Attendees Share Fears, Limitations and Solutions for eDiscovery in 2016
Tempe, Ariz. – February 17, 2016 – Ipro Tech, LLC, a worldwide leader in the design of eDiscovery workflow software, today announced the results of survey findings conducted last week during Legaltech New York, the largest legal technology event of the year. According to an instant survey of over one hundred attorneys, litigation support and eDiscovery specialists one of the biggest issues impacting eDiscovery in 2016 is data growth. Possibly in response to the limitations of current tools to help efficiently manage litigation data, over 35% of Legaltech attendees surveyed plan to invest in eDiscovery automation technology in 2016. Respondents also noted that the number one reason they do not use Technology Assisted Review (TAR) more frequently to help reduce large data sets is due to its cost.
“These findings show a growing consensus that we need a better way to deal with the dramatic growth of data and the increasing cost pressures it adds to litigation,” said Kim Taylor, President and CEO, Ipro. “We feel strongly that customers shouldn’t be limited by the inefficient, tedious and largely manual discovery workflows of old to manage data. Nor should attorneys be held hostage by the high price of TAR and be forced to choose whether they can afford the luxury of it to reduce their data collection prior to review. By combining automation with built-in analytics, legal professionals can now do more with fewer resources and at a lower cost.”
Ipro conducted the survey on February 2-4, 2016, at LegalTech 2016 in New York City. Survey participants, who came from diverse geographic and industry backgrounds, were randomly selected and participated in the survey that asked them to select the biggest issues impacting eDiscovery, analytics and TAR usage and interest in automation technology. Survey results underscore the vision of Ipro that eDiscovery should be simple, affordable and automated. Ipro recently relea sed an update to its ADD Automated Digital Discovery platform – a patent-pending data-streaming technology that unifies and automates the eDiscovery workflow unlike any other solution on the market.
About Ipro Tech, LLC Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software solutions. Ipro’s ADD Automated Digital Discovery workflow platform helps customers organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. To learn more, visit www.iprotech.com. To schedule a private demonstration, email [email protected] or visit our web site to find a Partner today.
Tempe, Ariz. – Ipro Tech, LLC, a worldwide leader in the design of eDiscovery workflow software, today announced that Dan Browning has joined the growing company as the Vice President of Software Development. His primary responsibilities are managing the development and design of Ipro’s products to optimize the Ipro user experience.
Browning takes the reins from Mike Schubert who was promoted to COO in October 2015. He’ll report to Schubert, whose responsibilities include overseeing all internal technical operations. Browning joins Ipro with over 17 years of commercial software product development expertise with a stellar track record of delivering products for growth oriented software companies. For the last 10 years, Browning served as the Chief Technology Officer for InEight Inc., capital project software, and was responsible for the technical vision and strategy of their product portfolio. He has a broad base of experience including technical proficiency in software design, architecture, engineering and quality assurance. While at InEight, Browning transformed their technology from a stand-alone desktop application to an enterprise ready suite of products spanning on-premise, cloud and mobile infrastructure. Browning was previously Vice President of Research and Development for Sage Software.
“Dan will be a great addition to our already outstanding executive team,” said Kim Taylor, CEO and President, Ipro. “Drawing on his extensive technical background and business savvy, Dan will focus on driving Ipro’s product deliverables and execution. We’re thrilled to have him aboard.”
About Ipro Tech, LLC Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software solutions. Ipro’s ADD Automated Digital Discovery® workflow platform helps customers organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. To learn more visit www.iprotech.com. To schedule a private demonstration, email [email protected] or visit our web site to find a Partner today.
Company Experiences Fourth Consecutive Year of Growth
TEMPE, ARIZ. – Ipro Tech, LLC, a worldwide leader in the design of eDiscovery workflow software, today announced that sales results for 2015 gave Ipro its fourth consecutive year of growth, representing a double-digit increase over 2014. The company attributes much of its success to strong performance from its flagship processing product eCapture and high growth from Eclipse, analytic web-based review, and Eclipse SE, all-in-one desktop review.
