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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

McLean, Virginia

McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....

and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

. ZyLAB’s most important products are the ZyLAB Information Management Platform and bundles that build systems for different deployments.

History

In 1983 ZyLAB was the first company providing a full-text

Full text search

In text retrieval, full text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full text database...

search program for electronic files stored in the file system of IBM Compatible PC’s

IBM PC compatible

IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...

. The program was called ZyINDEX. The first version of ZyINDEX was written in Pascal

Pascal (programming language)

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...

and worked on MS-DOS

MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...

. Subsequent programs were written in C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

, C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

and C# and work on a variety of Microsoft operating systems.

In 1991, ZyLAB Integrated ZyINDEX with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR

Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...

) program Calera Wordscan, which was a spin off from Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition , text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments...

’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

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

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 analytics

The term text analytics describes a set of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques that model and structure the information content of textual sources for business intelligence, exploratory data analysis, research, or investigation. The term is roughly synonymous with text mining;...

, Text mining

Text mining

Text mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. High-quality information is typically derived through the devising of patterns and trends through means such as...

, data visualization

Data visualization

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information"....

, computational linguistics

Computational linguistics

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....

, and automatic translation

Machine translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...

.

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

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

for on-board manuals and various law firms around the world for e-discovery

Electronic Discovery

Electronic discovery refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format . Usually a digital forensics analysis is performed to recover evidence...

. Over the years, ZyLAB also received grants from the European Union (DG13).

Other well-known ZyLAB customers were: O.J. Simpsons Defense Team

O. J. Simpson murder case

The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held in Los Angeles County, California Superior Court from January 29 to October 3, 1995. Former American football star and actor O. J...

, various war crime tribunals around the world such as the Milosovic trial, the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Special Court for Sierra Leone

The Special Court for Sierra Leone is an independent judicial body set up to "try those who bear greatest responsibility" for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sierra Leone after 30 November 1996 during the Sierra Leone Civil War...

, the UN-AKRT-ECCC Cambodia Khmer Rouge trials

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, commonly known as the "Khmer Rouge Tribunal", is a national court established pursuant to an agreement between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations to try senior members of the Khmer Rouge for serious violations of Cambodian...

and the Rwanda tribunal

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan...

. In 2007, the EOP (Executive Office of the President)

Executive Office of the President of the United States

The Executive Office of the President consists of the immediate staff of the President of the United States, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President. The EOP is headed by the White House Chief of Staff, currently William M. Daley...

selected ZyLAB for email archiving, basically for its open XML structures, which is endorsed by organizations such as NARA

National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...

. ZyLAB’s software was also used for many other high profile investigations such as the Oklahoma Bombing

Oklahoma City bombing

The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It was the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19...

. See also the reference section.

Various public websites also use the ZyIMAGE software.

ZyLAB is a recognized leader

Gartner

Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....

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

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:

ZyLAB eDiscovery and Production
ZyLAB Compliance and Litigation readiness
ZyLAB Law Enforcement and Investigations
ZyLAB Communications Intelligence
ZyLAB Digital Print and Media Archiving
ZyLAB Enterprise Information Management

Bundles:

E-Mail Archiving Bundle
Microsoft SharePoint Bundle
Analytics Bundle
eDiscovery EDRM Processing bundle
DoD and Sox Compliant RMA Bundle
TIFF Archiving and Production Bundle
WebPublishing Bundle
Commercial Publishing Bundle
Business Process Automation Bundle
Development and Integrators Bundle
Scanning Bundle
Digital Copier Bundle
Professional Text Mining
Machine translation

Supported configurations

Server OS: Windows 2003, Windows 2008
Databases: XML, MS SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g , mySQL
Web Servers: IIS
Web Browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, FF
Client OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Clustering: Support for Active/Passive Failover.
Authentication: Active Directory, LDAP, XML, NTFS, IBM Tripoli.
Virtualization: VMware Infrastructure, VMware Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Fusion.

Languages supported

Unicode. Support for documents in all languages.
Internationalization. ZyLAB offers translated products for English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Arabic and Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

. In addition to these languages, over 400 languages are supported by ZyLAB's recognition and full-text indexing technology, including all Western-European, Eastern-European, Baltic, African, Asian and South-American languages. ZyLAB's technical ability for broad language and character recognition enhances the accuracy of stored information searches and helps diminish the costs incurred by incorrect searches or text correction.

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.

External links

Public websites using the ZyIMAGE Webserver

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