Integration

An increasingly large range of data formats is being generated in the enterprise. Companies must find ways to efficiently process all of this disparate data to protect themselves from litigation and ensure compliance.

How Do Manual Legacy Techniques Approach the Problem of Integration?

Current approaches require numerous systems, often using third-party technologies, to access each information silo separately to return a query. Consequently, companies lack a comprehensive view of their enterprise knowledge base. These systems cannot detect the subtle nuances of data relationships. For instance, a search for a certain customer query will return that specific email from the server but will not return a recording of a related call. This approach also severely hampers the efficiency of search, as data requires re-analysis whenever it changes in one of the sources.

Furthermore, no vendor provides an end-to-end eDiscovery solution that includes a full spectrum of offerings. In all likelihood, the customer must use multiple vendors within the same legal case as they move through different stages of the litigation cycle. This not only introduces the risk of spoliation, but leaves an unnecessarily heavy burden on cost and duplicates much of the effort that could have been prevented had the data been handled by a single vendor.

How does Autonomy ZANTAZ Resolve the Challenge of Integration?

Autonomy ZANTAZ offers a single platform (IDOL) for understanding and processing all digital information. Only IDOL can perform keyword and conceptual search, speech analytics, video search, email and Instant Messaging (IM) search and categorization - all on the same platform. Autonomy ZANTAZ supports connection to over 400 content repositories and over 1,000 different data formats without relying on any third party source, giving enterprises access to all of their critical content - operational and archived. If a repository or file format is not supported, Autonomy ZANTAZ has a dedicated team to not only add support, but to do so in a modular fashion. Amassing all corporate data in a single index allows enterprises to make sense of information from the widest range of formats and sources available.

The company owns 100% of the technology; whatever changes take place in the wider technology sector, Autonomy ZANTAZ customers will never be left with unsupported components. IDOL's superior benefits are realized without any concessions in performance as each component of IDOL is best-of-breed. Moreover, the fact that the Autonomy ZANTAZ solution suite includes not only eDiscovery, but also Content Archiving as well as Desktop Legal Hold and Real-Time Policy Management, is extremely powerful for any organization that faces frequent litigation. For these companies, the ability to control and manage their critical corporate information from inception right through to production without the need for an additional third-party vendor results in lower cost of production, faster response to discovery requests and full chain of custody ownership to ensure evidentiary validity. Autonomy ZANTAZ not only differentiates itself from competitors by having the technology and expertise to address each of the steps in the EDRM model across the board with a single platform solution (to lower processing costs and chain of custody risk by keeping data all with one vendor), but also by outpacing its competitors in each individual step.

Key benefits include:

• Single platform solution for all content types eschews stitching together of different technologies with potentially conflicting formats that risk stability
• By integrating information from different repositories, conceptual analytics can be performed across different applications and file formats, revealing valuable patterns scattered throughout the entire enterprise corpus
• Addresses the entire spectrum of the EDRM model