Catalyst Repository Systems Sets New Standard for Foreign Language Repositories.

More Than 50 Multi-Language Matters Involving Over 50 Different Languages Hosted Since Foreign Language Feature Launched This Year

DENVER -- Catalyst Repository Systems, a leading provider of secure, web-based repositories to the legal, business and financial markets, has experienced explosive demand for the extensive foreign language search and review capabilities it released earlier this year.

Demand for Foreign Language Capabilities Exploding

With many sectors of the S&P 500 now earning over 40% of their revenues from foreign sales, the demand for foreign language review platforms is exploding. "We continually see a steady increase in foreign language documents in the matters we handle," said Alon Israely, Esq., Co-Founder and Senior ESI Expert at Business Intelligence Associates. "In the past six months alone, we have used a combination of our forensics capabilities, distributed EDD processing software and Catalyst CR to enable our clients to successfully collect and review documents in several languages including among others, Japanese, Chinese, French, Hebrew and Spanish. In order to meet our clients' ever-growing foreign language demands, we needed a Unicode-compliant review platform that had the native intelligence to allow searching multi-language documents in a single repository. Most other review platforms are unable to do that."

So far this year clients have used Catalyst CR, Catalyst's award-winning web-based document review platform, to host over 50 multi-language data sets involving more than 50 different languages, including Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Farsi and Hindi--all without the need to set up separate repositories for each language and then run parallel queries and reconcile the results. These matters involve a wide range of cross-border litigation, FTC second requests, internal investigations, and domestic and foreign governmental investigations. Catalyst's foreign language users include Global 50 law firms, boutique law firms, major corporations, governmental entities, and service providers.

Litigation 2.0 Requirements

Practicing law in the Litigation 2.0 era has become an increasingly global endeavor. An analysis of the Am Law 200 membership directories shows that the number of foreign lawyers rocketed 387 percent over the last decade, from 2,061 in 1993 to 9,969 in 2003. With litigation, investigations and transactions regularly crossing borders, lawyers in all jurisdictions need to manage the added dimension of multiple languages as they work through every stage of the review process from culling through production. To support them effectively, Catalyst CR:

* Employs Unicode, the global encoding standard that handles all languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean

* Possesses the native intelligence to determine where words begin and end in multiple different languages, including those that do not use spaces or punctuation between words

* Allows multi-language document sets to be searched and reviewed in a single repository

* Identifies languages within individual documents so that documents can be grouped by language and assigned to reviewers with the requisite linguistic skills

* Enables machine translations to be linked to the original document so that reviewers can toggle back and forth and search in either language

"What sets Catalyst CR apart -- and the reason why so many law firms and corporate legal departments come to Catalyst -- is that CR allows you to review multi-language document sets in a single repository so you don't have to switch each time you want to search a different language," said John Tredennick, a former trial lawyer and now CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems. "And during the review process, lawyers enjoy the speed, scalability and rich feature set that CR, running the FAST InStream search engine on a grid infrastructure, has become famous for."

About Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.

Since 1998, Catalyst has been providing secure, web-based repository systems to help corporations and their counsel deal with the explosion of digital content and work together on complex legal, business and financial matters. Catalyst's products include: Catalyst CR, the first grid-enabled document repository for review, compliance, litigation support and due diligence; Catalyst XE, a powerful collaboration tool to connect professional teams and their files worldwide for cases, claims, deals and other complex legal matters, and Catalyst Review, customized document review workflow for corporate, insurance and other regulated environments.

For more information about how many of the largest organizations in the world (e.g., six of the world's ten largest companies and over half of the nation's 100 largest law firms) have used Catalyst's products to take control of their legal matters, please visit www.catalystsecure.com.