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Native Format and Redaction Requests - Give Them What They're Entitled to and No More

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:19:55 -0700

At the 2011 ILTA Annual Conference I had the opportunity to refresh some of my e-discovery knowledge. A few years back I was in that market and like to stay up on developments. To this end I met with Christine Musil, Director of Marketing for Informative Graphics Corp. She gave me the run-down on redacting in native documents. I know ... this may sound a bit too e-discovery geeky, but it's actually an interesting topic, given past developments. The older controversy over producing (handing over to the other side in litigation) Word documents was including the sometimes privilege waiving metadata. With native document production now the rage, the issue of redacting has taken on a new importance, since the document content should remain 'original' while also containing redactions.

So much for my brief, overly simple, partially adequate explanation. I'll let Christine's guest post provide a more logical and complete explanation.

IGC Offers Collaborative Document Review Experience for Yammer Users

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:33:38 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation, a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, announced an integration that can provide a powerful collaborative document review experience for Yammer users.

In a release Jeff Herding, vice president of sales at Informative Graphics Corporation or IGC said, “This partnership seamlessly combines IGC's secure document viewing with Yammer’s leading-edge collaboration capabilities for the true benefit of the enterprise. It allows today’s users – who are comfortable with social media tools – to work more efficiently on documents while still maintaining corporate compliance standards.”

SharePoint News and Products

Thu, 26 May 2011 09:26:27 -0700

I saw a demo of SharePoint viewing solutions—Brava, Redact-It Enterprise, and Net-It Enterprise—courtesy of Andy Lowe, product manager for Informative Graphics Corporation. IGC has been in the viewing space for a while with solutions for EMC Documentum, OpenText, and other enterprise content management (ECM) platforms, and Lowe notes that the company is seeing much more movement to SharePoint 2010 than it did with 2007. Another trend the company has seen in the SharePoint and ECM space is the use of SharePoint as part of a hybrid solution—companies keeping their existing ECM platforms and using SharePoint as a front end to the other platforms.

Brava is a document and image viewing solution that lets users view, annotate, redact (black-out sensitive information), and publish documents in SharePoint. It’s a universal viewer that lets users access Visio, PDF, and AutoCAD documents without needing to have those applications and without altering the integrity of the original files. It’s available as a desktop application or a web-based server.

Informative Graphics Introduces Privacy Apps for SharePoint 2010

Mon, 23 May 2011 09:25:26 -0700

Today, Informative Graphic Corporation has released two products designed to help companies to better control access to sensitive information using SharePoint. Redact-It Enterprise and Net-It Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 further extend IGC’s offerings aimed at helping users get the most out of their SharePoint investment.

ILTA 2011 Up close and personal

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:24:32 -0700

Informative Graphics Incorporated – Christine Musil

Christine Musil, ICG’s Director of Marketing, is very excited about Redact-It’s new features including the ability to add comments to documents and reply to the comments of others. You can now give a document a status, e.g.”up for Discussion”, “resolved”, etc. A strong feature specifically for the legal field is that one can now have a redaction log that can be imported into the privilege log.

A new swipe tool enables you to globally remove similar phrases/text throughout a document. And it has stemming capabilities for partial words. You can now OCR PDFs in addition to TIFs. The latest version of Redact-It is embedded in the most recent version of Concordance Evolution. And Redact-In Enterprise is available for MS Sharepoint. Look for more exciting announcements at next year’s LegalTech NYC show.

Scottsdale-Based Software Company Is Growing With Fortune 500 Customers

Tue, 10 May 2011 12:07:27 -0700

While other business owners floundered during the recession, Scottsdale software company Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) maintained firm footing. Now, as the economy is cautiously reinventing itself, IGC has hired seven new employees and has four positions waiting to be filled. For a company with 80 employees, that’s nearly a 10 percent increase in size in a single quarter.

The story of IGC’s inception began in an average company parking lot in 1990. Co-founders Gary Heath and Martin Davis spent four hours bouncing ideas off one another; ideas focused on creating a type of software that would aid in viewing documents of different file formats.

Lessons Learned from the BP Spill: Dealing with eDiscovery in the Face of Disaster

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:52:57 -0700

This on-demand webinar talks about eDiscovery and litigation readiness, using the BP oil spill case as the inspiration.

As you all know, the BP oil spill which occurred last spring was one of the largest-scale disasters in history. As a result, BP has been inundated with lawsuits. In fact within just a month of Deepwater Horizon’s sinking, there were already 130 lawsuits that had been lodged against BP, Transocean, Cameron International Corporation or Halliburton energy services and 220 lawsuits were filed against BP alone within two months of the spill.

