Exterro Joins Symantec Technology Enabled Partner Program (STEP)

Exterro Partners With Symantec to Provide Corporations With a Unified Approach to the Legal Hold Process


PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - Exterro, the legal industry's most trusted provider of software solutions, today announced that Exterro, with its Fusion e-discovery platform, is now participating in the Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP). Exterro has joined STEP to integrate their Fusion Legal Hold solution with Symantec Enterprise Vault and Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator. With Exterro's participation in STEP, legal and IT teams will be able to bridge the gap between technology and legal processes by providing companies with a comprehensive, unified approach to legal hold management. In the future, enterprises will be able to meet their e-discovery requirements while mitigating associated risks and reducing costs.

"Together, Exterro and Symantec will provide a streamlined approach to e-discovery for our customers by delivering a highly defensible workflow strategy and a failsafe IT infrastructure," said Bobby Balachandran, CEO of Exterro, Inc. "Symantec's deep experience in archiving and information management provides a solid foundation for corporations looking to implement our world-class Fusion Legal Hold solution, allowing legal teams to get even deeper into their information base."

By integrating Fusion Legal Hold with Discovery Accelerator and Enterprise Vault, companies will gain a unified approach to today's complex e-discovery requirements, such as the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as a proactive approach to increased scrutiny by federal regulators and shareholders.

Symantec Enterprise Vault with Discovery Accelerator delivers market-leading e-mail, SharePoint, IM file archiving and e-discovery technology, to build policy-driven, cost-effective and litigation-ready e-discovery processes. Exterro's Fusion Legal Hold, built atop Exterro's award-winning Fusion workflow platform, provides legal teams with a comprehensive workflow management solution for litigation holds. Fusion Legal Hold proactively and efficiently manages workflows and business processes around legal holds, from inception to release. The combination of the two solutions will help clients match up the business processes and the data management involved in successful, defensible and efficient e-discovery processes.

About Exterro

Exterro, Inc. is the recognized leader for legal governance, risk and compliance management software solutions. Exterro's solutions enable legal teams to control risks, reduce costs, enforce compliance and streamline processes by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, cross-platform business units, service providers and experts. Exterro pioneered e-discovery workflow management technology, and continues to expand its innovative Fusion suite of applications -- Genome: Dynamic Data Map 2.0, Legal Hold, Discovery Workflow Management and FusionGo. The complete Fusion platform provides an end-to-end risk assessment and information management solution. Regardless of industry or system environment, Fusion easily integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and enterprise systems. Exterro solutions assure regulatory compliance and create sustainable ROI. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Exterro has operations across the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.exterro.com, or contact the company directly at +1 877-398-3776. You may also follow Exterro on Twitter at www.twitter.com/exterro.