Company Overview

IBM helps companies eliminate unnecessary legal risk, and discovery and data management costs. Its Atlas Suite is the recognized leader in information governance providing integrated software solutions for legal holds, discovery workflow, regulatory compliance and data governance for customers like Abbott, BASF, ConocoPhillips, First Data, GE, Pfizer and Williams. As the innovator that started the legal holds market in 2004, we have the largest concentration of customers and domain experts anywhere. We are a trusted business partner to our customers, offering expert insight, best-in-class software, and continuous innovation to address emerging challenges. We founded and sponsor the CGOC as a part of our commitment to advancing corporate retention and preservation practices.

Proven solutions
Atlas is the easiest, most complete information governance solution on the market. The Atlas Suite is the gold standard for information governance proven by more than 210,000 active litigation holds under management involving more than 15 million custodians and petabytes of data collected, 100,000 retention schedules globally and end users in over 100 countries. Used by 7 of the Fortune 10 and 5 of the global 10 as well as the 5 largest oil, pharmaceutical, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare companies, Atlas is the trusted solution for world-class companies. The Atlas Suite is the only end-to-end solution for corporate legal, IT, records and business users designed and built on a single, cohesive governance platform.

Atlas Information Governance Suite

Strategic business partner
As the innovator and inventor of this market space, we offer more process insight and answers than any other source. With the largest concentration of domain experts anywhere, we have helped more companies reduce risk, improve their processes and reduce cost than any other firm. We are a trusted business partner to its customers, offering expert insight, best-in-class software, and continuous innovation to address emerging challenges.

Dedicated Thought Leader
We lead the industry with our visionary products. We anticipated the legal holds and retention problem years ahead of others and launched the Atlas Solution Suite two years before the FRCP changes. We have invested deeply for five years in creating solutions on the Atlas platform to meet evolving market needs. We are committed to advancing legal holds and retention practices across the industry through the Compliance Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC.com), a corporate practitioners' community focused on retention, preservation and privacy.

Governance Innovation Leader

Patent Description Filing Date Patent Number
Providing and managing an enterprise map for retention and discovery 8/16/2006 11/515,880
Systems and methods for utilizing organization-specific classification codes 8/16/2006 11/505,665
Legal hold scoping by deriving key players and systems from an enterprise map 8/29/2006 11/505,537
Legal holds custodian cross check in multiple matters 5/24/2007 11/807,145
Proactively determining evidence issues on legal matters involving employee status changes 9/14/2007 11/901,020
Legal holds and collection automation protocols 12/21/2007 11/963,383
Leveraging online storage for litigation evidence repository 2/28/2008 12/039,541
Discovery data collection workflow management process 1/21/2008 12/017,236
Use of virtual interviews to assess custodian data habits and discovery requirements 5/15/2008 12/121,758
Event driven data disposition - request setup and distribution 6/30/2008 12/164,468
Event driven data disposition - reconciliation with changing retention schedules 6/30/2008 12/165,085
Discovery and legal hold obligation cross check for data sources 6/26/2008 12/147,350
Discovery cost forecasting (using a stage model) 6/30/2008 12/165,018
Data disposition map for an enterprise 6/30/2008 12/164,524
Scoping legal holds and collections using historical enterprise data and map 6/23/2008 12/214,935
Scoping and propagating discovery requirements for data sources 6/12/2008 12/138,326
Legal policy portal for IT 6/27/2008 12/215,866
Discovery cost forecasting (using interpolation model) 9/30/2008 12/242,478
Global citation library and related concepts 9/30/2008 12/242,423
Discovery and litigation cost Forecasting (Business process & UI) 9/2/2009 12/553,055
Integrated custodian interview and data collection workflow 8/17/2009 12/542,531
Discovery cost forecasting (business process & UI) 9/2/2009 12/553,068
Retention schedule distribution to disparate data sources 12/22/2009 12/645,351