Exterro, Inc.

Exterro, Inc. is a Software company based in Portland, Oregon, United States, that develops software for the legal industry. Its main product is called Fusion, a software platform that supports several solutions for legal hold and electronic discovery processes, as well as for legal governance, risk management, and compliance . It has satellite offices located in Chicago, and Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

History

Exterro was founded in 2004 by Bobby Balachandran, Shashidhar Angadi, Karthik Palani and Ajith Samuel. Its offices were originally located in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Solutions

Exterro Fusion

Fusion is both a Web-based and mobile software platform upon which several software service offerings for the legal industry are built. Currently, the Fusion platform comprises Fusion Legal Hold, Fusion Discovery Workflow Management, FusionGo, and Fusion Genome. Each solution can be used separately or together as an end-to-end workflow management system. 1 Fusion combines business process management with collaboration capabilities and centralized management in an integrated environment. The Fusion platform was recently awarded silver in the sixth annual Law Technology News awards. Each Fusion solution can integrate with HR, asset and matter-managment systems as well as collection, processing and review tools.

This application is designed to help lawyers, paralegals and their counterparts to manage the legal hold process. 2

Software solutions like Exterro Fusion enable counsel to track each legal hold from issuance and acknowledgment through collection, processing, and eventual rescission of the hold order -- and can automate the process of Providing status and reminder notices to appropriate custodians. 3

The Fusion application for legal hold allows users to institute a repeatable legal hold process, manage enterprise custodians and data sources, plan, conduct and track InterViews with key custodians, and streamline collection workflow.4

Fusion Discovery Workflow Management

This application is designed to help lawyers, paralegals, other counsel and experts manage the electronic discovery, commonly called e-discovery, process. It is, essentially, a Web-based portal for controlling the electronic discovery process. 5 Law firms, corporate legal departments and other users can monitor ProgresS, track costs, set and manage schedules, and evaluate vendor performance from within the application. 6

Fusion applies a business process management (BPM) model to the legal e-discovery process. 7

FusionGo

FusionGo is the mobile version of the Fusion platform. It offers the same functionality as the Web-based versions of Fusion, but accessible via iPhone or BlackBerry. The software helps legal teams implement repeatable, defensible processes for legal holds and discovery workflows.

Fusion Genome

Fusion Genome is an intelligent-workflow based evergreen data mapping and electronically stored information (ESI) inventory management solution. It allows enterprises to identify, analyze and manage the risks associated with ESI, including litigation preparation and compliance measures. Genome is a "dynamic," automated data mapping solution that allows corporate legal and IT teams to identify, manage and analyze the life cycle of data sources and electronically stored information (ESI) comprehensively across an enterprise, and keeps that information evergreen.

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