Atlas for Rigorous Discovery
The "Big 7" Discovery Risks
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Failure to identify the right custodians
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Missing rogue or employee managed data sources in hold or collection
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Missing data when employee transfers, departs
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Retiring or modify data on hold
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Failure to follow through on data identified in interview process
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Overlooking or mishandling data in collection
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Inability to assemble or defend discovery audit trail
Why All the Risk?
The data that needs to be held and the people that need to act on the hold are broadly distributed across the enterprise. For large enterprises, or those with active litigation portfolios, couple the broad distribution with the other challenges they face:
- a highly iterative data and custodian scope, holds, collections and audit processes, and
- a complete absence of an integrated, enterprise-wide discovery workflows for their diverse stakeholders
This combination leads them to the "Big 7" Discovery Risks — that have the highest likelihood to occur and the highest financial impact.
A departmental, hold notice only solution is not sufficient to unify Legal, IT and the lines of business around hold obligations and continuous compliance.
It Takes an Enterprise
Rigorous Discovery across the enterprise ensures there is a defensible, intelligent legal holds process, easy IT & employee compliance and less effort for inside and outside counsel. Companies that take an enterprise approach to managing holds are able to scope more precisely, predict discovery costs from day one, eliminate discovery on discovery, avoid settlement driven by process crises, and review and produce less data.
Atlas Discovery for Legal, Discovery for IT and Discovery for Employees, together deliver the only enterprise discovery management solution that unifies the holds, collections and audit processes across Legal, IT, RIM and lines of business. By providing continuous visibility for employees and IT, Atlas enables more efficient IT and employee compliance. Integrated enterprise discovery provides outside counsel with assurance to focus their efforts and cost analytics help establish early, accurate budgets to reduce outside counsel costs. Atlas legal hold software has proven scalability and ease of upgrade in the world's largest enterprises.
According to David Stryker, General Counsel, BASF Corporation, "By implementing Atlas, we've been able to reduce risk and costs while driving a better process. As the established standard and with its strong focus on customers, PSS Systems was the clear choice for BASF Corporation." Atlas has been helping companies achieve rigorous discovery and defensible disposal in Fortune 10 companies since 2005 and is the long-proven industry leader managing over 5 million custodians and data sources in 200,000 legal matters and over 100,000 retention schedules for tens of thousands of users in more than 100 countries.
Atlas and the EDRM Model
The Atlas Information Governance Suite includes products that cover the elements of the EDRM module that are typically managed and performed by corporate counsel and corporate IT staff. Atlas enables your company to meet its duties for legal information governance and defensibly dispose of data with no business value.
Atlas: The Solution of Choice for Rigorous Discovery and Defensible Disposal
Global enterprises are using Atlas to reduce risks and costs by uniting discovery and information management processes across Legal, IT, RIM and the Lines of Business.
When selecting an Information Governance solution, our customers have prioritized the following solution requirements.
- Integrated legal holds and data collections.
- Risk and cost analytics for legal, IT.
- Reliable, actionable retention procedures for data and employee assets.
- Sustainable, high integrity governance.
Atlas meets these requirements in a single, cohesive system of record with natively integrated workflows and analytics for information governance stakeholders across Legal, IT and Records. With Atlas, legal achieves rigorous discovery, IT can defensibly dispose of data, and organizations eliminate unnecessary data management costs in line with legal and business requirements.
