SHMsoft, Inc. Offers FreeEed as Pre-packaged Open Source Software for eDiscovery

For immediate release

SHMsoft, a leader in open source software for eDiscovery, is pleased to announce its latest offering - a complete eDiscovery application, with all components pre-installed and integrated together. This is often explained using a popcorn metaphor: a corn is a lawsuit, FreeEed is a popcorn maker, and processing is adding the lawsuit (corn) to the popcorn maker (FreeEed).

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Live reporting from the HTC IC&S show

Left to right: Alexander Burnett, Pat Kerr and Serge Findling.

Getting ready for IC&S show tomorrow

Last year, we were a winner of the Goradia startup competition, hosted by HTC, and this time we will be an exhibitor.

See you there tomorrow, more pics to follow...

SHMsoft, Inc. Adds Review Capabilities to its Open Source eDiscovery Software FreeEed

September 25, 2013, Houston – SHMsoft, a leader in open source software for eDiscovery, is pleased to announce the latest additions to its FreeEed family of eDiscovery applications. The software is capable of indexing terabytes of documents for subsequent legal review, at speeds of over 100 GB/hour, and at costs of under $1/GB, on Amazon EC2 cloud, on a local workstation or on a cluster made out of spare capacity of the office PCs. Thus, one can safely claim that ”My data never leaves my office.” The newest capabilities include OCR, internationalization and browser-based first-look review. Simplified documentation is now part of the source code on GitHub.

First Houston Hadoop hackathon and more...

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Hadoop Hackathon in Houston this Wednesday, see here http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/102954462/ for details - simulating a smart power utility;
2. Starting a number of initiative in using SHMcloud for back-end eDiscovery processing, stay tuned;
3. Putting the Hadoop Namenode on a Kove memory device - project started with our partner Kove, hosted in Chicago.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.

04.29.2013

SHMsoft News - First full Hadoop training for developers delivered

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Congratulation to Sujee Maniyam, for successfully delivering “Hadoop training for developers,” a four-day hands on course, at an important company in San Francisco.
2. SHMcloud eDiscovery:  we are now offering processing service, with the export into a review tool of your choice, such as Concordance.
3. Dell has given us a cluster of excellent servers for a 90-day evaluation - for our development of eDiscovery. The machines are hosted in Champaign, IL. Let the fun begin! - Thank you, Dell!

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.

04.15.2013

SHMsoft News - SHMsoft and Dell

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Last week at SHMsoft was all about Dell. We presented in in Dell’s headquarters in Round Rock, TX, and we were profiled on the website of Houston Technology Center.
2. Here are the impressions of our CEO of his trip. 
3. We are adding processing of Lotus Notes to the SHMcloud platform.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team. 01.27.2013

SHMsoft at Dell’s Tech Innovators Day

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. SHMsoft is one of the ten companies selected for Dell’s Tech Innovators Day. In Dell’s own words, “As part of the Dell Innovators Credit Fund we have created Tech Innovators Day specifically to give companies like yours the chance to present your idea to decision makers. Over the past years, companies like KACE, Boomi and SecureWorks were acquired by Dell to further complement the offerings Dell brings to its customers. Could the next company be yours?” SHMsoft’s CEO is excited to present his vision.

This is an important Dell initiative, which is already greeted by enthusiastic response. The event is limited to the invited participants, but there will be press coverage from Austin, Silicon Valley, and Huffington Post. To track the conversation, please use #DellEIR.

