SAN FRANCISCO - (Business Wire) CT Summation, a leader in litigation support and electronic data discovery solutions, today announced compliance of CT Summation Enterprise and Discovery Cracker with the new Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, developed by the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) group. CT Summation Enterprise, a production and review tool designed for managing large cases, utilizes the XML standard to improve interoperability with the import of electronically stored information (ESI), and CT Summation Discovery Cracker, a powerful and automated e-Discovery processing and delivery tool, utilizes the XML standard to improve interoperability with the export of electronically stored information (ESI) between applications involved in the discovery process.
The EDRM XML-compliant CT Summation Enterprise and Discovery Cracker software products provide the following benefits:
- Lower labor costs: IT departments, legal teams and service providers can significantly reduce the amount of manual effort spent transferring ESI from system to system;
- Fewer errors: Organizations can focus their efforts on a single standard schema—versus multiple schemas—to transfer ESI from system to system, reducing errors;
- Faster e-Discovery: The ability to efficiently transfer data leads to a faster, streamlined end-to-end e-Discovery process;
- Greater flexibility: Organizations have the freedom to choose “best-of-breed” products that offer interoperability, versus inferior products that must be pieced together.
“The development of the EDRM XML standard shows a changing of the tides in the world of e-Discovery best practices,” said George J. Socha, principal analyst with Socha Consulting and co-founder of the EDRM Project. “By implementing a standard way of managing the collaboration between technologies, EDRM has capitalized on the industry’s readiness to work together and move the entire industry forward.”
CT Summation was an “early adopter” participant in the development of the XML Schema Definition (XSD) as part of an EDRM XML Project working group, consisting of technologists and lawyers from the leading e-Discovery vendors, service providers, law firms and corporate end-users. The XSD allows all parties to consistently describe documents, email, attachments and standalone files, as well as the underlying metadata for all of those objects as they move through the e-Discovery process.
“Law firms and corporate legal departments need to be able to perform e-Discovery tasks in a faster, more accurate, more affordable, and more flexible manner,” said Tom Rump, vice president of Litigation Solutions for Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services. “This EDRM XML standard, which we fully support and helped pioneer, is helping the legal community achieve this.”
About EDRM
Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) was created to develop resources and best practices for e-discovery consumers and providers. Through the group's creation of the EDRM model, which outlines the key processes and steps involved with e-discovery, to its development of an XML standard so that e-discovery products can interoperate, EDRM has helped e-discovery consumers and providers reduce the cost, time and manual work associated with e-discovery. Since the group's inception in 2005, more than 300 people from over 125 organizations have been involved. In the last year, the major industry analyst firms have adopted the EDRM model. For more information on EDRM, please visit www.edrm.net.
About CT Summation
CT Summation, the leader in litigation support and electronic data discovery solutions, pioneered litigation support software in 1988. From standalone systems to large-scale hosted solutions, CT Summation's award-winning product family—consisting of iBlaze, WebBlaze, Enterprise, CaseVault and Discovery Cracker—provides a complete and integrated solution suite from discovery through trial. CT Summation, together with CT TyMetrix and its leading Web-based management TyMetrix 360°solutions, represent the Litigation Solutions of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services. For more information, please visit www.ctsummation.com and www.cttymetrix.com.
CT, a Wolters Kluwer business, provides quality software and service solutions that legal professionals can rely upon to more effectively manage dynamic information, speed workflows and make critical decisions. CT is the market leader for corporate compliance and governance services and solutions, including solutions for managing statutory representation, corporate transactions, and jurisdictional and securities compliance; UCC products and services for corporate due diligence, secured lending, bankruptcy, and real estate, among other areas; matter management and e-billing applications, litigation support software, and electronic discovery; and innovative trademark research offerings. CT is based in New York City. For more information, please visit www.ctlegalsolutions.com.
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, and legal and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer has 2006 annual revenues of €3.7 billion, employs approximately 19,900 people worldwide and maintains operations across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. For more information, visit www.wolterskluwer.com.
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