Electronic Discovery & Computer Forensics : RenewData : Austin, Texas

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February 14, 2008 08:00 AM

AXS-One a leading provider of scalable, high-performance records compliance management (RCM) solutions, and RenewData, a leading provider of e-discovery and electronically stored information risk management (ESIRM™) services, have announced an agreement that will deliver a complete offering for enterprise-class proactive litigation readiness. An industry first, the solution leverages RenewData's market leading non-native data extraction, file filtering and data processing technology and processes and AXS-One's award-winning archiving and records management software platform.
 
This consolidated offering enables IT and litigation teams to proactively plan for and manage the processing of all electronically stored information (ESI) required for litigation -- identify, analyze, collect, archive, preserve, cull, review, produce and destroy. Uniquely, the entire process provides a legally defensible chain-of-custody process that will enable users to demonstrate the disposition of all pertinent records in their custody.
 
The solution includes RenewData's forensic collection, data extraction and processing of historical data and backup tapes with AXS-One's archival and indexing of all ESI. These archive records can include electronic record types including e-mail, PST files, records stored in file systems, reports, desktop documents and images. Leveraging AXS-One's single, integrated archiving repository, all records pertaining to a specific case or cases can be preserved and managed, in line with litigation hold orders. Organizations now will have an unprecedented level of capability in records management, allowing them to archive all records, including historical data, within a designated central repository. Additionally, the solution provides corporations with the ability to use AXS-One's tools to search the archive for potentially responsive information and to utilize RenewData's hosted tools for comprehensive litigation review and production.
 
The solution directly addresses the requirements introduced at the end of 2006 by the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which has stimulated organizations to get their electronic records in order or suffer the consequences in the judicial system. To meet FRCP regulations, which require corporations to quickly produce large or specific volumes of data, organizations must have forensically sound chain-of-custody procedures and archiving abilities to ensure data is handled appropriately in the event of litigation.
 
"The AXS-One Compliance Platform coupled with RenewData's ESIRM services creates an end-to-end solution that truly addresses current legal realities and can support a company in the event of litigation. The solution not only creates a single repository for all data, but also provides for the secure retention and disposition of it. Until now, there was a disconnect between the management of historical data and that of current data, which presented a challenge and a potential liability for corporations in terms of records management and archiving," said Bill Lyons, CEO, AXS-One. "Other products only address a portion of the electronic records lifecycle, but this is a complete solution that provides identification, de-duplication, reduction, consolidation and archiving processes resulting in the ability to proactively manage, retain, preserve, hold, export, and dispose of current and historical data."
 
"RenewData's ESIRM Services have given corporations the ability to identify, de-duplicate, and reduce large amounts of data stored on backup tapes. With this joint solution, corporations can actively archive current data together with large stores of backup tapes or other disparate legacy formats. Given the costs and risks associated with e-discovery, corporations must gain control of all their records including historical information. Corporations need to inventory the electronic records they have, develop retention policies and put those records in a central archive which can be managed and accessed in the future to ensure they are litigation-ready," said Ellery Buchanan, CEO, RenewData.
 
"Developments in the legal and regulatory landscape are compelling organizations to formalize and execute records and information management policies," said Vivian Tero, Program Manager, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. "Archival solutions that can extend support beyond email to multiple file and content types and that include integrated functionality for legal, compliance, and operational worfklows are designed to address this need."
 
AXS-One Inc. is a leading provider of high performance Records Compliance Management solutions. The AXS-One Compliance Platform enables organizations to implement secure, scalable and enforceable policies that address records management for corporate governance, legal discovery and industry regulations such as SEC17a-4, NASD 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Patriot Act and Gramm-Leach Bliley. Founded in 1978, and headquartered in Rutherford, NJ, AXS-One has offices worldwide including in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom and South Africa.

