IBM has announced new IBM e-Discovery software with advanced analytics features to help clients gain better insight and understanding into their information, while helping to minimize legal discovery costs and improve legal strategy decisions.

New features in IBM InfoSphere e-Discovery Manager and IBM InfoSphere e-Discovery Analyzer include:

Enhanced early case assessment functionality, making it possible for organizations to more effectively build strategies before entering into costly legal discovery review and production cycles. For example, users can now visualize e-mail communications patterns across their entire organization to discover unexpected communications, identify new individuals whose information is subject to review, and trace the flow of topics over time.

Extended support for processing, analyzing, searching, and holding multiple forms of ESI content. These enhanced capabilities enable organizations to use IBM’s e-Discovery offerings to bring the benefits of an in-house, agile approach to the management of all content types.

Open application programming interfaces for partner solution integration. IBM’s e-Discovery software now includes extended API support, providing customers and partners the opportunity to deliver customized solutions that utilize IBM eDiscovery software capabilities as part of broader in-house and hosted solutions based on customers’ needs.

Utilizing the new API capabilities in IBM’s e-Discovery software, IBM and Business Partner PSS Systems are working together to deliver joint compliance offerings that address corporate e-Discovery and legal needs of in-house counsel, reduce the discovery burden on IT organizations, and link in records retention programs for defensible disposal. The combined IBM-PSS offering will provide clients with a comprehensive set of tools to more effectively manage information based on its value, comply with global legal obligations for data, discover data efficiently, and routinely dispose of information at the end of its lifecycle.

More information on IBM’s e-Discovery software can be found here, while information on IBM Business Partner PSS Systems can be found here.