Email and Instant Messaging Search and Discovery Applications

Electronic Communications applications such as Email and Instant Messaging are now recognized by most Courts  as vital and representative official business communications; Such communications are routinely recognized as legal business communications and as such are subject to requests for most legal proceedings.  There have been a number of recent court cases, where email has proven to be a vital part of legal actions, these have included important cases involving the highest level of Government, including the White House and a number of large Corporate entities including Microsoft and Intel among others.  The ability to rapidly produce electronic communications for legal requests for business communications is key to responding efficiently, cost effectively and completely. 

In addition, several recent laws and regulations specify exactly what must be produced, the most important of which is the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, (FRCP)  which clearly articulates the requirements for the production of electronic Communications in response to Discovery motions.  In addition, Governmental organizations must comply with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) as well as a number of State regulations.  Other laws such as HIPAA require proof of compliance with their privacy requirements. Lastly, a number of Corporate entities have received and had to comply with Discovery motions from Stockholders.

Native search utilities provided by the major communications vendors such as Microsoft or Lotus often are cumbersome and not sufficient to produce the types of data requested, hence external Search and Discovery applications have become mainstream and an important part of the Administrators toolkit.

• Discovery Attender for Exchange

  Discovery Attender is an electronic discovery tool specifically designed to perform dynamic keyword searches in Exchange mailboxes, PST files and common file storage areas. Discovery Attender can automatically execute powerful scans of message subject, body and attachments through customizable search criteria.

• Discovery Attender for Notes

  Discovery Attender™ is a Lotus Notes search and discovery tool that automates investigative tasks in Domino server databases. Once installed, administrators can immediately gain access to content and efficiently search, locate and review data in a timely manner. Once searches are complete, content is copied to a Domino database for further investigation. Discovery Attender can search by customizable criteria such as keyword and date ranges. Searches can be targeted to specific databases and are transparent to end-users.

• Discovery Manager

  Discovery Manager provides a full solution for message search and discovery enabling administrators to uncover important information from Microsoft Exchange servers. Discovery Manager helps meet the demands of legal e-discovery requests by finding pertinent messages and information in existing Microsoft Exchange stores.

• Instant Archive Viewer for Microsoft LCS

  Instant LCS Archive Viewer allows users to instantly have access to all their chat conversations directly through the LCS client interface. All of this is being accomplished on a backend built strictly adhering to .Net standards. With Instant LCS Archive Viewer anyone using LCS may quickly and easily retrieve information from past conversations without the hassle of having to open or install any additional software on their machine.

• Instant Archive Viewer for Microsoft OCS

  Instant OCS 2007 Archive Viewer allows users to instantly have access to all their chat conversations directly through the OCS 2007 client interface. All of this is being accomplished on a backend built strictly adhering to .Net standards. With Instant OCS 2007 Archive Viewer anyone using OCS 2007 may quickly and easily retrieve information from past conversations without the hassle of having to open or install any additional software on their machine.

• Instant IMtegrity Archives

  Instant IMtegrity Archives provides IM archiving, search, and discovery for IBM Lotus Sametime. If questions are asked about who said what to whom, Instant IMtegrity Archives will provide irrefutable evidence.

• Mail Attender for Exchange

  Mail Attender® for Exchange Enterprise is a content management tool for mailboxes, public folders and PST files located on desktops and servers. Unlike any other product available, it automatically manages the entire mail information store via one central web interface. Administrators now have the ability to manage and distribute common policies across an entire enterprise in a timely and cost-effective manner. It can be used in any size Exchange environment since the costs are not prohibitive. Licensing is available for mailbox processing only, PST processing only or for both.

• Mail Attender for Lotus Notes

  Mail Attender for Notes manages documents, attachments, quotas and mail access for mail databases. Using Mail Attender restrictions, the administrators can automatically enforce e-mail policies upon the entire Company or on individual sets of users.

• PowerControls

  Ontrack® PowerControls™ is a simple, yet powerful software tool for copying, searching, recovering and analyzing email and other mailbox items directly from Microsoft® Exchange server backups, un-mounted databases (EDB) and Information Store files - and now, even from your live Exchange server! Ontrack® PowerControls™ is designed to perform fast and efficient email search and Exchange server recovery directly from Microsoft® Exchange Server backups, un-mounted database files (EDB) and Information Store files.