Enhancements to help IT departments administer and enforce a repeatable in-house e-discovery process
SEATTLE – Aug. 27 – FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced from the ILTA ’08 conference the availability of Attenex Patterns version 5.0. The release of Attenex Patterns 5.0 marks the first product announcement since FTI Consulting acquired Attenex in July 2008. The new e-discovery software includes a number of significant enhancements to help corporate IT departments administer and enforce a repeatable in-house e-discovery process.
“Attenex Patterns is the e-discovery standard for many law firms and corporations because it puts them in the best position to make the best decision on any matter—whether for investigations, legal or compliance needs,” said JR Jesson, senior managing director of FTI Consulting. “Enhancements in Attenex Patterns 5.0 benefit corporate IT teams tasked with developing a defensible and cost-effective e-discovery process.” Among the new features within Attenex Patterns 5.0, the software development kit (SDK) enables corporate IT teams to automate e-discovery processing tasks, reducing unnecessary expenses and the risk of human error. The software’s open APIs help corporate IT teams leverage existing investments by integrating Attenex Patterns with complementary applications and data sources. Additionally, corporate IT teams can develop integrated utilities for custom e-discovery processing tasks.
The dramatic growth of enterprise data collected during litigation, internal investigations and regulatory inquiries creates new challenges for corporate e-discovery teams. Attenex Patterns 5.0 helps the in-house team rise to this challenge by delivering several new performance enhancements for managing e-discovery matters—whether multinational or multi-terabyte. These enhancements include improved data processing and search performance with Asian languages, faster processing speeds for multiple PST and NSF files, as well as faster de-duplication and re-clustering capabilities to help e-discovery teams more quickly make sense of the data during internal investigations and case assessments.
Businesses have identified Attenex as a top five e-discovery software provider for the second straight year in the most recent Socha-Gelbmann e-discovery survey. A longtime market leader in document processing and analytics software for e-discovery, Attenex Patterns software consists of:
Attenex® Patterns® Workbench™, enterprise-class data and project management software used by leading corporations to implement repeatable in-house e-discovery processes. More than a culling tool or appliance, in-house e-discovery teams rely on Workbench’s unprecedented flexibility for filtering collected data, developing case strategy as well as tracking document decisions and work product throughout the process; and Attenex® Patterns® Document Mapper™, the choice of legal and compliance teams that need to quickly and accurately identify relevant information from electronic document collections of any size. An unparalleled visual interface increases review productivity with a multi-dimensional look at the collection’s main concepts and themes. Reviewers can quickly and accurately identify, analyze, review and categorize documents during internal investigations or case assessments.
Attenex Patterns can be deployed on-premise or on-demand through an Attenex Advantage™ service provider, providing flexible deployment options that can be customized to the needs of any environment. This flexibility, combined with new features in version 5.0, further strengthens Attenex Patterns’ position as the premier e-discovery software for corporations that want to take control of their e-discovery process.
Attenex Patterns is available immediately from FTI Consulting or though the Attenex Advantage Partner network.
About Attenex® Patterns® Attenex Patterns software, offered by FTI Consulting, is changing the way corporations manage e-discovery by enabling corporations and their law firms to establish standardized e-discovery processes that reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations. Whether deployed on-premise or as a hosted service through the industry’s largest network of global service providers, Attenex Patterns software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs.
Attenex Advantage Partners represent the industry’s largest network of experienced legal industry service providers and consulting organizations that offer Attenex software to dramatically reduce the total cost of discovery for their clients.