Attenex and PSS Systems Announce E-Discovery Alliance
Industry Leaders Bring Together Their Best-of-Breed Applications to Streamline E-discovery from Hold Trigger Through to Legal Review
Seattle, WA — January 22, 2008 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, and PSS Systems, the innovator who launched the legal holds and enterprise retention management software arena, today announced an alliance to provide enterprise customers with an end-to-end e-discovery solution. Through the alliance, corporate legal departments can ensure a consistent and efficient e-discovery process from legal hold through legal review - increasing control and reducing costs and risks associated with e-discovery.
The joint solution provides corporate legal departments with a greater amount of transparency into the complex e-discovery process, including:
"PSS Systems and Attenex have proven track records of success helping Fortune 500 customers more defensibly and efficiently manage discrete steps in the e-discovery process," said Steve Wampler, group product manager for Attenex. "This partnership enables corporate legal and IT departments to administer a comprehensive solution that combines our leading e-discovery platform for processing, analysis and review with PSS Systems' market-leading software application for legal holds management."
"Atlas is the practice standard for legal holds and collection management and Attenex sets the bar for processing and review analytics and automation. Together, we offer customers a 'no compromises' solution for meeting tough legal obligations at the lowest possible cost and risk." said Katie Nittler, Vice President of Business Development of PSS Systems.
PSS Systems' Atlas LCC software module helps companies efficiently and effectively manage legal holds and data collections for discovery. It automates scoping holds, hold notification, interviewing and the collections process to reduce errors and cost, improve precision, increase reliability and enhance transparency. Management tools include custodian and employee departure management, cost monitoring, powerful reports and dashboards. The company's full Atlas suite combines precise, reliable legal holds from Atlas LCC with an enterprise map and modernized retention programs in Atlas ERM so that companies can reduce the costs of discovery at the most fundamental level - by keeping less data.
Electronic data collected or inventoried for matters via Atlas LCC is shared with the Attenex® Patterns® software for processing, review, and analysis. Attenex Patterns offers flexible deployment options so that corporations can install the software on-premise, have it hosted through a service provider partner, or a hybrid combination of the two.
Built for electronic discovery, the Attenex software integrates data processing, native file document review and reporting tools into an enterprise application to accelerate review, simplify project management and collaboration, and to provide corporations and their law firms with a defensible and repeatable business process from data collection through to production. This provides corporate legal teams with leading-edge e-discovery and document review software for quickly and thoroughly parsing through mountains of data for internal investigations, early case assessment and response to legal or regulatory requests. Attenex Patterns includes project management tools that provide legal teams with complete transparency over the review process.
As part of the agreement, PSS Systems has joined the Attenex Advantage™ Technology Partner program and Attenex has joined the PSS Systems Partner program.
About PSS Systems
PSS Systems started the legal holds and retention management software revolution in the early 2000s by envisioning the looming change in corporate legal requirements; its Atlas software suite reduces cost, burden, and risk for the world's leading financial services, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, telecommunications, technology, and consumer products companies. Atlas LCC streamlines the legal holds and collection processes end to end, while Atlas ERM enables corporate retention programs across disparate business units, information sources, and systems. With tens of thousands of legal holds, collections and retention schedules under Atlas management, few companies have more domain expertise than PSS Systems. PSS Systems continues to lead the industry through unparalleled innovation and the CGOC, which it founded in January 2004, as a practitioners community on retention and preservation. PSS Systems is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices throughout the United States including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. For more information visit www.pss-systems.com.
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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