Attenex Announces Support for EDRM XML Standard for E-Discovery
Press release: EDRM Founding Company Takes Leadership Position in Developing New Standard for Greater Interoperability and Data Transfer throughout Discovery Process
SEATTLE —Oct. 25, 2007 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, today announced support for a new Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, developed by the Electronic Data Reference Model (EDRM) group. This standard is the first of its kind to enable the easy transfer of electronically stored information (ESI) to and from applications involved in different phases of the discovery process. Attenex® Patterns® E-Discovery Software will be compliant with the standard in Q1 of 2008, helping to further reduce the cost, time and manual work associated with e-discovery.
“As a founding member of EDRM, Attenex is an established thought leader in the e-discovery market and has been deeply involved in creating practical and transparent guidelines to reduce the cost, risk and time associated with e-discovery,” said George Socha, co-founder of EDRM and president of Socha Consulting LLC. “Their work on the XML standard continues this work by addressing a major pain point within e-discovery – moving different types of data across all of these disparate systems – and is an important step towards streamlining the overall process.”
Attenex was a leading participant in the development an XML Schema Definition (XSD) as part of an EDRM XML Project working group, consisting of technologists and lawyers from the leading e-discovery vendors, service providers, law firms and corporate end-users. The XSD will allow all parties to consistently describe documents, email, attachments and standalone files, as well as the underlying metadata for all of those objects as they move through the e-discovery process. Additionally, the XML Project has created a validation tool to quickly and efficiently validate that files conform to the XML standard prior to importing the data.
Attenex Patterns, one of the top e-discovery software applications in the market according to the 2007 Socha-Gelbmann E-Discovery Survey, dramatically reduces the time and cost of the most expensive process within e-discovery: legal document review. Attenex Patterns processes and de-dupes the data set, in some cases up to 80 percent, and then utilizes visual analytics to present legal review teams with a faster, more efficient and less costly method to review the data. This new XML standard, which will reduce the cost and labor associated with converting and transferring data from other e-discovery applications, complements existing integrations that Attenex already provides to products such as the Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator.
“Corporations and their law firms want to use the best applications in the market for discrete e-discovery tasks without worrying about integration and compatibility issues,” said Mike Kinnaman, vice president of marketing and EDRM founding member. “Support for the EDRM XML standard is one of the many ways Attenex is helping corporations and their law firms take control of and streamline the e-discovery process.”
Launched in May 2005, the EDRM Project was created to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market and is comprised of more than 118 service and software providers, law firms, industry groups and corporations involved with e-discovery.
About Attenex
Attenex Corp. is changing the way corporations manage e-discovery. With an open software platform and industry expertise, Attenex enables corporations and their law firms to establish standardized e-discovery processes that reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations. Whether deployed on-premise or as a hosted service through the industry’s largest network of global service providers, Attenex® Patterns® software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs. Attenex is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and more information is available at www.attenex.com.
Attenex Advantage Partners represent the industry’s largest network of experienced legal industry service providers and consulting organizations that offer Attenex software to dramatically reduce the total cost of discovery for their clients. For more information, visit http://www.attenex.com/partners/.
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Attenex Corporation
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