Link to press release, January 14, 2008:  OCEANPORT, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced that it has been recognized by leading analyst group, Gartner, Inc., with a “Promising” rating in Gartner’s inaugural “MarketScope for E-Discovery and Litigation Support Vendors, 2007” report published December 14, 20071. According to the report, “[t]he e-discovery market includes products and services that allow electronically stored information (ESI) of all types to be identified, preserved, collected, processed, reviewed, produced and managed over a period of time.” Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release, January 14, 2008:  New Approach Provides Unique e-Discovery Benefits to Insureds

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AIG Executive Liability, a division of the property-casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), today announced AIG e-Discovery SolutionsSM, a program of e-discovery-related products and services to help all of AIG Executive Liability’s clients, including the division’s directors and officers (D&O) and errors and omissions (E&O) insureds, more effectively manage the e-discovery process. AIG e-Discovery Solutions is a unique claims service offered exclusively by AIG Executive Liability to their clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  Proven provider of eDiscovery services sues to enforce contractual obligations

KIRKLAND, Wash. – January 8, 2008 – Electronic Evidence Discovery (EED), a leading provider of eDiscovery services, today announced that it has filed suit against Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP in Superior Court of the State of Washington-King County. EED seeks to enforce the terms of its contract with Sullivan & Cromwell and to recover outstanding fees for services rendered during early- and mid-2007. The suit was filed after Sullivan & Cromwell attempted to bring a breach of contract suit in federal court in New York on December 28, 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  New initiatives propel records compliance technology provider toward leadership in rapidly expanding market for hosted solutions

Rutherford, NJ –January 10, 2008 — AXS-One [OTCBB : AXSO], a leading provider of scalable, high-performance records compliance management (RCM) solutions, today made a significant commitment to the growing hosting market by launching a new division specifically to offer innovative archiving technologies to key providers in the hosting and e-Discovery markets. As part of the new strategy, AXS-One also announced that it has signed reseller agreements with two of the world’s major hosting providers to offer a full complement of hosted technologies and services around the AXS-One Compliance Platform™. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  January 8, 2008 at 11 a.m. Mountain Time - Microsoft announced this morning it has to agreed to acquire FAST Search & Transfer for USD$1.2 billion.  For Microsoft, it acquires technology that fills many of the gaps in its own enterprise search offerings; and for FAST, this deal yields a rapid exit from what various media and analysts have viewed as a downward spiral for the Oslo, Norway, enterprise search firm.

But where does that leave customers, both old and new?  Through first-hand knowledge and its conversations with customers, prospects, partners and industry observers, ISYS is well aware of the implementation difficulties companies have had with both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and FAST’s own technology.  While we don’t believe in a magic pill when it comes to these types of solutions, we also don’t feel customers should have to invest countless months, resources and money on something that should begin earning a return almost immediately. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  VIENNA, VA–(Marketwire - January 7, 2008) - ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced that the company has received a “Strong Positive” rating in Gartner’s “MarketScope for E-Discovery and Litigation Support Vendors, 2007″ report (Debra Logan, December 14, 2007). According to the report, “the e-discovery market includes products and services that allow electronically stored information (ESI) of all types to be identified, preserved, collected, processed, reviewed, produced and managed over a period of time.” Gartner considers companies receiving a “Strong Positive” rating to be “viewed as a provider of strategic products, services or solutions. Customers should continue with planned investments, and potential customers should consider this vendor a strong choice for strategic investments.” Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  REDMOND, Wash., and OSLO, Norway, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: “FAST”), a leading provider of enterprise search solutions, through a cash tender offer for 19.00 Norwegian kroner (NOK) per share. This offer represents a 42 percent premium to the closing share price on Jan. 4, 2008 (the last trading day prior to this announcement), and values the fully diluted equity of FAST at 6.6 billion NOK (or approximately $1.2 billion U.S.). FAST’s board of directors has unanimously recommended that its shareholders accept the offer. In addition, shareholders representing in aggregate 35 percent of the outstanding shares, including FAST’s two largest institutional shareholders, Orkla ASA and Hermes Focus Asset Management Europe, have irrevocably undertaken to accept the offer. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of calendar year 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  DALLAS and SEATTLE, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Syngence Corporation, an industry leader in e-discovery and content-analytics solutions, today announced its partnership with Encore Legal Solutions, a leading provider of electronic discovery services, which will make Syngence’s Synthetix Processing Suite (SPS(TM)) available to users through Encore’s full-service production facilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  Dallas, TX (OPENPRESS) January 3, 2008 — InterLegis, Inc., an innovator of Web-based digital document management services, today announced the release of its latest white paper, “Using ‘Document Personalities’ to Speed Electronic Discovery Review” by InterLegis President Kevin Carr. The paper discusses one of the newest methods available today in the evolution of discovery review technology – leveraging document personalities for relationship mining to further streamline and speed the process of review. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release:  Leader in eDiscovery Solutions Expands Executive Team to Continue Aggressive Growth in 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – January 7, 2008 – CaseCentral, a leader in delivering eDiscovery solutions to FORTUNE 1000 corporations and the law firms that serve them, today announced that it has strengthened its executive team to support continued market momentum.  The company has named Tom Thimot as its new CEO.  Founding CEO Chris Kruse continues in his current position of chairman of the board and will remain a full-time active member of the executive team focusing on new business development and helping Thimot expand the market adoption of CaseCentral.  The appointment of Thimot is effective immediately. Read the rest of this entry »