Speed

In the Information Risk Management market, speed has one clear, important definition: getting the information you need quickly and index accurately. Using a high-performance solution can provide the enterprise with the critical strategic edge at the outset of litigation to make a more informed decision.

How Do Manual Legacy Techniques Approach the Problem of Performance?

When faced with litigation, companies typically must first collect, load, process and filter data before they can start to review the case. During the search itself, some search engines compensate for performance limitations by prematurely halting the retrieval process as soon as "enough" results have been amassed, resulting in an arbitrary and incomplete set of documents. Likewise, during the indexing process, many technologies choose not to index the entire content of the document, but only the first X number of pages. In legal cases, where a single document has the potential to drastically change the direction of a case, this masking of performance flaws can prove fatal to the enterprise.

How Does Autonomy ZANTAZ Resolve the Challenge of Performance?

Autonomy ZANTAZ takes full advantage of the parallel processing and intelligent, distributed design of IDOL. A single IDOL instance can accurately index at speeds in excess of 60 GB/hour, execute over 2,000 queries per second on the index and most importantly query the entire index rather than just a portion of it, ensuring that if relevant information is available within an enterprise's collection of repositories, it will be found. In addition, IDOL stores all of the content of a file along with its metadata and concepts, ensuring rapid and precise searching. IDOL also guarantees index commit time of sub 5ms, meaning an asset can immediately be queried after it is indexed. Should there be a change to text or metadata in the content, search results will be immediately updated. During the search itself, IDOL presents a complete and uncompromised set of results (full discovery) with no premature cessation (jump-out).

Leveraging IDOL technology, Autonomy ZANTAZ products can expeditiously:

• Apply a legal hold – an organization can mitigate its risk and rest assured that the information is preserved
• Perform early case assessment – with quick access to data stored in an email archive, file systems, and even corporate voicemails, a legal team can quickly review and make informed decisions
• Negotiate discovery parameters – in some cases, an organization may engage in a negotiation process to reduce the scope of information included in the discovery request. With more efficient access to its data, an organization can more effectively negotiate the corpus and save time and costs
• Deliver on the discovery request – with the recent amendments to the FRCP, the timeline for turning around a discovery request has been shortened considerably. An organization's inability to meet these deadlines can lead to higher IT and legal costs, or even a lost case
• Rapidly load and process massive amounts of data from external sources – the ability to collect and ingest information from external entities and eventually ESI from opposing counsel is a critical element in preparing the complete body of information for analysis and assessment
• Export to a litigation management tool – in some cases, an organization requires more elaborate review and preparation prior to production, including Bates numbering, redaction and generating TIFF images. The seamless exchange of information into a litigation management product such as ZANTAZ Introspect for further processing can further lower risk and cost for an organization