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Applied Discovery Selects Microsoft FAST for Advanced E-Discovery Document Search

Posted on: Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 07:00 CDT

BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Discovery(R), a leader in comprehensive electronic discovery products and services today announced that it has partnered with Microsoft/FAST to implement FAST ESP(TM) advanced document search and retrieval in the Applied Discovery Online Review Application (ORA). The ORA is a web-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) application most preferred by NLJ200 Law Firms and Fortune 500 organizations for search, review and tagging of documents in response to litigation or government investigations.

"Our powerful indexing and search technology is ideally suited to the challenges presented by high volume e-discovery document review," stated John Felahi, principal product planner, Enterprise Search Group (ESG) at FAST, a Microsoft Subsidiary. "Applied Discovery initially implemented FAST technology to index terabytes of data - millions, even billions of documents - very rapidly. Now with the implementation of the powerful search capabilities of FAST in the Online Review process, corporations and law firms can deal effectively with complex, high volume review projects in a cost effective way."

The new release, Applied Discovery Online Review Application (ORA) 4.6, now leverages concept search technology to illuminate key relationships, people, activities and information potentially relevant to the matter at hand, enabling faster and more accurate production of electronically stored information (ESI).

A key challenge for legal teams working on e-discovery review is in gleaning pertinent case information about the issues, events, and individuals involved in the activity that led to litigation or an investigation. To aid this process, the FAST search engine provides document search results in 'concept clusters', revealing patterns of communication, use of terminology, and relationships between custodians that may have been previously unknown. Search is made more useful and intuitive with the addition of extracted entities - person or company names, addresses, geographic locations, for example - providing attorneys the ability to give attention to the most relevant information first.

"We are very pleased to have formed a partnership with FAST," said Bill Pieser, vice president of development and chief technology officer at Applied Discovery. "Our clients demand very high performance processing and intuitive review tools to achieve optimal results while reducing the cost of e-discovery. The FAST search engine is an important ingredient in our ability to continuously improve the e-discovery experience for leading corporations and law firms."

About Applied Discovery

Applied Discovery (www.applieddiscovery.com) is a leading provider of comprehensive electronic discovery services to the legal industry. Its award-winning review platform is used by the nation's top corporations and law firms for complex e-discovery matters. Applied Discovery is based in Seattle, with East Coast headquarters in New York City and regional offices in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Applied Discovery was acquired by LexisNexis in 2003.

LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) services. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide.

CONTACT: Tammi Coulter Senior Marketing Manager, Applied Discovery (425) 467-3035 Megan Miller Senior Product Marketing Manager, Applied Discovery (425) 463-3536

SOURCE Applied Discovery

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