Success of Informative Graphics’ software programs drives hiring

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:52:25 -0700

Informative Graphics Corp. is on a hiring binge, filling 12 positions and potentially adding more this year.

CEO Gary Heath said investment and diversification of the Phoenix company’s software programs in the past six months have driven the expansion.

“It was a bit of a bold move, but it was the best thing we did,” he said.

'LegalTech 2011' premieres new software aimed at law firms, large and small

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:11:16 -0700

...Redact-It: Removing
privileged information, easily
With increasing concern about consumer privacy and a growing number of regulations requiring the removal of sensitive information from documents (under Sarbanes-Oxley, for example), lawyers often need to remove information such as Social Security numbers or addresses from documents.
Redact-It software creates a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) or PDF rendition of an original document with the redacted text completely removed - not just blacked out, but eliminated.
The source file is not altered, and no metadata is transferred to the redacted version of the document.Pricing is variable depending on the license; for details and more information, visit: http://www.redact-it.com/default.htm

eDiscovery Trends: Christine Musil of Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC)

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:09:35 -0700

This is the fourth of the LegalTech New York (LTNY) Thought Leader Interview series. eDiscoveryDaily interviewed several thought leaders at LTNY this year and asked each of them the same three questions:

What do you consider to be the current significant trends in eDiscovery on which people in the industry are, or should be, focused?
Which of those trends are evident here at LTNY, which are not being talked about enough, and/or what are your general observations about LTNY this year?
What are you working on that you’d like our readers to know about?
Today’s thought leader is Christine Musil. Christine has a diverse career in engineering and marketing spanning 15 years. Christine has been with IGC since March 1996, when she started as a technical writer and a quality assurance engineer. After moving to marketing in 2001, she has applied her in-depth knowledge of IGC's products and benefits to marketing initiatives, including branding, overall messaging, and public relations. She has also been a contributing author to a number of publications on archiving formats, redaction, and viewing technology in the enterprise.

eDiscovery Daily Blog Announces LTNY Thought Leader Series

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:08:58 -0700

eDiscovery Daily Blog (http://www.ediscoverydaily.com/), a daily blog that provides Electronic Discovery news and analysis, announces the LegalTech New York (LTNY) Thought Leader series, a series of interviews discussing industry trends with various eDiscovery thought leaders and how those trends were reflected at this year’s LTNY show.
Thought Leaders interviewed include: Tom Gelbmann, Principal Analyst of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC and co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM); Alon Israely, Senior Advisor at BIA; Jim McGann, Vice President of Information Discovery at Index Engines; Christine Musil, Director of Marketing of Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC); Jack Halprin, Vice President eDiscovery and Compliance, Autonomy; Deidre Paknad, President & CEO of PSS Systems; George Socha, President of Socha Consulting LLC and co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM); Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Coast Legal Tech Center and Craig Ball, Law Offices of Craig D. Ball, P.C.

LegalTech 2011: New products and tools for the new year

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:08:10 -0700

Despite the snowstorm delaying flights and causing havoc on the roads, lawyers and tech experts flocked to LegalTech 2011 to see new legal technology services and products. Here is a look at some of the interesting new offerings: LexisNexis: A new service just for solos Recognizing the ever-expanding market for solo and small ...

LegalTech Celebrates 30 Years – Get Your Tech On

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:07:44 -0700

It’s that time of year again – where cold weather and snow descend on New York City along with the annual LegalTech Conference sponsored by American Lawyer Media. I have attended this show every year for that past seventeen years. Wow! But most importantly the show is in its 30th year. That’s quite an achievement and it still remains to be the show for legal vendor product launches.

The first show I attended seventeen years ago was overcrowded with time and billing vendors. This year, like the last few years, the show will be overrun with eDiscovery vendors. It is remarkable how fast that particular technology is moving. We have profiled some key vendors below that will be exhibiting at the show including a couple of practice management solutions to spice it all up. Many thanks to Christy Burke of Burke & Company for helping me out with the vendor profiles.

Oops, you really shouldn’t have seen that … automated redaction for SharePoint content

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:52:35 -0700

When you need to remove sensitive information from documents on a regular basis (think Legal, Engineering, or Healthcare environments), manual processes are both tedious and subject to error. I recently got to see a demo of a product that helps quickly and easily redact SharePoint content - Redact-It from Informative Graphics. With Redact-It, the risk of accidentally sharing sensitive information stored in SharePoint libraries can be virtually eliminated.

Enhanced document viewing and interaction

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:49:06 -0700

Informative Graphics has launched Brava Enterprise 7 software for SharePoint 2010, which is designed to allow users to easily interact with documents anywhere, anytime using only their Web browser. Further, Brava adds key document-centric workflow actions, including the ability to add stamps, create threaded discussions and other markups, publish documents to PDF or TIFF, and redact sensitive content and privacy information.

