ZyLAB Whitepaper “Litigation Readiness and Compliance” to Appear in October Issue of KMWorld Magazine

MCLEAN, Va.-(Business Wire)-September 29, 2009 - ZyLAB:

Whitepaper Overview:

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. To obtain a copy of this whitepaper, visit: www.zylab.com.
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.

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About ZyLAB

For 25 years, ZyLAB has provided commercial and government organizations around the world with award-winning information access solutions. The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a secure foundation for the long-term archiving, management and retrieval of information, from digitized paper documents, to electronic files, to e-mail and attachments, to multimedia.

With over 9,000 installations and 650,000 users worldwide, ZyLAB has a wealth of experience and knowledge across a variety of industries and business applications. Federal clients include the Executive Office of the President and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice and Defense, as well as all branches of the US Armed Forces and investigative teams at the FBI, SEC, and Amtrak’s OIG. Hundreds of state and local governments also rely on ZyLAB, such as The State of California, Montgomery County, Maryland, and The Town of Jackson, Wyoming. ZyLAB’s numerous commercial clients include leading companies like American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Dominion Virginia Power, Lockheed Martin, Pacific Life, and Shell Oil. For more information visit: www.zylab.com.

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