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By Stefan Mehlhorn, President and CEO, Maria Tricca, Marketing Manager, and Roger Matus, Vice President of Marketing, Permessa Corporation There are six practical best practices that most enterprises can implement to reduce the impact of email by up to 80%, without changing the culture or operations of the business. These steps will significantly reduce storage and bandwidth costs, and help ...

By Tom O'Connor For years, litigators have relied on a system of scanning and sequentially numbering individual document pages, extracting the text electronically and producing single page TIFF files as the standard method of working with electronic documents in the discovery process. But what if there were a new way of working with electronic documents that could reduce the costs of that ...

By Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder and Matthias Mayer In the past decade, the World Wide Web has been subject to dramatic changes. Web sites have evolved from static information resources to dynamic and interactive applications that are used for a broad scope of activities on a daily basis. To examine the consequences of these changes on user behavior, we conducted a long-te...

By Seth Grimes The last year has seen further advances in integration of text technologies both with business intelligence and predictive-analytics tools and with line-of-business applications. Hosted and on-demand text analytics and adaptation to service-oriented architecture (SOA) – Text Analytics as a Service – have reduced barriers to adoption, creating flexibility for business focused ...

By Jason R. Baron and Paul Thompson Lawyers and their large institutional clients increasingly face the enormous problem of how to efficiently and efficaciously conduct searches for relevant documents in large heterogeneous electronic data sets, for the purpose of responding to litigation demands. Past research indicates that lawyers greatly overestimate their true rate of recall in civil di...

By The User-Generated Content & Social Media Committee In 2008, if you’re not on a social networking site, you’re not on the Internet. It’s as true for advertisers as it is for consumers. Social networking is the ultimate manifestation of user generated content, and as such, holds more potential for growth than any other form of content on the Web today. User Generated Content (UGC) and...

Excellent Article By Donna Payne, Payne Group Within legal circles, metadata has become a ubiquitous term. It frequently is discussed in journal articles, seminars, and information technology (“IT”) briefings. Even so, many legal professionals do not understand what metadata is and how it works. Simply stated, metadata is information stored within a document that is not evident by just looki...

Microsoft Office Document Inspector Metadata Management for Microsoft Office 2007 By Randall Farrar, President & Co-founder of Esquire Innovations, Inc With the advent of Microsoft Office 2007 (MSO07) and its addition of the Document Inspector, our clients (and prospects) are asking if there's a need for iScrub, our enterprise metadata management application. Has Microsoft, in one single ...

An Easier Way to Think about Business Technology The Business Technology Planning Model (BTPM) The Business Technology Planning Model (BTPM) has been created with the goal of establishing a simple framework for discussing technologies and the ways in which these technologies relate to each other. Consisting of the five key technology areas of creation, connectivity, communication, collabo...

Chain of custody is a familiar concept in criminal law, but until recent years it was foreign to civil litigators. In the criminal law arena, police would seize evidence, seal it in a plastic bag, label it, and sign it in to a locked evidence room. If the evidence was taken out by anyone for any purpose (for example, for laboratory examination or testing) that withdrawal would be noted on the ...