{{Infobox company
, name = ZyLAB
, type = Private
, foundation = 1983
, location =
McLean, Virginia
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Amsterdam
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, key_people = Dennis van der Veeke (President and CEO) Johannes C. Scholtes (Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer){{cite web, url=https://www.zylab.com/en/company/executive-team, publisher=ZyLAB, access-date=23 January 2019, title=Executive Team
, num_employees = 140
, industry = Software
, homepage www.zylab.com
ZyLAB is a developer of software for
e-discovery
Electronic discovery (also ediscovery or e-discovery) refers to discovery in legal proceedings such as litigation, government investigations, or Freedom of Information Act requests, where the information sought is in electronic format (often refe ...
, information risk management, email management, records, contract, and document management, knowledge management, and workflow. The company is headquartered in
McLean, Virginia
McLean ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. McLean is home to many diplomats, military, members of Congress, and high-ranking government officials partially due to its proxi ...
, and in
Amsterdam
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, Netherlands.
History
In 1983 ZyLAB began providing a
full-text
In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts ...
search program for electronic files stored in IBM-compatible PCs called ZyINDEX. In 1991, ZyLAB integrated ZyINDEX with an
optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...
program called ZyIMAGE. In 1998, the company developed support to full-text search email, including attachments.
In 2000, the company adopted the
XML
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standard and created a full content management and records management system based on it.
In 2010, ZyLAB Information Management Platform was released, an integrated solution to address e-Discovery and information management problems.
InformationWeek
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The New York Times
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