In this session we will use their PDF instruction manual to review the processes involved in its use and to get a good sense of its capabilities and how it might be used in ECA. It is not designed for ECA but in some ways, if you have the software for other purposes, it can be of help. See the note below from Stan who is with this company.
download software:
http://discoveryassistant.com/Download/Downloads.php
In the process of Discovery, more and more leading law firms use text-analytics and other text classification tools to organize documents before they are reviewed.
By doing so, privileged, confidential and responsive documents can be reviewed faster than by reviewing them in the more traditional linear review process.
The Discovery Assistant First Pass Coding and Review Module is an interactive appliance that can do lightweight review triage on native collections prior to full-featured review.
Documents can quickly be deemed responsive or non-responsive by identification of Duplicates and Near-Duplicates using 100's of search strings, in batch mode, where the appropriate search term can be captured in the metadata for that record.
There's no theoretical limit to the number of search strings used with Discovery Assistant.
The ability to identify and group Near-Duplicate Documents produces better results by eliminating redundancy in the eDiscovery review process and reduce overall review costs by as much as 30%.
Also, OCR collections typically do not produce exact duplicates and Near-Duplicate Document Detection will identify duplicates and further reduce review time and costs.
With Near-Duplicate Document Detection, Discovery Assistant has become an important and cost effective tool for corporate counsels, government agencies, law firms and litigation service providers in their data reduction strategy.
The various tools available for review, analysis, searching, filtering, culling and processing are fully integrated and intuitively placed in Discovery Assistant for ease of use and implementation.
I asked them to email me further information about this product and received this email:
Karl,
Thank you for your interest in the ImageMAKER Discovery Assistant product.
Our support and development team will be standing by (after the weekend) should you need assistance regarding the installation or use of the product.
A senior support person will be pleased to do an on-line walk through of the product with you, on a day and time convenient to you, in order to get you up and running fast.
During the on-line walk through you can ask us to address any specific features you are looking for.
Feel free to contact our team directly at 604-525-2108 or by e-mail: support@imgmaker.com to arrange for a walk through or if you need our help.
How to videos are available at http://www.discoveryassistant.com/YouTube.php
The ImageMAKER Discovery Assistant is designed specifically for litigation support professionals to capture and process Windows-based electronic files including email messages, attachments and ZIP files.
It is built using ImageMAKER's proprietary and proven TIFF conversion technology that for the past 20 years has been successfully implemented throughout the world by leading technology companies for Fax, Unified Messaging, Email and Document Delivery and Storage applications.
The ImageMAKER Discovery Assistant is a feature-rich, robust, scalable and easy to use e-discovery software solution that enables the user to quickly capture all electronic files from CD's and local or network drives, search for pertinent data and convert them to TIFF or PDF, stamp a unique Bates Number on each page and export the resulting data, including hidden Metadata, to one of the leading case management software packages, including Relativity, Ringtail, Summation and Concordance, ready for detailed review and analysis by the legal team.
Optional output to Postscript file format for high volume blowback printing.
In summary, the Discovery Assistant
· Quickly searches through large collections of electronic evidence.
o Advanced processing features include:
o De-Nisting - comparing hash values of known files against files to be processed.
o Duplicate detection - identification of duplicates using MD5 Hash.
o Keyword Search Filtering - batch search for relevant documents.
o Near Duplicate detection - group like documents by a GroupID value. Identify pivot documents and reduce review costs.
o Metadata Filtering - search by date/time, subject, recipient, or other metadata fields.
o Email Threading for faster review - earlier emails in a thread can be skipped because their content is repeated in a later email in the thread.
o Multi-user Native review module for first pass coding, supporting 1000's of customizable metadata tags.
o Rapid processing of docs to metadata, text, and native format for export to standard load file formats. (Native extraction of text from docs - doesn't require tiffing).
o Language detection - looks for and flags over 10 different languages for easy reviewing.
· Converts e-mails and attachments, electronic documents, scanned images to TIFF or PDF, (optional extraction of Metadata and Text).
· Keeps track of every single file, maintains parent child relationship with full audit trail and reporting tools.
· Export results to leading case management tools including Relativity, Ringtail, Concordance, Summation and others.
· Informative tabbed interface, with the ability to drill down into details.
· Litigation ready, market proven software, developed with the user in mind.
· Fully functional free demo download.
· Easy to install, and simple to use software.
· Priority access to senior development staff to get you up and running fast.
· Customization where needed.
· Unlimited conversions for US$6,000 with no hidden or per-click charges (see http://www.discoveryassistant.com for details).
The ImageMAKER Discovery Assistant reduces e-discovery production time and costs.
It is built using a proven conversion engine that is fast, reliable and comprehensive.
Discovery Assistant supports distributed processing
It can be scaled to handle the most demanding project and capable of processing several projects simultaneously.
ImageMAKER offers custom development services that are designed to ensure rapid and seamless integration of our software with your operation and meet your specific requirements.
Thank you again and I look forward to speaking with you soon.
Best regards,
Stan
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Stan Hilckmann
ImageMAKER Development Inc.
Direct: +1-604-798-2469
Sales: +1-604-525-2170
Support: +1-604-525-2108
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ImageMAKER Discovery Assistant, Electronic Discovery & Litigation Support Software http://www.discoveryassistant.com
IBM Enterprise Content Management Partner
Certified Ringtail Service Partner
Relativity Service Partner
thank you for your comments, Karl.
In regard to early case assessment, the software does not perform a risk-benefit analysis, but assists in all other necessary steps like first pass coding and review, etc.
Leading law firms use text-analytics and other text classification tools to organize documents before they are reviewed.
By doing so, privileged, confidential and responsive documents can be reviewed faster than by reviewing them in the more traditional linear review process.
The Discovery Assistant First Pass Coding and Review Module is an interactive appliance that can do lightweight review triage on native collections prior to full-featured review.
Documents can quickly be deemed responsive or non-responsive by using 100's of search strings, in batch mode, where the appropriate search term can be captured in the metadata for that record.
There's no theoretical limit to the number of search strings used with Discovery Assistant.
The ability to identify and group Near-Duplicate Documents produces better results by eliminating redundancy in the eDiscovery review process and reduces overall review costs by as much as 30%.
Also, OCR collections (scanned documents) typically do not produce exact duplicates and Near-Duplicate Document Detection will identify duplicates and further reduce review time and costs.
With Near-Duplicate Document Detection, Discovery Assistant has become an important and cost effective tool for corporate counsels, government agencies, law firms and litigation service providers in their data reduction strategy.
The benefits of email threading can be summarized as follows:
· Faster review - earlier emails in a thread can be skipped because their content is repeated in a later email in the thread.
· Consistency - the reviewer has the option of treating all emails in the thread consistently.
· Decision-making Quality - reviewers can understand the context of the entire email conversation and therefore make more informed decisions on things like relevance and privilege.
Assuming all of the emails added an equal amount of content to the thread, the last email in a thread of five emails would have 33% of the overall content of the thread with a theoretical time savings potential of 67% in reviewing Email content.
The various tools available for review, analysis, searching, filtering, culling and processing are fully integrated and intuitively placed in Discovery Assistant for ease of use and implementation.
I have taken the liberty of attaching a detailed description of Near Duplicate Document Detection and email threading for your perusal.
In regard to the video’s, they are indeed 10 years old and address the basics of eDiscovery as implemented with our product offering.
Over 10 years we have been and continue to improve Discovery Assistant based on our customers’ feedback.
Thank you again for your comments and feel free to get back to us if you have any further questions.
Best regards,
Stan