Case Study: Lending Agricultural Company improves eDiscovery and data governance with ZL Technologies

Agricultural lending group adopts ZL UA to improve its eDiscovery workflow and efficiently execute unified data governance initiatives

Lending Agricultural Company, a top agricultural lending group in the U.S. financial services sector, needed to replace an underperforming enterprise content management system that came with high maintenance costs, limited functionality, and poor support. Its eDiscovery and records management processes were also hampered by incomplete email and file governance, manual workarounds, and inconsistent compliance. The company turned to ZL Technologies and its ZL UA platform, including Discovery Manager and File Archiving.

ZL Technologies implemented a unified information governance solution that combined manage-in-place and archiving for email, file shares, and SharePoint, with full-text indexing, legal hold, journal search, and defensible preservation in one centralized platform. The result was a streamlined eDiscovery workflow, centralized search and retention, better records control, and a scalable foundation for future governance needs. The environment covered about 15 million journaled messages per year, 10 TB of files, and 250 GB of SharePoint content, with plans to add more archiving and records management capabilities over time.