The company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 1983 ZyLAB began providing a full-text search program for electronic files stored in IBM-compatible PCs called ZyINDEX.
In 1991, ZyLAB integrated ZyINDEX with an optical character recognition program called ZyIMAGE.
In 1998, the company developed support to full-text search email, including attachments.
In 2010, ZyLAB Information Management Platform was released, an integrated solution to address e-Discovery and information management problems.