Email Archiving Provider LiveOffice First to Provide Full Chain of Custody in the Cloud

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Today at the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Annual Meeting, LiveOffice, the number-one provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions, announced its support for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard developed by EDRM. The XML standard provides a uniform format for the exchange of content and metadata between different applications, systems and organizations involved in the e-discovery process. This new functionality enables approved IT and legal personnel to seamlessly export messages from LiveOffice Discovery Archive to e-discovery solutions from Clearwell Systems, CT Summation, FTI Technology and iCONECT, which helps streamline discovery workflow, reduce labor costs and expedite the e-discovery process.

“As a founding member of the EDRM XML project, Clearwell is excited to see LiveOffice’s commitment to streamlining the data export and ingestion process for users”

“We are pleased to see LiveOffice continue to evolve its cloud-based archiving platform to better address clients’ e-discovery needs,” said George Socha, cofounder of EDRM and president of Socha Consulting LLC. “LiveOffice’s centralized archive can help users better manage their legal risk, but its new EDRM XML export functionality takes these capabilities a step further, making it easier to process e-discovery requests and alleviate concerns around chain of custody lapses.”

Discovery Archive is the leading cloud-based archiving solution for seamlessly managing message retention, enforcing corporate usage policies and applying legal holds. The solution’s new EDRM XML functionality helps with early case assessment by enabling clients to easily move their archived data from the Collection and Preservation phase to the Review and Analysis phase. LiveOffice has certified that content stored in Discovery Archive in its native format can be exported in XML format to the e-discovery vendors mentioned above, while still preserving the content’s integrity and chain of custody. Once the data is successfully ingested, clients can then conduct further review and analysis as the case progresses. This compatibility means that IT departments no longer have to spend time converting electronically stored information (ESI), such as emails and attachments, from one file format to another before transferring them from the LiveOffice archiving system to their e-discovery solution of choice.

“As a founding member of the EDRM XML project, Clearwell is excited to see LiveOffice’s commitment to streamlining the data export and ingestion process for users,” said Kurt Leafstrand, director of product management for Clearwell Systems. “Our extensive experience with the XML standard has proved to us that it can deliver significant value to any organization in the midst of an e-discovery request by helping to reduce labor costs and expedite the entire process.”

Pricing and Availability

EDRM XML export capabilities are available now at no additional charge to existing and new LiveOffice Discovery Archive clients.

About LiveOffice

LiveOffice is the number-one provider of software-as-a-service email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions, with more than 10,000 clients and a 97-percent client-retention rate. Founded in 1998 and backed by leading private-equity firm Summit Partners, the company has more than 150 employees with deep experience in messaging, including executives and board members from Symantec, Microsoft, FrontBridge and Postini. For more information, call 800.374.2032 or visit www.liveoffice.com. Visit the LiveOffice Blog at http://blog.liveoffice.com or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/liveoffice.

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About EDRM

The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project was launched in 2005 to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market. The completed reference model provides a common, flexible and extensible framework for the development, selection, evaluation and use of electronic discovery products and services. Information about EDRM is available at http://www.edrm.net.