New Autonomy Chaining Console Connects Inside and Outside Counsel With One View of eDiscovery Process

NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LegalTech -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today unveiled the Autonomy Chaining Console, a powerful dashboard that provides corporate legal departments with greater visibility and defensibility. By eliminating the need for risky and inefficient data handoffs through each step of the eDiscovery process, the Chaining Console allows in-house and outside counsel to form a "virtual chain," so they can stay in lock-step on legal matters through all phases of the EDRM.

Managing litigation has traditionally been a highly complex and costly process.  The typical corporation must simultaneously manage hundreds of cases and dozens of law firms.  Legal teams struggle to gain visibility into their overall case activity, risks, and potential costs. Additionally, legacy tools create risk through each step in the process, requiring unnecessary import, export, and transfer of data, increasing the risk of spoliation and costly sanctions by the courts. 

Autonomy's Chaining Console eliminates these complexities and risks by providing the legal team with insight into the overall litigation profile of the corporation, all from one dashboard.  The general counsel obtains an immediate understanding of overall risk and exposure, litigation counsel gains insight into the case management process, and outside counsel has immediate access to the information needed to formulate and execute a winning legal strategy. 

For the first time, corporate counsel and outside counsel can link together to work directly on cases in real-time, forming a chain between the various legal experts for a particular case.  These dynamic virtual teams can use one common platform to manage the entire litigation process throughout the entire chain of custody.  Since there are no risky handoffs or importing and exporting of data, the legal team can produce a defensible and auditable process.

The Autonomy Chaining Console provides the following capabilities:

• Visibility into each phase of the EDRM
• Secure cloud access, linking together inside and outside counsel
• Analysis of critical data points, including: case status, cost, data volume, and litigation trends
• Automatic reports demonstrating defensibility and chain of custody

"The Autonomy Chaining Console provides visibility into complex litigation through a single interface," said Mike Sullivan, CEO of Autonomy Protect.  "By automating defensibility, our customers benefit from the use of a common end-to-end eDiscovery platform that maintains chain of custody while working with dozens of law firms across hundreds of simultaneous cases."

Please visit the Autonomy booth # 110 at LegalTech New York to learn more about the Autonomy Chaining Console.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market.  Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis.

Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.

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