Revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Atlas E-Discovery Suite Improves the Automated Distribution of Retention Schedules, Legal Holds and Collection Requests

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 17, 2007 -- PSS Systems, the market leader in legal holds and retention management software, is shipping a new edition of its industry-leading Atlas suite, including enhancements to Atlas ERM™ enterprise retention management, and Atlas LCC™ legal holds and collections management. This new Atlas 2.4 suite provides an improved mechanism to automatically distribute retention schedules, legal hold orders and collection requests across the enterprise.

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The Atlas suite has been in production use for two-and-a-half years by top-five Global 500 industry leaders in financial services, insurance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Atlas handles tens of thousands of legal holds and collections and nearly a hundred thousand retention schedules for fifteen thousand business and legal users worldwide.

The recently revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that govern litigation in U.S. federal courts increase the pressure on companies to ensure that preservation and litigation processes consider all data sources, and encourage them to modernize retention programs to address information across the enterprise with more predictability, control and transparency.

The Atlas suite helps corporations reduce the risks and costs arising from legal obligations, saving companies millions of dollars in legal and IT costs by enabling them to modernize and synchronize retention and preservation efforts.

-- The new AtlasLink framework and AtlasLink connectors automate distribution of retention schedules, legal holds and collection requests to the systems that have information. They connect Atlas seamlessly to other applications that contain information relevant to the legal holds and retention processes, including matter management systems, HR systems and others.

-- Atlas ERM has significant new enhancements to retention policy communications and enables program coordinators to easily send program bulletins targeting recipients by role, country, business group and so on.

-- Atlas LCC is enhanced with more dynamic and detailed queries for monitoring compliance with holds, managing overlapping holds and preparing for "meet and confer" discussions with reports on all custodians and data sources within the scope of a matter.

-- The Atlas Map is enhanced so that custodial systems and data sources can be described by additional attributes such as fixed costs associated with discovery, discovery liaison and IT expert, level of accessibility and other data characteristics.

"The rapid growth in the volume of electronic information has exposed the limitations of traditional retention and legal holds programs that were designed for paper records," explained Deidre Paknad, CEO of PSS Systems. "With the Atlas suite, companies can readily comply with their litigation obligations and modernize their retention program to address the information their business truly generates. The AtlasLink connectors automate the distribution of holds and retention schedules to those systems to regain control over a complex information environment while reducing cost and risk."

About PSS Systems

PSS Systems is a recognized leader on legal retention and preservation topics. It founded and sponsors the CGOC, an executive forum and professional community on practice issues related to retention and preservation, started in January 2004. PSS Systems is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.

Atlas LCC from PSS Systems addresses the challenges of legal holds and collections for corporate litigation departments. Atlas ERM helps companies modernize their retention practices to address electronic data and disparate data repositories across the enterprise. Both modules use the Atlas map of the enterprise, its business units and employees, data sources and systems, and the laws that impact various jurisdictions. The combined components of the Atlas suite serve as a policy hub or "golden source" on what information companies must retain and preserve. By federating retention and hold rules to data systems and the people who manage them, companies can rationally and legally dispose of unneeded data to reduce costs and risks.

Atlas users include Citigroup, Credit Suisse, First Data Corporation, and other market leaders in the financial services, insurance, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries. Atlas is used by many thousands of people in more than 150 countries around the world.

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