eDiscovery Solutions Group Announces Comprehensive Support Services for Equivio Near-Duplicates and Email Threads Technology

I am pleased to announce that our international consortium of eDiscovery Providers has formed a partnership with Equivio. I met the management team from Equivio several years ago and have been very impressed with their technology and success in the US markets.

With our commitment to support a variety of review platforms such as Concordance, Summation, Ringtail, iConect, Relativity, CaseCentral and CaseLogistix coupled with our experience and expertise in de-duping, near de-duping and email thread management, we expect Equivio and its technology to be a great addition to our consortium.

The Full Text of the Press Release is as follows:

Eagle, Idaho (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 – eDiscovery Solutions Group announced today that it has entered in to a partnership with Equivio to provide comprehensive consulting, training and systems integration support for Equivio’s near-duplicates and email threads technology.

Equivio’s grouping, analysis and management of near-duplicates and email threads enable litigation knowledge workers to easily identify and skip redundant data and focus exclusively on the unique information in each document. Equivio reduces the risk of missing key information, ensures a consistent approach across the entire data set, enhances review productivity and reduces the amount of time required for litigation knowledge workers to meet tight deadlines.

Under the terms of the partnership, eDiscovery Solutions Group professionals and certified consortium members will be available to assist Equivio clients with comprehensive eDiscovery consulting, document review best practices and end-user training for leading industry document management platforms such as Concordance, Summation, Ringtail, iConect, Relativity, CaseCentral and CaseLogistix. In addition, eDiscovery Solutions Group technologists and certified consortium members will be available to assist software vendors with integrating Equivio into commercial product lines and end users with integrating Equivio into internal legacy systems.

eDiscovery Solutions Group will also begin selling Equivio as a component of its eDiscovery services, consulting and technology offering designed to support the entire eDiscovery lifecycle for the legal departments of corporations, the IT departments of corporations that need to support eDiscovery requirements, and litigation-centric law firms.
“In today's complex corporate reality of managing ever increasing volumes of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and changing eDiscovery demands, the cost of document review is the single most expensive component of the eDiscovery lifecycle,” states Charles Skamser, Founder, President and CEO of eDiscovery Solutions Group. “We believe that Equivio near–duplicates and email threads technology can have a profound effect on increasing the productivity of litigation knowledge workers, reducing the amount of ESI that has to be reviewed downstream and thereby reducing the overall cost of the entire eDiscovery lifecycle,” continues Mr. Skamser.

eDiscovery Solutions Group offers a broad array of eDiscovery consulting, services and technology along with project management to support the entire eDiscovery lifecycle. Following the eDiscovery processing parameters of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), eDiscovery Solutions Group has developed an eDiscovery best practices framework that includes consulting, collection, analysis, processing, production, review and presentation.

Within this framework, the eDiscovery Solutions Group can deliver data retention policy, development, data archiving, eSecurity, eCompliance, eDiscovery readiness, strategic planning, implementation support, paper and ESI collection, investigations, expert testimony, data recovery, computer forensics, early case assessment, data analysis, data redundancy management, conceptual search, de-dupe, near de-dupe, scanning, copying, coding, language translation, EDD, TIFF conversion, hosting, on-site, on-shore and off-shore review, legal process outsourcing (LPO), courtroom graphics and presentations, tool training, systems integration and custom solutions.
“As our installed base continues to grow, we are very pleased to have eDiscovery Solutions Group as a partner to assist with providing review consulting, training end-users and providing systems integration for our clients,“ stated Amir Milo, CEO of Equivio. “eDiscovery Solutions Group staff of experienced eDiscovery professionals, along with their network of consortium members, will be a welcome addition to the Equivio community.”

About Equivio
Equivio enables the management of data redundancy in content-centric business processes. Equivio's technology zooms in on unique data, allowing you to read less, think more, win big™. With products for grouping near-duplicates, capturing email threads and comparing documents, Equivio powers a broad range of business applications, including e-discovery, records management, email archiving, data retention and intelligence. To learn more about winning with Equivio, email info@equivio.com or visit http://www.equivio.com/.

About eDiscovery Solutions Group
eDiscovery Solutions Group is an international consortium of leading independent eDiscovery consultants, eDiscovery consulting firms, regional litigation service providers and best-in-class eDiscovery technology companies that have come together to provide all of the services, consulting and technology necessary to support the entire eDiscovery lifecycle for the legal departments of corporations, the IT departments of corporations that need to support eDiscovery requirements and litigation centric law firms. For more information about eDiscovery Solutions Group, please visit: http://www.ediscoverysolutionsgroup.com/.

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PO Box 2299
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Main: 208-387-7883
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Labels: CaseCentral, CaseLogistix, Concordance, Early Case Assessment, ECA, Electronic Data Discovery, Equivio, iConect, Online Review Tools, Relativity, Ringtail, Summation

posted by Charles Skamser @ 9:28 AM 0 Comments

Will SaaS Ligitation Support Tools Change the Litigation Vendor Landscape?

In a recent article about SaaS Litigiation Support Tools on Law.com, Brett Burney writes that the new generation of online tools such as Lexbe and ImageDepot that are delivered under the new architecture called Software-as-a-Service are an appealing alternative to the standard more expensive and combursome solutions such as Summation and Concordance that have been on the market for years. real equalizer for small to medium sized law firms. In the same artilce, Cliff Shnier, an e-discovery expert and consultant who has written on this topic in the past, states, "SaaS litigation databases to be something of an equalizer for small and big litigation firms. He muses that while smaller firms may not enjoy the resources of their larger counterparts, using a SaaS litigation database could level the playing field and make the smaller firm more attractive to a big corporate client."

If you read this blog on a regulary basis, you will know that I am a big fan of SaaS technology and therefore agree with Brett's conclusions. However, I would take it a step further by pointing out that SaaS tools will quickly outpace the older competitors in the market with their inherent ability to quickly and easily add very sophistiacted features and functions and to also support very customized look and feels for every single user. This capability, referred to as extensibility is a standard feature of a true multi-teannet and self provisioning SaaS application and is literally impossible for older competitors build on client server applications and serverd up under a Citrix or similiar technology to support. There is no doubt that they can mimic these capabilities with cumbersome code fixes and write arounds. We have already seen several vendors come out with online solutions of their client server tools.

However, the very nature of their older code base is such that over time they will just flat not be able to keep up unless they undergo an expensive and client disrupting rewrite. And, once a software vendor does down this path, they open up their customer base to seek newer technologies. It's a model that has repeated itself time after time in the software industry and has spelled doom for many a software company that couldn't keep with the inevitable cycle of new technology.

As such, in the months to come, you will begin to see the new Litigation Support SaaS vendors quickly gaining marketshare and overshadow the older software players in the industry. I predictd that it will completely change the landscape of ligitaiton software vendors.

In the weeks to come, I will post a more detailed discussion of this topic along with some predictions of who will survive, who will not survive and what it will mean for Litigation Support software users.

Labels: Condordnace, iConnect, ImageDepot, Lexbe, Litigation, Litigation Support Software, Medium Markets, ORT, Saas, Small Markets, Software-as-a-Service, Summation

posted by Charles Skamser @ 8:55 AM 0 Comments