Becoming the Legal Platform Every Company Needs
The following is the second post in a new blog series from Exterro CEO Bobby Balachandran, where he shares his thoughts on the issues legal leaders care about and his vision for addressing them. More than a decade ago, I (along with many others) noticed that most businesses and individual business units had an array of software options designed specifically to help them manage tasks and do their jobs more effectively and efficiently.But not the legal department. Providers like Peoplesoft offered HR departments the ability to manage employee information, benefits, and even... Read More
We here at Exterro have been on a mission to stay ahead of the rapidly changing industry. Today’s legal, law enforcement, privacy and compliance leaders must balance a broad set of business, data, and operational requirements, changing regulations and exponential risks. Meeting and overcoming these challenges demands highly-integrated, automated intelligent processes. Exterro realized that its customers could no longer be effective with a portfolio of siloed toolsets. So we set about to assemble the ultimate Legal GRC platform. In the same way that other key business functions have an integrated application platform... 
I have a simple question for all the GCs, CPOs, and CISOs out there: Are you ready for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)? Because it’s coming, whether you’re ready or not, on January 1, 2020. (And ten other states will soon follow suit with similar, but different, regulations.) Depending on the timing, polling group, and survey methodology, reports suggest somewhere between 45% and 86% of companies will not be ready or do not even plan to be ready by then. If you ask me, those figures are probably optimistic. I suspect that... 
Just over a year ago, Exterro announced the exciting news of our partnership with Leeds Equity Partners and the strategic equity investment that would turbo charge Exterro’s growth and innovation at a moment I believe is a true tipping point for the e-discovery industry. We—and I mean not just the e-discovery industry, but “we” as an international economy and even as a society—are facing large-scale, structural change in how we interact with our data: how we secure it, use it, access it, and dispose of it. I want Exterro to be one...