Eclipse, sold separately or as part of the ADD Automated Digital Discovery® platform, gained greater adoption by well-known law firms and service providers in 2015, including DTI Document Technologies, Inc., D4, LLC, and Discovia, due to its robust features, performance and built-in analytics. Ipro also experienced positive response and significant participation in its expanded partner program. The company continues to work closely with its extensive service partner network to deliver improved efficiency and greater cost-savings to the market.
In Q4 2015, Ipro also released the ADD Automated Digital Discovery platform, a patent-pending data-streaming technology that eliminates batches and reduces the starts and stops of eDiscovery, allowing data to flow into review much faster. ADD unifies and automates the eDiscovery workflow unlike any other solution on the market.
“With the release of ADD, Ipro is truly revolutionizing the industry. We’re excited about what 2016 holds for the company and our customers,” said Kim Taylor, President and CEO, Ipro. “We feel extremely confident that with our current portfolio, Ipro will set a fifth consecutive sales record this year.”
Ipro will be exhibiting at Legaltech New York Conference, Booths 302 and 305, February 2-4, 2016.
About Ipro Tech, LLC Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software solutions. Ipro’s ADD Automated Digital Discovery workflow platform helps customers organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. To learn more visit www.iprotech.com. To schedule a private demonstration, email [email protected] or visit our web site to find a Partner today.
“The exhibit hall at Legaltech New York promises to be filled to the brim with legal technology companies providing the latest new innovations and amazing upgrades to each of their new systems. Afraid that you may miss something in the commotion? Legaltech News will be covering the latest legal technology company news during and after the show… but in case you want to get a jump on what technologies and innovations some of the biggest names in legal tech will be offering, here is a preview.”
Ipro Ipro’s workflow platform, ADD Automated Digital Discovery, seeks to provide a simple and automated way for organizations to manage e-discovery. And with its latest ADD release, Ipro looks to take the automation to another level, introducing Media Manager as a web-based solution to “completely automate and optimize identifying and tracking electronic files across the eDiscovery workflow.” Media Manager, the company added, can also add key delivery and metadata information to source media (hard drives, thumb drives, DVDs, etc.) and electronic files for document management and tracking. The addition also allows users to auto-generate barcodes, copy media content to the network to create and track discovery jobs, and map media paths to existing clients and custodians.
The ADD platform also touts a number of other upgrades in its latest release, including increased integration between Ipro processing and Relativity review on the ADD platform (dubbed “ipro-Q”), continuous streaming, first-pass filtering, and on-demand license consumption. At Legaltech New York, the company will also be showcasing processing speed and functionality upgrades to early case assessment tool Allegro, analytic web-based review Eclipse and the high-speed processing tool eCapture. Read more: http://www.legaltechnews.com/id=1202748328688/The-PreLTNY-Innovation-Roundup-Legal-Tech-Company-News-to-Know-Part-1#ixzz3yg71XOp4
New Release of ADD Automated Digital Discovery® Introduces Media Manager™ and ipro-Q™
TEMPE, ARIZ. – For corporations, law firms and service providers who demand a simple and automated way to manage eDiscovery, Ipro Tech, LLC, today announced a new release of its workflow platform, ADD Automated Digital Discovery®. The latest version introduces Media Manager, the first integrated web-based solution to completely automate and optimize identifying and tracking electronic files across the eDiscovery workflow. The release also includes ipro-Q, delivering seamless integration between Ipro processing and Relativity review on the ADD platform.
ADD utilizes patent-pending technology to stream data to review in minutes without the time delays, errors and budget overruns common in other eDiscovery systems. With the addition of Media Manager and ipro-Q, customers now have a workflow that automates the eDiscovery process with forensically sound data streaming and flexible review options, helping to keep case teams aligned and productive from start to finish.
“Over the years our industry has adopted complicated and disconnected workflows. With this release of ADD, Ipro is solving critical business issues that have persistently plagued the industry,” said Kim Taylor, President and CEO, Ipro. “We continue to raise the bar on what customers can expect from Ipro and its commitment to our {i-proclamation}TM to deliver simple, affordable and automated eDiscovery.”