2. We are doing a pilot eDiscovery project for an ongoing litigation. This gives us a chance to help a client in an important case while further improving our search and culling capabilities;

3. SHMsoft is bringing the power of invention and Big Data tools to pilot projects for select enterprise clients.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team. 01.20.2013

SHMsoft News - eDiscovery GUI

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week:

1. We started receiving feedback from our beta testers and advisors on the user interface for eDiscovery processing and culling, and we already started implementing the changes. It will be in the browser, simple, and powerful, and it will run on a single workstation, internal Hadoop cluster, or EC2 - take your pick.
2. We are deepening our Hadoop training expertise with administrators’ and operations needs, and with advanced MapReduce and HBase programming techniques.
3. We are expecting a great week to come working with law firms, hosting providers etc. - stay tuned.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.
12.03.2012

SHMsoft News: eDiscovery, bio-informatics and security

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week:

1. While still perfecting search, OCR and imaging capabilities for SHMcloud, we are now working on tagging and export;
2. SHMsoft got a very active reseller in London, England. The business model that we created  for this seems to work, and more eDiscovery consultants are welcome to apply.
3. We have performed our first pilot Big Data projects for a large chemical company, dealing with comparative genomics and with crop genomics. Accordingly, we are implementing company-wide bioinformatics education with courses like this one.
4. Performed Big Data training for a major hardware manufacturer, and more courses are scheduled.
5. SHMsoft is in talks with a fast-growing cloud security provider, to provide cloud implementation services for their clients.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.
11.18.2012

SHMsoft News: It’s All About Team Building

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week:

• Our team of programmers grew.  Together with our tester they are having a wonderful time developing, testing, fixing bugs, and documenting the new features.
• OCR, imaging, and search have been added to SHMcloud and are in testing by our team.
• Out beta testers are excited about the enhancements and are eagerly anticipating their use.
• Our lead Natural Language Processing (NLP) developer started his work on the integration of the NLP technology for SHMcloud, in close collaboration with the technology provider.
• SHMsoft’s total headcount grew to over twenty!
• Our Lead Data Scientist is currently working on the analytics design for our NLP developer to implement.
• Our marketing specialist and our technical editor are working full swing on our new web site.

SHMsoft / FreeEed / SHMcloud weekly news, 10/07/12

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week:

• Instant search for our SHMcloud platform is now ready and undergoing testing before the final release.
• SHMsoft was the 2nd place winner of the 2012 Goradia Innovation Awards at a prestigious  innovation conference organized by the Houston Technology Center. Read the full story soon. 
• SHMsoft’s EDD Foundation is featured in Law Technology News as an important step in open-source, law technology projects. Read the full article here. 
• One of the largest and well-known companies in IT has chosen SHMsoft for its big data and Hadoop training, as well as its pilot software products implementation. 
• Gallery Furniture, a big and very well known Houston retailer, selected SHMsoft as its partner for researching, developing and implementing a big data solution for targeted and direct marketing. 
• SHMsoft was chosen to co-present with Jim McIngvale at the American Marketing Association forum event in Houston on Dec. 7, to talk about big data marketing and how Gallery Furniture is using it to leverage sales. 

SHMsoft office at Caroline Collective

We got furniture and  whiteboards, and created our first "Hello World" application.

SHMsoft Week in Review - September 23, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week:

• With OCR completed, we are working on the instant search feature for SHMcloud.
• An IT company based in London is working to become a reseller of SHMcloud technology for private clouds.
• We are in the midst of continued demos and conversations with a major eDiscovery software publisher.
• SHMsoft is set up as a strategic partner for Hadoop / HBase pilot projects with a major hardware manufacturer.
• SHMsoft is being set up to provide Hadoop administrative services for a major US bank.
• We delivered a final report for a large Houston retailer.  Next week we will be doing a “proof-of-concept” for their marketing application, based on Big Data.

SHMsoft Week in Review - September 16, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week

• We have completed a white paper called "FreeEed - Open Source Big Data Solution for eDiscovery," you can download it here.
• A more complete version of the SHMcloud (TM) manual can be found here.
• We are finally listed on Amazon Marketplace here, and it comes up as the top result in searches for “e-Discovery”.
• Working closely with our partners, we are developing leads for clients that understand the benefits of open-source, corporate e-discovery based on Hadoop clusters.
• We have initiated the formation of the “Edd Foundation,” to house our open-source FreeEed application as well as to foster other open-source e-Discovery projects.
• We have finalized our presentation and we are ready to go for the first prize on the Goradia startup competition at the IC&S event of the Houston Technology Center.
• A large computer hardware manufacturer selected SHMsoft as an implementation partner for Hadoop/Big Data pilot projects for its clients.

