Global enterprises face a tremendous challenge to meet growing legal and judicial expectations for preservation and retention. With the volume of data increasing 40 or 50% every year, legal risk and data and discovery costs are constantly rising.

For most companies, the process the legal department uses for holds increases data management costs and the processes IT use increase legal risk. As a result, the business spends too much for data management and risk mitigation.

Corporate legal departments have hundreds or thousands of matters and custodians that require data to be preserved or collected, often with many gigabytes per custodian in any single matter. A few emails to custodians and IT are neither an effective nor efficient means of managing legal duties Thousands of disparate country-specific laws governing data privacy and retention compound the issues. Often, this complexity and risk lead to "save everything" practices that exacerbate discovery and data management costs without truly reducing legal risk. Records management and business stakeholders are rarely integrated into the litigation or IT process, yet they are a critical voice on the value of information. With no input on the value or duties related to information, companies manage too much data at too high a cost. In a vicious cycle, this drives up discovery volumes and cost.

Atlas eliminates unnecessary legal risk and reduces discovery and data management costs

The Atlas Suite enables global companies to minimize legal risk, efficiently comply with diverse legal duties for information, and proactively manage information based on its business value.

The Atlas Suite provides is the only end-to-end solution for corporate legal, IT, records and business users designed and built on a single, cohesive governance platform.

Atlas for Legal Holds and Collections delivers a better process for holds, with far less effort than alternative approaches to preserving and collecting data for litigation. Your company can achieve compliance efficiently with self-service portals for employees and IT. Manage cross-jurisdictional discovery and privacy issues more effectively and strategically with country-specific procedures.

Atlas for Information Governance and Retention enables value-based information retention under a global information governance program. Defensibly dispose of information and data with no business value while preserving data on hold. Manage less enterprise data by providing IT with clear retention and governance instructions aligned with all legal duties, and automating compliance across enterprise systems.

Atlas for Cost Management gives Legal, Finance, IT and business executives the ability to predict and control discovery costs and make more cost-aware legal decisions with real-time discovery cost forecasts and analysis. Companies can control current and future discovery costs with transparency to historical costs and accurate forecasts, and analysis tools for better decision making. Legal cost management is simplified with no manual data entry, and easily tailoring to the company's litigation profile.