With Media Manager, users can also add key delivery and metadata information to source media (hard drives, thumb drives, DVDs, etc.) and electronic files for better document management and tracking. The tool makes it easy to auto-generate barcodes, copy media content to the network to create and track discovery jobs, and map media paths to existing clients and custodians. Customers can generate extensive reporting to demonstrate forensically sound media management.
Additional features in ADD include:
Faster Processing Speed – with ADD’s powerful copy workers the time it takes to discover, extract, OCR and export data is faster than ever before.
Continuous Streaming – provides hands-free loading of data into Ipro Eclipse document review, as well as Relativity, at user defined intervals. This eliminates the manual process of managing export volumes and data load files.
First-Pass Filtering – applies filtering options such as date ranges, deduplication and de-NIST to cull data at the same time documents are streaming into review. This rapid ingestion offers the ability to apply advanced analytics and filtering at different stages in the review application.
Families Stay Together – Document families (e.g., emails and attachments) are automatically kept together while streaming through the workflow to ensure proper tracking and best practices.
On-Demand License Consumption – ADD workers employ user licenses based on the types of tasks in queue, allowing a computer to accept any type of work (e.g., copying, filtering) as needed. ADD automatically routes tasks to the appropriate workers, boosting its speed and performance. This unique licensing model allows customers greater flexibility in how they manage their workloads and respond to the demands of specific cases.
This release also includes updates to the company’s early case assessment tool Allegro, analytic web-based review Ipro Eclipse and the high-speed processing tool eCapture, which has long been the “gold standard” in the industry. Allegro enhancements are focused on load file performance, indexing and PDF handling to further improve efficiencies. Ipro Eclipse’s release introduces improvements in speed, functionality and reporting. The eCapture update advances processing performance, expands Ipro Eclipse export features and OCR capabilities.
Ipro’s Automated Digital Discovery (ADD) platform will be showcased at the upcoming Legaltech New York Conference, February 2-4, 2016 in booths 302 and 305.
Ipro products are backed by a 30-day money back guarantee, superior customer service and after-hours technical support. Media Manager is an optional component of ADD. To learn more about the Automated Digital Discovery platform schedule a product demo by visiting iprotech.com/ADD.
About Ipro Tech, LLC Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software solutions. Ipro’s ADD Automated Digital Discovery® workflow platform helps customers organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. To learn more visit www.iprotech.com. To schedule a private demonstration, email [email protected] or visit our web site to find a Partner today.
Industry Experts to Discuss Analytics and the Changing Face of eDiscovery
Tempe, Ariz. – January 20, 2016 – Ipro Tech, LLC, a worldwide leader in the design of eDiscovery software, today announced that Mike Schubert, Ipro’s Chief Operational Officer, will participate in a panel discussion at the LegalTech New York 2016 conference. The CLE panel discussion, entitled “Dancing with the Stars of eDiscovery: Case Studies in eDiscovery Powered by Analytics,” is scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST at the Hilton New York in New York City.
The panel discussion, hosted by Content Analyst, will highlight eDiscovery case studies where clients saved millions of dollars and countless hours by utilizing analytics and technology assisted review (TAR). The panel will feature a case study where iControl ESI leveraged the built-in TAR and analytics capabilities of Ipro Eclipse to go through 5.5 million documents in just 3 weeks with an accuracy rate of 99.95%. These results far surpass those that would be possible with human review in all categories including time, cost and margin of error.
As COO, Mike Schubert helps lead the technology vision and product strategy for Ipro while overseeing all internal technical operations for support, training, the Ipro Cloud, software development and product design. With more than 16 years of eDiscovery operations and information technology experience, Schubert is a recognized industry authority and is a pioneer in the development of eDiscovery workflow systems.