Informative Graphics Updates Document Redaction, Collaboration

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:48:05 -0700

Informative Graphics released Tuesday version 7 of its Brava software for document redaction, viewing and collaboration.

Brava 7 lets users "view, annotate, redact and publish any file format, such as office documents, image files and CAD drawings, in a single, simple interface," according to the company. Brava users can collaborate on documents; redacted documents created using Brava in PDF or TIFF format can be read by any application or web plug-in that can handle these formats.

Document Redaction Comes to SharePoint 2010

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:44:36 -0700

Arizona-based Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) is to launch new document redacting, collaboration and viewing capabilities this week with the release of Brava Enterprise 7 and Redact-It Enterprise 7, providing deeper integration with SharePoint 2010.

The new capability of both products are designed to exploit the growing SharePoint 2010 markets and join the list of document management companies that have adapted their products after the release of SharePoint 2010 last May.

Informative Graphics Adds New SharePoint 2010 Ties

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:42:55 -0700

Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) is readying updates to its tools for viewing, collaborating on, and redacting documents which, among other additions, feature improved integration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

IGC will officially launch Brava Enterprise 7 and Redact-It Enterprise 7 next week, and plans to ship the updates in early November, an IGC spokesperson told InternetNews.com.

The company announced it was working on integration between its products and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) SharePoint 2010 last spring. SharePoint 2010 was released by Microsoft in mid-May, along with Office 2010.

Thought Leader Q&A: Christine Musil of Informative Graphics Corporation

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:41:27 -0700

Tell me about your company and the products you represent. Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) is a leading developer of commercial software to view, collaborate on, redact and publish documents. Our products are used by corporations, law firms and government agencies around the world to access and safely share content without altering the original document.

What are some examples of how electronic redaction has been relevant in eDiscovery lately? Redaction is walking the line between being responsive and protecting privilege and privacy. A great recent example of a redaction mistake having pretty broad implications includes the lawyers for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich requesting a subpoena of President Obama. The court filing included areas that had been improperly redacted by Blagojevich’s lawyers. While nothing new or shocking was revealed, this snafu put his reputation up for public inspection and opinion once again.

eDiscovery Journal ILTA Snapshot

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:38:40 -0700

Informative Graphics provides document and image viewing and redaction software that is OEM’ed into many leading discovery and enterprise content management products. HIPAA and new consumer privacy initiatives have put pressure on litigants to redact/remove personal health and financial information from productions. Redact-IT goes beyond black boxes on an image to find and remove the underlying hidden metadata based on rules and text patterns. Even in this age of consolidation, there seems to still be room for highly specialized products that tackle complex issues.

Litigation Support Software - The Attorneys Ultimate Advantage!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:31:48 -0700

Litigation support software is one of the great advantages that attorneys have over the everyday man. Legal cases can be dragged out over a long period of time.

Whether you have a suit filed in a mesothelioma/asbestos-exposure lawsuit or are suing your tenant for back rent, your case may languish for weeks, months or even years. Criminals are the only individuals who are given the right to a speedy trial in the United States, not civil cases that are tried in courts across the country.

The CAD App

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:22:21 -0700

These days it seems there is an app for everything—including accessing oversized CAD (computer-aided design) drawings on iPhones.

This feature is one the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry might find very beneficial, as the app could possibly eliminate the need to carry around large drawings in the field. The app may also reduce the amount of times a superintendent or project manager needs to go back and forth from the jobsite to the trailer to look at drawings on a computer.

As one example, Informative Graphics Corp., www.infograph.com, Scottsdale, Ariz., released its Net-It Enterprise 7.0 automated document-publishing platform that converts oversized CAD drawings, images, and office documents to Microsoft Deep Zoom images, enabling high-resolution viewing of images.

The Reality of Native Format Production and Redaction

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:08:03 -0700

The issue of production format in eDiscovery has long been discussed, argued and downright misunderstood. Historically, attorneys produced documents in paper form or electronically in TIFF or Adobe® PDF format. Even documents that originated electronically were often either printed and re-scanned or batch-converted to TIFF or PDF. The December 1, 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) – specifically rule 34(b) – made the default obligation to produce a document “in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a form or forms that are reasonably usable” unless the requesting party – or failing that, the producing party – specifies a different format.[1] Does this demand that the producing party must deliver all documents in their original, native format (e.g., Microsoft Word or Excel)?

