IBM also announced today that Toyota Financial Services, a leading providerof automotive financial services, is using the IBM eDiscovery Solution toaddress its growing e-mail management and legal discovery requirements.

"We were looking for a way to meet our Sarbanes-Oxley and FinancialServices Authority regulatory compliance needs while implementing a systemthat would help us archive the hundreds of thousands of e-mails andattachments that we manage on a daily basis," said Hemant Sohoni, ToyotaFinancial Services (UK) PLC. "IBM and Neocol UK provided us with thesolution that we were looking for to meet our eDiscovery needs."

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer, together with the recently announced IBMeDiscovery Manager, provide the foundation for an in-house eDiscoveryplatform, enabling organizations to become more proactive in controllingelectronic information and more agile in responding to litigation, whilereducing cost by decreasing the volume of information reviewed outside theorganization.

Using the scalable IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, IBMeDiscovery collects, organizes, manages and retrieves relevant enterpriseinformation in a security-rich, access-and-change audited manner. Itenables a disciplined approach that helps reduce cost and risk whiledelivering ongoing operational benefits.

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer is designed to help legal professionals andlitigation support specialists:

Quickly identify and eliminate irrelevant and non-responsive e-mails toreduce case matter to a much smaller and relevant data set, helping reduceeDiscovery review costs

Gain early insight into a case, understand key facts, locate key piecesof evidence, identify key witnesses and communication threads, and formearly case strategies

Flag, organize and prioritize documents for review, define theappropriate review strategy and optimize resources for review

Gain a clear view of available case matter to effectively negotiatequeries and term lists during the Meet and Confer stage

Preserve chain of custody information to ensure security, auditabilityand defensibility

A single and secure repository for Toyota's e-mail

Toyota Financial Services needed a strategic solution that could be used asa content repository for human resource documentation and correspondence,and support the human resource department for litigation needs. With thecombined IBM-Neocol offering, Toyota Financial Services will collect andarchive more than 1.3 millione-mails and attachments -- about 100,000e-mails per day -- in a single and secure repository. Here they will bedynamically accessible and help the company become more agile in respondingto litigation requests.

Toyota Financial Services is also using IBM CommonStore for Lotus Dominoand IBM Content Manager to help increase the operational efficiency oftheir messaging system and reduce their escalating storage costs, while IBMeDiscovery Manager is used to help accelerate their eDiscovery processes.The company is extending the reach of enterprise content management (ECM)standardization to their corporate legal departments that currently helparchive, manage, share and deliver critical business information.

"Our clients are looking for a more effective way to collect, store, manageand retrieve their information," said Ken Bisconti, vice president, productand strategy, IBM Enterprise Content Management. "This solution is builtupon our complete ECM platform to provide a new approach to the process ofeDiscovery. With the added capabilities of the new IBM eDiscovery Analyzer,organizations can now obtain detailed insight into discovered content earlyon in the process to help improve their legal strategy and reduce cost."

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer will be available later this month from IBM and IBMBusiness Partners. For more information on IBM's eDiscovery software, visithttp://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/ediscovery.html.

Neocol is an IBM Information Management Business Partner, involved in theimplementation and support of ECM technology in some of the largestexamples of successful archiving in the world. For more information onNeocol, visit: http://www.neocol.com

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