Category Archives: iCONECT

Funding and development news from iCONECT

iCONECT has been developing document review software for 20 years. Its iCONECT-XERA document review platform gives clients access to a secure central repository, giving worldwide access to very large volumes of documents through an interface consciously designed to make life … Continue reading

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Creating example documents for eDiscovery search with iCONECT Xmplar

Providers of eDiscovery software have two ambitions in their marketing. The first is to persuade people who are not yet converted to the concept to look at any software in order to get the idea. The second, of course, is … Continue reading

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Interview: Ian Campbell of iCONECT on iCONECT’s partnership with Heureka

One of the recurring themes in this blog is the extension of eDiscovery skills and tools to purposes beyond pure eDiscovery. The software developed for compliance with court rules and regulatory requirements often lends itself to wider purposes. I have … Continue reading

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iCONECT partnership brings “blockchain-hardened” encryption to eDiscovery data

The management of eDiscovery data brings conflicting challenges. Data must be accessible to those who need to see it but kept away from others. Logs recording steps in the process must be transparent but the results of that process and … Continue reading

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iCONECT teams up with Altlaw to strengthen iCONECT-XERA’s UK presence

The discovery software provider iCONECT has partnered with UK based eDisclosure provider Altlaw to expand the UK presence for iCONECT’s XERA software. The UK market is interesting at the moment. With the pending GDPR adding purpose to regulatory investigations, with … Continue reading

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Interview: Ian Campbell of iCONECT on the growing need for HR departments to manage data

Ian Campbell, CEO of discovery software company iCONECT, realised long ago that the skills and the technology used for electronic discovery had wider applications. For example, iCONECT now has a strong presence in healthcare data, helping hospitals, medical practices etc … Continue reading

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iCONECT webinar on 15 December: five things we learned hosting the JFK documents

One of the more interesting trends in the last couple of years has been the realisation that eDiscovery tools and skills have application beyond the obligations to disclose documents in disputes. The analysis of the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers … Continue reading

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Law, technology and the human element at Technology in Practice in Toronto

Technology in Practice is run in Toronto by Commonwealth Legal and Ricoh. This was its 10th year and I was very pleased to be asked to take part. The agenda was assembled by Jennifer Johnson and had a thematic consistency … Continue reading

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iCONECT puts JFK assassination records online

Applause for eDiscovery software company iCONECT which has put the JFK Assassination Records online in a form which allows them to be searched and read. There is a page about this here with a request form for linking to the … Continue reading

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iCONECT webinar on multimedia discovery is now online

A few weeks ago, I moderated a webinar presented jointly by iCONECT and ACEDS called Did you see that?… how video / audio are changing the way we win cases. The presenters were Ian Campbell, CEO of iCONECT, and Rob … Continue reading

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Masters Conference and Reed Smith event in London on 28 September

The Masters Conference has a long tradition of producing first-rate events on eDiscovery and the ever-widening range of subjects which surround it. Reed Smith is an international firm with a strong presence in London as well as the US and … Continue reading

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How multimedia data is changing the way we win cases: webinar on 14 September with iCONECT and ACEDS

The expression “multimedia” still has the whiff of leisure about it – the once exciting idea that entertainment can be delivered to us in various active forms for us to watch and listen to. A great deal of much more … Continue reading

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ILTACON 2017 – and the ship sails on

Despite its title, this post is not about Fellini’s 1983 film And the Ship Sails On in which a great liner is unexpectedly attacked just before the big event which was the purpose of the voyage, leaving Freddie Jones sharing a … Continue reading

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Awards and plaudits for iCONECT XERA

It may be a coincidence, but eDiscovery software company iCONECT seems to be hogging the eDiscovery limelight since the appointment of Lynn Frances Jae as marketing director (I wrote about that appointment here). My own contribution was my article Netflix as … Continue reading

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On the iCONECT blog: Netflix as a model for explaining technology assisted review

How do you explain sophisticated technology to people who are not only new to the subject but are by nature resistant to it? Technologists have always tried to use parallels from their users’ experience either as an illustration of concepts … Continue reading

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Interview: Ian Campbell of iCONECT on the theme of Choices

iCONECT’s theme for Legaltech was CHOICES, and I asked CEO Ian Campbell what was the significance of this word. Ian Campbell explains that “Choices” is a recurring theme throughout the use of the iCONECT-XERA platform – there are, for example, choices in … Continue reading

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Lynn Frances Jae named as Marketing Director at iCONECT

I have bumped into Lynn Frances Jae at almost every US eDiscovery conference I have been to, and it is a pleasure to see that she has been appointed Marketing Director of iCONECT. She has 17 years of marketing experience in … Continue reading

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Interview: Ian Campbell of iCONECT talks about speeding up document review

Ian Campbell is President and CEO of iCONECT, the makers of the iCONECT-XERA review software. iCONECT has been working on speeding up review, responding to lawyers who ask “how quickly can get through these documents?”. In this interview, Ian Campbell … Continue reading

