Portland, Ore. / Boxborough, Mass. – January 18, 2011— Exterro, Inc., the leading provider of legal governance, risk and compliance management software solutions, and Digital Reef, a leading software provider of scalable and open software for eDiscovery and file governance, today announced the seamless integration of Exterro Fusion and Digital Reef eDiscovery. The combination substantially reduces the cost of legal holds, data preservation, processing and early case assessments (ECA) in electronic discovery. A demonstration of the joint solution will be available at LegalTech New York at Exterro Booth No. 513-515 and at Digital Reef Booth No. 1404.

Now, enterprises and law firms can easily notify custodians of hold obligations and accelerate the path to early case assessments and through downstream e-discovery. The unified approach provided by Exterro and Digital Reef allows key legal hold, and matter information as well as custodian metadata to be exchanged, delivering an integrated solution to legal hold notification, collection, preservation, and reporting.

According to a March 11, 2010 report, “Cooperation Is Key for Managing E-Discovery in 2010,” from Gartner, Inc. Debra Logan, VP Distinguished Analyst reports, “Through 2012, companies without an information governance strategy and technology for content archiving solutions, will spend a third more on e-discovery than those with content archiving solutions. By year end 2011, 25 percent of all companies will have specified a litigation hold process and purchased software to assist in the identification, preservation, collection and processing of electronically-stored information.”

With this new solution, corporate legal and IT professionals have a standardized, scalable and efficient way to manage the entire legal hold, early case assessment and eDiscovery processes. Benefits and capabilities for customers include:

• Aligned legal business processes and information management

• An integrated framework for legal hold, eDiscovery and early case assessments

• Scalable execution and superior case workflow management and litigation risk analysis

• Standard, defensible workflow and preservation strategy

• Legal risk mitigation, reduced administrative and technology costs

“Legal and IT teams face pressure from three sides – increased regulations and judicial mandates, exponential growth of discoverable electronically stored information (ESI) and tight timetables,” said Exterro President and CEO, Bobby Balachandran. “The combination of Exterro and Digital Reef leverages Exterro’s proven Fusion Integration Hub technology and provides joint customers with the process and data management they need to stay ahead of the game.”

“Partnering with Exterro to create this new e-discovery process exchange will greatly benefit enterprise legal and IT organizations and help these companies manage legal information easier and faster. At Digital Reef, we’re adopting an ‘open’ strategy to eDiscovery where we partner with the best companies in the space to create innovative EDRM-ready solutions aimed at helping companies with the complexities and time associated with litigation readiness,” said Bob Lentz, President and CEO at Digital Reef.

For more information, register for the webcast “Information Management Playbook: Bringing Process to ECA” featuring speakers from American Eagle, Exterro and Digital Reef: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/265896848

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