Ipro and Content Analyst Company recently announced their expanded agreement allowing Ipro to harness Content Analyst’s technology in all of Ipro’s products, including Ipro’s new eDiscovery platform ADD Automated Digital Discovery®. This will help Ipro demonstrate the value of analytics across the entire eDiscovery workflow.
LegalTech provides an in-depth look at the newest technology and offers the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet the industry’s current and future needs. To register for the event go to www.legaltechshow.com. More information about Content Analyst can be found at www.contentanalyst.com.
About Ipro Tech, LLC Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software solutions. Ipro’s ADD Automated Digital Discovery® workflow platform helps customers organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. To learn more visit www.iprotech.com. To schedule a private demonstration, email [email protected] or visit our web site to find a Partner today.
The companies hope to show companies how valuable TAR can be to their workflows.
Ian Lopez, Legaltech News
Technology-assisted review (TAR) is, in many ways, ‘the talk of the town,’ though for many companies it hasn’t been more than just talk. In an effort to demonstrate the value of analytics within the e-discovery workflow, legal software solution provider Ipro Tech has announced that it will be renewing and expanding upon its existing partnership with analytics provider Content Analyst.
With the expanded agreement, Ipro can utilize Content Analyst technology in its products. Ipro will also continue in its licensing of Content Analyst’s CAAT analytics engine, which organizes documents around content, regardless of whether the same words are used in descriptions of concepts or topics. Ipro uses this engine to serve analytical needs like near duplication, clustering, email threading, conceptual search and categorization for TAR.
“With data collection sizes and content types growing so dramatically, Ipro believes analytics is a key element to delivering a simple, affordable and automated e-discovery workflow,” Kim Taylor, president and CEO of Ipro, told Legaltech News. “By expanding our relationship with Content Analyst, we’ll provide even greater value to our customers. For Content Analyst, more users will have the opportunity to use their analytics engine, CAAT, via Ipro products in different ways and on more types of cases.”
Taylor discussed how this partnership allows clients to experience the benefits of TAR. He said that, historically, both analytics and TAR were priced “on a per gigabyte basis,” and given the once “onerous cost” of analytics in the discovery process, customers “historically missed out” on benefits that analytics can have in their practices.
“We feel strongly that customers shouldn’t be held hostage to gigabyte pricing of analytics,” Taylor said. “Because the costs of analytics are included with Ipro, attorneys no longer have to make decisions of whether they can afford the luxury of TAR or even analytics. By offering this choice, you’ll see analytics used more often and more successfully to help bring down costs and win cases.”
The relationship between Ipro and Content Analyst goes back to the days when the companies collaborated on the integration of CAAT into Eclipse, Ipro’s web-based review platform. Company officials said in a statement that, over the years the two have worked together, the tech integration as well as the partnership behind it helped Ipro “create a distinctive workflow and model that helps its customers lower their eDiscovery costs and reduce the time spent on litigation reviews.”
“Ipro and Content Analyst have had a long relationship working together to bring innovative eDiscovery solutions to the market. Kurt Michel, president and CEO of Content Analyst said in a statement. “Their approach to technology assisted review has made a big impact, and we’re delighted our industry-leading CAAT engine will continue to be an important part of their future development plans.”
Michel told LTN that Content Analyst expanded its relationship with Ipro because of the companies’ “mutual understanding that analytics provides value to the entire e-discovery process, and not just review.”
“Litigation professionals … have come to expect a more intelligent experience with their e-discovery software applications,” Michel said. “Our CAAT advanced analytics engine enables consumer-like intelligence to power highly efficient-discovery capabilities such as conceptual search, near deduplication, dynamic clustering, email threading and predictive coding. Ultimately, corporate counsel and litigation support teams benefit by saving millions in linear review while simultaneously presenting the most relevant information for any legal matter.”
Given the agreement between the companies, Eclipse’s future releases and Ipro’s Automated Digital Discovery (ADD) “will take full advantage of CAAT’s advanced analytics capabilities.”
