Last week, LTN editorial assistant Heather Schultz and I held a phone briefing with Planet Data CEO Howard Reissner and president Zoltan Horvath. They co-founded the company in 2001, initially providing printing, consulting, imaging, coding, and repository services. Horvath explained that the company works primarily in the preservation and collection through production portions of the Socha/Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Reference Model. The company's offerings were expanded in 1998, when it acquired Cerulean, a litigation data processing firm, and began offering e-discovery and data processing services using Cerulean software. This January, the company debuted Exego, its early case assessment software. Offered as a SaaS, (a desktop version is in works), it helps users identify responsive documents during the early stages of a case, to reduce the amount of data they must  review later. Horvath says Planet Data's primary competitors include Epic Systems, First Advantage, and Kroll Ontrack. Read the full story originally posted by EDD Update.