AvePoint Delivers Advanced Legal Discovery Tools with DocAve eDiscovery

Jersey City, NJ (PRWEB) June 13, 2008

AvePoint, the leading provider of integrated SharePoint infrastructure management software solutions, today announced the upcoming release of DocAve eDiscovery, a compliance module to identify, export and monitor responsive data in Microsoft SharePoint. This powerful new module joins DocAve's Compliance Archiver and Compliance Auditor to deliver a comprehensive solution for organizations using SharePoint to store compliance-critical data. These compliance modules are part of the DocAve software platform, a fully-distributed software platform delivering Backup & Recovery, Administration & Replication, Migration, and Compliance & Archiving solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies.

Today's organizations must proactively address the requirements of various legal and regulatory inquiries in order to protect against unwanted negative publicity and potential litigation. DocAve eDiscovery lets organizations regularly and continually search all SharePoint content by any combination of keywords, attributes, and metadata fields to ensure meticulous response to any legal and compliance inquiries; and to prevent future instances of inappropriate or forbidden content. To ensure diligent reporting compliance, DocAve eDiscovery lets organizations easily generate full-fidelity, metadata-rich, export files of any responsive SharePoint data.

"With the massive volume of information in Microsoft SharePoint today, the costs and risks associated with electronic legal and compliance discovery can be significant," said Dr. Tianyi Jiang, Chief Operating Officer of AvePoint. "DocAve eDiscovery allows organizations to efficiently retrieve and share information assets in a compliant manner, while also enabling the diligent monitoring for inappropriate content."

DocAve eDiscovery helps organizations satisfy SharePoint-related electronic discovery requirements with the following features and benefits:

• Sophisticated search and content identification

DocAve eDiscovery provides sophisticated search capabilities - by keyword, attribute, and metadata criteria - to accelerate the targeting and segregation of responsive content. Searches can be performed on live SharePoint content, without need for additional content archiving processes.

• Ongoing governance and content-surveillance to ensure a compliant platform

Increased usage of SharePoint exposes organizations to elevated risks related to the presence of inappropriate and non-compliant content. DocAve eDiscovery lets organizations proactively govern and monitor all SharePoint usage and content - based on customizable keyword, metadata, and attribute criteria searches - to ensure ongoing, platform-wide compliance.

• Portable retrieval and export of digital evidence

Evidence identified through the discovery process can be selected and exported to multiple portable and viewable formats, enabling external legal authorities to review in their own environment. All responsive data is delivered with all applicable metadata, attributes, audit histories, and source locations - via an affiliated .xml, .pdf, or .csv file - to ensure exhaustive compliance, as required.

Proactive policy management and efficient e-discovery responses are critical to any aggressive compliance strategy. DocAve eDiscovery provides a flexible, scalable solution that simplifies electronic content identification, streamlines retrieval & delivery, and diligently prevents future non-compliance instances. With DocAve eDiscovery, organizations can confidently satisfy any variety of legal and regulatory obligations.

DocAve eDiscovery will be available for purchase through AvePoint's global Sales network. Visit http://www.avepoint.com/about-us/contact-us/ for contact information.

About AvePoint
Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management software solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world's largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint's award-winning DocAve software delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.

AvePoint's globally recognized pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, AvePoint serves over 3,000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies, across 6 continents, via offices in Jersey City, San Jose, Chicago, and Washington D.C., USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; and Changchun, Dalian, China. AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

All product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners. For more information please contact: Inna Gordin, AvePoint, 1-800-661-6588, inna.gordin(at)avepoint.com.

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