Text Analysis: The next step for eDiscovery, Legacy Information Clean-up and Enterprise Information Archiving

December 16, 2011

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Text and content analysis differs from traditional search in that, whereas search requires a user to know what he or she is looking for, text analysis attempts to discover information in a pattern that is not known beforehand. One of the most compelling differences with regular (web) search is that typical search engines are optimized… [Read more…]

European Privacy and Data Protection Regulations: Effective Defense Tools in eDiscovery But Also a Compliance Risk!

December 5, 2011

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Last week, nearly 300 privacy professionals gathered in Paris for the second International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) European Data Protection Congress. Completely focused on the latest developments in privacy for the European data protection community, this conference was an extraordinarily high quality event—one of the best I have ever attended. The organizers sought to… [Read more…]

Why Legal, IT, Compliance and Investigators Must Work Together!

December 1, 2011

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Last week, ZyLAB’s Amsterdam team hosted more than 100 professionals and thought-leaders in the areas of eDiscovery, information management and legal technology. The delegates converged at “ZyLAB Universe 2012” which took place at the Nyenrode Business University in Amsterdam. This unique professional and historic setting was a fitting backdrop for workshops and presentations from many… [Read more…]

Legacy Data Clean-up: different approaches to manage different data

November 21, 2011

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Tackling the e-mail problem E-mail is where the high costs and risks of e-discovery are concentrated. People keep their e-mails because it is easy, but these e-mail archives (PSTs) rapidly swell to GBs of information. Problems fester because the information in these PST folders is often completely unstructured. For example, potentially sensitive HRM-related e-mails (such… [Read more…]

Factors that drive solid records management

November 14, 2011

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Legal obligation Records retention always carries with it some type of legal obligation, regardless of the type or size of an organization. The de facto standard for how records-retention requirements should fit together in a comprehensive records management environment are based upon such internationally acknowledged frameworks and guidelines such as the National Archives (UK), National… [Read more…]

Visual Information Retrieval: the Next challenge in Information Management

November 7, 2011

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In the past 20 years, a lot of research has been done towards visual information retrieval on pictures and video files. Not all of it has been successful. But on the last years, the quality of these visual search engines has reached levels that are beginning to be acceptable for eDiscovery, compliance, law enforcement and… [Read more…]

The expanding role of records management: creating the foundation for effective and pro-active-discovery

October 31, 2011

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In today’s evolving workplace each department or ‘business unit’ is treated as its own individual business, with its own cost centre, overheads and profit targets. Although this is good for healthy profits and board level reporting, it can also be the cause of conflicting objectives and issues with inter-department communication. A legal department for example… [Read more…]

Records-Management: The foundation for high-quality KM

October 25, 2011

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Only when efficient records management policies and practices are in place can an organization hope to fulfill its enterprise-wide knowledge management goals. This approach has at its core the principle that “knowledge management” is really more of a conceptual ideal than an operational model. In other words, “knowledge management” is the way an organization says:… [Read more…]

Towards an Efficient and Less Risky eDiscovery via an Efficient Records Management Strategy

October 18, 2011

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Considering the context outlined in the previous section, any records management solution should at least adhere to the following basic principles: Creates additional flexibility regarding the way records are actually defined within the organization; Supports the management of records as they are currently used (a file plan); Provide a comprehensive and workable strategy for secure… [Read more…]

The Need for Pro-active eDiscovery

October 10, 2011

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Managing and controlling electronically stored information (ESI) is a matter of technology, but also of strict procedures, quality control and well-documented information management activities. ESI has become one of the most serious sources of legal exposure and risk. Technology is essential and the technology options abound: advanced culling; processing and (forensic)  full-text indexing; concept and… [Read more…]

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