FTI Technology Launches Ringtail QuickCull(R) Appliance for In-House E-Discovery
24 Agosto 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Global Leader Empowers Corporations to Reduce Complexity and Cost
for the Entire E-Discovery Process WASHINGTON, Aug. 24
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), the
global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations
protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced the
launch of Ringtail QuickCull, a new pre-configured hardware and
software package for e-discovery. With rapid deployment and
out-of-the-box functionality, QuickCull enables corporations to
cull and analyze data on-premise prior to review by outside
counsel, providing earlier insight into data and dramatic
e-discovery cost reduction. "It has been my experience that
deploying Ringtail QuickCull for pre-processing, culling, triage
review, and data export dramatically streamlines the most time and
technology intensive parts of data collection and production while
maintaining forensic integrity," said Joseph Perkovich, associate
with Dorsey & Whitney LLP. "Due to QuickCull's rapid
implementation and reliability in digesting data, I am aware of no
better discovery tool for use in enforcement or investigative
actions brought by prosecutors, regulators or legislative
committees." Upon installation, users can immediately begin
indexing data and quickly identify duplicate files, which are
automatically tagged for efficiency. Hidden files and columns,
tracked changes and other modifications are also available to view.
Reviewers can search for documents using a variety of search
methods, including keywords and complex Boolean queries that can
also be restricted to specific metadata fields. QuickCull then
presents documents for preview, allowing reviewers to mark and tag
individual documents in preview mode. These markings are saved for
export into processing, review and analysis tools via the EDRM XML
standard, an industry standard for which FTI took a leadership
position to develop. QuickCull is also Unicode compliant to support
international requirements. "Our corporate clients not only want
cost-effective tools for today's needs, but also smart investments
that help support a long-term e-discovery strategy," said Patrick
Strong, senior managing director of FTI Technology, a business unit
of FTI Consulting. "QuickCull meets this challenge by providing
immediate out-of-the-box benefits and a clear path for streamlining
the e-discovery process for future matters." Cost Reduction The
vast majority of data that corporations save and collect for
e-discovery - whether in enterprise content management (ECM)
systems, line of business (LOB) applications or other storage
repositories - are not relevant to legal or regulatory matters.
However, many corporations collect any and all data within the
parameters of a case - all of the emails of ten key custodians, for
example - and then work with their law firm or a legal service
provider to facilitate processing and review. If the irrelevant
data is eliminated earlier in the process, clients reduce the cost
of not only of potentially extraneous processing, but also legal
review by focusing on the data that matters to the facts at hand.
"When organizations had access to unlimited financial resources,
dealing with the combination of corporate data growth and surging
electronic discovery requests was fairly basic: hire more people to
complete complex tasks such as first pass and comprehensive
reviews," said Brian Babineau, senior industry analyst with
Enterprise Strategy Group. "Clearly, the economy has dictated a
more frugal approach to resource utilization, but data growth and
frequency of matters involving ESI have not subsided leaving
organizations no choice but to leverage technology to cut costs. In
our opinion, one of the easiest ways to cut electronic discovery
costs is to invest in solutions that cut the data set as early in
the process as possible." Understanding Data Earlier QuickCull
users can index, search, cull and preview datasets within hours of
collection without sending data off-site. In addition, QuickCull
searches the data by a variety of methods, including keywords, data
ranges and custodians, providing an early view into the likely
responsive documents. This enables in-house teams to understand the
data better and earlier in the process, as well as providing
significant strategic advantage. Springboard for Streamlined
E-Discovery Large corporations manage hundreds of matters annually
and struggle with controlling the cost of the often complex
e-discovery process. A significant component of the complexity and
cost is due to a crowded yet disparate e-discovery vendor market.
According to the 2009 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey,
there are over 600 vendors that claim to offer e-discovery products
or services, and for those offering products, the majority provide
niche tools that address one or two of the nine e-discovery steps,
as laid out by the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, or EDRM.
For corporations seeking to simplify their e-discovery process with
fewer tools and vendors, QuickCull represents an integrated
component of FTI Technology's complete e-discovery portfolio of
software, services and consulting. QuickCull is the latest product
from FTI, which also offers Attenex Patterns and Ringtail Legal
software, two of the top e-discovery tools according to the annual
Socha-Gelbmann survey. The addition of QuickCull enables
corporations to cull, process, review, analyze and produce data
using one integrated platform and a single provider. QuickCull,
Attenex and Ringtail all provide customizable, repeatable workflows
that are backed by a highly scalable SQL database. In addition, all
three products are offered as either on-demand or on-premise
deployments, so corporations can customize the solutions to meet
their particular IT environment and litigation profile. FTI can
help clients manage and execute the entire e-discovery process,
including identification and collection, with the company's expert
consultants as well. Located around the globe, FTI consultants have
managed hundreds of e-discovery matters, ranging from internal
corporate fraud investigations, multinational litigation, Hart
Scott Rodino "second requests," and structured data discovery. "For
our clients, the new QuickCull appliance is a catalyst for a
long-term, strategic approach to e-discovery," said David Remnitz,
senior managing director and technology segment leader for FTI
Technology. "For FTI Technology, QuickCull represents another
important step for us in broadening our offerings to support our
clients' complete e-discovery needs." The QuickCull appliance is
available from FTI Technology in the fourth quarter of 2009. For
more information, please visit http://www.ftitechnology.com/. About
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