Contact Information: Public Relations Contacts: Amanda Woodrum PSS Systems 650.810.8703 amanda.woodrum@pss-systems.com Steve d'Alencon Kazeon Systems 650.641.8801 steve@kazeon.com Terry Frechette Lois Paul & Partners 781.782.5791 tfrechette@lpp.com
PSS Systems and Kazeon Partner to Provide Unified Proactive and Reactive eDiscovery Infrastructure
Partnership Brings Improved eDiscovery Processes and Cost Reductions Through the Combination of Retention Policy and Legal Hold Features and Management of Unstructured Data
| Source: Kazeon Systems
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - October 22, 2007) - Kazeon Systems, Inc., a leading provider
of effective eDiscovery solutions, and PSS Systems, pioneer of the legal
holds and enterprise retention management software market, today announced
a joint technology and sales partnership aimed at providing enterprises
with a comprehensive solution for eDiscovery. Through this combination,
corporations will be able to significantly reduce eDiscovery costs, better
prepare and respond to reactive eDiscovery requests and proactively reduce
information volume by enforcing retention policies in compliance with legal
holds.
The joint solution addresses the strategic enterprise needs of enhancing
and automating the identification, preservation, collection, processing and
analysis of electronically stored information, as well as enabling
efficient enterprise retention management policies. The partnership between
Kazeon and PSS Systems provides a single platform to meet these needs,
improving the entire legal information governance process, delivering more
predictability and reducing overall legal, IT and operating costs.
Through the partnership, enterprises will gain from the combination of PSS
Systems' Atlas suite of products with Kazeon's Information Server product
line. Atlas, the world's leading legal hold and retention management
software, includes Atlas LCC for automating legal holds and litigation
workflow and Atlas ERM for modernizing and managing retention management
across disparate data types and sources. The Kazeon Information Server
product line is the industry's first to integrate the eDiscovery functions
of identification, collection, preservation, processing and analysis,
enabling customers engaged in reactive litigation or proactive eDiscovery
to rapidly perform early case assessments and to more efficiently comply
with the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
"Corporations are looking to bring eDiscovery functions in-house in order
to achieve higher relevancy, more predictable costs and faster turnaround,"
said Sudhakar Muddu, CEO of Kazeon. "PSS Systems provides the most
comprehensive and trusted software for managing legal holds and collection
workflows and its Atlas ERM software provides the retention policies that
can help break the cycle of too much data to discover. Combining Atlas
with Kazeon's ability to integrate and automate key eDiscovery functions
makes complete sense for enterprises looking to build effective reactive
and proactive eDiscovery processes."
"More than 20,000 legal and compliance users rely on PSS Systems' Atlas LCC
and Atlas ERM software to manage the workflow and business processes around
legal holds, discovery collections and enterprise retention management.
Given the litigation volume in F500 companies, efficiency and consistency
are absolutely essential. Atlas and Kazeon provide powerful solutions to
dramatically reduce cost and risk," said Deidre Paknad, President and CEO
at PSS Systems. "Kazeon's information access tools are a perfect complement
to Atlas because they enable legal and compliance users to efficiently
identify information and to consistently enforce appropriate legal policies
such as legal holds, collections and retention lifecycles."
About PSS Systems
PSS Systems started the legal holds and retention management software
revolution in the early 2000s by envisioning the looming change in
corporate legal requirements; its Atlas software suite reduces cost,
burden, and risk for the world's leading financial services,
pharmaceutical, oil and gas, telecommunications, technology, and consumer
products companies. Atlas LCC streamlines the legal holds and collection
processes end to end, while Atlas ERM enables corporate retention programs
across disparate business units, information sources, and systems. With
tens of thousands of legal holds, collections and retention schedules under
Atlas management, few companies have more domain expertise than PSS
Systems. PSS Systems continues to lead the industry through unparalleled
innovation and the CGOC, which it founded in January 2004, as a
practitioners community on retention and preservation. PSS Systems is
headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices throughout the
United States including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. For
more information visit http://www.pss-systems.com.
About Kazeon
Kazeon revolutionizes the way companies perform eDiscovery by using its
Information Access Platform software to search, classify and act on
electronically stored information. Kazeon provides a full spectrum of
proactive and reactive eDiscovery solutions in response to litigation,
information security and privacy, corporate investigations, regulatory
compliance and storage optimization requirements. The Kazeon Information
Server automates eDiscovery functions from identification through
processing and analysis. Through the development of unique indexing,
tagging, and automation technology, Kazeon has established partnerships
with leading companies such as BearingPoint, Fujitsu Siemens, Google,
Network Appliance, Oracle and Symantec. Kazeon's award-winning products are
helping an increasing number of companies to significantly reduce the risk,
duration and cost of eDiscovery matters while increasing visibility and
control over electronically stored information. For more information,
visit www.kazeon.com or call +1-877-KAZEON1.