PDFs: Beyond the Myths

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:06:34 -0700

Adobe Systems’ Portable Document Format (PDF) is a ubiquitous, convenient way to share information. Because it alleviates challenges regarding formatting, fonts and disparate applications utilized by senders and recipients, it is widely used by legal professionals and required by many courts and government agencies.
But what happens to those PDFs once they leave an organization? What can be done with the data they contain? As concerns about inadvertent disclosure, compliance and data breaches increase, we need to be cognizant of possible pitfalls involving how we treat the information we share in PDFs.

Using PDF redaction tools with redacted document policies

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:05:57 -0700

I used to receive lots of questions from readers concerned about security issues with the "Allow Fast Saves" option in various Microsoft Office products. The idea behind the "Fast Save" feature was to speed up the process of saving a document or presentation by saving only the changes that were made and appending them to the original document. This meant that the saved document could contain metadata, such as comments and deleted text. Anyone could use a text editor or Word's "Recover Text" function to view the text that had been "deleted." Also when these documents were converted to another file format, such as HTML, the "deleted" text would often be included in the new document.

This and Word's "Track Changes" functionality have created some embarrassing security breaches over the years, wherein sensitive and secret information has been unwittingly disclosed to people who either weren't intended to see it or not cleared to see it. Documents that were published using Word, for example, revealed UK government doubts over controversial plans to hold terror suspects while another revealed private annotations of a list of political donors.

100 Fabulous Freebies for CAD Users

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:43:07 -0700

Cadalyst Labs Report: Readers and editors share software tools and tips that are worth their weight in gold, but don't cost a penny.
"Free is a very good price!"
Long-time residents of Portland, Oregon, know and love this catchy slogan from the low-budget television commercials of Tom Peterson. A home furnishings dealer who became such an icon that Gus Van Sant cast him in movies, Peterson lured customers to his stores with every kind of freebie imaginable, from hot dogs and haircuts to wrapping paper and area rugs.

How to use a PDF redaction tool with a redacted document policy

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:42:30 -0700

Avoiding ethical pitfalls with electronic documents: Part 2 - Redaction

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:28:13 -0700

With the growing incidents of identity theft, as well as electronic case management and filing by attorneys, redaction of personally identifiable information from court and other public records is not only a best practice, but in many locales, now required.
Redaction is generally used to remove sensitive or confidential information such as Social Security numbers, identities of key parties to a matter, settlement terms, and so on. Traditionally, redaction meant cutting out sections of a document or using a black marker to obscure the confidential information and then photocopying the redacted document.

Document Management

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:26:35 -0700

Arizona-based Informative Graphics (www.infograph.com) has debuted its Brava! Flash Viewer 1.1. It offers simplified viewing for formats on Flash-enaabled browsers, and does not require that documents be downloaded to, or installed on, a user's computer.
The upgrade helps users navigate pages vertically or horizontally. It includes a new document reader (tied to users' mouse movement), and offers traditional scrolling, and dual-page view modes.
Users can search for one or more keyword phrases, and jump quickly to the next occurrence. The program also supports custom search scripts (using regular expressions) to find pattern-based data, such as social security and credit card numbers, and e-mail addresses.

Native Production and Redaction In eDiscovery

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:25:20 -0700

Like many nascent markets, the eDiscovery industry is one without absolute standards, common practices, or agreement on how best to execute processes. This fact is both exciting and frustrating. It’s exciting because there is a lot of opportunity for innovation – and that means jobs, new value, and new streams of revenue. However, it’s also frustrating because innovative ways of doing things need to be argued by lawyers and approved in case law – that adds a level of complexity that slows change and wastes a lot of money on things that feel unnecessary (like legal wrangling over an issue that is really just a way for an organization to hide bad behavior or poor information management practices).

Or, This Paralegal’s New Best Friend

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:24:16 -0700

One of the most time-consuming and tedious job duties I frequently perform as a paralegal working on serious injury cases is redacting health insurance and payment information – by hand - from voluminous medical records and bills. Like many solos and small firms, my firm does not currently have any redaction software. As many of my readers know too well, manual redaction requires making duplicate work copies, and then choosing your weapon of choice, such as a Sharpie, Paper Mate Liquid Paper Dryline and/or Post-It Cover Up Tape (in three different sizes). In a case involving complex injuries, extensive medical treatment and hundreds of pages of records, this exhaustive process can take hours – longer if you run out of supplies (including the ones you raid from your co-workers’ desks).

Openness vs. Privacy: The Important Role Data Redaction Plays In Data Privacy

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:21:07 -0700

Most people know that data privacy is a hot topic for all enterprises, both private and public, and data redaction often has an important role in these efforts. That said, redaction is a term that some IT organizations have never heard of. Even if they have, they would probably be hard pressed to define it or explain its importance to their organizations. But that situation is changing quickly as organizations realize that redaction offers a solution that balances the need for data openness with the need for data privacy.

