• Locate potentially relevant electronic documents
• Analyze your electronic documents with topology maps, classification and search technology
• Act upon your decisions by managing potentially relevant electronic documents in a legally defensible manner

StoredIQ’s Intelligent eDiscovery solution can help organizations respond rapidly and efficiently to today’s litigation, investigations or compliance requirements. Backed by our revolutionary eDiscovery technology, StoredIQ enables corporate legal teams to locate, analyze and act upon unstructured electronically stored information (ESI) much more effectively.

As a result, companies can better manage their legal risk while reducing collection, preservation and processing expense.

The reactive eDiscovery process is frequently managed today through a combination of point applications and process documentation. Often, in order to perform identification, collection, preservation, analysis and processing, legal IT teams need to utilize three or more stand-alone applications. This inefficient approach requires multiple processing steps, increases costs and lengthens the discovery schedule.

Employee self-collection also increases legal risk. Unfortunately, many companies still rely on this method. The employees, not the legal team, make the first decisions about the relevance of their documents. Self-collection often alters ESI metadata. This approach is not repeatable, verifiable or defensible, thereby increasing the risk of sanctions and inference judgments.

At the same time, however, new court rulings regarding the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are placing greater demands on the eDiscovery process in terms of speed, accuracy and defensibility. These rulings emphasize that controversies over the scope of discovery will likely be resolved by balancing the burdens and costs of providing the discovery against the potential benefit and value of the discovery.

StoredIQ solutions align with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), accepted by more than 66 service and software providers (including StoredIQ), 33 law firms, three industry groups and eight corporations involved with eDiscovery. Gartner Group uses the EDRM model as its framework to analyze products and services in the electronic discovery market.

StoredIQ’s capabilities cover six of the EDRM service categories, ensuring a comprehensive, efficient approach to eDiscovery.

StoredIQ can create an auditable “data topology map” of active ESI, files and email located on network servers, email servers, content management systems, storage systems and PC’s. Maps are highly customizable to meet specific scan criteria.

The solution crawls and collects active data on network servers, storage systems and personal computers—without disrupting end users. No agent software has to be installed on PCs, and the solution is entirely transparent to users.

StoredIQ authenticates collection and preservation by maintaining an audit log of the collection and by creating a hash value before and after collection. In addition, access control lists (ACLs) and security identifiers (SIDs) are preserved, proving file ownership as tracked by the file system.

Organizations can better prepare for FRCP Rule 26(f) conferences, improving their ability to negotiate with the opposing counsel. In addition, accurate, real-time knowledge of the situation can help organizations improve planning and better control litigation costs.

StoredIQ culls ESI to the minimum sub-set of potentially responsive data, reducing costs from review tool loading through legal review. The solution can also de-duplicate globally or within custodians, review system output and perform rolling productions for large collections.

StoredIQ’s eDiscovery Preparedness offers full records management capabilities.

• Faster collection, preservation and processing to make better legal decisions, meet deadlines and avoid sanctions
• Complete and accurate information available to effectively prepare for Rule 26(f) “meet & confer” conferences
• Improved satisfaction from the legal department, based on the real-time delivery of collection status reports
• Legally defensible audit trails of all actions performed during collection, preservation, culling and production

StoredIQ provides companies with a range of solutions based on application modules for Intelligent eDiscovery, eDiscovery Preparedness and Information Governance. Each application is built upon a common software platform, allowing for application modules to seamlessly operate on the same appliance cluster. With our application module approach combined with flexible appliance configurations, StoredIQ allows you to purchase only the functionality that you require.

We’ll be happy to talk with you about StoredIQ products and solutions. Call us at 512.334.3100 or contact us by email.