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Daticon EED Announces Availability of Discovery Express™

New End-to-End E-Discovery Platform Built From Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software Products

KIRKLAND, Wash. — May 3, 2010 — Daticon EED, one of the founders of the e-discovery industry, announced today that it has developed a new e-discovery processing platform, Discovery Express™, designed for rapid and cost effective end-to-end processing of simple e-discovery projects. Discovery Express couples the company’s deep expertise in e-discovery protocols, project management and best practices with a best-of-breed suite of software products from independent e-discovery software vendors. Discovery Express will be operated by Daticon EED alongside the company’s widely-used Discovery Partner® processing platform in its U.S. data centers.

“Our clients have for some time been encouraging us to extend our technology infrastructure to the e-discovery software market,” said Thomas Haug, President of Daticon EED. “Discovery Partner was designed at a time when large and complex cases were the norm, and there were no commercial alternatives for e-discovery service providers to employ on behalf of their clients. Today, the smaller, simpler, quick-turn case is increasingly common, and we believe Discovery Express will offer our current clients, as well as new clients, a cost-effective option for their smaller matters, coupled with the expertise, experience and quality of service they expect from Daticon EED.”

"In the next couple of months, we’ll announce a range of partnerships with market-leading commercial e-discovery software vendors whose products will be integrated into the Discovery Express platform," added Clifton Gilley, Esq., senior product manager for Discovery Express at Daticon EED. "Our objective is to accelerate the transition of the e-discovery technology market from custom platforms to platforms based on packaged applications. This new approach gives our clients low-cost access to the best applications, being produced by independent software vendors, integrated into our workflow, project management and e-discovery processing protocols. The ISV market is producing increasingly interesting and compelling components from forensics and processing, subjective culling, review and production. We want to make the best of that market available to our clients within the Daticon EED framework they know and trust."

Michael Clark, CEO and principal at EDDix, LLC, sees the transition to ISV-based processing platforms as inevitable for heritage EDD service providers. "Few traditional e-discovery vendors have the financial or technical wherewithal to compete effectively with ISVs intent on dominating multiple e-discovery software categories. It seems obvious to me that, as the ISVs become increasingly capable, traditional e-discovery suppliers will have to augment, and ultimately replace, their proprietary processing platforms with platforms based on integrated commercial off-the-shelf offerings, and focus on adding value elsewhere. The company’s decision to embrace this transition is indicative of this trend.”

Discovery Express is installed and operational in Daticon EED U.S. data centers. The first client matters are already in process in the new environment. Pricing for Discovery Express starts at $150 per raw GB with additional options available for subjective culling and review. Contact us to learn more about Discovery Express.

About Daticon EED

Daticon EED has over twenty years of experience advising and supporting corporations, and their outside counsels, on the complex set of issues surrounding litigation preparedness, electronic discovery and trial. Because we work routinely with the most-litigated corporations and the most capable law firms in North America, active management is for us a way of doing business with our clients, not just an industry buzzword. Whether you're concerned about intellectual property disputes, anti-trust matters, products liability litigation, securities class actions or government investigations, we believe that our involvement in nearly 5,000 matters in the last two decades make us the most seasoned, knowledgeable and capable full service provider you'll find to pursue the effective resolution of your litigation-related matters.

From litigation readiness reviews through internal investigations, early case assessment, and international data collection, to ESI processing, review, production and expert testimony, we pride ourselves on our expertise and experience -- the things that really matter when your organization's capital, market position and reputation are at stake.

Discovery Partner is a registered trademark, Daticon EED and Discovery Express are trademarks of Electronic Evidence Discovery Incorporated.

Media Contact: Ken Sokol Daticon EED 425.629.6747                        KSokol@daticon-eed.com