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Craig Carpenter, Vice President of Marketing for Recommind, oversees all aspects of marketing at Recommind. He has extensive experience in the enterprise software, information security, and eDiscovery industries, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco, where he has taught graduate classes on high tech marketing, content management and digital rights management (DRM).
Some organisations have chosen to integrate applications such as Twitter, LinkedIn and instant messaging into their daily corporate practices – but for others, the prospect of using such potentially unruly tools has led to them blocking their use. However, with information now widely acknowledged as the most valuable business currency – particularly during tough economic times – blocking Web 2.0 access could seriously damage an organisation’s competitive advantage.
Recommind released version 4.0 of its Axcelerate eDiscovery platform this week. It includes what it claims is the first defensible automated review of documents. On the face of it, this should provide a way for companies save time and money in the information gathering phase and speed up the entire eDiscovery process. Recommind says that what makes this release special is a new "predictive coding" process that lets companies combine "the precision and intuition of human judgment with the speed and cost-effectiveness of computerized review."
Recommind has launched version 4.0 of its Axcelerate eDiscovery platform. The recent update features solutions capable of assessing document responsiveness and defensible random sampling, accelerating Axcelerate into what some are calling the “holy grail” of document review.
As we approach the end of a difficult year in 2009, there is no better time to reflect on the current state of litigation support and eDiscovery and examine the trends emerging for 2010.
Search tools in law firms are getting smarter, more integrated, and even socially aware. David Kidd examines what opportunities will be provided for lawyers in the future of legal search. For an industry that lives or dies on how quickly and efficiently it can find, use, and re-use information, it's little wonder that search tools are one of the most important considerations for law firms.
“As much as 80 per cent of the information in a company is unstructured, against just 20 per cent that is structured,” notes Bob Tennant, chief executive at Recommind, a company that specialises in using search technology for information risk management.
“Most regulations are not designed to prohibit the use of the data but require you to preserve them and that creates a big information management challenge,” says Robert Tennant, chief executive of Recommind, a US specialist in information risk management.
“Businesses need to wake up to the risks. It’s no longer enough just to block employee access to certain sites; these tools are pervasive and staff will always find a way round any restrictions,” said Craig Carpenter, vice president general counsel at Recommind, the information risk management solutions provider.
Research by eDiscovery search firm Recommind suggests that this is compounded by the lack of guidelines surrounding the use of social networking tools in 89% of UK workplaces.
Sometimes companies need a little insight when handling legal holds. Thank goodness that Recommind has your back. They have announced the availability of Insite Legal Hold version 2.0.
Craig Carpenter, general counsel and vice president of marketing at Recommind, an e-discovery vendor, acknowledges that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. There are arguments for and against bringing e-discovery in-house, and each legal department must weigh the decision for itself.
Virus writers know this; it was Word metadata that convicted the writer of Melissa. Companies know this - or they ought to by now. If you're archiving email in a repository, it's crucial to store the original metadata for forensic purposes. If you’re storing documents in a repository, you need to store - and produce - metadata. The information in metadata is as important as the actual document and sometimes more so, says Craig Carpenter, VP general counsel at enterprise search experts Recommind. "“Without knowing when something happened, or who was involved, electronic evidence is often useless – thus, metadata is critical.
The growth of electronic information continues to skyrocket, making effective data management a growing concern for today’s enterprises. Organizations not only need to safely store information (email, documents etc.) and make sure it is securely accessible, but they must also guarantee that all relevant information, irrespective of its origin or storage location, can be easily found for records management and regulatory compliance purposes. Craig Carpenter, VP & General Counsel at Recommind, discusses tackling information risk in a recession.
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