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Optimized to handle large-scale matters, Stratify Legal Discovery(TM) v8.0 helps prevent inadvertent waiver of privilege or release of damaging materials. Attorneys can review complex documents, including compound documents and Microsoft Office documents containing hidden metadata; define hotkeys; and perform foreign language search. Service completely restores, indexes, and manages all embedded files so attorneys can search for, review, and tag embedded documents separately.
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Stratify Legal Discovery(TM) 8.0 Simplifies eDiscovery for Large-Scale and Complex Litigation
Attorneys Can Manage Complex Data with Higher Performance to Drive Review Rates and Efficiencies
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 1 - Stratify, Inc., one of the largest providers of electronic discovery services, announced today the release of the Stratify Legal Discovery(TM) 8.0 service optimized to handle complex documents and large-scale eDiscovery matters. The new version enables attorneys to more efficiently review complex documents, including compound documents (such as Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents that contain other documents) and Microsoft Office documents containing hidden metadata. These improvements help prevent the inadvertent waiver of privilege or release of damaging materials. The Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service also enables attorneys to overcome existing search limitations in the legal industry with multi-byte foreign languages (such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) to retrieve more accurate and complete search results and to begin reviewing documents 40% faster based on improved processing performance.
"Today, documents are being created in more complex, sophisticated ways. It was once rare to encounter embedded documents or to handle matters with multiple foreign language documents. Yet this is becoming more common," said Vivian Tero, Senior Research Analyst, Compliance Infrastructure, at IDC. "Services like the Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service address a critical need in the eDiscovery market by handling these types of documents in ways that will satisfy the courts as well as protect the privilege requirements of litigants."
The legal discovery and litigation support infrastructure market will reach $21.8 billion in 2011, according to the recently published IDC study "Worldwide Legal Discovery and Litigation Support Infrastructure 2007-2011 Forecast." The drive to simplify the review and production of complex documents lies at the heart of increasing productivity and managing the costs of eDiscovery in this expanding market.
The need to accurately and completely manage compound documents is a major eDiscovery challenge. For compound documents such as Microsoft Office documents that can embed, or insert, one or more files into another file (such as embedding a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a Microsoft Word document), and Adobe PDF documents that can include multiple document attachments in a single PDF document, the Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service completely restores, indexes, and manages all of the embedded files so that attorneys can search for and review embedded documents separately, tagging them for privilege or redacting them as appropriate.
Additionally, attorneys can now identify and locate more than 30 different types of metadata embedded in business documents using the new Document Analytics capabilities of the Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service. Previously, embedded metadata such as comments, tracked changes, speaker notes, and Fast-save data could not be located within documents except by manually reviewing the native document. By reporting on these hidden, embedded metadata the Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service enables attorneys to quickly focus on documents that need to be reviewed in more depth.
Another key area driving the growth in eDiscovery is the increase in global economic activity which is creating the need for more robust foreign language eDiscovery capabilities. The new foreign language enhancements in the Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service, including the ability to optimize foreign language search based on language-specific characteristics, are a direct response to the importance of foreign language documents in electronic discovery.
"Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 tackles several key eDiscovery challenges," said Ramana Venkata, CEO of Stratify. "We are expanding our advanced capabilities by adding new support for compound documents and enabling attorneys to optimize their search strategies based on the characteristics of multi-byte languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, while at the same time delivering documents 40% faster to attorneys for review based on our enhanced performance. This allows our clients to save money without sacrificing quality in their discovery process."
Built on top of Stratify's industry-leading core technologies, these new capabilities of the Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service include the following:
- Compound document support. New proprietary technology safely and recursively restores all files embedded in compound documents including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF. For example, Adobe PDF files can be used to package folders in Outlook and contain hundreds of emails and attachments; or Microsoft Office documents that contain a ZIP file with an embedded PST which in turn contains emails and attachments can present huge challenges for discovery. New "document units" automatically track and maintain the relationship between container files and their embedded objects, while enabling the application to index each document separately so attorneys can search and find documents regardless of how they are stored.
- Document Analytics. Identify, analyze and report on Microsoft Office documents with more than 30 types of hidden, embedded metadata including comments, tracked changes, speaker notes and Fast-save data. Attorneys can search for documents containing embedded metadata as well as view reports regarding hidden metadata on a per document basis or for sets of documents.
- Increased foreign language search flexibility and accuracy. Foreign language documents can be indexed into multiple search catalogs using different indexing technologies. For example, Chinese documents can be indexed both for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, while Japanese documents can be indexed using character-based and word-based criteria. Attorneys can optimize their search strategies and increase the accuracy of their search results by taking into account these types of multi-byte foreign languages characteristics.
- Application Hotkeys. Review attorneys and litigation support managers can now define hotkeys, which assign common operations such as tagging, adding documents to Personal Work Folders, or other menu commands to specific keystrokes (such as hitting the F4 key). Multiple operations can be performed with a single hotkey for added efficiency and ease-of-use.
- Performance enhancements. A new, highly scalable Java-based Search Server delivers additional scalability to handle complex, large-scale matters. The new version also provides for locale-independent processing of Unicode compatible files. For example, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean files can all be extracted using a single English Extraction Server. The improved processing rate for PST and MSG files, regardless of language, enables attorneys to start reviewing emails 40% earlier than before. Project managers can also take advantage of enhanced email normalization capabilities to support the advanced features of the Stratify Visual Email Analytics.
"We've listened to the requests of our clients dealing with large, complex matters and have designed a system that enables attorneys to achieve review rates of 300-500 documents per hour and quickly focus on relevant documents while helping them identify and segregate less relevant data," continued Venkata. "The advanced analytical capabilities allow attorneys to more effectively know what they have for early case assessment, strategy, and success."
Availability
The new Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service will be available prior to November 1, 2007. To see a demonstration of the Stratify Legal Discovery service, please visit Stratify at IQPC's 4th E-Discovery Conference from October 1-4, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City.
Stratify, Inc.
Stratify is one of the largest electronic discovery solution providers to many of the AmLaw 200 and leading Fortune 500 corporations. Founded in September 1999, Stratify is a privately held company that has received funding from Mobius Venture Capital and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Stratify is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about Stratify, please visit http://www.stratify.com/
Stratify is a registered trademarks and Stratify Legal Discovery, Stratify Visual Email Analytics and Know What You Have are trademarks of Stratify, Inc.
CONTACT: Kristin Gomez of Levick Strategic Communications, +1-202-973-1349, kgomez@levick.com, for Stratify, Inc.
