BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - January 10, 2008) - Company litigation risks for electronically
stored information have increased dramatically as a result of changes in
government rules. Ninety-one percent (91%) of Best-in-Class companies
avoided fines or a lost legal proceeding because they were able to meet
legal discovery requirements, according to a study of 364 companies
conducted by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS).
"Survey participants with over $1B in revenues reported an average legal
discovery cost of $997k. Best-in-Class companies experienced significant
cost savings and lowered litigation risks by implementing a comprehensive
e-Discovery strategy in their organization," said Ralph A. Rodriguez,
Senior Vice President of Technology Research, Aberdeen. "Furthermore,
Best-in-Class companies are able to recover archived data, records, and
messages in less than one hour and complete legal discovery requests on
time an average 94% of the time."
Best-in-Class companies identified two strategies as most successful: 73%
of these companies integrated e-Discovery practices with their records and
data management processes, while 64% implemented an organization-wide data
and records lifecycle management policy.
"With 47% of respondents reporting that the number of regulations complied
with increased or stayed the same over the past year, it is critical to
organizations to reduce their litigation and regulatory risk by deploying a
comprehensive e-Discovery and data, record, and message archiving solution
before they are served with a discovery notice," states Rodriguez.
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corporations turn to Aberdeen for insights that drive decisions.
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