Summary of Benefits:
DataMapper
Legal teams take control EDD processing to ensure only relevant documents are processed.
Run "what-if" scenarios to accurately cull-down the collection.
Ability to de-dupe the collection prior to processing.
Minimize costs by avoiding the export of irrelevant documents.
Seamless import of selected files into review environment.
Generate real-time reports on processed documents.
To avoid these unnecessary costs, implementing a culling process is critical. By first culling the original collection before processing, legal teams are able to identify potentially relevant documents that meet certain criteria based on keywords, custodian, date ranges, concepts and more.
In most cases, electronic discovery processing vendors will manually cull the collection behind-the-scenes and provide aggregate reports on the results. This typical culling process can easily take several weeks of communicating back and forth until an acceptable level of documents are winnowed into smaller subsets. This not only delays the processing of electronic collections, but case administrators are rarely completely clear on the type of data they are working with until they begin review of these documents.
With DataMapper, legal teams can now have hands-on access to the culling process. DataMapper extracts and indexes metadata and text from native files, creates concept folders and provides users with the ability to search and analyze document collections prior to full EDD processing — resulting in tremendous time and cost savings.
Without the need for the communication back and forth with the vendor, legal teams can manipulate data in real time and run "what-if" scenarios before committing to processing costs. Once the legal team is comfortable with their selections, those documents are quickly processed and seamlessly made available in the Discovery360 review module.