Atlas Compliance Automation

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Why Atlas Compliance Automation?

Reduce IT Effort for Discovery Tasks
 Atlas Compliance Automation automates typical IT discovery tasks including preservation, collection and operation logging. By connecting to the data source systems and communicating in native operating instructions, the Atlas connectors are able to perform the tasks that previously required IT manual effort. With Atlas, attorneys can collect via their browser without direct IT involvement. And because holds can be executed in place, data replication is reduced. Plus overall collection volume is reduced when attorneys are able to perform early assessment.

Lower Risk of Under- or Over-Preservation
 With the immediate enforcement of legal holds and collections, your organization has a much lower risk of losing data that should be preserved. Because Atlas Compliance Automation also enacts hold releases, systems can dispose on schedule and prevent over-preservation.

Co-exists with Existing Infrastructure
 Atlas Compliance Automation enables connection to virtually all data sources. The comprehensive, well documented SDK enables IT organizations or PSS partners to create connectors to any system and communicate with it using native instructions. Reference connectors exist for popular email archives, content repositories, file shares, content management systems, transaction systems, and Forensic collection tools.

 

Compliance Automation Features

Automate Typical IT Discovery Tasks

  • Preservation
  • Collection
  • Release hold
  • Operation logging, including chain of custody and audit trails

Attorneys Self-Service Without Direct IT Involvement

  • Once attorney selects a data source in Atlas, connector provides appropriate system specific protocols, available parameters and other configuration information
  • Attorney initiates the hold or collection from Atlas in a browser
  • Atlas connectors natively communicate instructions to the systems
  • Confirmations are logged automatically
  • For collections, files or reports are uploaded to Atlas

Reduce Data Replication

  • Hold in place reduces the data copies created by some hold processes
  • When early assessment is enabled, attorneys can reduce collection and review volume as appropriate
  • System specific parameters, validated by IT and Legal, ensure tightest possible definition of hold or collection

Automatic Enforcement of Holds and Releases

  • Upon Legal initiation of hold or collection in Atlas, instruction is automatically executed in the appropriate system
  • Lower risk of losing data before the hold is in place
  • Hold releases are automatically enacted to ensure routine disposal resumes

Tighter Holds and Collections Definitions

  • Connectors translate Atlas requests into native instructions so that system specific protocols and parameters can be utilized
  • Search and scope definitions leverage system specific capabilities and configurations
  • Automatically apply continuous or repeating instructions to new data

Eliminate Manual Errors

  • Attorneys select available protocols and parameters based on up-to-date system configuration information.
  • System automatically validates and enacts parameters
  • Entire process is logged and auditable
  • IT and Legal can view entire process

SDK Enables Connection to Virtually All Data Sources

  • Connectors can be written for any system that understands and can execute structured instructions
  • Connectors translate to native instructions so that hold and collect can reference account IDs, specific fields, values and ranges
  • Well documented SDK enables IT or PSS implementation partners to write connectors to any required data source
  • Reference connectors exist for leading high volume data sources

Does Not Require Search Engine

  • Leverages existing search and definition capabilities of each system
  • Atlas does not require an expensive and lengthy new search engine implementation to be effective
  • Reap benefits quickly by automating high volume data sources first

Integrate to IT Work Systems

  • Connectors can also be used to integrate the IT tasks in Atlas to an existing ticketing system such as Remedy
  • Existing workload and staffing processes are undisturbed
  • Legal requests are automatically instantiated in the ticketing system
  • Job completion in ticketing system automatically updates Atlas

Security

  • Authentication required for connector access
  • Data exchange can be encrypted.

Reliable, Dynamic Integration

  • Protocol and connectors tied to specific data source or search tools
  • New instruction protocols can be generated dynamically by Atlas connectors as the data source changes.
  • Client-side framework and connectors are deployed through standard application servers such as Tomcat or WebSphere.

Complete Software Development Kit

  • API Reference and Developers Guide
  • Emulator
  • Reference connectors for typical systems and tools

Related Products in the Atlas Suite

Automate Discovery Processes
 Legal and IT departments can reduce the effort required to manage the legal holds and collections processes with Atlas for Rigorous Discovery. Defensible disposal becomes a reality with legal obligations and business value captured in the data catalog.

Achieve Defensible Disposal with Atlas for Value-Based Retention
 Atlas for Value-Based Retention ensures records are properly maintained and disposed. Extend definition and management of data sources across the portfolio. Once global retention program in place, enable defensible disposal to dramatically reduce data storage costs.

Achieve Rigorous Discovery and Defensible Disposal
 The Atlas Information Governance Suite is the full set of Atlas products to eliminate unnecessary legal risk, discovery costs and data management expense.