For further information, visit the AXS-One web site at www.axsone.com

RenewData is a leading provider of e-discovery and ESI (electronically stored information) risk management services to assist corporations and law firms responding to lawsuits, investigations, and audits. Superior legal expertise, scalable technology, and a state-of-the-art facility featuring government level physical security enable RenewData to provide clients with secure, accessible, and manageable data in a cost effective and timely manner. RenewData's e-discovery services cover the five critical steps of the e-discovery process, including planning, preservation and collection, processing, review, and production. RenewData's ESI risk management services, which include backup tape liability management, data migration, and evidence storage, provide corporations with a proactive means of managing the risks associated with ESI. RenewData has been ranked a "top provider" in the Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report for three consecutive years and was ranked in the 2006 and 2007 Inc. 500 lists of fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S.

For more information, visit www.renewdata.com

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Do you shred your tax returns?

Unified Communications Alert By Michael Osterman , Network World , 02/28/2008

Do you file an income tax return? Do you make a copy of that return before sending it to the IRS, Revenue Canada, HM Revenue and Customs or to whomever you owe income taxes? Do you file that copy in a filing cabinet? After 30 or 60 days, do you remove that copy from your filing cabinet and then run it through your shredder? If your answers are Yes, Yes, Yes and No, then you understand the value of preserving critical business or personal records. If your answers are Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes, then you're consistent with the majority of businesses that don't adequately archive their e-mail and other messaging system content.

That’s really the argument for e-mail archiving. A growing proportion of e-mail system content contains valuable business records that you need to keep for one year in some cases, three years in others, seven years, 10 years, indefinitely, etc. However, while you can deploy an archiving system that will begin archiving content starting now, most organizations have backup tapes, disk-based backups, etc. that contain critical business records (Compare Message Archiving products).

To allow all content to be archived – including all the content on backup tapes – AXS-One and RenewData have established a strategic partnership that will permit active archiving of current messaging system content moving forward using AXS-One’s archiving technology, and the processing of old backup tapes using RenewData’s services. 

This service, and those like it, are valuable ones for a couple of reasons. First, from an operational perspective, migrating all data on backup tapes into an archive allows decision makers to determine if there are any business records stored on backup tapes where they would otherwise be very difficult to access. Second, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require organizations to understand what their “inventory” of electronic content is shortly after becoming involved in a legal action (Compare Network Auditing and Compliance products).

The key takeaway is that organizations a) should archive their business records and; b) should migrate content on backup tapes to a more readily accessible format.

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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2008/0225msg2.html

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PRODUCT FLASH

Vivian Tero

This IDC Flash evaluates RenewData’s recently announced Backup Tape Liability Management Service.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

On October 2, 2007, RenewData, a provider of data extraction, migration, and electronic discovery services, announced the availability of its Backup Tape Liability Management Service. This service offering uses a secure process to identify, analyze, reduce, and consolidate electronically stored data on a corporation’s backup tapes. This offering is intended to enable organizations to reduce the dormant liability and IT storage costs associated with maintaining large inventories of backup tapes. The solution encompasses professional and IT services, which the vendor segments into several distinct phases that corporations can complete to better manage their backup tape inventories:

• Physical media audit. RenewData will visit the customer’s site or work with the client’s offsite physical records and storage provider to discover and identify critical physical information about the media, such as location, types, capacity, condition, and storage environment. This service is intended to enable RenewData’s clients to craft a disciplined response to Rules 26(a)(1) and 26(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and determine the most appropriate tapes for sampling.
  
• Tape sample analysis. This service is intended to enable RenewData’s clients to determine the media’s content as well as implications about the total tape inventory. The information gained from this analysis is instrumental in determining how to proceed with data reductions and, in some cases, can assist a "burdensome" argument if litigation occurs.
  
• File-level and data content reduction. The intent of these two services is to enable clients to identify data that should be retained to meet their legal and regulatory requirements, as well as allow deduplication and deletion of system and application files. The file-level and data content reduction processes provide a detailed media content database report that clients can use for their required initial disclosures under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1).
  
