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Articles by Dr. Johannes C. Scholtes

From Litigation Response to Litigation Readiness
Bringing E-Discovery In-house Now Prepares for Enterprise Information Management Later

Only about 1% of organizations are reportedly prepared for full-scale e-discovery activities. As a result, the vast majority of organizations facing litigation are forced into a costly reaction mode...

Litigation Readiness and Compliance
Why Prepared Organizations Are More Successful Organizations

The fall-out of the credit crisis has had a significant impact on the information technology (IT) landscape, and even more specifically a dramatic impact on compliance, risk, e-discovery and records management requirements. These technology-based requirements, also known as enterprise information management, affect every type and size public sector and commercial organization today. Managing and controlling electronically stored information is a matter of technology, but also of strict procedures, quality control and well-documented information management activities...

Text Analysis: The Next Step in Search
Finding Without Knowing What is Available
or What You’re Looking For

In general, text analysis refers to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text analysis differs from traditional search in that, whereas search requires a user to know what he or she is looking for, text analysis attempts to discover information in a pattern that is not known beforehand (through the use of advanced techniques such as pattern recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and so on). By focusing on patterns and characteristics, text analysis can produce better search results and deeper data analysis, thereby providing quick retrieval of information that otherwise would remain hidden.
Text analysis is particularly interesting in areas where users must discover new information, such as in criminal investigations, legal discovery and when performing due-diligence investigations. Such investigations require 100% recall; i.e., users cannot afford to miss any relevant information....

Investigate Or Investigated?
The Credit Crisis is Turbo-Charging Enterprise Search

At this moment, only two specialized applications in the enterprise search market exist that show growth potential: those that are used to investigate the fall-out of the credit crisis and those used by organizations as part of their defense...

The Difference Between Legal Search and Web Search
What You Should Know About Search Tools for E-Discovery

In many instances, when in-house legal professionals require advanced searching capabilities for e-discovery and legal activities, they often default to in-house variants of common Web search tools. However, Web search tools are not optimized...

The Art of Destruction
An Overlooked Key to Records Management and e-Discovery

Although storing 250 gigabytes of data can cost less than $250, hiring an external firm to process and review this data for e-discovery can cost up to $1 million. The impact of these costs is particularly noticeable to in-house legal teams and support staff who are often at the front lines of any e-discovery...

Text Analytics for Enterprise Search
The Essential Components for High Performance Systems

Automatic derivation of meta-information broadens search technique capabilities...

Maintain Control During E-Discovery
Comprehensive Information Access is the Engine of Discovery

How many organizations can honestly say they have the proper records management infrastructure and retention policies in place to meet the requirements for any effective e-discovery solution?...

Records Management, Enterprise Search and KM

Most organizations have embraced, or are in the process of embracing, the need for some form of suitable, high-quality records management (RM) solution. The US government's recently passed Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has made the need for RM policies even more urgent.

The Evolution of Enterprise Search

Enterprise search and enterprise search platforms have been available...

Efficient and Cost-effective Email Management With XML

Complying with mandated e-discovery requirements necessitates the use of XML platforms for optimal email management and storage. Multiple factors exist regarding how organizations approach archiving email in terms of their overall email management plans. Regardless of how an organization perceives the goal of its email management needs and responsibilities—or, for that matter, the way in which it needs to manage all of its vital information—its ability to develop and implement a technical solution can be a real challenge

Next-generation Deployment for Enterprise Search Tools:
Comprehensive E-discovery and E-disclosure Technologies

Consider the following: Throughout the course of the Enron investigation, the FBI has confiscated 12 million pages of paper documents plus terabytes of e-mail and other electronic files.

A View on Email Management
Balancing Multiple Interests and Realities of the Workplace

Issues such as email storage and disk space usage, email integration into data repositories and comprehensive information search and retrieval, as well as more general discussions about how email should be interpreted, used and processed, . . .

From Records Management to Knowledge Management...

Affordability in Content Management and Compliance...Easy to Deploy, Use and Maintain