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All-in-one review and processing solution from Nuix and iCONECT

In New York last February I interviewed Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, and Ian Campbell, President and CEO of iCONECT, about their plans for closer integration. The interview is below. The integration continues, both as a technical matter and in … Continue reading

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Webinar from ACEDS and iCONECT on 19 December: selecting your next eDiscovery review platform

Ian Campbell of iCONECT and Jeff Kirksey of Sutherland Asbill join forces with ACEDS to produce a webinar on 19 December called It’s time for a change – selecting your next eDiscovery review platform is easy. iCONECT is, of course, … Continue reading

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Interview: Ian Campbell talks about recent developments at iCONECT

I wrote recently about the 2016 Vendors Leadership Award presented to iCONECT at the Masters Conference. Some of the reasons why iCONECT won that award are helpfully recapitulated in an interview which I did with iCONECT CEO Ian Campbell a … Continue reading

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iCONECT wins 2016 Vendor Leadership Award at Masters Conference

I was not able to attend the 10th Anniversary Masters Conference in Washington this year although, as so often, the accounts coming back from it make me wish I had been there. Among the events at this year’s Masters Conference … Continue reading

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Discovery of video and audio: Ian Campbell demonstrates with iCONECT-XERA

Video turns up twice in this short story, once as the subject of an interview and once as the medium by which the interview is given. Let’s take the presentation medium first. What we have here is Bill Hamilton of the … Continue reading

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iCONECT secures multi-million dollar funding to support development of iCONECT-XERA and other initiatives

The big eDiscovery business news of the week has been the multi-million dollar funding agreement announced by iCONECT. The agreement was reached with Fraser Mackenzie Merchant Capital who emphasised their faith both in the potential of iCONECT and in the strength … Continue reading

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iCONECT brings out XERA-CONECT to keep you on top of eDiscovery projects on the move

I was sitting at dinner recently next to the wife of a US Federal Judge in the restaurant at the top of a Park Lane hotel. We were watching the passenger jets queueing for Heathrow and she had probably marked … Continue reading

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Six enhancements to iCONECT-XERA in 2016

Barely a month goes by without news of some enhancement to iCONECT’s discovery review product iCONECT-XERA. This year they have included new functions, new relationships, and a new iCONECT Healthcare division. I have caught most of these as they emerged … Continue reading

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Easy data collections with iCONECT Xplorer

I remember somebody describing to me, years ago, the difficulties which they faced in collecting data from organisations with far-flung offices, including some in the remoter parts of northern Canada. In those days, someone would have to travel to each … Continue reading

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Interview: Eddie Sheehy of Nuix and and Ian Campbell of iCONECT on the partnership between the two companies

At Legaltech I interviewed Eddie Sheehy of Nuix and Ian Campbell of iCONECT shortly after the announcement of a new level of partnership between their respective companies. iCONECT-XERA is an eDiscovery review platform. Ian Campbell said that clients wanted a … Continue reading

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iCONECT expands into healthcare while adding to XERA functionality

Among my video interviews from Legaltech, is one with Ian Campbell, CEO of iCONECT (see Ian Campbell talks about forthcoming developments at iCONECT) in which he hinted at a wide range of pending developments for iCONECT, both at the corporate level and in … Continue reading

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Ian Campbell talks about forthcoming developments at iCONECT

Ian Campbell is CEO and President of iCONECT, makers of the iCONECT-XERA eDiscovery review software. I interviewed him at Legaltech. We got through a lot of topics in five minutes – the video interview is below.

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New version of iCONECT-XERA brings multi-format production capabilities

It is not that long since I reported a round of newly-developed features for iCONECT-XERA. Yet further steps have been taken with the latest release. Most of these concern the production capabilities of iCONECT-XERA, including the ability to produce multiple … Continue reading

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iCONECT gets premises to match its technology

With its eDiscovery review tool iCONECT-XERA, iCONECT has emphasised the importance of software which does more than perform a function. iCONECT-XERA looks good as well. There is more to this than mere aesthetics. Users spend all day working with the … Continue reading

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Ian Campbell of iCONECT talks about new developments in iCONECT-XERA

At ILTA in September, I had the opportunity to talk to Ian Campbell, CEO and President of iCONECT iCONECT has been busy recently. As Ian Campbell tells us in this interview, there are new analytic and visualisation features in iCONECT-XERA, … Continue reading

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iCONECT focuses on data visualisation

I wrote recently about the new release of iCONECT-XERA which, among other enhancements, has enhanced iCONECT-XERA’s already impressive data visualisation tools. There are two events coming up at which iCONECT will expand on the value of data visualisation. One is a … Continue reading

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Integrated analytics, predictive review, customisation and visualisation for iCONECT-XERA

I turn my back for a week to go abroad and iCONECT makes not one but two big announcements about developments to iCONECT-XERA The first is a significant licensing change which means that all new XERA licenses will include XERA’s analytic … Continue reading