IGC appears in Legal Management's Tech 10

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:35:32 -0700

IGC appears in Legal Management's Tech 10

Could the BP Oil Spill Lead to an e-Discovery Disaster?

Fri, 21 May 2010 13:34:17 -0700

As oil from the BP spill continues to spread into the Gulf waters, the eDiscovery scenario for the company continues to expand and worsen as well. BP has already agreed to take full responsibility for the fallout of this catastrophe, which is one of the most epic environmental debacles…ever. On May 19, the Associated Press reported in an article that “an attorney is asking a federal judicial panel to quickly consolidate more than 100 lawsuits filed against BP and other companies responsible for the massive Gulf oil spill. Louisiana lawyer Daniel Becnel says legal chaos could break out in five Gulf Coast states if the lawsuits aren't combined. Becnel has asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington to quickly reconsider whether to order the cases consolidated. The panel has indicated it will not decide until July.”

Electronic Redaction

Tue, 18 May 2010 13:11:47 -0700

Redaction may be a small part of the overall responsibilities of paralegals, but it is a significant one. Companies, law firms, and courts alike have been tripped up by improper electronic redaction. From the internal company valuation of Facebook to the inner workings of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screening processes, sensitive information continues to find its way to the hands of the public (or worse) because of a relatively simple mistake. The most common error people make is to overlay an opaque rectangle, usually using a drawing shape, over the text to be redacted. This is usually done using the authoring application, like Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect. The document is then converted to PDF for filing with the courts or releasing to other parties. Unfortunately, the text under the shape is still accessible.

IGC Offers a Smarter Way to View, Annotate and Publish Content

Wed, 12 May 2010 13:11:07 -0700

Content security has recently gained importance for many commercial, industrial, and government facilities. Informative Graphics Corporation“IGC,” a developer of commercial software products for viewing, collaboration and redaction and an accredited Designed for EMC (News - Alert) partner, has announced that it will be demonstrating the newest version of its Brava! 6.2 web-based viewing and collaboration tool for EMC Documentum Webtop 6.5.

IGC Secures SharePoint 2010 Content

Tue, 11 May 2010 13:10:18 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) has announced enhancements to its multi-format viewing, collaboration and redaction technology for SharePoint. Its Brava! and Redact-It products will allow users with non-Microsoft documents -- including TIFF, PDF and CAD drawings -- to utilise all SharePoint 2010's collaboration and workflow features. With SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight, administrators can increase usability for mobile users by offering high resolution, streamable views of documents and CAD drawings via Silverlight and Microsoft's Seadragon zooming technology. Brava can also pull and push metadata, allowing administrators to automatically display a watermark, like "Draft" or "Confidential" on documents. Custom stamps allow users to input information to the system, which can then trigger the next step in a workflow sequence. Redact-It Enterprise offers automated redaction for companies and government agencies needing to protect sensitive and privacy information. Redact-It also supports virtually any format, creating a new, redacted TIFF or PDF rendition of the document with the sensitive selected information completely removed. IGC President and CEO Gary Heath notes, "We are very excited about the release of SharePoint and Office 2010 and the possibilities it offers our mutual customers. Businesses are increasingly looking to improve team communication while managing compliance concerns. Brava and Redact-It, teamed with SharePoint, helps them get there."

Blago Redaction Snafu Offers Bad Example of eDiscovery Practice

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:23:39 -0700

There have been three recent examples of bad digital redaction processes of documents, that as a result, have revealed privileged information. One involved the TSA revealing confidential security practices in what they thought to be a redacted document, another involved a case against Facebook where privileged information thought to be redacted in court documents was exposed. These documents were available on the Web. The most recent was this past week when a motion was filed to issue a subpoena to President Obama in the Rod Blagojevich criminal trial in the U.S. District Court in Chicago. Whoever was responsible for redacting information from the motion failed to properly do so, so that anyone who downloaded and viewed the PDF of the motion was able to copy and paste the “redacted” information. The topic of this article focuses on the technological snafu and its relation to the world of eDiscovery. For more on the actual meat of the motion and what was suppose to be redacted, you may visit the Web sites of NBC Chicago, Fox News or Chicago Breaking News for WGN/Chicago Tribune.

iPhone Apps for the AEC Market

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:17:16 -0700

The market is a-changin' - a month or so ago, the news was all abuzz with news of Apple's iPad, a tablet PC that was supposed to take the world by storm. The jury is still out on how popular or useful the iPad will be, as some people embraced it with the same verve they embraced their iPhone. Others called it just a bigger iPhone, one that couldn't be put in their pockets and was unable to take photos.
But the iPhone still remains enormously popular with both professional users and consumers alike. Based upon this popularity, Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a viewing, collaboration and redaction technology company, announced that its Net-It Enterprise 7.0 automated document publishing platform will convert oversized CAD drawings -- including AutoCAD, MicroStation, and SolidWorks formats -- images and office documents to Microsoft Deep Zoom images.

