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CaseCentral Reinvents Cloud-based eDiscovery with the Introduction of Release 5

Single, integrated product for Early Case Assessment (ECA), Analysis, Review and Production introduces advanced analytics and visualization in intuitive, unified user interface

SAN FRANCISCO – January 28, 2011 - CaseCentral, the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporate counsel and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery, today announced Release 5 (R5), the next generation of its secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software.  The new CaseCentral R5 eDiscovery Platform brings cutting-edge technology to bear on eDiscovery, streamlining workflows and providing multiple tools within a single, integrated, easy-to-use application for the different stages of eDiscovery.  R5 enables corporations and law firms, IT and legal departments, to transparently manage litigation matters, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations to achieve significant reductions in the time, costs and risks associated with eDiscovery.
“Cloud-based eDiscovery software can provide important benefits to corporations and law firms,” said George Socha Jr., Esq., founder of Socha Consulting.  “These benefits can include lower costs and improved service delivery, resulting in less time and waste.”

Customer and Market Feedback Drives 5 Key Objectives for CaseCentral R5

1. Continue to leverage cloud computing to provide time, cost, risk and predictability advantages over on-premise software
2. Deliver cutting-edge eDiscovery technology and tools for better transparency and GRC
3. Integrate with enterprise data sources to provide end-to-end eDiscovery
4. Reinvent the user experience via a unified user interface and extended self-service capabilities
5. Offer true multi-matter and multi-party capability with single document store

“CaseCentral R5 was driven by direct feedback from our customers and clients to leverage the inherent advantages of a cloud-based eDiscovery delivery model for in-house eDiscovery,” said Steve d’Alencon, Chief Marketing Officer, CaseCentral.  “R5 facilitates greater collaboration between legal and IT departments by delivering an end-to-end eDiscovery platform that utilizes state-of-the art technology and self-service capabilities to reinvent the user experience.  With R5, customers achieve faster time-to-value and significantly reduced time, risk and cost, as a result of a repeatable, defensible in-house eDiscovery process.”
Features and benefits of CaseCentral R5 Include:

• Unified user interface improves ease-of-use, reduces training and support – R5 uses a standard look and feel across all interfaces to provide a cohesive experience.  Designed with the familiar Outlook-style user interface, users can take advantage of the new CaseCentral R5 layout with ease and confidence.
• Improve user self-sufficiency by reducing different interfaces for different tasks
• Preview documents in context
• Formulate complex searches though the new advanced search UI and saved clauses

• Find major themes and concepts in your data for fast and effective ECA - Users immediately see what concepts exist in their data and can act upon them.  Drill down into specific concepts or themes through a concept tree or through a visual concept wheel on any volume of data. 
• View concept clusters to determine what is in your data
• Include, exclude or pre-tag entire concept clusters and associated documents with a click
• View concepts as a faceted tree or use a concept wheel

• Filter easily to the relevant data with faceted navigation - Attorneys can rapidly mine vast amounts of metadata to find only the relevant documents needed for specific matters. 
• Filter by any combination of metadata fields
• Quickly see top authors, recipients, concepts and other subjective or objective metadata fields
• Stay synchronized as linked facets, concepts and documents update automatically based upon reviewer selections or search results

• Increase performance and efficiency with advanced self-service capabilities - CaseCentral R5 introduces a number of workflow improvements to shorten start-up times and reduce administration.
• Create cases and implement workflows easily through application wizards
• Manage large review projects and document distribution through assigned worklists
• Validate, produce and manage documents through self-service production utilities

• Enterprise eDiscovery Dashboard – Provides a real-time, consolidated and accurate view of  eDiscovery matters for deeper insight into performance and workflow.
• Measures case-level, cross-party or cross-matter metrics for intelligent resource governance and budget forecasting
• Sophisticated process analytics provide insight into costs, trends and efficiencies
• Monitor status across all cases and manage efficiency, effectiveness  and costs across one or multiple matters down to the reviewer level

• Collaborate securely and scale without purchasing hardware or installing software - CaseCentral’s private cloud, SaaS-based delivery model enables secure collaboration in a simple pay-as-you-go model.
• Almost no IT requirements for support or infrastructure
• Scale resources on-demand, users and cases from gigabytes to terabytes
• World-class security including enterprise class disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP) with sophisticated security options including IP address restriction

In-house eDiscovery Application Delivery via Cloud Computing

Corporations, law firms and service providers are finding a secure, private cloud-based application the most compelling model for eDiscovery. They control the process, without incurring the costs, risks and time delays inherent in on-premise software deployment. Additionally, cloud-based applications minimize the requests for internal IT departments to constantly purchase infrastructure and modify corporate network and security standards for third party access, which can increase security risks.

CaseCentral R5 continues to provide elastic capacity, on-demand.  Clients can support large fluctuations in ESI data volumes without paying for additional storage hardware or infrastructure. And clients can add new users, reviewers and cases immediately without waiting on over-taxed IT departments to respond.

To learn more about the new capabilities of R5, schedule a product demo or a meeting at LegalTech NY, use this link:  http://www.casecentral.com/legaltech2011/.  Or email us at:  info@casecentral.com.

The release of CaseCentral R5 follows a strong 2010 which saw CaseCentral set the standard for eDiscovery vendors by eliminating eDiscovery processing fees for Symantec Enterprise Vault customers who use the CaseCentral Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator.  And in December, 2010, CaseCentral was named as a ‘Top Player’ by the Radicati Group in its “eDiscovery Solutions – Market Quadrant 2010” market brief.  

To learn more about key factors to evaluate when selecting a cloud computing eDiscovery application, read the industry’s first Blueprint for cloud-based eDiscovery.

About CaseCentral
Founded in 1994, CaseCentral is the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporations and law firms to simplify and take control of electronic discovery (e-Discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.  CaseCentral enables repeatable, defensible and measurable business processes that significantly reduce eDiscovery risk, cost and time. The CaseCentral eDiscovery platform integrates early case assessment, processing, analysis, review and production capabilities, enabling customers to succeed with a single matter and seamlessly migrate to multi-matter, multi-party, multi-repository support within the same software platform. CaseCentral pioneered the use of process analytics, providing real-time measurement of review rates, quality rates and costs per document - by matter, firm or user.  CaseCentral has served more than 32 of the Fortune 100 and more than 83 of the AmLaw 100.  For more information, call 1.800.714.2727 or visit www.casecentral.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/casecentral or read ‘Case in Point’ cartoons, the lighter side of eDiscovery, at: www.casecentral.com/case-in-point/.

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