Make eDiscovery Faster, Easier and More Accurate

• Discover relevant documents - including copies and versions - within hours instead of weeks
• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of the eDiscovery processes
• Get complete document forensics, including distributions, modifications and file access
• Avoid excessive costs and business disruption
• Assess the merits of a case more quickly to potentially avoid litigation
• Leverage a single solution across your diverse management and compliance projects

The eDiscovery Challenge

In an increasingly litigious society, your company must be prepared to defend itself against lawsuits brought by shareholders, customers, suppliers, partners, employees, government agencies and others. A major part of being prepared is the ability to perform “eDiscovery”—the identification, collection and delivery of all electronic documents relevant to a lawsuit—within a very tight schedule.

eDiscovery, however, can present a significant challenge.  Your company may have millions of documents scattered across many different systems and storage resources.  It can be prohibitively expensive and enormously disruptive to sift through all this data in order to find all the documents relevant to a specific lawsuit.  In some cases, it may actually be impossible to ensure the complete fulfillment of an eDiscovery objective within a tight legal deadline.

As a result, your company may be exposed to significant legal risk and/or may wind up going to court without a key piece of exculpatory evidence. It may also be fined for being unable to comply with the court's request..  Even worse, it may find itself in a position where it has to settle a case that it could have won it on its merits.

So how can you ensure your company’s ability to quickly and comprehensively gather every relevant document from across the enterprise?  And how can you prevent even the most difficult and sudden eDiscovery assignments from draining all your resources and completely disrupting your business?

The Nogacom Solution

Nogacom delivers an effective solution and methodology for quickly and cost effectively providing your legal team with the information they need to defend your company’s interests, while avoiding any disruption of your critical day-to-day IT operations.

Assess your data.  First, using NogaLogic, you can automatically discover, analyze and classify all the unstructured data across your organization based on its business context.  Through this process you will:

• Immediately identify all documents relevant to the legal matter at hand—including all copies and versions —regardless of formats, file names or storage location
• Perform complete document forensics—including knowing who accessed and changed a document, to whom it was distributed, and what teh differences are between versions of the same document
• See where all relevant documents are currently stored
• Categorize documents based on attributes such as business topic, age, storage location, and/or the specific individuals who accessed or modified them

Define your evidence management policies.  Once you’ve discovered all of your relevant data, you can centrally define policies to support your litigation efforts.  For example, you can define a policy that automatically migrates all relevant documents to a dedicated server.  You can also define policies for legal hold (preventing changes to affected documents) and retention (ensuring that documents remain available and intact in the event of potential future appeals).   These policies can be defined using any combination of content attributes. 

Enforce and monitor.  Once you have defined your evidence management policies, NogaLogic will then automatically implement them—quickly giving your legal team access to all relevant data from across the enterprise.  Furthermore, NogaLogic can continue to automatically apply appropriate policies to any relevant new or updated documents to preserve the integrity of your documents and ensure that users don’t accidentally expose you to new risks.  In addition, NogaLogic can provide an audit trail for each piece of data—including date created/changed, author, and storage location—so you can document your compliance with court-mandated discovery requirements.

Measure your success.  After you’ve completed your eDiscovery process, you can fine-tune your policies and practices based on your results and/or any changes in your business to fully enhance your preparedness for eDiscovery. You can also proactively use NogaLogic to further optimize your discovery and evidence management processes or to change existing business practices that put the company at risk. 

To optimize your eDiscovery process contact Nogacom for more information today >>>