Kazeon Unleashes Fourth Generation Software for eDiscovery

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, May 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Kazeon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of innovative eDiscovery
solutions, announced the availability of its fourth generation eDiscovery
software for use by corporations, legal service providers and law firms.
Kazeon's solution solves a wide range of customer challenges such as
in-house eDiscovery, internal investigations, audits, legal hold and
retention management, and GRC.

Kazeon's Fourth Generation software maintains a modular version providing
three best-of-breed products: Analysis & Review, Collection & Culling,
and Legal Hold Management. All three eDiscovery products are integrated
within a single, underlying software platform to ensure a smooth workflow
while eliminating hidden costs that exist in a multi-vendor or disparate
product strategy. Further, Kazeon has developed an entirely new
distributed, collaborative legal application, the eDiscovery Case
Manager, that manages legal cases from 'womb-to-tomb' and is geared
toward the legal counsel and litigation support staff.

Gartner has rated Kazeon "Positive" in Gartner, Inc.'s annual "MarketScope
E-Discovery Software Product Vendors, 2008." Kazeon covers the
identification, preservation, collection, processing, analysis and review
phases of the EDRM and can be used for early case assessment. According to
the report, "Enterprises purchasing e-discovery software can reduce the
costs of litigation by improving their control over unstructured content,
and semi-structured content, most notably e-mail. Also, they can cut costs
and risks by taking control of litigation hold, litigation-hold tracking,
file collection, file processing and legal review instead of outsourcing
these functions."

"With its new application, Kazeon takes a case-based approach enabling
attorneys and litigation support specialists to transform electronic
discovery processes thus resulting in significant cost savings," said
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "By
offering a modular solution that addresses multiple aspects of the
electronic discovery process such as Analysis & Review, Kazeon enables
customers to automate once-manual tasks in a secure and defensible
manner."

"After a comprehensive evaluation of various options in the market,
Atheros has chosen Kazeon to solve our in-house eDiscovery needs. We
found Kazeon's eDiscovery software to be the most comprehensive and
scalable solution to meet our in-house eDiscovery demands. Kazeon's
solution performs in-depth analysis and review of Electronically Stored
Information (ESI) across multiple repositories. Their dynamic concept
search and analytics visualization are helpful new additions to our
eDiscovery process," said Bernice Chen, Director of Intellectual
Property, Atheros.

The Fourth Generation software includes:

-- A powerful Analysis & Review set of capabilities such as patented
analytics, concept extraction and search, search results visualization,
result and review filtering, query expansion, email thread analytics, and
interactive & fast review. It also provides exhaustive, transparent,
accurate auditing and data verification reports to enable complete
defensibility of the eDiscovery process. Kazeon's Review workflow includes
linear review, collaboration across multiple reviewers, support for
multiple law firm review, and review escalation workflow.

-- Key advancements in Legal Hold such as identification of ESI based on
case requirements, e.g., custodians, date ranges, concepts etc., case-based
legal hold management, enforcement of legal hold, reporting of legal hold
and finally, releasing legal hold when required. All of these can be
performed in-place or in target repositories.

-- Several innovative Collection & Culling features such as fully indexed
or index-less targeted collection, and a forensically sound and defensible
collection from any source, including USB drives, thumb drives and laptops.
Further, legal users can perform their own collection & culling for each
case without IT assistance using the simplified case-based application.

Kazeon's eDiscovery software provides the following key benefits
to
customers:

-- Dramatically reduced cost of eDiscovery by elimination of management
overhead, reduction of review time and integration across multiple
functions
-- Complete, transparent, defensible eDiscovery with chain of custody
-- In-place or target Early Case Assessment and analysis & review
-- In-place or target Legal Hold workflow and management
-- Accurate and fine-grained search and analysis
-- Collaborative review across globally dispersed legal reviewers
-- Dynamic, concept-based search and results visualization
-- Visibility into multiple ESI types across enterprise-wide sources,
e.g., SharePoint

"Kazeon's industry-leading, expansive eDiscovery capabilities surpass
those of any other in-house eDiscovery software in the industry," said
Karthik Kannan, Kazeon's VP of Marketing. "Our market-leadership is
validated by enterprise customers such as Atheros, Subaru,
Boehringer-Ingelheim and Wageworks who are leveraging Kazeon's full
functionality eDiscovery software to fulfill their in-house enterprise
eDiscovery needs such as Early Case Assessments, while keeping their
costs and risks extremely low."

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About Kazeon

Kazeon is a leading eDiscovery solution provider for corporations' legal
and IT staff, legal service providers and law firms. Kazeon's
independently validated solution provides the most accurate, scalable,
legally defensible and court-proven eDiscovery to perform both in-place
as well as target Analysis & Review, Collection & Culling, and Legal Hold
for Electronically Stored Information (ESI) across the enterprise. The
solution performs Early Case Assessments and fine-grained eDiscovery
across multiple ESI sources such as email servers, file shares, archives,
content repositories, laptops/desktops and remote offices. Kazeon has
been lauded by various analysts and industry forums, including Gartner's
eDiscovery MarketScope where Kazeon was rated 'Positive' two years in a
row across all eDiscovery categories and the Socha-Gelbmann eDiscovery
Survey 2008 where Kazeon was recognized as a Top 5 eDiscovery Software
Provider. For more information, visit www.kazeon.com or call
+1-877-KAZEON1.

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