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First Grid-Based Litigation Support and Document Review Platform




John Tredennick
CEO
Catalyst Repository Systems

Catalyst CR 6.0 achieves breakthroughs in speed, scalability and user productivity for litigation review and distributed document management. DENVER, Colorado (December 12, 2006)?Catalyst Repository Systems, a leading provider of web-based repository software, has released Catalyst CR 6.0 (Grid Edition), the first grid-based litigation support and document review platform.

Powered by FAST?s InStream? search technology, audited benchmark tests show CR 6.0 routinely delivers sub-second response times for complex searches against 15 million documents?up to 750 terms, including field, text, date range, bates range, and proximity searches. This unparalleled speed and scalability, coupled with CR?s rich feature set, enables corporations, insurers and their lawyers to achieve new levels of productivity in the review, production and reuse of electronic documents and related metadata.

?The speed and scalability of CR 6.0 are stunning,? said Miles Kehoe of New Idea Engineering, an industry-leading search firm that benchmarked CR 6.0. ?In our testing, we routinely saw sub-second response times even for massively complex searches against 15 million documents. CR 6.0 exemplifies the best practices in search capabilities and offers levels of scale and reliability that are matched by few companies other than Google and Yahoo,? Kehoe exclaimed.

?We designed CR 6.0 to work in the Internet age, where large corporations produce more than a billion e-mails and other documents a year,? explained John Tredennick, Catalyst?s CEO. ?With regulatory and compliance demands increasing, not to mention the new Federal Rules governing electronic discovery, our clients require a secure way for their professional teams to handle the load, from wherever they might be located.? Unlike other litigation repository products, CR 6.0 is built upon a grid of hosted servers running the FAST search engine.

?With our On Demand infrastructure, we bring corporate legal departments and law firms the same type of flexibility, scalability and reliability that companies like IBM, Sun and Oracle offer corporate IT through their utility computing and grid initiatives,? said Bill Mooz, Catalyst?s GC & VP of Strategy and Product (and former Senior Director of Sun?s Utility Computing initiative.? This infrastructure enhances CR?s robust and easy-to-use features which include bates range searching, concept searching, redaction, and foldering. It also supports over 70 languages, including those with multi-byte character sets like Kanji and Mandarin.

Early customer reactions to CR 6.0 have been highly favorable. ?We are very impressed with CR 6.0 and the value that it is going to let us deliver to our clients,? said Warren DiDonato, EVP of Everest Technologies, a leading EDD Services Provider that participated in the beta testing of CR 6.0. ?This massive breakthrough in speed and scalability, combined with the rock solid features and ease of use that CR already offers, means that our clients will achieve unprecedented levels of productivity in even the largest document productions.?

CR 6.0 is available on a stand-alone basis or as part of the complete end-to-end litigation support services offered by Catalyst?s extensive network of partners. While many litigation software companies are focused on providing EDD services with the repository being an afterthought once they get the processing business, Catalyst is single-mindedly focused on providing the best repository experience possible. That leaves clients free to use the most appropriate provider for collection and processing. Catalyst offers the strongest partner network in the business so clients get the best of all possible worlds. CR 6.0 is a fully hosted system that uses a scalable, web-based utility architecture and runs via a web browser.

To learn more about CR 6.0 and other Catalyst Repository Systems products visit the web www.catalystsecure.com

Catalyst provides repository systems to help corporations and their counsel deal with the explosion of digital content in an increasingly regulated environment and work together on complex legal, financial and insurance matters. Its On Demand systems provide a compelling alternative to traditional approaches?particularly when clients need to review large document collections and connect legal professionals worldwide. Catalyst?s products include Catalyst CR, the first grid-enabled document repository for litigation support, compliance and due diligence; Catalyst XE, a powerful extranet to connect professional teams and their files worldwide for cases, claims, deals and other complex legal matters; and Catalyst Review, customized document review workflow for corporate, insurance and other regulated environments.

A pioneer in the industry, Catalyst?s products have been used since 1998 by many of the largest organizations in the world (e.g., five of the world?s ten largest companies and over half of the nation?s 100 largest law firms).






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