• Data consolidation. Once the client has developed its tape reduction plan, RenewData can extract, migrate, and consolidate the associated content into the appropriate platform (typically a disk-based archival system). The extracted data can eventually be hosted within RenewData’s datacenter infrastructure, RenewData’s hosted archiving partners, or the customer’s own datacenter infrastructure. RenewData has existing partnerships with several established content archiving players.

RenewData will certify the process and provide written and oral testimony in the event of legal challenges.

FUTURE OUTLOOK

The requirements of Rules 26(a)(1) and 26(f) of the revised ediscovery rules for civil litigation continue to open up opportunities for content extraction, restoration, and migration service providers. Despite these opportunities, this service market is highly fragmented and increasingly price sensitive. Client demands for process efficiencies and the introduction of disruptive technologies that enable more visibility into the content

of the legacy backup tapes are compelling service providers to come out with service offerings that would provide them with a tactical differentiation.

In May 2007, RenewData launched its Data Migration Service offering, initially targeting the migration of legacy email from backup tapes, content-addressable storage (CAS), and optical platters. IDC research conducted in the summer suggests that the majority of organizations are not automatically ingesting potentially responsive email from nonarchival media back into their archival systems. These companies are becoming more aware of the criticality of making distinctions between their archival and backup operations (for business continuity and disaster recovery [DR] purposes). The research also indicates that many organizations recognize the potential dormant liabilities that reside in their legacy backup tapes. These trends are particularly prevalent among large, highly litigious and regulated industries that have heterogeneous and distributed IT infrastructures. These trends also point to a need among businesses to develop a disciplined and legally defensible approach for evaluating and judiciously migrating or disposing of content in their legacy backup tapes and other media.

RenewData’s Backup Tape Liability Management Service is intended to address this need and differentiate the vendor’s services. This new line of services is a component within RenewData’s Data Migration Service

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Filing Information: October 2007, IDC #209029, Volume: 1, Tab: Vendors offering. RenewData senior management indicated that the Backup Tape Liability Management Service is targeted at organizations from highly regulated and litigious industries that have more than 10,000 backup tapes in storage.

Eliminating backup tapes is a strategic exercise, so within RenewData’s defined target segment, the most likely early adopters of this service offering would be organizations that have ongoing enterprisewide records management and information retention programs. Other likely early adopters include organizations that have expressed intent or ongoing plans to reduce their reliance on third-party physical storage services.

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Partnership Combines Mimosa's Powerful Live Content Archiving and eDiscovery Products With RenewData's Strong Portfolio of eDiscovery and ESI Risk Management Services

SANTA CLARA, CA and AUSTIN, TX - February 4, 2008 - Mimosa Systems™, a leading provider of live content archiving solutions, and RenewData, a leading provider of eDiscovery and electronically stored information risk management (ESIRM™) services have formed a partnership to address growing organizational demand for a proactive and comprehensive approach to litigation readiness regarding Electronically Stored Information (ESI). The partnership of Mimosa and RenewData combines Mimosa's powerful next-generation archiving and eDiscovery technology with RenewData's strong portfolio of eDiscovery and ESIRM services. Together, the companies will focus on delivering practical, cost effective offerings for the proactive collection, processing, review and management of ESI.

According to Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research and consulting firm, "one of the top reasons companies archive their e-mail is because they have to - due to compliance and legal mandates. Our firm estimates that of the electronic-discovery requests over the past 12 months, 80 percent of them involved e-mail." Mimosa Systems and RenewData are bringing solutions that consolidate historical and real time ESI archival to reduce the cost and risk caused by reactive discovery requests targeting ESI.

Organizations are beginning to implement sound archival strategies to address these issues. But the seemingly endless data on backup tapes, employee workstations and removable media pose a huge headache for companies that are likely to face litigation or audits, or that are struggling to meet compliance regulations. Meeting the challenges of eDiscovery in a reactive fashion compresses timelines and therefore dramatically increases costs and risk of errors. Companies instead are recognizing the need to consolidate all ESI in repositories that can be managed by retention policies, and searched and accessed for discovery purposes as needed.