Practice Tools

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:06:07 -0700

Arizona's Informative Graphics Corp. (www.infograph.com) has introduced Brava Flash Viewer software for interactive document viewing. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and mobile device operating systems, as well as most web browsers. A simple, secure interface helps users skim large documents quickly. The viewer is included with the Brava Enterprise 6.2 ActiveX package, the latest version of its website collaboration tool for the Open Text Content Server. The package helps users view, annotate, redact, and publish documents and images without changing original files.

Summary of LegalTech 2010 – Are You Ready for Litigation

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:41:19 -0700

As I walked into the Hilton on Sixth Avenue, I knew this conference was going to be good. The liveliness was present a few blocks away as some protesters were objecting the “pay by gigabyte” model for eDiscovery services. After spending $4 to check my coat (thanks Hilton!), I walked into the expo hall and began my journey into LegalTech 2010.
First and foremost, I was amazed how many vendors offered eDiscovery solutions. Thanks to FRCP Rule 26(a), all electronic stored information (ESI) is admissible in courts. Many vendors have jumped on the bandwagon with the promise of helping litigation teams find the smoking gun. Most of the vendors I talked to at the conference blurred the lines between software and services. At one point, I was looking for the exhibitor who had the sign “me too”. This is clearly a market primed for consolidation (mergers, acquisitions, fall out).

LTNY: IGC previews innovative, emerging viewing technology at LegalTech New York

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:10:36 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, will demonstrate innovative viewing solutions at LegalTech New York on Feb. 1-3 at the New York Hilton. IGC previews its next Net-It Enterprise automated publishing server, which will offer the ability to create high-resolution representations of documents, images, and CAD drawings for Microsoft Silverlight Deep Zoom. This breakthrough technology makes viewing documents and even large-scale, multi-sheet CAD drawings possible on mobile devices. The company will also be presenting the newest version of its Brava Flash Viewer, which offers simplified viewing for any format on any browser or operating system.

IGC Previews Innovative, Emerging Viewing Technology at LegalTech New York

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:07:44 -0700

How Secure is Your PDF?

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:09:39 -0700

You don't have to be in the business world very long to know that Adobe PDF documents are used heavily in business-to-business, businesses-to-clients, and internal business operations. PDF documents are considered by some as a standard means of efficiently communicating information and data between users and computers. If you supply someone with a PDF of a document, you can be confident that it will open on their computer and print for them correctly without user intervention.

TSA Gaffe Shows Pitfalls of Improper Redaction

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:24:17 -0700

Computerworld — The inadvertent exposure of a sensitive Transportation Security Administration security manual last month serves as a sobering reminder about the pitfalls of trying to redact, or hide, electronic text. The lapse occurred when a contract employee posted the improperly redacted security manual -- which described TSA airport screening methods that are designed to thwart terrorists -- on a public Web site for federal procurements.

IGC Celebrates Twenty Years of Industry Firsts in January 2010

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:23:08 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. Gary Heath, President and CEO, co-founded the company with Martin Davis in 1990 based on their idea for an easy-to-use viewer that supported multiple file formats. With $5,000 and two computers, they took their idea -- along with their passion for innovation -- and launched IGC. Today, the software company boasts over four million users worldwide and is recognized for its history of innovation. IGC provides innovative software solutions to thousands of organizations in the corporate, government, and professional services fields all over the world.

Analysis: TSA document release show pitfalls of electronic redaction

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:39:14 -0700

Computerworld - The inadvertent exposure of a sensitive Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security manual earlier this week serves as a sobering reminder to enterprises that often overlook pitfalls of electronic document redaction security, analysts said. The lapse occurred when a contract employee posted an improperly redacted TSA Standard Operations Procedure manual on the publicly accessible Federal Business Opportunities Web site. The document was posted as part of a TSA contract solicitation bid and contained detailed information on the screening procedures and protocols used by a TSA officials at 450 U.S. airports.

IGC Launches Redact-It for FileNet

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:34:24 -0700

Legal IT consultancy Baker Robbins & Company has published the results of its 2009 IT Staffing & Spending Survey. Based on 2008 actual and 2009 projected IT spending and staffing, it provides an insight into the changes experienced by firms in response to the economic downturn. Key among the findings is that while IT spending was down substantially in terms of total dollars spent, IT spending and staffing reductions projected for 2009 were modest when viewed on a per-user basis. “This is a critical data point for understanding what drives IT spending and staffing,” says Sally Gonzalez, a director in BRCO’s strategic technology practice.

