Atlas for IBM Environments

Value Proposition

Atlas Information Governance Suite for IBM enables organizations to combine the power of the Atlas Suite with the IBM ECM offerings to effectively federate legal hold, collection instructions, and retention requirements to the existing IBM ediscovery and information management infrastructure enabling:

  • Legal holds and discovery workflow for corporate counsel
  • Data governance and discovery automation for IT
  • Global retention schedule management for defensible disposal
  • Seamless integration with IBM discovery and information management tools
Atlas Suite

The Solution

The Atlas Information Governance Suite provides a set of applications for legal, IT, and business users that enables organizations to eliminate legal risk and reduce data management and discovery costs. By linking ediscovery and retention management applications, Atlas is able to provide a common, value-based view of information across the enterprise, enabling both robust discovery and defensible disposal at the end of the data lifecycle.

The Atlas Information Governance Suite:

  • Enables attorneys and paralegals to automate their legal holds and collections across the organization.
  • Enables IT staff to understand and manage — by system and employee — their legal hold, collections and retention responsibilities.
  • Enables compliance managers to develop and manage global retention policies to coordinate compliance across multiple systems and jurisdictions.
  • Enables attorneys to continuously assess cost to ensure the earliest, lowest cost case resolution.
  • Enables IT to determine which systems have the highest cost and risk profiles and address them.
  • Provides a common, enabling platform for the Atlas modules and a single source of truth for key governance stakeholders in legal, IT, records, and business functions.

With seamless integration to IBM, Atlas is able to federate legal holds, collection instructions, and retention requirements directly to IBM offerings, including eDiscovery Analyzer and eDiscovery Manager and Records Manager. Through this integration, PSS Systems enables customers to more efficiently achieve rigorous ediscovery and defensible information disposal.

Solution Capabilities

PSS Systems provides a solution that integrates the Atlas Information Governance Suite with IBM's ediscovery and compliance products to drive down discovery and data costs while reducing legal risk. This combined solution allows customers to:

Manage: Companies can set retention and privacy policies, determine what data to retain, how to protect the information, and when to dispose of it at the end of its lifecycle.

Hold: Legal holds created by attorneys using Atlas are automatically executed by IBM's platform across email, records, and other information, enabling effective management of data not on hold.

Assess: Attorneys can assess cost and risk early in the case lifecycle to reduce discovery and review cost. By coupling Atlas with IBM's eDiscovery Analyzer, attorneys can perform early case assessment to avoid over-collection and over-production of data.

Collect: Attorneys can use Atlas to formulate the collection plan and, through the integration with the IBM ediscovery and compliance products, automatically collect ESI from disparate data sources.

This joint ediscovery solution gives companies a best-in-class information governance solution that seamlessly federates legal holds, collection instructions and retention requirements to the IBM ECM platform to reduce risk and lower legal, IT and other operation costs.