Through their partnership, Mimosa and RenewData are providing industry leading products and services that enable companies to proactively prepare for the likelihood of eDiscovery. RenewData delivers ESIRM, a comprehensive solution to identify and collect historical ESI on a variety of media types and to convert that data to formats that are easily ingested into the Mimosa NearPoint Archive for easier, lower cost discovery processes. Mimosa NearPointTM provides award-winning, archiving of on-line Exchange-based data. This cost-effective and robust approach to performing eDiscovery searches, implementing retention policies, improving Exchange server manageability, and providing data protection for business continuity allows organizations to focus on revenue generating business activities.

"Our partnership with RenewData will enable us to provide customers with migration services that help them effectively prepare for eDiscovery by allowing them to migrate large amounts of data from backup tapes and legacy data formats to the NearPoint Archive making that data faster and more cost effective to discover," said T.M. Ravi, CEO of Mimosa Systems. " We look forward to working with RenewData, which has a deserved reputation as a leading provider of eDiscovery and ESIRM services to many of the nation's largest law firms and corporations."

"Mimosa's advanced content archiving capabilities will be a tremendous complement to our service offerings," said Ellery Buchanan, CEO, RenewData. "By pairing our ESIRM and eDiscovery solutions with NearPoint, we will be able to help clients to accurately and rapidly archive high volumes of historical data, while reducing their storage costs and improving overall data management."

About Mimosa NearPoint

MimosaTM NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization. Mimosa NearPoint provides legal search workflow, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage, NearPoint also optimizes email storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa

Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving, recovery, and storage management. With options for eDiscovery and disaster recovery, NearPoint ensures litigation readiness and email continuity while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom and India. For more information, see www.MimosaSystems.com.

Mimosa, Mimosa Systems, Mimosa NearPoint, and NearPoint are trademarks of Mimosa Systems. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Consolidated Software and Services Enable Corporations to Minimize the Costs and Risks Associated with E-Discovery

RUTHERFORD, NJ and AUSTIN, TX - February 4, 2008 - AXS-One [OTCBB: AXSO], a leading provider of scalable, high-performance records compliance management (RCM) solutions, and RenewData, a leading provider of e-discovery and electronically stored information risk management (ESIRM™) services, today announced an agreement that will deliver a complete offering for enterprise-class proactive litigation readiness. An industry first, the solution leverages RenewData's market leading non-native data extraction, file filtering and data processing technology and processes and AXS-One's award-winning archiving and records management software platform.

This consolidated offering enables IT and litigation teams to proactively plan for and manage the processing of all electronically stored information (ESI) required for litigation – identify, analyze, collect, archive, preserve, cull, review, produce and destroy. Uniquely, the entire process provides a legally defensible chain-of-custody process that will enable users to demonstrate the disposition of all pertinent records in their custody.

The solution includes RenewData's forensic collection, data extraction and processing of historical data and backup tapes with AXS-One's archival and indexing of all ESI. These archive records can include electronic record types including e-mail, PST files, records stored in file systems, reports, desktop documents and images. Leveraging AXS-One's single, integrated archiving repository, all records pertaining to a specific case or cases can be preserved and managed, in line with litigation hold orders. Organizations now will have an unprecedented level of capability in records management, allowing them to archive all records, including historical data, within a designated central repository. Additionally, the solution provides corporations with the ability to use AXS-One's tools to search the archive for potentially responsive information and to utilize RenewData's hosted tools for comprehensive litigation review and production.

The solution directly addresses the requirements introduced at the end of 2006 by the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which has stimulated organizations to get their electronic records in order or suffer the consequences in the judicial system. To meet FRCP regulations, which require corporations to quickly produce large or specific volumes of data, organizations must have forensically sound chain-of-custody procedures and archiving abilities to ensure data is handled appropriately in the event of litigation.

