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Guidance Software, Inc. today announced the availability of EnCase eDiscovery version 4.2 software with more than a dozen major enhancements that give corporate e-discovery teams more control over their searches and make arduous e-discovery collection, preservation and processing tasks easy and automated.
The latest software made its debut at the Computer Enterprise Investigation Conference in Orlando Florida last month.
“With version 4.2 we deliver the e-discovery must-haves, and we’ve also made EnCase eDiscovery dramatically easier to use,” said Russ Gould, director of product marketing, Guidance Software. “Delivering version 4.2 of our EnCase eDiscovery software is just another testament to our commitment to deliver an e-discovery solution that surpasses what enterprises want and require for e-discovery.”
“Enterprise e-discovery solutions increasingly must handle multiple digital investigation scenarios – not just legal cases – as well as supporting business goals without disrupting business, delivering collection and preservation strength that stands up in court, and providing scalable data capacity,” said Katey Wood, analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group.
EnCase eDiscovery is a comprehensive enterprise e-discovery solution that includes legal hold, pre-collection analytics, collection, preservation, processing and analysis and first pass review. It is based on the company’s judicially accepted forensic technology.
The new software version gives e-discovery teams more control over their searches with the ability to collect all saved versions of documents from SharePoint servers, and allows provides a choice of native file output. Competitive alternatives have limited file output options and that has played a key role in judicial rebukes of defendants in recent cases.
In version 4.2, the company has improved automation and workflow with new “check-the-box” collection and preservation capabilities and a “criteria wizard” to help quickly determine what electronically stored information (ESI) should be found. These automation capabilities help e-discovery teams to set up repeatable processes that are the linchpin to defensible e-discovery results.
Additional ease-of-use features include the ability to schedule workflows, which simplifies recurring jobs and enables prioritization of jobs. The new features are added to a platform that is well known in the industry for its trial-tested collection and preservation strength, and an architecture with unlimited data storage, which means enterprises can take on many large cases without having to upgrade the product.
EnCase eDiscovery enables customers to take control of their e-discovery in a single unified solution that manages everything from legal hold through first-pass review, preserves metadata, only collects relevant files, and is scalable across large global networks with unique pre-collection analytics as well as analysis and first-pass review at any point in the process – all backed by Guidance Software’s expert services that provide industry standard best practices, training, and certifications (EnCE and EnCEP).
EnCase eDiscovery version 4.2 is available now.
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