EContent Adds Informative Graphics to EC100 List

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:33:37 -0700

2009-2010 EContent 100 List

Informative Graphics Releases Redact-It for IBM FileNet Capture

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:38:01 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation has reportedly launched Redact-It for IBM FileNet Capture.
The new product facilitates seamless integration between IGC’s electronic redaction tool and IBM’s scanning product. It also offers a truly integrated redaction capability for the IBM FileNet Capture solution.

Informative Graphics releases new version of viewing software

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:36:53 -0700

Informative Graphics Corp. on Thursday released the latest version of its Brava Flash Viewer, employing a new technology.

Informative Graphics Corporation forges strategic partnership with Clearwell Systems

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:12 -0700

Clearwell E-Discovery Platform Incorporates Native Review and Redaction Capabilities with Brava and Redact-It by Informative Graphics

TECH TALK: What Has HR Done Lately?

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0700

Examining new and more traditional technologies for increased efficiencies

Gaining Competitive Edge and ROI with Redact-It's Electronic Redaction Tool

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:30:47 -0700

IT is Dead; Long Live IT: Controlling Costs While Getting the Most Out of Technology

Neue Brava! Produktpalette ermöglicht verbesserte weltweite Nutzung des Viewers

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:33:48 -0700

Neue Brava! Familie enhält eine aktualisierte Version der Brava! Enterprise Lösung mit verbesserten Integrations- und Lokalisierungsfunktionen.

Informative Graphics Earns IBM Advanced Level Business Partner Status

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:36:02 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, today announced it has achieved Advanced level membership in the IBM PartnerWorld Program.

IGC Forms Key Reseller Partnership With Hershey Technologies For Its Redact-It Technology

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:38:57 -0700

Certified Kofax Platinum Partner Expands Offering to Include Automated Redaction

Technology Product Watch

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:39:48 -0700

Using software tools to redact text from electronic case documents is obviously more efficient than printing out pages, striking out sensitive text with a black marker and scanning the altered documents back into your system. However, improperly redacting an electronic document can have disastrous consequences with the unplanned disclosure of information, such as in Hepting v. AT&T Corp. (C-06-072-VRW) or Facebook, Inc. v. ConnectU (LLC C-07-01389-JW).

Brava! Boosts Performance, Adds New Redaction Functionalities

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:42:00 -0700

Last November, Informative Graphics Corporation released version 6.1 of its Brava software suite for multi-format document and image viewing, annotation and secure content delivery.

Sloppy Redaction: To Err Is Automated

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:43:00 -0700

A few years ago, a federal agency was having problems with an individual who requested a large number of public records. Despite the fact that the agency took pains to edit, or redact classified information, this frequent requester had an alarming ability to read words that had been censored and publish them online.

Green Technology - Surety Responds to Green Call, Joins Paperless Project

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:43:34 -0700

Surety, LLC reportedly announced it has joined The Paperless Project’s Go Green Initiative, an awareness program that is designed to reduce the use of paper in organizations.

Scottsdale company bringing redaction into the digital age

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:44:17 -0700

Informative Graphics Corp. is bringing the redaction of corporate and private information into the digital age.

Bye-Bye Black Marker

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:45:26 -0700

Manual redaction conjures an image of stacks of paper, black markers and mind-numbing tedium. Recently, a paralegal who had just finished an insurance case involving the redaction of privacy information from tens of thousands of documents described the process: two paralegals, two black felt-tip markers, a copy machine, 20,000 records and work that stretched over several weeks – at least. Ouch!

Informative Graphics Joins The Paperless Project

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:46:10 -0700

Industry-Leading Content Management and Document Imaging Providers Partner with Grassroots Consortium Dedicated to Reducing Global Carbon Footprint and Paper Usage

Informative Graphics Corp. has joined forces with Massachusetts' Trinity Technologies

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:48:08 -0700

Informative Graphics Corp. has joined forces with Massachusetts' Trinity Technologies (www.trinitytechnologies.com) to integrate IGC's Brava! and Redact-It Enterprise products into Trinity's Legal ISE content management and e-discovery software.

Breach Patrol

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:48:52 -0700

In today's digital world, most Americans leave long electronic trails of private information wherever they go. But too often, that data is compromised.

