Do you Want to Automate Your Investigative Tasks for PST's, Exchange Mailboxes, Public Folders and Email Archive Repositories?

Sherpa Software, a leading e-discovery and email archiving Software Company, announces today the release of Discovery Attender version 3.5. It is a tool designed to automate investigative tasks in PST files, Exchange mailboxes, public folders and common storage areas. This new release also includes such as the ability to search Sherpa Software’s Archive Attender archived data as a searchable mail store. The updated Discovery Attender also includes a Combined Exception Log, helping users organize exceptions encountered during the search process. Details about all exceptions are stored in one location, which eases the review of electronically stored information (ESI) by allowing a user to collect, group, review and export these items for further processing.

• Searching ESI is becoming increasingly important to organizations whether they come to be involved in litigation, get subpoenaed to produce electronic evidence, or are conducting an internal investigation. Discovery Attender 3.5 helps them quickly find and produce ESI with new features including.


• Text Viewer with Hit Highlighting – A new, integrated text viewer presents files and messages with keyword hits revealed as highlighted text; no additional applications need to be installed.


• Combined Exception Log – Details about all exceptions, including parsing issues, encrypted files and access errors, are combined into one single interactive list. From this list, users are able to view all errors and sort, filter and export items that could not be searched, as well as customize exported file names.


• Export to EML – A new action has been added allowing users to export messages from PSTs, Mailboxes or Archives to the widely used EML message format.


• Wizard Interface – The Advanced Results Filter and Deduplication screens have been simplified to use a wizard-based setup; making customization easier, while reducing errors and clarifying criteria.


• Search Archive Attender Archives – Discovery Attender fully integrates the search of Sherpa Software Archive Attender data stores with all available e-mail criteria.
  

"We are extremely pleased about the new features available in the latest release of Discovery Attender," said Marta Farensbach, product manager, Discovery Attender for Exchange. "This new version helps customers solve the real challenges they encounter during a search, such as handling password protected, encrypted or other non-accessible documents. Now customers will be able to collect, review, and most importantly, export these items for further processing."

Discovery Attender is designed to be as non-invasive as possible and reduce the time and cost associated with e-discovery. Easy to install and use, Discovery Attender assists IT, litigation support and legal teams in searching live data stores and maintains a chain of custody by effectively gathering and producing information in a timely, defensible manner. The system offers a fast, secure and simple interface to execute document discovery requests with robust audit trail logging and detailed reporting.

“Many of the enhancements found in Discovery Attender version 3.5 are the direct result of customer feedback and requests,” said Kevin Ogrodnik, president, Sherpa Software. “We are especially excited to offer our customers new features linking Archive Attender to Discovery Attender, easing the discovery process by allowing our customers to search archived and live/legacy e-mail from one location.”

For more information about Discovery Attender, visit:

http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Discovery/Email-Discovery-Attender.htm

Sherpa Software Archive Attender for Exchange Voted WindowsNetworking.com Readers Choice Award Second Runner-Up

Windows Networking resource site, WindowsNetworking.com, recognized Sherpa Software Archive Attender for Microsoft Exchange as second runner-up in the Email Archiving category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards.

“Our Readers’ Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category,” said Sean Buttigieg, WindowsNetworking.com manager. “WindowsNetworking.com users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Enterprise Networking at the workplace. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry.”

WindowsNetworking.com conducts monthly polls to discover which product is preferred by network administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Enterprise Networking. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. WindowsNetworking.com visitors can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.

“We are pleased to be recognized for this distinguished award,” said Kevin Ogrodnik, President of Sherpa Software. “Receiving this acknowledgment from WindowsNetworking.com readers and industry peers speaks to the unique business value Archive Attender delivers as a solution that is unobtrusive to customers' environments, while meeting their data archiving needs.”

About Archive Attender
Archive Attender is an administrator-driven solution that assists companies in addressing e-discovery, storage, information security and compliance requirements as they may relate to regulations such as SOX, the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and others. It is designed to selectively archive messages from Exchange Mailboxes, the Journal Mailbox, PST Files and Public Folders without requiring a SQL database, proprietary hardware or any components installed on the Exchange server or client machines. Archive Attender offers an easy, 15-minute installation, flexible architecture and an attractive price model to companies of all sizes. Archive Attender 3.5 is currently available and is offered at $16.00 per user with volume discounts available. For more information, please visit our visit:

http://www.flexnet.com/Archive_Attender/Archive-Attender.htm

New Version of Archive Attender for Exchange Archiving

Email archiving is becoming increasingly more critical in light of the current financial crisis and litigious environment we live in. According to a recent blog post by the industry analyst firm DCIG, the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) gives organizations only 30 days to respond to Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) requests. Regulations such as FRCP underscore the need to quickly retrieve, analyze and produce electronic information such as email in the event of a regulatory inquiry.

Archive Attender is an administrator-driven email archiving solution that will assist any organization in addressing e-discovery, storage, information security, and compliance requirements related to regulations such as SOX, the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and others. It offers a flexible exchange archiving architecture to assist organizations with storage and compliance requirements without the need for a SQL database or proprietary hardware.

New Features of Archive Attender 3.5 Include:

• Increased stub management, including auto-aging policies
• Ability to limit archive sizes and automatically create new locations based on archive size or size/date of messages
• Eliminate troublesome PST files by automating their discovery, identifying their owners and importing their data into the archives
• Web Search improvements for end-users including a new folder-view option
• Ability to save complex archive searches for repeated use
• New interface and increased usability features
  

About Archive Attender Functionality

Archive Attender is an administrator-driven solution that assists companies in addressing e-discovery, storage, information security and compliance requirements as they may relate to regulations such as SOX, the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and others. It is designed to selectively archive messages from Exchange Mailboxes, the Journal Mailbox, PST Files and Public Folders without requiring a SQL database, proprietary hardware or any components installed on the Exchange server or client machines. Archive Attender offers an easy, 15-minute installation, flexible architecture and an attractive price model to companies of all sizes. Archive Attender 3.5 will be available 3/19/09 and will be offered at $16.00(USD) per user with volume discounts available. For more information, visit our web site at:

http://www.flexnet.com/Archive_Attender/Archive-Attender.htm