Stratify

Expands Foreign-Language Capabilities for Electronic Discovery




MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 31, 2006 – Stratify, Inc., a leader in advanced electronic discovery for the legal and compliance markets, today announced expanded foreign-language capabilities for the Stratify Legal Discovery™ service. With the increase in the amount of international business transacted in multiple languages and a rise in the number of lawsuits involving global operations, it’s critical that corporate counsel and law firms have the tools to efficiently and cost-effectively analyze and review hardcopy and electronic documents in multiple languages. Stratify’s new capabilities enable eDiscovery in English and Western European languages as well as complex languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

“We are impressed with Stratify’s cutting-edge review tool and ability to process Japanese and Chinese documents,” states Jeff Fowler, Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers in the Class Action Defense Group. “Stratify’s ability to cluster Japanese documents into concept folders, and the Stratify Visual Email Analytics function, have resulted in significant review efficiency.”

The various encodings schemes that are used to digitally store and transmit multi-byte languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic, can be a challenge for many electronic discovery systems. Japanese documents, for instance, can be encoded using EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP or Shift-JIS. The Stratify Legal Discovery service can recognize and handle these different encoding schemes to restore, index, and organize documents in multiple languages for review and analysis. This provides attorneys concept-based review in conjunction with native language search and metadata management.

“Electronic discovery of foreign language documents exacerbates the challenges posed by English documents and emails, and places an even greater burden on attorneys to efficiently and cost-effectively find information relevant to a matter from large volumes of documents,” said Ramana Venkata, president and CEO, Stratify. “We’ve responded to the needs of our clients by implementing all of the advanced discovery features of the Stratify Legal Discovery service for every language we support to make multinational and multi-language discovery manageable.”

Advanced discovery capabilities provided by the Stratify Legal Discovery application for English and Western European languages as well as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean include:

  • Concept-based Review: Foreign language-based concept folders efficiently organize documents based on their similarity. Using proprietary algorithms, the Stratify Legal Discovery service automatically identifies concepts that describe documents in whole or in part, and then sorts documents into pertinent language-specific “concept folders” that are organized hierarchically based on their interrelationships. Attorneys get a high-level overview of the structure of large document collections and can quickly identify relevant groupings of documents regardless of language.
  • Attorney-created Smart Issue Folders: Attorneys and case managers can use specific search criteria of their choice – regardless of language – to automatically organize documents and messages into Smart Issue Folders. These folders complement Stratify’s concept-based organization by enabling attorneys to create system-level folders at any time in any language, based on their personal criteria.
  • Multi-language Search: Attorneys and reviewers can perform full-text search on documents in multiple languages as well as use foreign-language terms as search values against metadata. Searches are independent of machine configuration, so an attorney can easily search Japanese documents using Japanese terms and queries even from an English keyboard and computer.
  • Extensible and Editable Metadata: The Stratify Legal Discovery service automatically extracts and stores metadata in multiple foreign languages from documents and email messages. The database can be extended on a matter-by-matter basis with custom fields and annotations to accept document-related metadata from third-party software or coding projects, or to enable custom coding during the review process.
  • Stratify Visual Email Analytics™: Attorneys can easily analyze large, complex email collections, regardless of language, and easily generate visual email maps. These capabilities enable litigators to quickly and visually identify important relationships and relevant message flows, and refine their investigations using chronology, concepts, topic threads or date range.

The Stratify Legal Discovery service is delivered as an application service provider (ASP) solution that requires no software installation by clients and features 24/7 technical support. Costs are primarily based on the size of the reviewable data, not raw data. For pricing information, contact Stratify at www.stratify.com.

About Stratify, Inc.

Stratify currently provides Electronic Discovery services to many of the AmLaw 200 and leading Fortune 200 corporations. The Stratify Legal Discovery™ service provides a complete native file, concept-based solution for fast, accurate review of paper and electronic documents in Western European languages as well as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Stratify Visual Email Analytics™ generates intuitive Email Maps to analyze email communication between senders, receivers and intermediary correspondents.

Founded in September 1999, Stratify is a privately held company that has received funding from Mobius Venture Capital and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Stratify is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

For more information about Stratify, please visit www.stratify.com. Stratify and Discover More are registered trademarks and Stratify Legal Discovery and Stratify Visual Email Analytics are trademarks of Stratify, Inc.

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