Exterro Ranks as Top Provider in 2008 Socha-Gelbmann 6th Annual Electronic Discovery Survey
Top Rankings Highlight Exterro's Leadership in Delivering a Defensible Legal Hold and Discovery Workflow Management Platform
| Source: Exterro, Inc.
LAKE OSWEGO, OR--(Marketwire - July 28, 2008) - Exterro, a leading provider of advanced
workflow technologies for the legal industry, announced today that it has
been ranked as one of the top 10 electronic discovery software providers
for its work with preservation and legal holds which has become a
complicated, multi-faceted, steadily-changing concept in recent years.
Exterro was also recognized as a leader by corporations, placing them in
the top 15 software provider based on Corporation Ranking. The rankings
were compiled as part of the 6th annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery
Survey.
"Our annual survey has become the leading market indicators for tracking
the growth of the electronic discovery market," said George Socha,
co-developer of the annual survey and principal at Socha Consulting LLC.
"Exterro's high ranking in our survey indicates that it is one of the top
EDD software vendors as recognized by the industry."
"Exterro's mission has been to provide corporations and their outside
counsel with a total, innovative, and defensible approach to e-discovery
with our end-to-end discovery management and legal hold solutions," said
Bobby Balachandran, CEO of Exterro. "Exterro's top ranking in this
prestigious annual survey is a testament of our success in helping clients
solve real problems."
Developed by George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, the 6th annual Electronic
Discovery survey provides a comprehensive view of the needs and consumption
of EDD software and services of the electronic discovery market. Over a
period of 9 months, Socha and Gelbmann gathered information from or about
107 EDD services and software providers, and from 29 law firms and 19
corporations for this annual survey. They factored in more than 350
qualitative and quantitative factors to determine the rankings of providers
-- top overall EDD services providers, top overall EDD software providers,
and top EDD providers in various categories. The full report on the
rankings will appear in the August issue of Law Technology News and will be
available at:
http://www.sochaconsulting.com/2008survey.php
About Exterro
Exterro is a leading provider of advanced workflow technology and
automation solutions exclusively for legal hold and discovery management in
legal industry. Exterro Fusion helps legal teams control litigation and
discovery processes and costs by tightening collaboration between outside
counsel, in-house legal teams, service providers and experts. 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 management platforms are built on a
patent-pending, open architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing
business processes and systems. A built-in management workflow engine
provides cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks throughout
the litigation support process. Exterro is headquartered in Lake Oswego,
Oregon. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York
and Dallas. Find out more about Exterro and its technologies at
www.exterro.com.