IBM eDiscovery Analyzer V2.1 - Conceptual search and analysis of cases created by IBM eDiscovery Manager
IBM United States Software Announcement 208-301September 16, 2008
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IBM® eDiscovery Analyser V2.1:
- Conceptual search and analysis of cases created by IBM eDiscovery Manager
- Optimized for IBM Content Manager and IBM FileNet® Content Manager
- Open, unstructured information management architecture-based search and text analytics capabilities
- Highly consumable for both end users and administrators
- Full security and auditability, including an audit trail for all actions
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
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| Overview |
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IBM eDiscovery Analyzer V2.1, a key component of IBM's proactive, platform-based eDiscovery solutions suite, enables legal analysts and supporting IT specialists to quickly refine, analyze, and prioritize case matter created by IBM eDiscovery Manager. It provides early insight into a case helping clients to dramatically reduce eDiscovery review costs.
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer V2.1 is an electronic discovery (eDiscovery) search and analysis tool for e-mail designed to help legal analysts and supporting IT specialists:
- Quickly identify irrelevant, non-responsive, and privileged e-mails to reduce case matter to a much smaller and relevant data set
- Gain early insight into a case, understand key facts, locate key pieces of evidence, identify key witnesses, and form early case strategies
- Flag, organize, and prioritize documents for review, and define the appropriate review strategy
- Gain a clear view of available case matter to effectively negotiate queries and term lists during the meet and confer stage
- Preserve chain of custody to ensure security, auditability, and defensibility
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer V2.1 provides the following key capabilities:
- Open, unstructured information management architecture-based search and text analytics capabilities, including entity extraction, faceted navigation, conceptual search, time-series analysis, and more
- Auto-categorization of case information by concepts such as phrases, senders and recipients, people and companies mentioned, intecompany and intracompany traffic, and other entities
- Advanced search capabilities, including support for boolean, proximity, fielded, fuzzy, stemmed, and wildcard searches
- Flagging of individual e-mails, multiple e-mails, or an entire result, and removal of "false positives"
- Audit trail and chain of custody, and a privilege model for case access, to enable clients to ensure security, auditability, and defensibility
- Easy-to-use, Web 2.0-based user interface requiring minimal user training
Together with IBM eDiscovery Manager, IBM eDiscovery Analyzer provides the foundation for a proactive eDiscovery platform that leverages key IBM Information Management capabilities. It enables organizations to gain agility in responding to litigation with a lower cost, in-house approach, rather than fully outsourcing the eDiscovery process.
Both IBM eDiscovery Manager and IBM eDiscovery Analyzer are optimized for IBM Content Manager and IBM FileNet Content Manager e-mail archives created by IBM CommonStore and IBM FileNet Email Manager.
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- September 26, 2008: Electronic software delivery
- October 3, 2008: Media and documentation
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| Description |
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IBM eDiscovery Analyzer has the ability to take in and process IBM eDiscovery Manager case folders and index them for further analysis. The primary user interface, as in the case of IBM eDiscovery Manager, is a convenient search mechanism for users to narrow and filter the case results by searching for specific terms. Additionally, legal analysts can utilize the timeline visualization mechanism to evaluate the results such as an actual-to-expected bar graph for the periods of time associated with the case or a particular search. Users can also use the facet analysis to determine phrases, recipients, senders, people, companies, and flags to perform even more complete analysis.
The user is then able to flag individual e-mails or groups of e-mails according to their pertinence to the case. The ability to cull out extraneous or irrelevant correspondence lets the organization significantly reduce redundant or unnecessary e-mails turned over for analysis, thus reducing the associated cost of those extras.
Once the pre-analysis is complete, the case can then be committed back to IBM eDiscovery Manager for export to review.
Accessibility by people with disabilities
A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) can be requested via the IBM Web site
Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act
IBM eDiscovery is capable as of October 3, 2008 , when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it. A U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), containing details on the products accessibility compliance, can be requested on the following Web site
IPLA and Subscription and Support considerations
IPLA licenses can be transferred from one machine to another within, but not limited to an enterprise. You may aggregate the capacity for all the processors the product is operated on to achieve a more economic price. This will result in a single Proof of Entitlement (PoE). It is your responsibility to manage the distribution of Value Units within the limits of the entitlement of the product license.
Subscription and Support must cover the same capacity as the product license entitlement. Subscription and Support will be available in the country in which the agreement is made.
Availability of national languages
Product description Language GA date IBM eDiscovery Analyzer English October 3, 2008 V2.1.0
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Program VRM Program name number 5724-V36 2.1.0 IBM eDiscovery
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
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No hardcopy publications are shipped with this product.
The IBM Publications Center
Product documentation will be available online in the ibm.com® information center at
Product documentation will also be available from the IBM Publication's Center at
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer requires the following minimum hardware:
- Server: 2-way
- Processor:
- AIX®: POWERtm processor*
- Microsoft® Windows®: x86 processor**
- RAM: 4 GB
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer recommended hardware for a simultaneous caseload of 10M items:
- Servers: Four 4-way machines
- Processor:
- AIX: POWER processor*
- Microsoft Windows: x86 processor**
- RAM: 4 GB per processor
* x86 Intel® 32-bit processors, including IBM System xtm and BladeCenter® servers
** IBM POWER-based processors, including IBM System ptm
Software requirements
Server operating systems (one of the following)
- AIX 5Ltm V5.3 (32 bit) on POWER hardware
- AIX 5L V6.1 (32 bit) on POWER hardware
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (32 bit) SP2 or R2 on x86
Javatm Runtime Environment (server)
- Java Runtime Environment V1.5.0 SR7
Content management servers (one of the following)
- DB2® Content Manager V8.4 on AIX, Solaris, or Windows
- DB2 Content Manager V8.3 Fix Pack 7, or later on AIX, Solaris, or Windows
- IBM FileNet P8 V4.0.1 on AIX, HP/UNIX, Linux®, Solaris, or Windows
Client operating systems
Clients running one of the following operating systems can access and run the eDiscovery Analyzer Web client:
- AIX 5L V5.3 (32 bit) on POWER hardware
- AIX 5L V6.1 (32 bit) on POWER hardware
- Microsoft Windows Vista (32 bit) on x86 hardware platform
- Microsoft Windows XP (32 bit) on x86 hardware platform
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (32 bit) SP2 or R2 on x86
Client browsers
Clients running one of the following Web browsers can access and run the eDiscovery Analyzer Web client. Client systems must have the necessary hardware to support a browser that supports frames and Javascript.
