written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message zylab type private industry software ediscovery and information risk 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 . website www.zylab.com zylab is a developer of software for e discovery information risk management email management records contract and document management knowledge management and workflow . the company is headquartered in mclean virginia and in amsterdam netherlands . zylab s most important products are zylab ediscovery & production system the zylab information management platform and bundles that build systems for deployments . contents 1 history 2 customers 3 system overview and compatibility 3.1 supported configurations 3.2 languages supported 4 zy image nation annual conference 5 see also 6 references 6.1 gartner reports 7 external links history edit in 1983 zylab was the first company providing a full text search program for electronic files stored in the file system of ibm compatible pcs . 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 the company 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 the company 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 . platforms for zyimage e discovery and legal production historical archiving compliance back office records management and comint were launched in 2007 . 2010 zylab information management platform was released an integrated solution to address e discovery and information management problems . customers edit initial customers of zyindex were organizations such as the fbi and other law enforcement agencies to investigate electronic data from seized pcs the u.s. navy for on board manuals and law firms around the world for e discovery . over the years zylab received grants from the european union dg13 . other well known zylab customers were o.j. simpson s defense team war crime tribunals such as the trial of slobodan milo evi the special court for sierra leone the un akrt eccc cambodia khmer rouge trials and the rwanda tribunal . in 2007 the u.s. executive office of the president selected zylab for email archiving basically for its open xml structures which is endorsed by organizations such as the national archives and records administration . zylab s software was used for many other high profile investigations such as the oklahoma city bombing . public websites also use the zylab webserver . gartner positioned zylab in the leaders quadrant in its 2007 2008 and 2009 magic quadrant for information access solutions gave it a strong positive rating in its 2007 2008 and 2009 e discovery marketscope and a positive rating in its 2007 and 2008 records management marketscope . zylab s chief strategy officer dr. johannes c. scholtes is professor in text mining at the university of maastricht faculty of humanities and sciences and director in the board of aiim . system overview and compatibility edit according to the company s website it delivers systems for 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 edit server os windows 2003 windows 2008 databases xml ms sql server 2005 ms sql server 2008 oracle 10g oracle 11g mysql web servers iis 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 edit 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 . 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 edit 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 . related topics to be covered include best practices for e discovery preparation and implementation records management email archiving and knowledge management . see also edit 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 references edit definition of zyindex in pcmag.com s encyclopedia definition of zyimage in pcmag.com s encyclopedia review of zyimage 3.0 in informationweek mac version of zyindex made its debut on comdex review of zyindex in the new york times review of zyindex on computerwoche.de article in german review of zyimage s webserver on computerwoche.de article in german review of zyindex in the miami herald zyindex used in the investigation of the belated production of documents in the oklahoma city bombing case review permanent dead link of zyimage on federal computer week fcw.com zylab retrieval engine optimized for cd rom ; zylab progressive technologies merge seybold report on desktop publishing . vol . 8 no. 10 jun. 6 1994 p. 40 . knibbe zyimage 2 boosts ocr batch duties infoworld vol . 15 issue 51 dec. 20 1993 p. 20 . knibbe zyimage 3.0 will facilitate distribution on cd roms ; boasts integration with wordscan ocr software infoworld vol . 16 no. 38 sep. 19 1994 p. 22 . marshall text retrieval alternatives 10 more ways to pinpoint important information infoworld vol . 14 no. 12 mar. 23 1992 pp. 88 89 . marshall zyimage adds scanning access to zyindex infoworld vol . 16 no. 15 apr. 11 1994 pp. 73 76 and 77 . marshall zyimage is zyindex plus a scan interface integrated infoworld . vol . 15 issue 10 mar. 8 1993 p. 100 . marshall et al. zyindex for windows version 5.0 infoworld v. 15 n. 21 may 1993 pp. 127 129 133 and 137 . simon zyimage a winning combination of ocr and text indexing pc magazine . vol . 12 no. 6 mar. 30 1993 p. 56 . rooney text retrieval veterans prepare windows attack pc week v. 9 n. 24 jun. 1992 p. 46 . rooney zylab partners with calera firms roll out document image system pc week vol . 10 no. 3 jan. 25 1993 p. 22 . torgan zyimage document imaging and retrieval system pc magazine . vol . 12 no. 3 feb. 9 1993 p. 62 . gartner reports edit introduction to investigative case management products 18 april 2007 hype cycle for legal and regulatory information governance 2007 16 july 2007 marketscope for contract management 2007 16 july 2007 choosing an e discovery solution in 2007 and 2008 18 july 2007 magic quadrant for information access technology 2007 5 september 2007 magic quadrant for information access technology 2008 magic quadrant for information access technology 2009 the expanding enterprise e discovery marketplace 12 november 2007 marketscope for e discovery and litigation support vendors 2007 14 december 2007 marketscope for e discovery product vendors 2008 marketscope for e discovery product vendors 2009 marketscope for records management 20 may 2008 hype cycle for content management 2008 8 july 2008 using the electronic discovery reference model to identify collect and preserve digital evidence 11 july 2008 using the electronic discovery reference model to process review and analyze digital evidence 11 july 2008 hype cycle for governance risk and compliance technologies 2009 17 july 2009 external links edit zylab official website the electronic discovery reference model edrm aiim retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zylab technologies & oldid 738080704 categories companies established in 1983software companies of the united statesinformation retrieval organizationshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from april 2012all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2016articles with permanently dead external links navigation menu personal tools not logged 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