“We’ve seen firsthand what the addition of CAAT analytics can do to improve efficiencies and workflow,” Taylor said. “It is our goal to continue to look for ways to improve the e-discovery process. CAAT has become an industry standard and we have a proven track record with implementing their technology, so it only makes sense to apply it to the rest of the eDiscovery workflow.”
It’s widely known that while TAR can benefit legal professionals across the industry, there is a lasting reluctance to implement. As Gareth Evans, co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Electronic Discovery and Information Governance Practice Group, wrote in LTN: “To a large extent, this lack of adoption is due to attorneys’ ignorance of TAR. But even those who may want to use TAR can be quickly deterred by a number of factors.”
Despite the widespread “ignorance” of TAR among legal professionals, some pros are attempting to provide some guidance.
In the Electronic Discovery Institute’s “The EDI Judge’s Guide to Discovery” – a guide on contemporary e-discovery concepts that will be provided to district and magistrate judges across the country – contains chapters that attempt to make TAR more digestible for those not very versed in e-discovery. Shannon Capone Kirk, e-discovery counsel at Ropes & Gray and co-author of chapters on technology assisted review (TAR) and forensics, told LTN last month that the goal of her contribution to the book was to “demystify [TAR], and understand that it’s actually a more dissectible process.”
“Not that we’re Rembrandt, but it’s like asking a master painter to explain how to paint a landscape,” Kirk said. “That’s the part I found really difficult: We live this stuff every single day. This is all we do, so we know all the nuances of technology assisted review and statistics, and how the algorithms are all changing.”
Taylor said that utilizing TAR “is an educational process.”
Ipro will be at Legaltech New York to demonstrate its analytics workflow. The event takes place at the New York Hilton in Midtown from Feb. 2-4.
Ipro to Continue Industry Changing Approach to Analytics and Technology Assisted Review Using CAAT®
Tempe, Ariz., January 5, 2016 – Ipro Tech, LLC, a worldwide leader in the design of eDiscovery workflow software, and Content Analyst Company LLC, a leading provider of advanced analytics, announced today that they have strengthened their technology partnership. The expanded agreement allows Ipro to harness Content Analyst’s technology in all of Ipro’s products. Ipro will continue to license the CAAT engine for its analytics needs including email threading, near duplication, clustering, conceptual search and categorization needed for technology assisted review.
Content Analyst and Ipro have worked together for years to uniquely integrate CAAT, an advanced analytics engine, into Ipro’s web-based review platform, Eclipse. Under the terms of the agreement, future releases of Eclipse as well as Ipro’s new eDiscovery platform ADD Automated Digital Discovery®, will take full advantage of CAAT’s advanced analytics capabilities. The new agreement will help Ipro demonstrate the value that analytics can bring to the entire eDiscovery workflow. Over the years, the partnership and technology integration has helped Ipro to create a distinctive workflow and model that helps its customers lower their eDiscovery costs and reduce the time spent on litigation reviews.
“We feel strongly that analytics is a key element to delivering a simple, affordable and automated eDiscovery workflow,” said Kim Taylor, CEO and President of Ipro. “This is why Ipro invested in Content Analyst’s technology early on and was the first in the industry to offer TAR at no additional cost. The new agreement gives us the opportunity to make further advances in how our customers can leverage CAAT analytics throughout the eDiscovery process.”
Kurt Michel, President and CEO of Content Analyst said, “Ipro and Content Analyst have had a long relationship working together to bring innovative eDiscovery solutions to the market. Their approach to technology assisted review has made a big impact and we’re delighted our industry-leading CAAT engine will continue to be an important part of their future development plans.”
Ipro will demonstrate its unique advanced analytics workflow using CAAT at Legaltech New York in Booths 302 and 305, taking place at the Hilton from February 2-4, 2016 in New York.
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About Ipro Tech, LLC Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Ipro continues to expand its worldwide network of service providers, law firms, and corporate legal departments. Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software solutions. Ipro’s ADD Automated Digital Discovery® workflow platform helps customers organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. To learn more visit www.iprotech.com. To schedule a private demonstration, email [email protected] or visit our web site to find a Partner today.