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Catalyst Announces Insight™ Preview Release
Fourth Generation E-Discovery Platform Debuts at New York LegalTech
DENVER—January 31, 2011—Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based document repositories for e-discovery and other complex legal matters, today announced the Preview Release of Catalyst Insight, its new, automated discovery platform. The announcement was made to herald the opening day of the 2011 LegalTech conference in New York City.
“Catalyst Insight has been two years in the making,” said John Tredennick, Catalyst’s founder and CEO. “We set out to completely rewrite our flagship product using the newest search technology on the market. The goal, quite simply, was to create an entirely new e-discovery platform, one that could scale to handle the largest matters in the world without the compromises usually required by traditional industrial-grade, full-text search engines. Insight takes a revolutionary approach to search using one of the first XML data engines on the market.”
“This technology is unique,” said Larry Barela, Catalyst’s CTO and application development lead. “The fact that this is a true XML search and database engine solves a number of tough issues that have challenged search efforts since the beginning.”
Full-text search engines have always been fast but their indexes get out of synch with the data, Barela explained. Many systems have to be shut down before they can be updated for user changes. In contrast, the Insight search engine is transactional—when a user changes a record and saves it, that record is immediately indexed and searchable. “This is a huge deal for our clients with large volumes of documents and heavy review,” Barela added. “It means that searches are always up to date, no matter how many reviewers are updating records.”
The XML data engine also solves a number of other major problems that bedevil users torn between using a database or full-text software to manage large document populations. Specifically the Insight XML engine offers the following features:
- Grid-Based for Unlimited Scalability: Insight is grid based with the capability to easily scale to almost any volume of documents, with capacity limits that greatly exceed existing e-discovery products.
- Google-Like Speed: Insight provides split-second search for any volume of documents. One publicly available instance of the underlying XML engine searches over 54 million documents in split seconds, with the volume growing every day. The entire system is lightning fast, using the latest AJAX and JavaScript technology to provide far-faster paging and loading than most local appliances.
- Flexible but Powerful Search: Insight provides one of the most powerful search engines ever. With a mouse click, users can search across all fields and text or any combination of fields and text; use ranges, stems and proximity; and search across folders and secure document collections. At the same time, private fields and document collections (used for multi-party matters) are completely secure and searchable only by those who have rights. Wizards and helpers make complex search simple and reduce training from hours to minutes.
- True XML Data Structure: Because the system is pure XML, Insight offers unprecedented flexibility. Fields can be added on the fly without any need to rebuild and re-architect the underlying database. There is no separate database in Insight.
- Powerful Analytics: Insight provides powerful analytics not formerly available with most e-discovery products. It features field and text “facets” (providing instant value counts), visual analytics like interactive timelines and social networks, entity and term facets extracted from underlying text, and key concept and key document clustering. The engine was built from the ground up to provide these capabilities. The system is designed to facilitate complex FCPA investigations along with multi-national regulatory investigations and multi-party litigation.
- Multi-Matter Capabilities: Insight’s XML architecture is the first on the market to offer true multi-matter support for large corporations that have many or large cases. Documents can be stored in a central repository and linked to one or more cases for review and production. Objective field information can be controlled centrally. Privilege reviews can happen once and be applied to all uses of the document for consistency and cost savings. Corporations can organize and track multi-case reviews and see how documents are used and produced in different cases, all from the central repository.
- Multi-Language Search and Review: The Insight engine provides some of the most versatile multi-language search capabilities in the market. It supports search and review of over 300 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew and all of the Western European languages. It uses the most advanced language detection and tokenization technology on the market and is perfect for global discovery projects.
- Language Localization: Insight is the first engine built from the ground up for multi-language users. Users can interact with Insight using their own language. The Preview Release is configured to support Japanese, Chinese (Traditional or Simplified) and Hindu along with English. All labels, text and menu items change to the desired language with a click of a button.
- End-to-End Automation: Insight is the first completely automated e-discovery platform delivered securely from a cloud environment. Users can set up cases, load and process raw data, search and analyze their documents and organize them for assigned review, after creating specialized review forms with hot keys, macros, and specialized review rules. Documents can be produced from Insight directly by the user with no manual intervention.
- Secure, Cloud-Based: Insight is one of the first comprehensive e-discovery platforms to take advantage of the economies and scalability of cloud computing. Key parts of Insight now run off the Amazon cloud (S3 and EC2) with full Amazon deployment scheduled for later in the year.
- Stunning User Interface: Insight’s UI has been completely rewritten using the latest JavaScript and jQuery technology. It is designed to support desktop-like features such as drag and drop, individual views and forms, column sizing and customizable logos and color schemes using style sheets.
- Supports Multiple Browsers: Windows, Mac and Linux: Insight is one of the first of the major e-discovery products designed to run on a variety of browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. For the first time, Mac or Linux users can use an e-discovery product without changing to Windows mode. The system also runs natively on the iPad and Android operating systems.
“We took advantage of ten years of experience when we sat down to design Insight,” said John Tredennick. “The first year we focused on plumbing with the goal of automating every aspect of the back-office operations. We designed a processing pipeline that could take raw data sent over the Net from clients and process it according to their specifications before automatically loading it into Insight. From there we built an API into the search engine that would let our administrators use familiar language to interact with the engine rather than its native X-Query. Because the product runs on a unified platform, everything can be done by interacting with Insight, there is no database, search engine dichotomy to manage and synch.”
Ultimately the battle for the e-discovery market is one between local appliances and the cloud. In the past, corporations and law firms bought locally installed systems because they seemed quicker (because of LAN speeds) and offered local control. In contrast, cloud-based, hosted systems had the edge for large document populations, particularly those involving special needs like multi-party support and multi-language capabilities.
Today, with the release of Insight, the playing field has changed. Users enjoy the full control of a locally installed appliance with greater speed in most cases due to the power of industrial-grade server software and often superior delivery bandwidth, particularly because most organizations now enjoy high-speed Internet bandwidth. In addition, Insight users get the power of server grids and scalable cluster technology, backed by a virtual services infrastructure that will allow them to convert, redact, stamp and TIFF large quantities of documents without having to purchase and manage thousands of computers or expensive SAN units. Plus, they get the benefit of multiple redundancies ranging from load-balanced web servers to the services grid and the multi-data center provisioning from Amazon Web Services.
Initial response to the beta release has been overwhelming. Catalyst representatives will be soliciting user reactions and feedback at LegalTech and during the final development phase before putting the integrated platform in the hands of partners and users for trial testing. The product is slated for release in the second quarter of 2011.
About Catalyst
Catalyst provides secure, scalable multi-lingual document repositories for electronic discovery, litigation support, and other complex regulatory matters. For over a decade, corporations and their counsel have relied on Catalyst to control litigation costs and make review teams more effective. Our systems and supporting services cover the heart of the litigation lifecycle-from processing and search, to analytics, review, production and trial.
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