ZyLAB Technologies

ZyLAB
Type Private
Industry Software, e-Discovery and Information Management, Records Management, Email Archiving, SharePoint Archiving
Founded 1983
Headquarters McLean, Virginia
Amsterdam
Key people Pieter Varkevisser, President & CEO
Dr. Johannes C. Scholtes, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer
Products ZyLAB Information Management Platform and various bundles for eDiscovery, email & SharePoint archiving, text-analytics, visualization, contract management, and workflow.
Employees 100
Website www.zylab.com

ZyLAB is a developer of software for e-Discovery, Information Management, Email Management, Records, Contract,- and Document Management, Knowledge Management, and Workflow. The company is head quartered in McLean, Virginia and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ZyLAB’s most important products are the ZyLAB Information Management Platform and bundles that build systems for different deployments.

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History

In 1983 ZyLAB was the first company providing a full-text search program for electronic files stored in the file system of IBM Compatible PC’s. The program was called ZyINDEX. The first version of ZyINDEX was written in Pascal and worked on MS-DOS. Subsequent programs were written in C, C++ and C# and work on a variety of Microsoft operating systems.

In 1991, ZyLAB Integrated ZyINDEX with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program Calera Wordscan, which was a spin off from Raymond Kurzweil’s first OCR implementation. This integration was called ZyIMAGE. ZyIMAGE was the first PC program to include a fuzzy string search algorithm to overcome scanning and OCR errors.

In 1998, ZyLAB developed support to full-text search email, including attachments.

In 2000, ZyLAB embraced the new XML standard, and created a full content management and records management system based on the XML standard and build a full solution for e-discovery, historical archives, records management, document management, email archiving, contract management, and professional back-office solutions.

In 2003, ZyLAB invested in expanding the ZyIMAGE product suite with advanced Text analytics, Text mining, data visualization, computational linguistics, and automatic translation.

2005: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform was released, an integrated solution to address Information Access problems.

2007: Platforms for ZyIMAGE e-Discovery and Legal Production, Historical Archiving, Compliance, Back-Office Records Management and COMINT were launched.

2010: ZyLAB Information Management Platform was released, an integrated solution to address eDiscovery and Information Management problems.

Customers

Initial customers of ZyINDEX were organizations such as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to investigate electronic data from seized PC’s, The US-Navy for on-board manuals and various law firms around the world for e-discovery. Over the years, ZyLAB also received grants from the European Union (DG13).

Other well-known ZyLAB customers were: O.J. Simpsons Defense Team, various war crime tribunals around the world such as the Milosovic trial, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the UN-AKRT-ECCC Cambodia Khmer Rouge trials and the Rwanda tribunal. In 2007, the EOP (Executive Office of the President) selected ZyLAB for email archiving, basically for its open XML structures, which is endorsed by organizations such as NARA. ZyLAB’s software was also used for many other high profile investigations such as the Oklahoma Bombing. See also the reference section.

Various public websites also use the ZyIMAGE software.

ZyLAB is a recognized leader in the development of 2007, 2008 and 2009 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Solutions and received a Strong Positive Rating in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 e-Discovery Marketscope and a Positive Rating in the 2007 and 2008 Records Management MarketScope.

ZyLAB’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. Johannes C. Scholtes. Is also extraordinary Professor in Text mining at the University of Maastricht faculty Humanities and Sciences and director in the board of AIIM, the worldwide leading authority on Information and Image Management.

System overview and compatibility

According to the company’s Website it delivers systems for different deployments, product bundles and the core components is the ZyLAB Information Management platform include:

Systems:

Bundles:

Supported configurations

Languages supported

Zy-IMAGE-nation Annual Conference

The annual Zy-IMAGE-nation Conference is sponsored by ZyLAB. During this conference, seminars and interactive sessions from leading professionals about the advanced technologies and procedural enhancements that are driving new levels of operational efficiency in private and public sectors. The focus of the conference is on technologies that provide integrated capabilities for managing the accumulated knowledge of an organization, especially records and e-mail, as well as other business-critical processes. Additional related topics to be covered include best practices for e-discovery preparation and implementation, records management, email archiving, and knowledge management.

See also

Full-Text Retrieval
e-Discovery
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Document Imaging
E-mail Archiving
Knowledge Management
Document Management (System)
Enterprise Content Management
Records Management
Contract Management
Workflow
Text Mining
Text Analytics
Automatic Machine Translation
Data Visualization
Form Recognition

References

Gartner reports

Patents referring to ZyLAB

External links

Public websites using the ZyIMAGE Webserver