Nuix, a technology company that enables people to make fact-based decisions from unstructured data, today announced it will include powerful email threading capabilities at no additional cost in the upcoming 6.2 release of its eDiscovery software. This makes Nuix a viable long-term alternative for Equivio users who are concerned that Microsoft may discontinue the product after finalizing its acquisition of the company.
David Horrigan, Analyst and Counsel at 451 Research, wrote that “Microsoft did not disclose whether Equivio would continue to operate,” only that it would embed the newly acquired technology into Office 365. 1 He noted that “Equivio’s entire operation is a mere blip on Microsoft’s $86bn radar” and speculated that running a legal technology company could be “more of a nuisance than it’s worth.”
Nuix eDiscovery 6.2, scheduled for release in March 2015, will deliver functionally equivalent email threading to that of Equivio. Nuix already provides comparable features to Equivio including near-duplicate identification, clustering, and auto-classification.
Nuix’s email threading will group email messages so that legal teams can review them in context and make bulk decisions quickly. It will present email discussions with thread indexes and endpoint-inclusive status so reviewers can understand a whole conversation by reading just a few emails, rather than multiple iterations of the same content. This typically reduces the number of items for review by two-thirds.
“The IT industry has seen countless examples of larger companies swallowing up smaller firms for their technology and killing off their software for general access, such as when Salesforce.com acquired EntropySoft in 2013,” said Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix. “Equivio customers who worry this may happen to them should know that they can continue to provide the same workflows and capabilities with Nuix. We are staying in the eDiscovery market for the long haul.”
About Nuix
Nuix (www.nuix.com) enables people to make fact-based decisions from unstructured data. The patented Nuix Engine makes small work of large and complex human-generated data sets. Organizations around the world turn to Nuix software when they need fast, accurate answers for digital investigation, cybersecurity, eDiscovery, information governance, email migration, privacy and more.
1 “The Microsoft-Equivio deal: triggering a time of terror for legal e-discovery vendors?” at 451research.com/report-short?entityId=84106
