Recommind Unveils Axcelerate™ eDiscovery, the Industry's First Automated Document Coding, Review and Analysis Solution

Groundbreaking Product's First-Pass Review™ and Patent Pending One-Click Coding™ Dramatically Accelerate the Review Process While Delivering Enhanced Visibility and Accuracy

SAN FRANCISCO, August 16, 2007– Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search and automated categorization systems for law firms and enterprises, today further solidified its position as a major pacesetter in the legal technology space with the introduction of Axcelerate™ eDiscovery.  This revolutionary product will dramatically change the way litigation review and analysis is conducted by assessing responsiveness, privilege and issue relation before the review process begins, drastically reducing the amount of time required to organize and conduct document review and analysis while simultaneously increasing review accuracy and consistency.  Among several industry firsts, Recommind’s Axcelerate eDiscovery is the first product to offer automatic First-Pass Review of an entire document collection and the only solution offering patent pending One-Click Coding of documents, highly differentiating tools which significantly expedite the review process, improve attorney efficiency and lower eDiscovery costs for clients. 

With its ability to automatically organize even multi-terabyte document sets by myriad parameters including responsiveness, issue, privilege and concept group, Axcelerate eDiscovery’s First-Pass Review functionality makes review organization and document batching simpler, more accurate and quicker than ever before.  Simultaneously, Axcelerate eDiscovery’s patent pending One-Click Coding feature makes a computer-generated judgment – with explicit confidence score – about each document’s relevance, responsiveness, and privileged nature, dramatically expediting the actual review process while concurrently improving accuracy and lowering the risk of missing key documents.
 
“Effectively managing complex, document-intensive litigation in today's environment of terabytes of electronic material requires powerful electronic search and management tools.  We consider Recommind's unique search and analysis functionality to be a fundamental component of our electronic document management and review capability, and a key to modernizing the eDiscovery process,” said Anthony M. Stiegler, Litigation Partner at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP.  “Recommind's thorough knowledge of the law firm environment and the requirements therein, and the strength of their concept search tools and support services, enables us to rapidly process and analyze information, regardless of the number of parties or the terabytes of data involved in the project.”

In addition to these unique, market-first  features, Axcelerate eDiscovery offers law firms and enterprises more accurate and extensive document culling and filtering of virtually all document types, including both structured and unstructured data.  The solution automatically filters duplicates and near-duplicates between and across custodians and parties, and offers contextual email thread analysis, while also applying more than 17 additional filters to a document collection, dramatically reducing the number of documents to be reviewed.   The product’s early case assessment tools then automatically extract key documents, people, phrases and concepts of interest, helping attorneys and paralegals quickly understand the contents of a document collection, regardless of its size, before the review process has even begun.  These powerful tools greatly assist attorneys in both building and substantiating their case far earlier in the eDiscovery process than ever before – a critical factor in the success of a lawsuit under the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).  Other industry firsts for Axcelerate eDiscovery include its fully automated “find all like this” functionality, which uses the system’s conceptual search engine to quickly locate similar documents to a sample document of interest, whether a particular keyword was used frequently, occasionally or not at all, and the system’s ability to “learn” across all users by incorporating myriad reviewer responses directly into the automatic coding and review mechanism. 

“eDiscovery has all the earmarks of a process that cries out for intelligent automation,” said Sue Feldman, IDC's vice president for search and digital marketplace technologies.  “The ROI is quick and high.  The clients recognize the value, and litigation takes time and energy away from the core business of many organizations.  It makes sense to apply advanced categorization, search, and extraction technologies to the problem.”

“The Axcelerate eDiscovery solution represents several industry firsts, including fully automated First-Pass Review of an entire document collection, One-Click Coding and the ‘find all like this’ feature, which enable clients to organize and conduct their review far more effectively and efficiently while gaining critical insight into a document collection before review has even begun,” said Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind. “We and our customers – who asked for and helped develop this cutting edge product – believe Axcelerate eDiscovery will revolutionize how eDiscovery is done.  We are excited to add Axcelerate eDiscovery to our deep bench of innovative solutions that help solve the most challenging enterprise search, categorization, eDiscovery, compliance and records management needs of large enterprises and law firms.”

Pricing and Availability
Axcelerate™ eDiscovery is available immediately from Recommind and through Recommind’s network of litigation support provider partners.

About Recommind
Recommind’s enterprise search and categorization platform automatically organizes, manages, and distributes large volumes of information from multiple sources. With faster access to the right information, organizations can save time, enhance the quality of work product, increase the value of information assets, and improve competitiveness and profits. Recommind customers include Bertelsmann, BMW, Cleary Gottlieb, Davies Arnold Cooper, Novartis, Lewis Silkin, Shearman & Sterling and the Australian Government.  Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, London, and Bonn, Germany.

For more information, email info@recommind.com, or go to www.recommind.com.