eDiscovery (ESI Management)

eDiscovery Tech: A Glimpse into the Future of eDiscovery Fast File Transfer of ESI

Suppose your business is involved in bet-the-company litigation and you are aware of critical electronically stored information (ESI) that would help your case. Would you rather receive that data in one hour or one day? Until just recently that choice was not available, and this need for speed, especially when investor dollars are at stake, has kept eDiscovery providers awake at night contemplating a solution.

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eDiscovery Tech: Planning in Advance for E-Discovery: It Costs Less in the End

eDiscovery Tech: Planning in Advance for E-Discovery: It Costs Less in the End

Why Records Management?

Recent events are changing the corporate e-discovery climate, causing some business leaders to question the effectiveness of an ad-hoc, “on-the-fly” approach. As high profile cases, including Qualcomm (“Qualcomm and Attorneys Sanctioned for ‘Monumental’ E-Discovery Violations,” Findlaw, 2008  ) and Morgan Stanley (“Morgan Stanley to Pay Millions for E-Mail Mismanagement,” E-Discovery Law, September 2007), have highlighted, waiting until the subpoena arrives and assuming that IT can quickly and easily make the requested materials available--and have the ability to preserve them--is an increasingly tricky bet.

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Enterprise Information Management, Archiving, and Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise Information Management, Archiving, and Enterprise 2.0

E2.0, Enterprise Information Management, and Archiving

Web and Enterprise 2.0 talk is all the buzz these days.  The social web, its features, capabilities, and “sexy” factor is arguably the defining decision driver in technology considerations.  Unfortunately, that leaves important but inherently un-sexy technologies behind.  While strategists and organizational decision makers are paid not to be blinded by flashy user interfaces and promises of communal utopia, the reality is that the expectations set by the fun user interaction available on the public web are infiltrating RFPs and RFIs for even mundane, back-end capabilities. 

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The Other Side of the Coin—Effective Implementation of an Archiving Solution

The Other Side of the Coin—Effective Implementation of an Archiving Solution

Introduction

You’ve just spent a large sum of money on hardware for archiving your company’s electronic records.  The solution is state of the art—all of your company’s data are covered, from e-mail and voicemail to the network servers.  You’re ready to flip the switch—or are you?  The most technologically advanced, cutting-edge archiving system will do you no good unless you have the organizational infrastructure in place in order to take full advantage of the new system’s capabilities.   Today’s business realities require a new approach to the management of information assets.  Information Management has become a new discipline.

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The Other Side of the Coin—Effective Implementation of an Archiving Solution

The Other Side of the Coin—Effective Implementation of an Archiving Solution

Introduction

You’ve just spent a large sum of money on hardware for archiving your company’s electronic records.  The solution is state of the art—all of your company’s data are covered, from e-mail and voicemail to the network servers.  You’re ready to flip the switch—or are you?  The most technologically advanced, cutting-edge archiving system will do you no good unless you have the organizational infrastructure in place in order to take full advantage of the new system’s capabilities.   Today’s business realities require a new approach to the management of information assets.  Information Management has become a new discipline.

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