KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, has announced upgrades to its discovery management technology, Discovery Radar, which helps corporate law departments and law firms cut e-discovery costs and simplify management of large, complex litigation.

The proprietary KPMG system, Discovery Radar 5.0, integrates critical steps in the e-discovery process including processing information, early case assessment, technology assisted review (TAR) and statistical sampling.  All of these steps help ensure that electronically stored documents gathered are relevant to a case. 

KPMG's analysis of client cases revealed that integrating the steps in e-discovery can reduce the number of days and amount of money it takes to manage large volumes of electronically stored information by more than 50 percent. 

Additional features include:

- One-time, quick loading of documents for use in multiple legal matters; 

- Reduction in data hosting costs through enhanced single-instance-storage of documents;

- Simplified data "off-ramp" to offload data that is no longer needed for a matter;

- Document relevance ranking; and

- Comprehensive integrated statistical sampling.

Discovery Radar uses KPMG's proprietary Global Evidence Tracking System, delivered through a secure software-as-as-service cloud environment.  The software is designed to help improve process and project management from the identification through production phases of the Electronic-Discovery Reference Model. Electronic-Discovery Reference Model was created by the legal industry to help develop guidelines and standards for e-discovery consumers and providers.