ZyIMAGE eDiscovery Suite Designed to Improve Information Management and Communications Capabilities for Government Investigators, Auditors and FOIA Officers

March 07, 2006 - London - ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the ZyIMAGE eDiscovery Suite for Federal Government. An integrated document, content and records management solution, ZyIMAGE eDiscovery enables government organizations to capture, investigate, structure and disclose information in a simple, secure and efficient manner.

The ZyIMAGE eDiscovery suite is built on an XML data repository and provides users with investigative tools to store, search and retrieve vital information through a standard Internet browser. All unstructured data is stored in the XML data repository, and integrated functionalities enable users to capture and add new data, analyze and collaborate on the data, and retrieve and share this data. Because of its modular structure, the ZyIMAGE eDiscovery suite is completely scalable and therefore provides a solution to address the requirements of both departmental and enterprise-wide organizations.

"An investigation or FOIA request is only successful if the targeted data can be captured," said Johannes Scholtes, President of ZyLAB. "Today, many current offerings focus on capturing electronic data, but within the Federal government paper still plays a critical role. Our eDiscovery solution provides the means to capture information from any media, whether it is paper, e-mail, multimedia, or other types of electronic files. Being able to search large amounts of information is one thing but to be able to actually find specific bits of information relevant to the current audit, request or investigation is quite another."

The key motivation for users engaged in eDiscovery is not to miss any archived e-mail, document, or electronic file that may have relevance to a particular FOIA request or investigative activity. Therefore, eDiscovery searching must concentrate 100 percent on recall rather than on precision. The ZyIMAGE eDiscovery suite empowers users to find the information they are looking for in seconds, in any format and in almost any language. To further enhance users' abilities to search and manage information in an eDiscovery context, ZyLAB's solution provides sophisticated tools such as hit-highlighting, hit-navigation, customizable relevance ranking, optimized user interaction, text-mining and visualization.

FOIA officers must not only have the ability to located information, but they must be able to redact information. The ZyIMAGE redaction tools offer a full range of features, including redaction on scanned images as well as click-and-drag capabilities, multi-color redaction, synonym redactions, version control, and more. Redactions can be tagged with additional key field information, which can contain data and time stamps, exemption rules, comments or applicable legal rules, redaction creators, and additional user-defined key fields.

About ZyLAB
For 25 years, ZyLAB has provided commercial and government organisations around the world with award-winning information access solutions. The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a secure foundation for the long-term archiving, management and retrieval of information, from digitised paper documents, to electronic files, to e-mail and attachments, to multimedia. 

With over 7,500 installations and 350,000 users worldwide, ZyLAB has a wealth of experience and knowledge across a variety of industries and business applications. ZyIMAGE is a critical business tool of hundreds of banks, legal firms and insurance and financial services companies, including Coutts, Rabobank, Bank of Ireland, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Digby Brown and the forensic accounting departments of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. ZyIMAGE is also used by many UK public-sector organisations, such as the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Metropolitan Police, Serious Fraud Office and the University Hospital of Wales. Leading manufacturing and service companies which rely on ZyIMAGE include BMW, Moy Park, Radisson Edwardian Hotels, BBC, Shering-Plough, Haden Young and Balfour Beatty, to name just a few. For more information visit: www.zylab.co.uk