Daticon EED and eMag Solutions Partner to Deliver International eDiscovery Capabilities

Business Wire, March 24, 2009

Combined capabilities reduce cost and risk of eDiscovery in Europe

KIRKLAND, Wash. & CARDIFF, Wales -- Daticon EED, a global, full-service provider of integrated eDiscovery services and technology, and eMag Solutions, Ltd, an international provider of electronic discovery services and data management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that reduces the cost and risk of eDiscovery for large companies and law firms in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States that need to conduct reviews in Europe for large and complex international cases.

Together, eMag and Daticon EED now provide clients an end-to-end solution that will utilize eMag’s secure ISO 27001-certified U.K.-based facility to combine eMag’s electronic discovery and data management services with Daticon EED’s Discovery Partner® hosted, integrated, native eDiscovery platform. Clients now can feel confident their data is being both processed and hosted in accordance with all local data privacy laws, as it will remain within eMag’s ISO 27001-certified facility from start to finish.

“Through this partnership, European law firms and corporations have access to eMag’s expansive E.U.- based skills and capabilities in electronic discovery processing, along with the company’s 40-plus years of expertise with archive and legacy media, that’s now augmented by Daticon EED’s 20-plus years of electronic discovery experience and its industry-leading hosting and review platform,” said eMag Solutions Ltd European Managing Director, Mike Davies. “Having all of these services in one secure data center ensures no chain of custody will be broken, which is a significant benefit to our companies’ clients.”

In July 2008, eMag’s Cardiff Operations Center received certification to ISO 27001 standards for tape restoration, eDiscovery and forensic sciences. ISO 27001 represents the only auditable international standard to define the requirements for Information Security Management Systems. ISO 27001 certification is achieved only by companies that can demonstrate the highest competency in information security management. ISO 27001 is a management system that identifies, manages and minimizes a range of threats to business information. It provides guidelines for implementing a constructive risk management process, setting up policies and ensuring a secure infrastructure is in place. This standard shows that a business has taken preventative measures to protect clients' data and demonstrates to customers and prospects that the business is observing a duty of care.

“eMag is noted for its expertise in evidence collection and restoration, particularly from large tape populations that require extensive restoration skills. Daticon EED provides an integrated processing, analytics, review and production platform already widely used by numerous Fortune 100 companies & NLJ 100 firms for complex litigation cases,” said Dave McCann, president and chief executive officer of Daticon EED. “Our combined expertise and technology solutions will provide tremendous benefits for U.S. clients involved in large, international eDiscovery cases that need to perform review in the E.U. and for European clients that want to reduce the cost and risk of eDiscovery.”

Daticon EED’s Discovery Partner leads the industry as a hosted, eDiscovery platform with integrated processing, analytics, review and production capabilities. Discovery Partner has reduced the cost and risk of eDiscovery for clients in more than 1,300 cases. An integrated platform is much more cost efficient than moving evidence between incompatible applications or different vendors, and it reduces the risk of breaking the chain of custody or spoliation of the original evidence.

Discovery Partner now offers enhanced foreign language capabilities, including accurate handling of documents created in both Unicode and non-Unicode character sets. Discovery Partner features automated language and document encoding detection that enables review managers to generate reports about the number of documents by language and organize documents by language for review so they can plan reviewer staffing and task assignments more efficiently. Daticon EED has been granted certification to the Safe Harbor framework developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission governing the handling of European Union personal data.

About Daticon Electronic Evidence Discovery

Daticon EED is a global, full-service provider of integrated eDiscovery services and technology. With our experience in more than 1,700 cases during more than 20 years, our proven methodology, expert staff and Discovery Partner® integrated processing, analytics, review and production platform, we deliver integrated, innovative solutions to help large corporations and their outside counsel to significantly reduce the overall cost, time and risk of eDiscovery while ensuring maximum success. We offer services for both large and small cases, including early case assessment, case strategy, pre-review analytics, review optimization, as well as processing, hosted review and production. With headquarters in Kirkland, WA, and operations in Norwich, CT, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and London, Daticon EED offers convenient regional support for national and international cases. More information can be found at: ww.daticon-eed.com.