IBM eDiscovery Software Helps Organizations Win the Compliance Battle

ARMONK, NY, Aug 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
software designed to help clients meet challenging legal discovery
requirements. The new IBM eDiscovery solutions extend IBM's ECM software
platform to enable organizations to proactively take control of
electronically stored information across the enterprise, helping to
reduce eDiscovery costs and improve responsiveness to litigation.

IBM's eDiscovery software helps companies manage the entire eDiscovery
process by enabling them to automate the collecting, searching and
classifying critical information across multiple content sources, while
maintaining security and the ability to track changes. The software will
allow companies to move from scattered, point-solution approaches to a
disciplined approach that controls electronic information, helps support
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) compliance, manages risk and
delivers ongoing operational benefits.

"In today's litigious environment, legal discovery and industry
regulations are driving us to address the way we store, manage and
retrieve information," said Rashid Mahmood, Lotus Notes Systems Manager,
The Thomas Miller Group. "IBM's eDiscovery offerings will help us manage
the rapidly growing in-house requirements for litigation-driven
electronic discovery, while helping us alleviate corporate compliance
concerns."

IBM's eDiscovery software is the first to leverage a complete ECM platform
to transform the process of eDiscovery by proactively managing
electronically stored evidence. The new eDiscovery software integrates
with IBM's auto-classification and records management technology to help
IT departments manage information for compliance and electronic discovery
requests. IBM eDiscovery software also integrates with IBM's
content-centric business process management (BPM) capabilities to help
organizations standardize, control and automate legal discovery workflows
and enable third-party components as needed.

The cornerstone component of IBM's solution is the new IBM eDiscovery
Manager, which enables organizations to better control the eDiscovery
process by bringing key eDiscovery tasks in house. This helps clients more
easily manage electronically stored information; provide earlier insights
into collected evidence; and prioritize downstream evidence review,
analysis and production.

eDiscovery Manager helps authorized IT and legal users search, cull, hold
and export case-relevant email evidence. Utilizing IBM's ECM technology as
a base, eDiscovery Manager helps customers address the crushing volumes of
uncontrolled, electronically stored information and enable a more
productive, agile response to litigation.

"The explosion of electronic content presents challenges for organizations
to retain and produce information efficiently and accurately when needed,"
said Ken Bisconti, vice president, product and strategy, IBM Enterprise
Content Management. "Our eDiscovery offerings enable customers to have
insight into knowing what information exists, where it is stored, how long
it must be kept and how to locate it."

IBM eDiscovery Manager utilizes IBM's email archiving solutions, leverages
IBM's ECM repositories, and supports an easy-to-use interface that is
optimized for high performance search and retrieval for improved user
productivity. IBM's capabilities complement each other without significant
development and integration costs, allowing for faster deployment of a
security-rich, extendable and scalable enterprise platform that can be
used to achieve legal compliance, but without the risks and costs of point
solutions or placing the burden of integration on business users.

IBM eDiscovery software is an integral part of the IBM Compliance
Warehouse for Legal Control. This solution combines software, hardware
and services to enable organizations to achieve, sustain and prove
compliance with multiple legal and compliance mandates, while reducing
cost, complexity and risk. The combination of IBM eDiscovery software and
IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control provides the robust foundation
necessary to implement a complete solution for evidence preservation.

IBM eDiscovery also supports IBM's broader Information Governance
strategy, which helps clients define, enforce and monitor policies
related to the control and quality of information.

IBM eDiscovery Manager will be available at the end of August. For more
information on IBM's eDiscovery software, visit
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/ediscovery.html.

Each IBM customer is responsible for ensuring its own compliance with
legal requirements. It is the customer's sole responsibility to obtain
advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and
interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may
affect the customer's business and any actions the customer may need to
take to comply with such laws. IBM does not provide legal advice or
represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the
customer is in compliance with any law.

Contact:
Carol Thornton
714-327-3746
carolthornton@us.ibm.com

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