Exterro and kCura Announce Integration to Provide End-to-End Discovery Workflow Management

Integrated Solution Manages the Entire Discovery Process From Identification, Legal Hold/Preservation, Review and Production of Documents in a Repeatable, Consistent and Defensible Manner


PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - September 24, 2008) - Responding to customer demands for managing end-to-end discovery workflow, Exterro®, a leading provider of legal hold and discovery management software solutions for the legal industry, and kCura™, a software company providing the web-based litigation support platform Relativity, announced the integration between their flagship products, Exterro Fusion & Relativity. The combined toolset will allow corporate or law firm legal teams to manage the entire discovery process from identification, legal hold/preservation, review and production of documents in a repeatable, consistent and defensible manner.

"The future of discovery process management is moving toward the use of technology that provides process integration and tracking management," said Bobby Balachandran, CEO of Exterro. "The integrated technology is essential and uniquely capable of addressing multiple discovery concerns simultaneously. Our clients will greatly benefit from this partnership. With this integrated solution, corporations can achieve greater efficiencies in the processing, review and analysis steps of the Discovery process."

Exterro Fusion's Legal Hold and Discovery Workflow Management software solutions provide legal teams with an end-to-end workflow platform and the benefit of seamless integration. This platform centralizes discovery management and automates workflow. Legal teams can then both organize the various stages of discovery and monitor the cost of each stage in detail.

Relativity is a complete review solution that has the power to handle the entire review lifecycle, and ease-of-use to let reviewers focus on documents, instead of technology. A feature-rich, online review application, Relativity provides image and native file review, powerful searching, diverse coding options, flexible work-flow capabilities, Unicode support, and conceptual searching, all delivered in a highly scalable solution.

By integrating Relativity with Fusion, both corporate and law firm legal teams will be able to use Fusion to display real time work progress in both graphic and tabular views as the work is being done. The integrated Relativity-Fusion dashboard provides a single portal in which legal teams can monitor all review and production activities.

About Exterro:

Exterro is a leading provider of advanced workflow technology and automation solutions exclusively for legal hold and discovery management in the legal industry. Exterro Fusion helps legal teams control litigation and discovery processes and costs by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, service providers and experts. Exterro believes that process automation and improvements in litigation -- especially in discovery -- can be learned from the quality improvement successes of other industries and disciplines. Exterro's easy-to-use, quick-to-deploy and simple-to-integrate management platforms are built on a patent-pending, open architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and systems. A built-in management workflow engine provides cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks throughout the litigation support process. Exterro is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with an additional office out of Chicago. Find out more about Exterro and its technologies at www.exterro.com.

About kCura:

kCura is a Chicago-based software company that has been building powerful and easy-to-use applications for its clients since 2001. With a flexible workflow and native document viewing capabilities, Relativity connects clients, counsel, contract attorneys, experts, and outside vendors in one solution. kCura serves some of the nation's leading law firms by deploying Relativity in-house, as well as by providing a hosted solution through an expanding network of partners. For more information, visit www.kCura.com.