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iCONECT webinar on 19 August: customise your review platform in just a few clicks

iCONECT, makers of the iCONECT-XERA review platform, has always been good at webinars designed to help users and prospective users understand how the software works. Rightly confident of XERA’s aesthetic appeal and user-friendliness, it lets the benefits speak for themselves … Continue reading

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iCONECT: dashboards, predictive power, robots and nominations

A recent webinar by iCONECT was called, provocatively, Are you ready to trust your next review to robots? I missed it because it coincided with a big event in London, but it is available as a recorded download, with other … Continue reading

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Not just eDiscovery: iCONECT in Outer Space

The eDiscovery bubble – the lawyers and the discovery providers who manage eDiscovery all the time – tend to think of the world only in eDiscovery terms, that is, collecting, analysing, reviewing and producing documents and data for the purpose … Continue reading

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eDiscovery conference agenda focuses on non-conventional data sources

In offering you the agenda of the Third Annual Electronic Discovery Conference at Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, I am not seeking to encourage you to attend – you will have to run, since it takes … Continue reading

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The run-up to LegalTech 2015 in New York

Apart from the big story of last week, Microsoft’s acquisition of Equivio, most of my output in the last few days has been about events planned for LegalTech 2015 which takes place in New York from 3 to 5 February. … Continue reading

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Tracking social media for eDiscovery / eDisclosure purposes

To an audience still struggling with the idea that an email is a “document” for eDiscovery / eDisclosure purposes, it comes as something of a shock to be told that a tweet or an entry in Facebook or LinkedIn is … Continue reading

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Using EXIF GPS information from a camera in eDiscovery / eDisclosure

The product description of Guidance Software’s EXIF GPS Information Reader helps explain why your camera may be recording more information you think. You need a) to remember to think about it b) to know that it is capable of collection … Continue reading

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Small and medium-sized cases have electronic documents too

Three articles come my way at once, connected by the theme that electronic documents raise management issues in small and medium-size cases and not only in the large ones which tend to hog the limelight. One of the articles comes … Continue reading

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Blog posts on eDiscovery | eDisclosure in January 2013

Here is a list of the 58 blog posts published in January 2013 on my Commentary Blog and Updates Blog. They got 9,464 page views between them. As mentioned in a recent post, the web site has been smartened up … Continue reading

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Blog posts on eDiscovery | eDisclosure in December 2012

Here is a list of my blog posts of December 2012 on eDiscovery / eDisclosure and related matters. After several months of experiments, I have abandoned my Google Plus page for my short eDiscovery posts in favour of a second … Continue reading

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A Hong Kong eDiscovery snapshot in the company of Epiq Systems

On the surface, my area of professional interest looks pretty narrow. When I launched the eDisclosure Information Project, its proposed scope was implied by the word “eDisclosure” – only the civil jurisdiction of England and Wales uses the term “disclosure”, and … Continue reading

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iCONECT + EMC SourceOne – Kazeon equals seamless workflow integration

Two of the most interesting shifts in the eDiscovery market in recent years are embraced by the words “consolidation” and “integration”. “Consolidation” implies that one company has bought another to fill a gap in its portfolio, to broaden its client-base … Continue reading

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Short eDiscovery updates to 15 September 2012

This continues my new practice of summarising posts, mainly about eDiscovery, which have appeared on my Google Plus page recently. There are 26 of them in this summary, which points to a busy week (now two weeks ago) of announcements … Continue reading

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iCONECT deals brings Xera to UK eDisclosure provider MD5 and to Integreon

You may recall my positive comments about iCONECT’s review platform Xera which was launched at LegalTech in February. I subsequently attended iCONECT’s Global Summit on Litigation Technology in Fort Lauderdale in April where I got a further opportunity to see … Continue reading

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Conference topics indicate the important eDiscovery and eDisclosure themes

That part of my life which involves speaking has four elements – preparation, travel, delivery and reporting. The month of May always has a full diary of events, and this year has more than usual. Of the four elements, the … Continue reading

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Speaking and learning at iCONECT’s Global Summit on Litigation Technology

I had the pleasure and privilege of giving the opening day’s keynote speech at iCONECT’s Global Summit on Litigation Technology in Florida last week. I brought back at least as much as I delivered in terms of the understanding of … Continue reading

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Appearances count for Equivio and iCONECT

The two companies named in my heading, iCONECT and Equivio, are in fact related in that there is a partnership between them which appears from both their web sites. That is a coincidence so far as this article is concerned. … Continue reading

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Plenty happening in eDiscovery for the beginning of 2012

If Friday’s flurry of activity on my Google+ page and on Twitter suggests catch-up and deck-clearing then that is exactly what it was. The Google+ page was set up for short snippets which, whatever weight they actually deserved, were not … Continue reading

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IQPC Munich eDiscovery themes recur around the world

I was not sorry when my plane’s wheels touched down at Heathrow on my return from IQPC’s Information Retention and eDiscovery Exchange in Munich on Wednesday night, bringing to an end 28,000 miles of eDiscovery travel in six weeks. A … Continue reading

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