CEO's Tips: How I Network At The Top

Mon, 25 May 2009 15:50:08 -0700

Gary Heath, CEO of IGC

Informative Graphics Enables Agile Enterprise Content Management

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:51:23 -0700

IGC’s Brava! Enterprise Integrates with IBM FileNet P8 for Fast, Accurate Document Viewing, Annotation and Redaction

Redact It with Redact-It

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:51:56 -0700

The primary purpose of redaction for lawyers is to remove information from documents that you do not want others to see -- because they would use it against you or your client. That is a simple enough concept, but many "miss" redacting important data. They are either not using the right tools or using the right tools in the wrong way.

Properly redacting documents crucial

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:52:50 -0700

Despite recent high-profile redaction slips most law firms have failed to implement stringent policies, training and software to minimize the risk of redaction leaks.

How Not to Keep a Settlement Secret, Part 2

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:53:37 -0700

When Facebook settled ConnectU's lawsuit alleging it stole the idea for the popular social-networking site, its lawyers wanted nothing more than to keep the terms secret. As it turned out, they might as well have blasted it on a billboard in Times Square. Lesson one in how not to keep a secret came last month with the embarrassing discovery, first reported by the San Francisco legal newspaper The Recorder, that ConnectU's former law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, had trumpeted the supposedly secret settlement figure in a marketing brochure. "WON $65 million settlement against Facebook," boasted the brochure.

Redact Documents and Protect Privileged Information

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:55:44 -0700

Scrubbing (redacting) a sensitive document for electronic publication may seem like a simple process. Yet, as many high profile corporations and government agencies have shown, it's not as simple as it first appears.

Informative Graphics Issues Paper on How to Redact Documents

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:54:27 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in viewing, annotation and redaction software, today issued warnings against improper electronic redaction to organizations releasing sensitive information to the media, especially those engaged in litigation. IGC cites recent cases involving failed redaction procedures and provides guidelines for how to redact documents properly to avoid inadvertent public disclosure of sensitive information. The recommendations are available in a new whitepaper titled "Electronic Redaction: How to Properly Redact Documents," available at www.redact-it.com/whitepapers/.

IGC Releases Paper About Strategies For Security Through Redaction

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:55:01 -0700

Available for free download, paper defines proper redaction and methods of securing privileged information

Redact Documents and Protect Privileged Information

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:56:42 -0700

PDF Electronic Redaction – Amateurs (and Facebook) Beware

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:57:50 -0700

The following article is a guest post written by Christine Musil, Director of Marketing for Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC).

IGC Profile

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:58:46 -0700

Informative Graphics Corporation develops viewing, collaboration, and redaction software. It offers Brava!, a viewing, collaboration, and redaction solutions for imaging documents and drawings; Redact-It, which blacks out and removes sensitive or privacy information from documents; MYRIAD Desktop, a Windows-based CAD viewer for 3D CAD models, drawings, images, and document files; Net-It, which monitors folders for new or updated files; and Visual Rights, a content security technology.

Leading Law Firm Moves to Electronic Redaction

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:59:55 -0700

Founded in 1972, Kegel, Tobin and Truce has an established and unprecedented record of success before the Workers'Compensation Appeals Board. The companyâ??s expertise extends to subrogation as well as highly controversial cases involving complex medical issues such as toxic exposure and infectious diseases. The firm places the highest premium on integrity and maintaining its competitive edge to continue earning the trust and protecting the interests of its clients. With the evolution of litigation-related documents going from print to digital, the firm is mastering the use of electronic tools such as Redact-It to strengthen its position of excellence in the space.

New Redact-It Desktop Includes OCR And Microsoft Office Support For Multi-Format File Redaction

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:00:42 -0700

Redact-It(™)Desktop 1.1 removes sensitive content and privacy information, such as social security numbers, names and phone numbers, before making documents widely available. The software dramatically reduces the time it takes to redact, review and release documents for public access, eDiscovery and other processes. Redact-It Desktop 1.1 applies powerful redaction capabilities to Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel, the most widely used software programs in the world, while providing OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing of documents to convert PDFs and TIFFs into text-searchable files.

Electronic Redaction Technology Reduces Document Review Time and Costs of eDiscovery

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:01:58 -0700

Keeping sensitive information private

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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:02:42 -0700

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Redact-It Gains Support for OCR and Microsoft Office

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:03:19 -0700

Next week, Informative Graphics Corporation will unveil a significant product update for their Redact-It Desktop software. Version 1.1 will include key optical character recognition (OCR) software that will remove sensitive information from scanned documents.

IGC Releases Brava Suite

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:04:37 -0700

Informative Graphics Corp. has released the latest version of its Brava Suite for multi-format viewing and annotation of documents. Redacted files can be exported as .tiff, PDF, or content-sealed formats, the company says.