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Posted by Paul Travis on January 21, 2009
As e-discovery becomes a must-have application and more vendors enter the market, e-discovery specialist Kazeon Systems Inc. today introduced several new licensing models and drastically cut the entry price for companies looking to get started using the software to protect themselves during litigation. With a variety of new e-discovery services and applications competing for a piece of the growing market, Kazeon's move may be the first salvo in a new e-discovery price war.
Kazeon has been charging $80,000 for a server license. Under the new pricing models, customers can get started using the company's software for $10,000, says Karthik Kannan, vice president of market and business development for Kazeon. "We don't want e-discovery to be a multimillion-dollar, six-month process," he says.
Kazeon is offering customers three options: a single- or multi-year license, a usage-based license where the company will charge by the gigabyte, or a license based on a single case or project. Customers can start with one license and move to another as their needs change. The new approaches are designed to appeal to the vast majority of companies that don't have e-discovery software and can't afford the cost of a perpetual license, says Kannan. While a single perpetual license costs $80,000, he says many customers buy several dozen for performance reasons or to segregate cases.
Kazeon also may be trying to steal a march on competitors that are ramping up their own e-discovery offerings. Many archiving and search and other content management vendors have been adding e-discovery capabilities to their applications, as have online backup and archiving service providers. So the market is getting crowded. The upcoming LegalTech conference and show in New York next month is expected to feature a host of new and enhanced e-discovery offerings.
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