Best practices, case studies and analyst reports provide guidance for e-discovery workflow, program development and IT integration
SEATTLE — March 12, 2007 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, today announced the launch of an e-discovery resource center, which includes a variety of resources such as white papers, case studies, Web seminars and industry analyst reports to assist IT departments with integrating e-discovery workflow into an overarching data management strategy.
“Corporations are changing the way they manage discovery, and IT departments are looking for information to help improve their existing processes for e-discovery,” said Mike Kinnaman, vice president of marketing for Attenex. “We’re launching this resource center to share some of the best practices from the thought leaders in the industry today.”
The resource center, which includes content from leading industry analysts such as Barry Murphy of Forrester Research, Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group and Vivian Tero of IDC, will be updated on an ongoing basis with case studies from Fortune 500 companies and materials on industry developments, such as recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). For example, Attenex is hosting a Web seminar on Tuesday, March 13 on native file format review and document production, and interested parties can either attend the Web seminar or listen to a recorded version in the resource center at a later date.
“At a minimum, one of out every two organizations has been through at least one electronic discovery event and it will only continue with the recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Organizations, especially IT departments, must understand how to more efficiently locate, preserve, and review information in order to support in-house and external counsel,” commented Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Attenex has a proven track record of reducing the cost of e-discovery for Fortune 500 companies, and the resource center should be of great value to IT departments that want to tap into those best practices and case studies.”
Attenex offers the Attenex® Patterns® E-Discovery Platform, a technical foundation on which corporations can integrate e-discovery into their overall data management strategy and keep control of the e-discovery process, even when discrete steps in the process are outsourced to law firms or service providers. The company’s patented and industry-leading technology helps corporate legal departments more cost-effectively and accurately manage the complete e-discovery process. The Attenex Patterns open Application Programming Interface (API) and software development kit (SDK) enable corporations to easily integrate Attenex Patterns with other applications as well as automate the loading of data, reducing time, expense and risk in the process. Current Attenex Patterns corporate customers are reducing their cost of e-discovery while integrating the application with leading network storage, email archiving software or enterprise content management (ECM) offerings.
The Attenex e-discovery resource center for IT departments is available for download at http://www.attenex.com/eDiscovery/IT/, and interested parties can register for the March 13 Web seminar at http://www.attenex.com/native/. For additional information, please visit www.attenex.com.
About Attenex
Attenex Corp. is changing the way corporations manage e-discovery. With an open software platform and industry expertise, Attenex enables corporations and their law firms to establish standardized e-discovery processes that reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations. Whether deployed on-premise or as a hosted service through the industry's largest network of global service providers, Attenex® Patterns® software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs. Attenex is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and more information is available at www.attenex.com.
Attenex Advantage Partners represent the industry's largest network of experienced legal industry service providers and consulting organizations that offer Attenex software to dramatically reduce the total cost of discovery for their clients. For more information, visit http://www.attenex.com/partners/.