Cut Review Costs by Eliminating Redundant Data.

With review costs exceeding 12 billion dollars a year, corporations and their counsel are looking for new and better ways to pare down review. As part of our Catalytics^TMsuite of analytics tools, Catalyst offers Equivio's Near-Dupe and Email Thread technology. In many cases, it can help clients reduce review populations by as much as 50%.

Review populations often contain documents with similar, but not identical, content (near dupes) and emails on the same topic (conversations). Equivio's technology allows us to group similar documents and emails so your teams can review and tag them consistently-at less cost.

Group Near Duplicate Documents for Faster Review

Equivio offers the capability to detect near duplicates and organize them into sets for efficient and consistent tagging.

Near dupes are documents which are similar in content, like contract drafts. Equivio determines the "pivot" document, the one master with the most text, for each grouping. Start with the pivot document. If it is responsive, you can review the near dupes quickly for differences and tag them all with a single click.
If the pivot is irrelevant, you can discard the near dupes quickly as well.

To learn how Equivio's near duplicate technology reduced a review population by almost 30% and helped a federal agency cut hundreds of hours of review time read this case study.

Review and Tag Email Threads Quickly

Emails often contain redundant information replies upon replies upon replies. Equivio can group these threads and present them for quick review and tagging. We show the master email in red, which typically includes the text from all prior messages. Reviewers begin with the master and can then tag all the emails in that thread consistently and quickly.

In a test involving the Enron email population, Equivio was able to reduce the overall review effort by 60% by grouping similar email conversations.

To learn how Equivio's technology cut review time for a second request dramatically by grouping emails into threads (30% grouping) read this case study.

Case Studies

• Equivio Near Duplicate Detection Helps Federal Agency Review 48,000 Documents Quickly
  
  A federal agency involved in a contract dispute has only two weeks to search the opposing party's production for evidence and find that Equivio saved hundreds of hours in review time.
• Using Equivio's Email-Thread Grouping to Reduce First-Level Review by One Third
  
  Using Equivio's email-thread grouping, our partner was able to help its legal team meet a tough deadline and finish a review of more than 180,000 documents in thirty days.

The Catalyst Advantage: Equivio Backed by Powerful Review and Analytics

Proven in thousands of cases, Equivio's technology can help reduce review costs substantially by grouping near dupes and email threads together. We offer it as a premium service that can be combined with Catalyst's other search and analytic capabilities at your option. Ultimately you get a powerful review platform designed to make your team more efficient and effective. That's the Catalyst Advantage. Download a printable PDF on Equivio near duplicate and email thread detection.

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