"The AXS-One Compliance Platform coupled with RenewData's ESIRM services creates an end-to-end solution that truly addresses current legal realities and can support a company in the event of litigation. The solution not only creates a single repository for all data, but also provides for the secure retention and disposition of it. Until now, there was a disconnect between the management of historical data and that of current data, which presented a challenge and a potential liability for corporations in terms of records management and archiving," said Bill Lyons, CEO, AXS-One. "Other products only address a portion of the electronic records lifecycle, but this is a complete solution that provides identification, de-duplication, reduction, consolidation and archiving processes resulting in the ability to proactively manage, retain, preserve, hold, export, and dispose of current and historical data."

"RenewData's ESIRM Services have given corporations the ability to identify, de-duplicate, and reduce large amounts of data stored on backup tapes. With this joint solution, corporations can actively archive current data together with large stores of backup tapes or other disparate legacy formats. Given the costs and risks associated with e-discovery, corporations must gain control of all their records including historical information. Corporations need to inventory the electronic records they have, develop retention policies and put those records in a central archive which can be managed and accessed in the future to ensure they are litigation-ready," said Ellery Buchanan, CEO, RenewData.

"Developments in the legal and regulatory landscape are compelling organizations to formalize and execute records and information management policies," said Vivian Tero, Program Manager, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. "Archival solutions that can extend support beyond email to multiple file and content types and that include integrated functionality for legal, compliance, and operational worfklows are designed to address this need."

About AXS-One

AXS-One Inc. (OTCBB: AXO) is a leading provider of high performance Records Compliance Management solutions. The AXS-One Compliance Platform enables organizations to implement secure, scalable and enforceable policies that address records management for corporate governance, legal discovery and industry regulations such as SEC17a-4, NASD 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Patriot Act and Gramm-Leach Bliley. Founded in 1978, and headquartered in Rutherford, NJ, AXS-One has offices worldwide including in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom and South Africa. For further information, visit the AXS-One web site at www.axsone.com.

AXS-One, the AXS-One logo, "Access Tomorrow Today," and AXSPoint are registered trademarks of, and AXS-One Compliance Platform, AXS-One Central, AXS-One Retention Manager, AXS-One Rapid-AXS, AXS-Link for Desktop, AXS-Link for SAP, AXS-Link for Lotus Notes, AXS-Link for Microsoft Exchange, AXS-One Data Archive Translator, AXS-Link for File System Archiving, AXS-Link for .PST Management, AXS-One Supervision, AXS-One Case Management, "The Records Compliance Management Company" and AXS-Link are trademarks of, AXS-One Inc., in the U.S.

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Accomplished Business Professionals Bring Extensive Operational and Consulting Services Expertise to RenewData's Board

AUSTIN, TX - January 8, 2008 - RenewData, the leading provider of e-discovery, electronically stored information risk management (ESIRM™), and evidence storage services, today announced the appointment of James Blayney and Michael Clurman to its Board of Directors. Mr. Blayney's diverse consulting and strategic development experience and Mr. Clurman's extensive operations, production, and business planning experience further broadens the board's areas of expertise and leadership.

Mr. Blayney brings years of diverse general management experience to RenewData, including traditional services and start-up ventures, with a notable achievement record in areas of strategic planning and implementation, as well as financial, analytical, and information management. He is currently the president of Rust Consulting, Inc., a consulting and claims administrator for legal professionals, where he is responsible for strategy development and execution. Prior to joining Rust Consulting, Mr. Blayney held key executive positions at the notable CPA and business services firm RSM McGladrey, Inc and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP. He is also an active member of the advisory board of The Marthens Company, providing his expertise on business strategy and finance matters. Mr. Blayney holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Central College, a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

"As a recognized leader in the e-discovery market, RenewData has a considerable opportunity to grow their core strengths and dominate this market," said James Blayney. "I am looking forward to working with such a successful and focused team and to offering guidance in further establishing RenewData in the e-discovery market, as well as offering strategic direction as they embark on new endeavors."