SHMsoft Week in Review - September 09, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week

• SHMcloud is at version 4.1.6, with OCR, which exhibits performance of 7 seconds per image on an Amazon (AWS) medium-power machine, and up to 96% accuracy.
• Our advisory board is complete, including specialists in eDiscovery, forensics, and Big Data marketing http://shmsoft.com/index.php/advisory-board.
• We had a most successful Hadoop Meetup in our new office, located at 4820 Caroline Suite 103 in Houston. Twenty people came and enjoyed pizza while watching a presentation by Dianhui Zhu on "Genomic data analysis with Hadoop."
• Work with an energy company using SHMcloud continues. We outlined a mutual roadmap for them and we will be working on defining the scope of their SHMcloud use.
• An energetic lawyer joined the FreeEed project to market, advocate, and evangelize it. He will also provide technical guidance.
• SHMsoft was selected as a finalist in the Goradia start-up competition. Our final presentation will happen on October 3.

SHMsoft Week in Review - September 02, 2012

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft last week

• SHMcloud V4.1.6 has been released, and now it is using a better way of distributing our software, called Elastic Block Storage, or EBS, which is a prerequisite for being listed on AWS Marketplace.
• OCR integrated and tested, locally and on the cloud.
• Formulated a product development roadmap, based on market research, expert input and projected funding.
• Through our partnership with Hortonworks, we have established a relationship with a  NY law firm interested in Hadoop/Big Data eDiscovery.
• We are working with a big Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) firm, which is looking forward to testing and suggesting improvements in the SHMcloud software for their needs.
• Got a new office at Caroline Collective at 4820 Caroline, Houston, Suite 103, TX 77004.
• Got a new adviser, Big Data architect Amit Rathore.
• Started working on search engine optimization (SEO), to drive traffic to our website.
• Started working on the web site itself, to better explain our offerings.

FreeEed gets a home

FreeEed got a home, and SHMsoft got an office - to better support our users. The place is called Caroline Collective, and the feeling is just like in the Silicon Valley. Plus, it's in the Museum district, so in that sense it is like Cision in Chicago, where you can walk to the museum (with the famous lions).

SHMsoft / FreeEed / SHMcloud weekly news, 8/26/12

• SHMcloud V4.1.4 has been released; GUI bugs fixed.
• OCR tested, adding it to SHMcloud install on Amazon.
• Started on specifications for search in Early Case Assessment (ECA).
• Started on phase 1 of Big Data social media marketing project for a large local retailer.
• Staff: an experienced data scientist leads this Big Data social media project.
• Having been accepted as an APN Amazon partner, SHMsoft is in the final stages of getting listed on AWS Marketplace with our SHMcloud(TM) product.
• A large LPO firm in India started working on SHMcloud, to make sure that the product satisfies their needs for scalable processing.
• A new financial consultant started working on SHMsoft’s business and financial plan.

SHMsoft / FreeEed / SHMcloud weekly news, 8/19/12

• SHMcloud V4.1.2 has been released; it features all processing parameters arranged in tabbed dialog for the convenience of the operator, and more parameters have been added
• OCR capability is in testing, expected to be released soon
• Staff additions: a software developer, a Hadoop administrator, an eDiscovery project manager, and an eDiscovery business advisor all started this past week
• We are in meetings with two energy companies, who are planning to use SHMcloud as part of their internal eDiscovery handling
• A New York law firm working with Hortonworks saw our Hadoop-based eDiscovery and asked for a presentation next week
• SHMsoft has become an official member of the Amazon Partner Network (APN), of Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, and was selected to present to the judges of the Goradia startup competition