StoredIQ Tames eDiscovery Challenges Within SharePoint Taneja Group Report Highlights How StoredIQ's Information Intelligence Platform Overcomes eDiscovery Challenges In Enterprise-Scale SharePoint Environments

StoredIQ, a leading provider of information management and eDiscovery solutions, recently announced that analyst firm Taneja Group identified StoredIQ "to have taken the lead in eDiscovery and governance solutions for mission-critical SharePoint." In a new white paper titled StoredIQ's Flagship eDiscovery for SharePoint, Taneja identifies how the enormous growth of SharePoint deployments in recent years have dramatically increased the cost and complexity of eDiscovery. StoredIQ's SharePoint solution is changing the game, enabling corporate counsel, Legal and IT professionals to address the challenges of eDiscovery in SharePoint when Versions, Wikis, Blogs and Discussion Boards are included.

SharePoint deployments have grown at the astounding rate of 40 percent year-over-year and are being embraced as an enterprise content management standard by more than 67% of today's largest enterprises. Managing data stored within SharePoint is critical for organizations; yet traditional eDiscovery vendors focus solely on Document Libraries within SharePoint. With SharePoint 2010, significant social media architecture investments make the file sharing and collaboration system far more dynamic than ever before. More often than not, SharePoint is now used as a portal for Wikis, Blogs, and Discussion Boards. "Facebook-like" User Profiles associated with personal Sites are owned and managed by users themselves. This very complex environment carries the potential for flawed eDiscovery processes that are almost destined to result in undesirable litigation outcomes.

"StoredIQ solves these challenges by locating, indexing and collecting all core SharePoint objects and nested content," said Christine Taylor, analyst at the Taneja Group, and author of the white paper. "The time for users to improve SharePoint eDiscovery is now, when they can proactively deploy StoredIQ for eDiscovery and governance on their SharePoint CMS. This not only protects them from the consequences of poor eDiscovery, but also lets them maximize their SharePoint ROI. StoredIQ also serves both IT and Legal, letting them partner over litigation strategies instead of fighting it out once an eDiscovery demand hits."

In the white paper, Taneja Group discusses how StoredIQ is able to address the challenges of eDiscovery within the real-world context of a large financial services customer. Specifically, Taneja Group explains how StoredIQ's SharePoint solution:

• Supports all core SharePoint object types, including Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Boards and all associated metadata;
• Searches, indexes, collects and exports data across the entire SharePoint ecosystem;
• Creates and publishes reports to understand where all SharePoint data lives, who is creating them, how old the data is, and what the business value is within the organization;
• Facilitates smart data modeling that captures relationships between objects – in short, it retains context to understand content;
• Provides eDiscovery "in the wild" – the unique early case assessment capability to review SharePoint content where the data resides, without the need to move data prior to collection;
• Manages eDiscovery matters and custodians using a powerful workflow that allows IT and Legal to work in tandem – assessing the merits of a dispute and formulating a legal strategy far earlier in the process.

"The analysis by Taneja Group really uncovers the depth of the challenges that SharePoint presents for companies today. Anybody looking at SharePoint without recognizing the complexities the new social interaction capabilities have introduced is destined to run into some eDiscovery issues. By employing a legally defensible solution like StoredIQ, organizations can quickly catch up with months or even years of lag in unaccounted risk from SharePoint data," said Ursula Talley, vice president of marketing for StoredIQ.

The white paper, StoredIQ's Flagship eDiscovery for SharePoint. For more information, visit www.storediq.com.

SOURCE: StoredIQ