Informative Introduces Redact-It for IBM eDiscovery Manager

Recently, Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a provider of viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, announced the release of Redact-It for IBM (News - Alert) eDiscovery Manager.

IBM's eDiscovery software complements core information management capabilities and provides a strategic, in-house approach to globally address discovery, privacy and retention requirements more efficiently.

Tightly integrated with IBM eDiscovery Manager, Redact-It performs automated redaction on documents during the export phase, allowing organizations to process large volumes of documents in-house. Redact-It works on "Privilege" or "Privacy" scripts and generates a new PDF or TIFF rendition of the redacted file(s), leaving the source file(s) untouched.

The redacted rendition contains no hidden text or metadata; the content is completely removed, so there is no risk of inadvertent disclosure through improper redaction. Redact-It also offers the ability to export source files to PDF or TIFF from eDiscovery Manager in addition to IBM's traditional EDRM-XML and Native format options.

Tom O'Connor, Attorney and eDiscovery expert, said that effective redaction is an extremely important part of the eDiscovery process. He continued that unfortunately, sometimes people don't understand redaction technology, and they don't buy a good product like Redact-It and they think they are effectively redacting some privileged information, and instead they inadvertently send it to opposing counsel as part of their production.

Further he added that if lawyers have not protected privilege within documents, for which they have a duty to the client, they may be exposing themselves to a malpractice case and firms must take the steps necessary to protect a case, and that includes proper redaction.

Gary Heath, president and CEO of IGC said that IBM eDiscovery Manager helps companies do more in-house and control eDiscovery cost and adding Redact-It is a natural fit to further that goal, bringing automation to this historically time-consuming step in the eDiscovery process and providing significant time savings.

Heath also explained that IBM's API for eDiscovery Manager provided us with the ability to create a truly useful and unique integration that really benefits our mutual customers.