Fortune 500 Companies Continue to Sign with CaseCentral for In-House eDiscovery

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CaseCentral, the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporate counsel and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery, today announced that six new Fortune 500 companies have selected the CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform. The new clients join a growing list of corporations and law firms who depend on CaseCentral’s cloud-based software to support their in-house eDiscovery needs. CaseCentral’s customers include more than 32 Fortune 100 companies and more than 83 of the American Lawyer 100 companies. The company also reported that it has returned to EBITDA profitability in the trailing three months and has experienced double-digit year-to-date revenue growth.

“Enterprises are increasingly making the strategic decision to bring eDiscovery in-house, to achieve significant time and cost savings and to gain greater control over the eDiscovery process”

“Enterprises are increasingly making the strategic decision to bring eDiscovery in-house, to achieve significant time and cost savings and to gain greater control over the eDiscovery process,” said Tom Thimot, President and CEO of CaseCentral. "In today’s world, the vast majority of tools used for eDiscovery support only a single case. CaseCentral’s integrated, multi-matter eDiscovery software platform, which is delivered via cloud computing / software as a service, provides our clients with greater repeatability and accessibility without the burden of expensive IT infrastructure. This has continued to fuel CaseCentral’s market momentum as evidenced by the signing of multiple new Fortune 500 clients and partners, our double-digit revenue growth, and our return to EBITDA profitability.”

The new clients selected CaseCentral to provide a comprehensive set of repeatable, defensible and measurable eDiscovery capabilities. CaseCentral will be used for processing, early case assessment, analysis, review, production and post-production re-use capabilities for both single and multiple matters.

With CaseCentral Enterprise eDiscovery, clients configure standard litigation processes that can then be repeated with every new matter. Security, data architecture, attorney training and work product are quickly leveraged from one matter to the next. This automated approach enables eDiscovery to be managed as a repeatable process rather than a reactive, one-off event, turning the matter-by-matter approach into a cost-efficient business process for every case.

Additional CaseCentral YTD 2010 Leadership Highlights

CaseCentral set a new standard for eDiscovery vendors by eliminating eDiscovery processing fees for Symantec Enterprise Vault customers who use the CaseCentral Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator.
As the adoption of cloud-based applications accelerated in 2010, CaseCentral created the industry’s first Blueprint for cloud-based eDiscovery, which provides a framework to guide decisions in terms of security, privacy, control, risk and cost practices at corporations and law firms looking to bring eDiscovery in-house via the cloud.
R4.1, the latest significant software upgrade to its CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform offers legal teams increased self-service and ease of use benefits while extending security enhancements for CaseCentral’s enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP). CaseCentral’s secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure and powerful private cloud delivery model provides immediate access to the latest product features and enhancements for thousands of CaseCentral users in corporations and law firms, worldwide.
Became the first established eDiscovery company to join the Cloud Security Alliance. CaseCentral’s established background in the legal and eDiscovery markets provide the Cloud Security Alliance with the knowledge and experience to continue driving the CSA’s commitment to security assurance within cloud computing.
Case in Point, CaseCentral’s weekly eDiscovery cartoon series, will publish its 100^th cartoon this Monday, September 13^th, marking almost two full years of weekly eDiscovery industry humor read by thousands across the globe.

Continued Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing Growth

“SaaS advantages, such as ease of deployment, easy upgrades and the ability to scale up and down quickly depending on the size of the matter, benefit legal users who wish to avoid conventional buying and support services from their internal IT departments. This will allow legal departments to contract directly for e-discovery functionality with very little risk and no implementation delays.”¹

Application delivery via the cloud provides control without the burden of infrastructure. When bringing eDiscovery in-house, corporations, law firms and service providers are finding a secure, private cloud-based application compelling. Clients control the eDiscovery process, data and access, without incurring the costs, risks and time delays inherent in on-premise software deployment and use. Cloud-based applications provide a centralized environment needed to give corporations and law firms control over their eDiscovery projects while enabling seamless collaboration with users outside the firewall, including service providers and outside counsel. Additionally, cloud-based applications minimize the requests for internal IT departments to constantly purchase infrastructure and modify corporate network and security standards for third party access, which can increase security risks.

CaseCentral’s cloud-based eDiscovery platform provides elastic capacity, on-demand. Clients can support large fluctuations in ESI data volumes without paying for additional storage hardware or infrastructure. And clients can add new users, reviewers and cases immediately without waiting on over-taxed IT departments.

About CaseCentral

Founded in 1994, CaseCentral is the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporations and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery. CaseCentral enables repeatable, defensible and measurable business processes that significantly reduce eDiscovery risk, cost and time. The CaseCentral eDiscovery platform integrates early case assessment, processing, analysis, review and production capabilities, enabling customers to succeed with a single matter and seamlessly migrate to multi-matter, multi-party, multi-repository support within the same software platform. CaseCentral pioneered the use of process analytics, providing real-time measurement of review rates, quality rates and costs per document - by matter, firm or user. CaseCentral has served more than 32 of the Fortune 100 and more than 83 of the AmLaw 100. For more information, call 1.800.714.2727 or visit www.casecentral.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/casecentral or read ‘Case in Point’ cartoons, the lighter side of eDiscovery, at: www.casecentral.com/case-in-point/.

¹“E-Discovery SaaS and On-Premises Software Converge at Vendors as They Mature,” by Gartner, Inc., Whit Andrews, Debra Logan, John Bace, Sheila Childs, July 29, 2010