Mr. Clurman is a long-established operations, production and business planning executive at The Washington Post, where he is currently Vice President of Operations with responsibility for production operations, engineering, information technology, and large capital projects. In this position, he has directed the transformation of the technology structure, including the design and implementation of an enterprise system, execution of a structured governance process, standardization of technology platforms, and implementation of a service-oriented architecture. Mr. Clurman joined The Washington Post in 1971 and has held multiple executive operations and planning positions throughout his tenure, including Assistant to the Vice President of Operations, Plant Manager at The Post's Springfield Plant, and Vice President of Production. Mr. Clurman graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Business Administration, serves on the Technology Advisory Board of the Newspaper Association of America, and has served on the Industry Advisory Board of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

"As a business executive responsible for information technology at a large corporation, I'm familiar with the multitude of challenges constantly facing corporate IT departments," said Michael Clurman. "RenewData's ESIRM solution offers the possibility of being able to proactively plan for the inevitable. This is a very beneficial service for these corporations. I'm excited to have the opportunity to advise the RenewData team as they continue to grow and market this new and valuable offering."

Mr. Blayney and Mr. Clurman are highly accomplished executives, bringing extensive operational and strategic experience and skill to the RenewData board. "We are very pleased Jim and Mike are joining the RenewData team, and we look forward to their contributions," said Ellery Buchanan, CEO of RenewData. "Their insights and experience will be invaluable in helping guide RenewData in the years ahead and will help broaden the areas of expertise and scope of our board."

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Renowned "Six Sigma" Business Process Improvement (BPI) Program is Cornerstone of Quality and Client Satisfaction Initiative

AUSTIN, TX - December 19, 2007 - As the e-discovery market continues to grow at a rapid rate, quality issues are often cited as problems that must be addressed across the industry. Given the sensitive and urgent nature of the e-discovery process, it is particularly critical that work product is accurate, complete and delivered on time, as any deviation from such can cause organizations to be sanctioned or fined. RenewData has earned a reputation as a high quality vendor providing reliable results to its clients. To build upon and extend this reputation, RenewData is today announcing the addition of business process improvement expert, Michael Enyart, to its management team as Senior Director of Business Process Quality.

Enyart, as a consultant to RenewData, has been instrumental in the implementation of the "Six Sigma" Business Process Improvement (BPI) Program in May of this year and, as an employee, will lead RenewData's effort to expand and embed the BPI program throughout the entire organization. The BPI program is a well known, quality initiative designed to continually analyze and update the core business processes that directly impact quality and client satisfaction. RenewData conducted its first wave of BPI training for key staff members in June and has successfully driven several significant projects through the new cycle. As a result of having undergone the stringent standards of the BPI Program, these initial projects have resulted in transformational changes, cross-functional communication, and active engagement throughout the organization.

Enyart brings significant experience in accelerating change, jump-starting projects, and deploying sustainable improvements at large organizations. Prior to joining RenewData, Enyart spent nine years as an independent consultant in process improvement and change management to numerous corporate clients such as Dell Corporation, as well as ten years in quality assurance and production management positions in the semiconductor industry. He has delivered Six Sigma training to more than 1400 project leaders around the world and directed numerous process improvement projects in the U.S., South America, Central America, Western and Eastern Europe. His experience also includes implementing and managing ISO 9001 and Malcolm Baldrige programs.

"Mike initially worked with us as a consultant shaping and implementing our program, and because it was such a success, we decided to hire him as a full-time employee engaged across the organization," said Ellery Buchanan, CEO of RenewData. "Bringing Mike onboard is further testament of our commitment to continual quality improvement and focus on all aspects of our business processes. He has a proven track record of successfully driving and implementing many cross-functional process improvements and achieving significant cost savings. We're focused on client satisfaction, and we address the core issues to provide our clients with the highest quality of work product possible throughout the litigation process."

The goal of RenewData's BPI Program is to create efficient business processes throughout the company to provide a benchmark of data quality that will continue to exceed the standard in the e-discovery industry. The BPI approach will allow RenewData to make significant changes in the ways it conducts business, through ongoing process improvements that are driven by client needs and expectations. Additionally, to further drive this initiative, RenewData recently implemented Lombardi's Teamworks^® BPM software suite to support its work order tracking system business processes throughout the organization.

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