e-discovery 2.0

Today, I am delighted to report that Clearwell Systems has become part of Symantec. We have, of course, been working closely together since obtaining regulatory approval for the acquisition last month, but this makes it official: Symantec can now offer customers Clearwell’s market-leading eDiscovery platform as well as its market-leading Symantec Enterprise Vault archiving solution. We are excited to be part of the Symantec team, and to work alongside so many talented people to create the next generation of eDiscovery and information governance solutions.

There are already a large number of joint customers using the Clearwell and Symantec solutions as part of an integrated eDiscovery and archiving workflow, and we are well underway towards building more robust integration between Clearwell and Symantec Enterprise Vault. In updating our product roadmaps, all our decisions are guided by feedback from customers who have told us over and over again that they want to:

• Reduce costs across all phases represented in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, from information management through review and production
• Reduce risk by improving the defensibility and repeatability of their archiving and eDiscovery processes
• Streamline their end to end archiving and eDiscovery lifecycle to meet legal and regulatory deadlines
• Start managing information and conducting eDiscovery in as little as one day; whether on-premise, as a hosted solution or in the cloud
• Meet their enterprise-wide archiving and eDiscovery needs, whether they have less than 25 to more than one million users

As we’ve discussed before, our plan as part of Symantec is to deliver a seamless, integrated archiving and eDiscovery management workflow that benefits all our customers. To keep everyone in the loop, we will continue to post updates and answer questions on the integrated product portfolio here and on the Symantec eDiscovery blog.

For more on the acquisition, and the response from our customers, partners and the industry at large, visit: http://www.symantec.com/clearwell.