- Microsoft Internet
Explorer V7.x on Windows
Note: You must enable Javascript in the browser. You must have Adobe® flash player 9.x installed.
- Mozilla Firefox V2.x
Note: You must enable Javascript in the browser. Must have Adobe flash player 9.x installed.
Recommendations: The IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Web client is best viewed with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or larger. For the best performance, use Microsoft Internet Explorer V7.x or Mozilla Firefox V2.x.
E-mail client applications
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer supports the following e-mail client applications:
- Lotus Notes® V8 on AIX or Windows
- Lotus Notes V7 on AIX or Windows
- Lotus
Notes V6.5 on AIX or Windows
- Microsoft Outlook 2007 on Windows*
- * eDiscovery Analyzer needs to be on same machine as Outlook client.
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Limitations
For additional information, refer to the license information document that is available on the IBM Software License Agreement Web site
Planning information
Direct customer support
Direct customer support is provided by IBM Operational Support Services - Support Line. This fee service enhances your productivity by providing voice and electronic access into the IBM support organization. IBM Operational Support Services - Support Line helps answer questions pertaining to usage and suspected software defects for eligible products.
Installation and technical support is provided by Global Services. For more information call 800-IBM-4YOU (426-4968).
Security, auditability, and control
IBM eDiscovery uses the security and auditability features of the host software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian Content eDiscovery
Manager
eDiscovery Analyzer Value Units
Custodian User Value Unit (CUVU) License Conversion Table
Cumulative Minimum Maximum User Value Max UVUs Cumulative Cumulative Volume Custodian Custodian units per for Each UVUs at Vol Disc Level Users Users Custodian Level Each Level 1 20 20 50.00 1.000 1.000 0.0% 2 21 100 20.00 1,600 2,600 48.0% 3 101 500 3.00 1,200 3,800 84.8% 4 501 1,000 2.5 1,250 5,050 89.9% 5 1,001 5,000 1.75 7,000 12,050 95.2% 6 5,001 20,000 1.25 18,750 30,800 96.9% 7 20,001 50,000 1.00 30,000 60,800 97.6% 8 50,001 1,000,000,000 0.50 499,975,000 500,035,800 99.0%
For the licensed program, minimum purchase quantity is 20 Custodian Users.
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian 5724-V36 User Value Unit
Charge metrics definitions
Definitions
User Value Unit (UVU)
UVU is the metric by which this program is licensed. UVU entitlements are based on the number of users for the given program. A Proof of Entitlement (PoE) must be obtained for the appropriate number of UVUs required for your environment as defined by the specific program terms. The UVU entitlements are specific to the program and may not be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with UVU entitlements of another software program. UVU licensing offers price benefits for customers by enabling a lower cost of incremental growth of resources. To understand these benefits of UVU licensing, and to determine how many UVUs to obtain for the program, please contact your IBM representative.
Custodian User
Custodian User means one and only one specific individual (named or unnamed) within or outside your enterprise, whose email content will be searched, or is authorized by you to be searched, at any time by the program, either directly or indirectly (via a multiplexing program, device, or application server) through any means.
Enterprise
Enterprise means any legal entity that at all times (i) you own or have under your common control by a factor of fifty percent (50%) or more and (ii) that is the legal entity that is authorized to execute and administer this agreement on behalf of the enterprise. For the purposes of any enterprise license granted under this agreement, Enterprise will exclude (i) any new entity acquired by virtue of merger or acquisition after the effective date of this agreement, and (ii) any entity that, at any time during the term of this agreement, is sold, spun off, liquidated, or that otherwise ceases to satisfy the elements of the definition of enterprise set forth above.
License
License means each license granted under this agreement by IBM to you, to use the program as listed on a PoE.
General charge terms
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In addition, if you are licensed on a UVU basis and the program you are licensed to use is incremented on a Custodian basis (CUVU), the following will apply: each Custodian User licensed under a Custodian UVU entitlement, as indicated in the applicable PoE, may access that program or any component of that program up to the authorized level. At all times, the number of Custodian Users accessing the program or any component of the program in any manner, directly or indirectly or through any other means must not exceed your entitlement to use the program, as indicated on the applicable PoEs.
Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM eDiscovery
Part description Part
number
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian per User Value Unit E05F9LL
Annual SW S&S Rnwl
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian per User Value Unit D057TLL
Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian per User Value Unit D057WLL
SW S&S Reinst 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
number
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer V2.1.0
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Custodian V2.1 Multiplatform BF03LEN
English Media Pack
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
IBM eDiscovery Analyzer V2.1.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
eDiscovery Analyzer IBM eDiscovery Analyzer BF03LEN
Custodian User Value Unit Custodian V2.1
Multiplatform English
Media Pack
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System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Educational allowance available
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