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Hanzo is proud to receive the “eDiscovery Innovation of the Year” award for its Hanzo Illuminate platform at the 5th Annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards.
LegalTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization recognizing standout legal technology, has selected Hanzo as “Overall eDiscovery Solution of the Year” for Hanzo Illuminate in its 5th annual awards program. The awards honor excellence in legal technologies across a range of categories, including eDiscovery, legal analytics, and more, with thousands of nominations from over 12 countries worldwide.
Hanzo Illuminate has revolutionized how legal teams handle modern collaboration data sources, offering a powerful solution for preserving, collecting, and analyzing data from platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Jira/Confluence, GSuite and more. The platform ensures legal teams address compliance and eDiscovery challenges by capturing digital communications while maintaining context—including attachments, emojis, message reactions, edits and deletes and in-channel content such as polls or applications messages and metadata.
Key features include Dynamic Mapping, which enables precise targeting channel types and by mapping user-to-channel relationships in collaboration ecosystems, and Spotlight AI, a relevancy engine that allows legal teams to navigate large datasets, ensuring focus on the most relevant data and quickly reducing the noise by 80%
This recognition underscores Hanzo’s commitment to helping clients stay ahead of litigation and improve decision-making. “In today’s complex data landscape, Illuminate was designed to address the core eDiscovery challenges with these collaboration sources.” said Julien Masanes, CEO of Hanzo. “We are honored to accept this award and will continue to help clients make faster decisions, mitigate risks, and reduce legal costs.”
Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of LegalTech Breakthrough, commented, “Hanzo Illuminate isn’t just an addition to the legal tech landscape—it’s a transformation. It redefines data management for legal teams by blending smart data collection, ease of use, and scalability, addressing the overwhelming volume of data from collaboration platforms.”
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About Hanzo
Hanzo is a pioneer in providing cutting-edge legal and compliance technology solutions. The company’s platform empowers legal and compliance teams to efficiently manage and analyze complex data sources, including electronically stored information (ESI), social media, and collaboration platforms. Hanzo’s solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 companies and leading law firms around the globe.