LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - August 23, 2010) - ILTA -- Booth No. 908 -- Exterro, Inc., the leading provider of legal governance, risk and compliance management solutions, today announced the seamless integration of Recommind's Axcelerate™ ECA & Collection with Exterro Fusion e-discovery and legal hold workflow management solution suite. Exterro's automated Fusion legal process management solutions, in orchestration with Axcelerate ECA & Collection, ensures clients have the collaboration, notification, preservation, ECA, collection, processing and review capabilities required to defensibly meet today's complex litigation requirements.
Today's legal departments must communicate effectively with both custodians and IT managers in order to effectively scope and implement litigation holds and conduct collection tasks. The unified legal and IT approach provided by Exterro and Recommind enables companies to manage holds, precisely predict and scope discovery costs, determine early case strategy, streamline collections, eliminate rework and human error, and review and produce less data.
"Legal hold process management and enforcement is now a mission-critical application. Organizations need to manage both the notification process in addition to executing the actual preservation of information," said Barry Murphy, Founding Principal of Murphy Insights. "Exterro's solution supports customers that need a quick-to-deploy simple notification management tool, as well as those that need automated collection and preservation such as enabled by the integration with Recommind."
Exterro Fusion simplifies the process of creating a legal hold, identifying custodians and data, and issuing notifications. The result is a solution that provides the collaboration, automation and usability required to provide a defensible approach to meeting today's complex litigation needs. Integration with Recommind's Axcelerate ECA & Collection wraps in the legal process, including preservation, collection, ECA, processing, review and production needed to manage the legal hold process and control costs from end to end. Exterro Fusion discovery workflow monitors progress and completes the legal process loop.
"Whether from external pressures like increased regulation or internal control issues over social content, today's corporations are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the information they have to manage. This integrated legal hold solution from Exterro and Recommind combines two industry-leading products to help companies proactively manage legal holds with a cost-effective and defensible e-discovery response," said Craig Carpenter, vice president of marketing, Recommind. "The strategic partnership between Exterro and Recommind provides our joint customers with the powerful search, predictability and usability capabilities they require."
"With thousands of potential custodians, it's critical for corporations to take proactive steps to ensure a rapid, complete and cost-effective e-discovery response," said Bobby Balachandran, President and CEO of Exterro, Inc. "By automating their legal processes with Exterro Fusion and Axcelerate ECA & Collection, clients are well-positioned to provide such a response."
About Exterro
Exterro, Inc. is the recognized leader for legal governance, risk management and compliance software solutions. Exterro's solutions enable legal teams to control risks, reduce costs, enforce compliance and streamline processes by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, cross-platform business units, service providers and resources. Exterro pioneered e-discovery workflow management technology, and continues to expand its innovative Fusion suite of applications -- Genome, Legal Hold, Discovery Workflow Management, and Fusion Cloud Legal Hold. The complete Fusion platform provides an end-to-end legal governance, risk assessment and information management solution. Regardless of industry or system environment, Fusion integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and enterprise systems. Exterro solutions assure regulatory compliance and create sustainable ROI. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Exterro has operations across the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.exterro.com, or contact the company directly at +1 877-398-3776.
About Recommind
Recommind is the leader in predictive information management, delivering search-powered business applications that transform the way enterprises, government entities and law firms conduct eDiscovery, enterprise search, and information governance. Recommind's solutions are all built on the CORE (Context Optimized Relevancy Engine) platform, which automatically accesses, organizes and analyzes large volumes of information in context from myriad sources. With greater control over and more accurate access to information, organizations can lower risk, heighten productivity, increase the value of information assets and improve competitiveness and profitability. Recommind customers include AstraZeneca, BMW, Clifford Chance, DuPont, Marathon Oil, Morgan Lewis, Nationwide Insurance, US Department of Energy (DOE), White & Case and Wilmer Hale. Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., London and Bonn, Germany. For more information, e-mail info@recommind.com or go to www.recommind.com.