Exterro and kCura Announce Integration to Provide End-to-End Discovery Workflow Management
Integrated Solution Manages the Entire Discovery Process From Identification, Legal Hold/Preservation, Review and Production of Documents in a Repeatable, Consistent and Defensible Manner
| Source: Exterro, Inc,
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - September 24, 2008) - Responding to customer demands for managing
end-to-end discovery workflow, Exterro®, a leading provider of legal hold
and discovery management software solutions for the legal industry, and
kCura™, a software company providing the web-based litigation support
platform Relativity, announced the integration between their flagship
products, Exterro Fusion & Relativity. The combined toolset will allow
corporate or law firm legal teams to manage the entire discovery process
from identification, legal hold/preservation, review and production of
documents in a repeatable, consistent and defensible manner.
"The future of discovery process management is moving toward the use of
technology that provides process integration and tracking management," said
Bobby Balachandran, CEO of Exterro. "The integrated technology is essential
and uniquely capable of addressing multiple discovery concerns
simultaneously. Our clients will greatly benefit from this partnership.
With this integrated solution, corporations can achieve greater
efficiencies in the processing, review and analysis steps of the Discovery
process."
Exterro Fusion's Legal Hold and Discovery Workflow Management software
solutions provide legal teams with an end-to-end workflow platform and the
benefit of seamless integration. This platform centralizes discovery
management and automates workflow. Legal teams can then both organize the
various stages of discovery and monitor the cost of each stage in detail.
Relativity is a complete review solution that has the power to handle the
entire review lifecycle, and ease-of-use to let reviewers focus on
documents, instead of technology. A feature-rich, online review
application, Relativity provides image and native file review, powerful
searching, diverse coding options, flexible work-flow capabilities, Unicode
support, and conceptual searching, all delivered in a highly scalable
solution.
By integrating Relativity with Fusion, both corporate and law firm legal
teams will be able to use Fusion to display real time work progress in both
graphic and tabular views as the work is being done. The integrated
Relativity-Fusion dashboard provides a single portal in which legal teams
can monitor all review and production activities.
About Exterro:
Exterro is a leading provider of advanced workflow technology and
automation solutions exclusively for legal hold and discovery management in
the 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 Portland,
Oregon with an additional office out of Chicago. Find out more about
Exterro and its technologies at www.exterro.com.
About kCura:
kCura is a Chicago-based software company that has been building powerful
and easy-to-use applications for its clients since 2001. With a flexible
workflow and native document viewing capabilities, Relativity connects
clients, counsel, contract attorneys, experts, and outside vendors in one
solution. kCura serves some of the nation's leading law firms by deploying
Relativity in-house, as well as by providing a hosted solution through an
expanding network of partners. For more information, visit www.kCura.com.