Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite — Crossgrade Subscription License (1 User, 3-Year) – Academic ALP

Discover the power of Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite with a crossgrade subscription designed for academic institutions and research teams seeking a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution for legal hold, data collection, processing, analysis, and review. This 3-year crossgrade license under the Veritas Academic Licensing Program (ALP) enables a single user to access the full suite of eDiscovery features at an attractive academic price, ensuring your team can manage complex investigations and regulatory requests without interruption. With long-term validation for uptime and performance, this offering helps universities, colleges, and research organizations stay compliant, accelerate case workflows, and protect sensitive information across diverse data sources.

• Comprehensive eDiscovery capabilities: Leveraging the Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite means end-to-end handling of data discovery, including early case assessment, evidence collection, targeted search, data triage, deduplication, near-duplicate detection, email threading, social and collaboration data processing, and defensible redaction. The platform is designed to streamline investigations, reduce manual review, and improve accuracy, so your team can focus on what matters most—delivering timely, compliant results for campus investigations, regulatory inquiries, and academic research compliance.
• Crossgrade license with academic pricing: This subscription is tailored for academic use, enabling institutions and researchers to access enterprise-grade eDiscovery tools at a fraction of the cost typical in commercial deployments. The crossgrade model supports existing software investments while transitioning to Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite under the Veritas Academic Licensing Program (ALP), helping you maximize value while meeting budgetary constraints common in higher education.
• 1-user access with a 3-year term: The license is issued for a single named user and secured for a 3-year validation period. This arrangement provides predictable budgeting, stable access, and a clear renewal horizon, ensuring ongoing availability of critical eDiscovery functionality for semesters, research cycles, and long-running investigations without periodic disruption.
• Advanced security and governance: The platform emphasizes robust security controls, data governance, and compliance readiness. Features typically include role-based access control, detailed audit trails, encryption in transit and at rest, defensible data retention policies, and accurate chain-of-custody tracking—essential for university records, legal holds, student privacy, and external reporting requirements.
• Seamless deployment and university-wide value: Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite is designed to scale with your institution’s needs, enabling deployment across departments, research centers, and legal offices. Its versatility supports multi-source data processing—from email systems and file shares to cloud repositories and collaboration platforms—providing a centralized, auditable environment for discovery workflows, case management, and regulatory compliance across campus ecosystems.

Technical Details of Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite

• License Type: Crossgrade Subscription
• Users: 1 User
• Term: 3 Years
• Eligibility: Academic Licensing Program (ALP)
• Access & Activation: Online license management through Veritas portal with continuous updates during the term

How to Install Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite

To begin using Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite under this academic crossgrade, follow these practical steps to ensure a smooth setup and immediate productivity:

Step 1: Verify eligibility and access the Veritas Academic Licensing Program portal with your institution credentials. This ensures you receive the correct crossgrade license key and user assignment for the 3-year term. Step 2: Retrieve the installation package and license activation details from the Veritas customer portal, ensuring you are downloading the version compatible with your operating environment and data sources. Step 3: Prepare your workstation or server by reviewing system requirements, supported operating systems, and any prerequisite software or drivers that ensure optimal performance. Step 4: Run the installer, follow the guided setup, and configure the core components such as data connectors, processing pipelines, and initial case parameters. Step 5: Activate the license within the product using the license key or account association, then verify license status and the 3-year term in the administration console. Step 6: Create the first user profile with appropriate access rights, connect to data sources (mail, file shares, cloud repositories, and collaboration platforms), and establish security and retention policies to align with campus privacy and compliance standards. Step 7: Perform a small pilot collection and processing run to validate ingestion, indexing, search, and review workflows before scaling to larger investigations or datasets. Step 8: Schedule regular maintenance tasks, update checks, and ensure backup strategies are in place to protect case data throughout the term. Step 9: Train the assigned user on essential workflows—data collection, culling, review, redaction, and export—so your team can begin handling cases efficiently from day one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is included in the Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite crossgrade license?

A: The crossgrade license provides access to the core Veritas Alta eDiscovery Suite features for a single user over a 3-year term under the Veritas ALP. It covers essential discovery workflows such as data collection, processing, analysis, review, and export, along with standard updates during the term. The offering is designed for academic use, balancing robust capabilities with favorable pricing for universities, colleges, and research groups.

Q: How long does the license last and can it be renewed?

A: The license term is 3 years from activation. Renewal options typically become available toward the end of the term, and institutions can assess needs based on ongoing cases, research cycles, or expanded user access. Renewal arrangements may include updated pricing or new licensing terms under the academic program.

Q: What is the Veritas Academic Licensing Program (ALP)?

A: The Veritas ALP is designed to offer eligible academic institutions access to Veritas software at reduced pricing, with terms aligned to academic calendars and research cycles. ALP aims to support education, learning outcomes, and scholarly work by providing enterprise-grade tools in a cost-conscious manner while maintaining essential features and updates.

Q: Can the license be used on multiple devices or by multiple users?

A: This particular offering is a 1-user licensed subscription. It is intended for a single named user who can access the suite during the 3-year term. If your institution requires additional concurrent access, you would typically need to purchase additional user licenses or an appropriate license expansion under the ALP terms.

Q: How are updates, support, and maintenance handled during the term?

A: Subscriptions generally include access to software updates and standard support as part of the term. Updates help ensure compatibility with evolving data formats and security standards, while support provides assistance with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting within the scope of the license. Specific service levels and response times may vary by program and region.

Q: What are best practices for deploying Alta eDiscovery Suite in an academic setting?

A: Start with a well-defined discovery policy that aligns with campus privacy, records retention, and research governance. Use a phased rollout: pilot with a small dataset, validate ingestion and processing, train the designated user, and gradually broaden access while enforcing role-based permissions. Integrate with common email and collaboration platforms used on campus, establish clear data retention and export requirements, and implement robust auditing to support compliance and reporting needs.