E-Discovery Represents Potential Breakout Market for ZyLAB with Marquee Clients in Law Enforcement and Forensic Investigation

October 16, 2006 – London – ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced that Gartner, a leading technology research and advisory firm, positioned ZyLAB in the “Challengers” quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2006.* 

According to the report, “This Magic Quadrant includes vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a collection of technologies, including: search; content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and invoke documents, data, e-mail and intelligence.”

The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a robust foundation for the archiving and long-term management of critical information, from digitized paper documents, to electronic files, to email and attachments, to multimedia.  The Information Access Platform's comprehensive core technology enables organizations to find, access, and organize specific data through a standard browser in a quick, easy, and secure fashion.  Users can add additional modules to create the exact, cost-effective solution they require for specific types of projects or business processes (including records management, workflow, e-discovery and e-disclosure, etc.).

“Recognizing that every organization has different information access requirements, we offer enterprise-wide solutions that can be rolled out in a modular fashion as they are needed,” said Dr. Johannes Scholtes, President of ZyLAB.  “Our ZyIMAGE product suite offers a full array of advanced and secure technologies for the public sector, investigative bodies, research-intensive companies, and businesses that are committed to ensuring adherence to compliance regulations and more efficient overall information management.  As an emerging technology company, we are extremely pleased to be placed in the Challengers Quadrant in this Magic Quadrant.”

According to Gartner, “vendors listed in the Challenger’s Quadrant possess sufficient resources to effectively penetrate the information access technology market.  Nevertheless, they typically lack the vision necessary to address all the information access opportunities.  All of these vendors could emerge as Leaders in less than 24 months if they choose to invest in information access technology and do so adeptly.”

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About ZyLAB
For 25 years, ZyLAB has provided commercial and government organisations around the world with award-winning information access solutions. TheZyIMAGEInformation Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a secure foundation for the long-term archiving, management and retrieval of information, from digitisedpaper 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

* Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2006, Whit Andrews, Rita E. Knox, October 6, 2006