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CaseCentral Announces General Availability of eDiscovery Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator

CaseCentral Connector Seamlessly Integrates with Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator to Eliminate eDiscovery Processing Time and Fees; Extends Support to Enterprise Vault 9.0 Customers

San Francisco – September 15, 2010 – CaseCentral, the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporate counsel and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery, today announced the general availability of the CaseCentral Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator.  The integration between Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator and the CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform creates asingle solution for Identification, Collection, Processing, Analysis, Review and Production, eliminates the need for IT and legal teams to manually export and upload large amounts of data for legal review and reclaims the days and weeks spent processing data.  Clients using the new connector will bypass EDD processing fees for data moved into CaseCentral from Enterprise Vault and simplify the handoff process, removing risk by eliminating the opportunity for error and maintaining chain of custody.

“Both CaseCentral and Symantec have spearheaded technology innovation to help customers automate different electronic discovery tasks,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.  “The elimination of any manual ESI transitions between solutions further demonstrates that both are committed to removing risk and cost from what has become an extremely cumbersome process for organizations to manage.”

The CaseCentral Connector extends integration support to the recently announced Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0, the latest version of Symantec’s flagship email and content archiving product. Many IT and legal departments use Enterprise Vault to meet Information Management and Preservation needs, and use Discovery Accelerator to quickly conduct searches across the archive and provide initial review in response to litigation, regulatory or internal investigation requests. Once these searches have been conducted, the connector automatically exports the collected results to the secure, cloud-based CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform for legal teams to perform early case assessment, analysis, review and production.

Elimination of eDiscovery Processing Time and Fees

Processing of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) can take weeks and cost clients $1,500 or more per gigabyte.  Due to the API-level integration between Enterprise Vault and CaseCentral and the automation of data transfer, the new connector substantially reduces the amount of time spent processing data before attorney review can take place.  As a further benefit, the CaseCentral Connector removes the need for third party processing, eliminates standard processing fees for data received via this delivery mechanism and maintains chain of custody.

"Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0 helps organizations implement an effective compliance and eDiscovery strategy by archiving relevant information for retention while eliminating unnecessary, redundant data," said Simon Jelley, senior director of product management, Information Management Group, Symantec. “Together, Symantec and CaseCentral are offering a new architecture for enterprise eDiscovery by eliminating time and costs associated with processing while offering a solution to standardize corporations’ entire eDiscovery process, from information management through to production.”

“Industry statistics suggest that as much as 70 percent of the cost of eDiscovery is in the areas of processing, analysis and review,” said Steve d’Alencon, vice president of product management and marketing, CaseCentral.  “The CaseCentral Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator revolutionizes the costly, time consuming, decades-old practice of processing data for analysis, review and production. We are pleased to partner with Symantec to offer organizations an integrated, end-to-end eDiscovery solution, from the leading enterprise archive and the leading cloud-based eDiscovery platform, which creates a new era of on-demand eDiscovery processing from corporate data sources.”

Evolving Enterprise eDiscovery Architecture

As eDiscovery and compliance standards grow more complex, many organizations are finding the hybrid approach of integrating on-premise and cloud-based software provides a complete, best-of-breed solution for their needs.

CaseCentral offers corporations and law firms the first integrated cloud-based, multi-matter eDiscovery platform for Processing, Early Case Assessment, Analysis, Review and Production needs.  Leveraging an enterprise-grade infrastructure and a powerful, private cloud delivery model, CaseCentral provides the centralized environment necessary for in-house attorneys and litigation support professionals to take control of their eDiscovery projects while enabling seamless collaboration with users outside the firewall, including service providers and outside counsel. Additionally, cloud-based applications minimize the requests for internal IT departments to constantly purchase infrastructure and modify corporate network and security standards for third party access, which can increase security risks.

The connector is available for purchase from CaseCentral.  More information can be found at:  www.casecentral.com/symantec-ev-connector.php or requested from:  info@casecentral.com. 

Symantec representatives, please contact:  Van Beane, vice president of channels, vbeane@casecentral.com or 415.402.1215.

About CaseCentral
Founded in 1994, CaseCentral is the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporations and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery.  CaseCentral enables repeatable, defensible and measurable business processes that significantly reduce eDiscovery risk, cost and time. The CaseCentral eDiscovery platform integrates early case assessment, processing, analysis, review and production capabilities, enabling customers to succeed with a single matter and seamlessly migrate to multi-matter, multi-party, multi-repository support within the same software platform. CaseCentral pioneered the use of process analytics, providing real-time measurement of review rates, quality rates and costs per document - by matter, firm or user.  CaseCentral has served more than 32 of the Fortune 100 and more than 83 of the AmLaw 100.  For more information, call 1.800.714.2727 or visit www.casecentral.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/casecentral or read ‘Case in Point’ cartoons, the lighter side of eDiscovery, at: www.casecentral.com/case-in-point/.

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