E-mail discovery vendor Clearwell Systems this week rolled out a new version of its appliance that makes discovery of message and documents easier for users.

Clearwell announced Version 2.0 of its Clearwell Intelligence Platform, which analyzes e-mail and documents. With the Clearwell appliance, customers can place documents in context and determine how a particular document traversed through the organization.

The Clearwell Intelligence Platform is a 2U (3.5-inch) high rack-mounted appliance supports technology that crawls the network, sifting through messages, attachments and documents. It creates a master index that includes information on e-mails such as recipients, subject and sent date and time. This index then can be used to retrieve content needed for legal discovery.

The Clearwell appliance also looks through Microsoft’s Active Directory and extracts information about users, including aliases, departments and distribution lists.

New to the Clearwell appliance is the ability to do early case assessment, the ability to cull-down searches by domain, group, participant and tags and the ability to create multiple modes for reviewing documents.

The product works with e-mail archiving products from EMC, HP, Microsoft, Symantec and Zantaz.

The Clearwell Intelligence Platform starts at $50,000 for 100GB of e-mail and documents analyzed.