Analyst Firm Releases In-Depth Study on ZyLAB eDiscovery System as a Prototype for Removing Bottlenecks in Litigation and Disclosures

MCLEAN, VA, July 07, 2011 (Press-News.org) ZyLAB, a leading eDiscovery and information management technology company, today announced the release of the June 2011 report "ZyLAB: Enabling Prosecution of the Unspeakable*" by International Data Corporation (IDC), a premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. The report describes the depth of the technical and operational issues faced by the United Nations Information Management team in the Office of the Prosecutor during various war crime tribunals, and outlines the best practices for responding to similar eDiscovery challenges in civil litigation.

According to the report, "The challenges faced by the UN Information Management team in the Office of the Prosecutor, while exceptional in scale and often gruesome in content, can shed light on more day-to-day challenges facing many businesses and public organizations today." The updated IDC report outlines the extreme complexities inherent in war crime investigations and tribunals and it draws parallels with everyday commercial eDiscovery projects during US and international civil litigation.

The topics of data volumes and formats, multiple foreign languages, eDiscovery processing, legal review, and production are addressed, as well as insight into how multi-lingual legal teams operating amid various judicial systems have come to rely on the ZyLAB eDiscovery system.

"The United Nations war crime tribunals embody every extreme and special circumstance when it comes to eDiscovery challenges and requirements," said Johannes C. Scholtes, chief strategy officer. "Every trial has its own complexities involving data formats, scalability, language support, rules of procedure, and confidentiality to which the ZyLAB software has repeatedly adapted," he continued. "We've been put through our paces in the toughest cases and become the model for eDiscovery response in the commercial sector."

The report addresses key topics for CIO's and CTO's to consider in preparation for eDiscovery, including connector architecture, disparate system data, recall and search, text analytics, taxonomy, multi-language operations, multimedia operations, and scale.

The ZyLAB eDiscovery tools continue to be used in the ongoing Charles Taylor trial in Sierra Leone and the company expects them to be equally instrumental in the forthcoming trial of the recently apprehended Ratko Mladiae in Yugoslavia.

To download a free copy of the new IDC report (valued at $500), please visit www.zylab.com/Resources/IDCReport.aspx. For more information on ZyLAB's complete line of eDiscovery software and litigation support services, please call 1-866-995-2262 ext. 827.

*IDC document Doc # 228752, by Hadley Reynolds, published June 2011.

ZyLAB's products and services are used on an enterprise level by corporations, government agencies, courts, and law firms, as well as on specific matters for legal services, auditing, and accounting providers. For more information, please call 1-866-995-2262.

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