Open Text Extends eDiscovery Offering

Support for Early Case Assessment of Electronically Stored Information Extended to Open Text eDOCS Solution; Helps Legal Industry Address eDiscovery Issues 


LEGALTECH 2009, NY, Feb. 3  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEXNASDAQ:TSX:NASDAQ:OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today announced that it has extended its new eDiscovery solution to its Open Text eDOCS customers. Now organizations, particularly corporate legal departments, will be able to significantly minimize the need for third-party processing and control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information.

Launched in December (http://www.opentext.com/2/global/press-release-details.html?id=2154), Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment is being offered through a strategic relationship with Recommind, the leader in search-powered information risk management (IRM). The solution combines Recommind's Insite Legal Hold application with the Open Text ECM Suite. The combination not only addresses the critical need for eDiscovery in an age of growing regulatory and legal challenges, it also lets customers tightly integrate eDiscovery within their broader ECM initiatives. Open Text eDOCS customers will gain expanded eDiscovery capabilities woven into their overall content, records and email management practices.

"This announcement furthers our commitment to Open Text eDOCS customers and expands on our leadership within the legal industry," said Kirk Roberts, EVP & President, Integrated ECM Group at Open Text. "Additional eDiscovery support meets a critical need for law firms and corporate legal departments to be able to assess, collect, preserve and process electronically stored information that resides in Open Text eDOCS, which is often an organization's system of record."

"Extending the functionality of the Early Case Assessment solution to include Open Text eDOCS is a key development in addressing the need to minimize information risk and increase litigation and investigatory efficiency for many companies," said Robert Tennant, CEO of Recommind. "This is a natural extension of the Open Text eDOCS search capabilities we developed for our MindServer Search customers and an important next step in our Open Text partnership to deliver the Early Case Assessment solution to a wider range of enterprises and offer our current and prospective customers new levels of speed and accuracy for their data management and eDiscovery initiatives."

Open Text is a leading global provider of ECM solutions for law firms. The company offers a full range of applications and legal industry expertise to support law firms' business practices and proactive compliance needs throughout the matter lifecycle - from client intake through to final disposition. Currently, 70 percent of the AmLaw 100 firms are using Open Text's content management solutions.

The announcement was made at LegalTech 2009 being held this week in New York City at the Hilton New York Hotel. Open Text is exhibiting in booth # 2306. For more information on Open Text's legal market solutions, go to: http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-industry/sol-ind-legal.htm.

For more information on Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment, please visit: http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-compliance-governance/pr o-ediscovery-early-case-assessment.htm

About Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts(TM) to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit http://www.opentext.com/.

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