Overview
The Veritas eDiscovery Platform is a comprehensive, enterprise-class solution designed to manage all aspects of the electronic discovery (eDiscovery) process, including legal matters, regulatory inquiries, and corporate investigations. This unified application streamlines the entire eDiscovery lifecycle, from legal hold and data collection through processing, analysis, review, and production. This platform enables organizations, including enterprises, governments, and law firms, to defensibly solve real-world eDiscovery challenges using a single, intuitive interface.
Key Modules and Functionality
The platform is structured around several key modules:
Identification & Collection (IC)
- Supports a wide range of data sources, including email, social media, chat, and collaboration platforms. Additional data sources can be supported via additional licenses.
- Features direct collectors for Veritas archiving solutions, allowing content to be collected directly from Enterprise Vault or Enterprise Vault.cloud.
Legal Hold (LH)
- Enables the creation and management of legal hold notices, which can be sent to up to 65,000 custodians via email.
- Includes features for reminders, escalations, and custodian surveys to capture critical information.
- Provides a custodian portal for tracking active, pending, and released holds, along with automated tracking and reporting.
Pre-Processing, Processing & Analysis, and Review (PPAR)
- Processes and analyzes data based on capacity meters (e.g., 100GB, 1TB, 2TB, 5TB).
- Supports over 500 different file types, including multimedia files like audio and video.
- Features multimedia processing, allowing searches for spoken words within audio and video files without relying on transcription.
- Includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract and search text within images.
- Offers intelligent deduplication to automatically deduplicate data across multiple data stores.
Advanced Features
Workflow Automation and Efficiency
- The platform automates many manual tasks, reducing effort and mitigating human error.
- It provides a consumer-grade design that lowers the learning curve, enabling immediate action.
- Workflow automation spans the entire eDiscovery lifecycle, from early case assessment (ECA) to review and production.
Transparent Predictive Coding
- Leverages machine learning technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of traditional linear review.
- Enhances accuracy, workflow defensibility, and tagging transparency.
Audio Processing, Search, & Review
- Utilizes a phonetic-based solution for rapidly processing audio content, making it available for search and review.
- This is particularly useful given recent regulatory focus on multimedia content, such as the Dodd-Frank Act.
Distributed Architecture
- Allows for the addition of capacity on demand, improving processing speed, user scalability, and export efficiency.
- Supports the management of hundreds of cases with a 64-bit, distributed, case-based architecture.
Data Classification and Compliance
- Integrates with the Veritas Information Classifier (VIC) to automatically classify sensitive and critical data based on built-in and custom policies.
- Enables reviewers to use classification filters in the Analysis and Review mode to identify documents matching VIC tags.
Security and Compliance
- Compliant with FIPS 140-2 and Section 508 standards.
- Provides integrated dashboards and reporting for each stage of the eDiscovery process, along with a global audit trail to track all user actions.
Deployment and Scalability
The Veritas eDiscovery Platform can be deployed in various ways:
- As a purpose-built appliance
- As software-only in a virtual environment
- Hosted by a certified service provider
This flexibility allows organizations to scale their eDiscovery capabilities according to their needs.
In summary, the Veritas eDiscovery Platform is a robust solution that streamlines the eDiscovery process, enhances efficiency, and ensures defensibility across all stages of electronic discovery. Its modular licensing framework, advanced features, and scalable deployment options make it a leading choice for organizations facing complex legal and regulatory challenges.