-- Reduce labor and costs: IT departments, legal teams and service
providers no longer have to waste time and resources converting and
transferring ESI from system to system.
-- Reduce errors: Now organizations can focus their proficiency on a
single standard schema as opposed to a number of disparate ones. The
validation tool also detects non-conforming load files earlier in the
process to reduce errors downline.
-- Improve scalability: Organizations gain the ability to adapt to future
technological advances, as well as new metadata constructs.
According to George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, co-founders of EDRM: "By
adopting the EDRM's XML standard, Exterro is one of the first companies
helping to set the stage for greater efficiency within the e-Discovery
industry. Now companies can be assured that the legal hold processes and
workflow management platform provided by Exterro Fusion will comply with
industry standards."
"Fortune 500 and AMLAW 200 clients already rely on Exterro Fusion for
managing their end-to-end e-Discovery processes," said Bobby Balachandran,
CEO of Exterro. "They have found that with the number of matters, data
sources, custodians and information about their data skyrocketing, it is
critical to manage the associated complex workflow surrounding Legal Holds,
Collections, Data Review and Production Management. Fusion provides them
with consistency, repeatability and defensibility around the e-Discovery
process. Incorporating the ERM XML standard into Exterro Fusion gives
companies a way to easily manage the complex workflow around e-Discovery
with faster to deploy solutions that can quickly and easily integrate with
other systems."
About Exterro:
Headquartered in Lake Oswego, Ore., Exterro is an Enterprise Software
company providing Legal Hold and e-Discovery Workflow Management solutions
to corporate and law firm counsel. It helps legal teams control litigation
processes and costs and automate the workflow related to discovery
management by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house
legal teams, service providers and experts. Exterro Fusion Legal Hold
module eliminates human error, generates faster response time for
litigation requests, and decreases risk and exposure to sanctions. Exterro
believes that process automation and improvements in litigation --
especially in discovery -- can be learned from the quality improvement
successes of other industries and disciplines. Exterro's easy to use, quick
to deploy and simple to integrate workflow management platforms are built
on a patent-pending, open architecture that fits neatly with existing
business processes and systems. A built-in management workflow provides
cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks throughout the
litigation support process. In addition to its headquarters, the company
has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Dallas. Find out more
about Exterro and its technologies at www.exterro.com.
About EDRM:
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project was launched in
2005 to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic
discovery market. The completed reference model provides a common, flexible
and extensible framework for the development, selection, evaluation and use
of electronic discovery products and services. Information about EDRM is
available at http://www.edrm.net.
Contact Information: For Press Only: Valerie Chan PR consultant Exterro, Inc. E-mail: Phone: 206.856.7885