ZyLAB Whitepaper “Litigation Readiness and Compliance” to Appear in October Issue of KMWorld Magazine
Whitepaper Offers Insights into How to Prepare for Electronic Information Requests by Implementing the Right Technology and Best Practices Procedures
McLean, VA - September 29, 2009 - ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced that it has released a new educational white paper (appearing in the October issue of KMWorld Magazine) that provides guidance to organizations that want information on how to ensure they are prepared for e-discovery and electronic information requests.
Whitepaper Overview:
- The fall-out of the credit crisis has had a significant impact on the information technology (IT) landscape, and even more specifically a dramatic impact on compliance, risk, e-discovery and records management requirements. These technology-based requirements, also known as enterprise information management, affect every type and size public sector and commercial organization today.
- Managing and controlling electronically stored information is a matter of technology, but also of strict procedures, quality control and well-documented information management activities. It has become one of the most serious sources of legal exposure and risk. There are several key questions an organization must consider in today’s business climate. Is your organization prepared to respond to an e-discovery demand imposed by regulators, civil parties or a competitor? Is your organization able to find and produce all relevant documents? If so, at what price and how fast?
Whitepaper Key Sections:
- Technology is Essential
- Information access technology solutions ideally help address today’s compliance, risk, e-discovery and early case-assessment challenges, but organizations must implement the right tools – if there is something out there that is relevant to a case, it must be found.
- Workflow, data identification and collection technologies are what is needed for the legal hold, identification and collection process.
- Automatic content-based archiving will solve the enterprise information management problem. Text analytics and text mining are also essential in this phase.
- Data monitoring technology is required for ongoing auditing and compliance on dynamic and static (archived) data.
- Organizations need more than just software. Count on professional services from specialists and – just as important – best-practice methodologies including quality control, reporting and auditing that will help organizations bring e-discovery, records management, risk control and compliance in house in a defensible manner. - Litigation Readiness
- In a number of markets where information in the back office is extremely sensitive and real-time access is required for auditing, discovery or security, traditional public interface applications such as SharePoint, MS Exchange, SAP, Oracle, Open Text, SAP and many others do not provide sufficient search capabilities and also require data to be converted over and over again whenever the vendor of such product provides a new version of the application.
- The combination of e-discovery, records management, email archiving and knowledge management brings the ultimate goal within reach: litigation readiness.
- Companies can be prepared for litigation and avoid business disruptions and management distraction: by making e-discovery, records management, risk control and compliance part of daily business and operating procedures. Prepared companies are more successful companies.
A copy of this whitepaper can be obtained at the Document Center's Whitepaper section.