DALLAS -- Xerox (NYSE: XRX), today announced the acquisition of Lateral Data,
a leading e-discovery technology provider, for $30 million. Lateral
Data’s flagship software, Viewpoint™, brings simplicity and
affordability to e-discovery by
enabling corporate legal departments and law firms to manage the entire
e-discovery lifecycle using a single, in-house solution. E-discovery is
the process where electronic data is sought, located, searched and
secured for potential use as evidence in legal and regulatory matters.
The acquisition solidifies Xerox’s position in the e-discovery market by complementing the services, technology and consulting offerings of Xerox Litigation Services. Xerox estimates the enterprise e-discovery market will be approximately $1.6 billion by 2013.
Viewpoint helps
legal and IT departments and law firms to lower the total cost of
e-discovery by streamlining cumbersome and time-consuming processes that
traditionally require the purchase of disparate products and services
from multiple vendors. Using Viewpoint, clients can simplify the
collection, analysis, review and management of data across complex
information sources – including social media, servers, email, desktops
and cloud-based email and business collaboration platforms like Google
Docs and Microsoft SharePoint – all from a single platform. Viewpoint
can be deployed in the cloud or installed behind the client’s firewall.
“Viewpoint offers the most comprehensive and integrated e-discovery
functionality available in a single software solution,” said Randall Burrows,
managing director of Xerox Litigation Services. “With the acquisition
of Lateral Data, Xerox now offers customers greater flexibility for
meeting their e-discovery needs. Clients can choose a full service
cloud-based approach, a do-it-yourself on premise solution or a
customized combination of both.”
The Viewpoint platform also offers advanced capabilities for
filtering and processing data up to five times faster than any
e-discovery software, giving clients the ability to conduct early case
assessments and analyze relevant data sooner. This reduces costs related
to processing, reviewing and hosting non-relevant data at the beginning
of a legal matter.
