon is representative of a best-of-breed approach for repeatable, defensible and scalable eDiscovery.”

The combination of Attenex and Kazeon helps corporate legal and IT departments to more quickly react to litigation, conduct early case assessments, accelerate legal review and improve the defensibility of in-house processes. Joint offering benefits include:

• Efficient management of reactive and proactive eDiscovery tasks using enterprise-class eDiscovery software currently employed by leading corporations, eDiscovery service providers and law firms
• Repeatable and predictable workflow for managing files and emails from collection through review for investigations, litigation and regulatory requests
• Simplified eDiscovery project management and audit trail to maintain chain of custody throughout the eDiscovery process
•  Increased control over the high costs and time it takes to effectively sift through ever-increasing volumes of electronically stored information (ESI)

“Corporations are trying to bridge the gap between IT and legal responsibilities for e-discovery, and do it in a cost-effective and repeatable manner,” said Meishelle Haverkamp, director of alliance marketing for Attenex. “The partnership between Attenex and Kazeon helps corporations and law firms more quickly master and optimize their in-house processes.”

"Kazeon is a market leader for enabling IT and legal professionals to plan for discovery, shorten the time to produce relevant information and to know their information management infrastructure. Attenex leads the way for enterprises to accelerate review and deliver defensibility of process,” said Steve d’Alencon, Kazeon vice president of product marketing. “Together, Kazeon and Attenex offer corporations a ‘no compromises’ solution for meeting eDiscovery obligations at the lowest possible cost and risk."

Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Software is a top e-discovery software application for both law firms and corporations, according to the 2007 Socha-Gelbmann E-Discovery Survey. Attenex Patterns dramatically reduces the time and cost of the most expensive process within e-discovery: legal document review. Available on-premise, in a hosted environment managed by an Attenex Advantage partner or in a custom combination tailored to the demands of the customer’s environment, Attenex Patterns enables in-house legal and IT teams to efficiently filter collected data and reduce the volume of data by up to 80 percent. These powerful filtering capabilities are combined with market-leading visual analytics that present legal review teams with a faster, more accurate and less costly method to review ESI for internal investigations and in the development of case strategy.

The Kazeon Information Server has been specifically designed to enable companies to significantly shorten the time it takes to identify, collect, preserve and process electronically stored information (files and eMail) from various sources within the company, including individual desktops and laptops, branch office servers and data center resources (e.g. networked storage, email servers and archives), thereby curtailing unnecessary eDiscovery costs. Kazeon delivers industry-leading price/performance for in-house processing of ESI in preparation for reactive and proactive eDiscovery matters as low as $4.30 per Gigabyte. Also, Kazeon delivers the industry’s highest performance for full-content indexing up to 17 Terabytes per day. Kazeon provides unique Single Step Collection™ technology that allows extremely rapid, targeted collections of ESI for litigation hold and early case assessment, helping to minimize over-collection while avoiding spoliation or loss of good faith by the court. Kazeon’s Information Access Platform software for topology mapping, custodian inventory, data classification and search ensures that companies can reduce legal risk and minimize collection and preservation expense. In addition, companies can reduce exposure to risk, fines and sanctions and enable post-litigation utility of the work product.

As part of the agreement, Kazeon has joined the Attenex Advantage Technology Partner program and Attenex has joined the Kazeon Partner program.