What is unstructured data and why is it important to eDiscovery?
Today’s digital evidence spans a multitude of devices, platforms and data sources and can take the form of unstructured data (such as modern data, user-generated data, or dark data.). The breadth of potential evidence continues to expand and includes everything from a myriad of communication platforms, social media chat applications, users’ online activities, computer forensic artifacts and financial transactions.
In the context of eDiscovery, unstructured data is found in emails, documents, and other files. With the growth in use of communication channels like Slack, Teams, Google Chat, social media, chat applications on devices, and many others, there is a mix of both structured and unstructured data once it is exported or collected. Slack data, for instance, is exported as semi-structured JSON files, and when remediated for most eDiscovery platforms, it is converted to documents (unstructured) so they can be loaded into a linear document review. When everything is converted to a document, the process becomes voluminous, difficult to review and expensive.
This is the challenge we’ve solved by taking a different approach.
CloudNine Analyst: The most effective eDiscovery solution to handle short message data
The solution to managing a mix of structured and unstructured data? CloudNine Analyst, the leading eDiscovery and Investigation platform that allows you to effortlessly process, analyze, review, and produce any type of data. CloudNine Analyst ingests a multitude of modern data sources that are often dealt with in a siloed fashion, bringing them to life in a single platform to tell the entire story. It does so in an effective and intuitive timeline manner, quickly surfacing evidence-based information allowing legal teams to focus on the merits of a matter rather than the costs.
While other eDiscovery platforms make short message review difficult by generating numerous documents and sub-documents,
CloudNine Analyst enables legal and investigative teams to review in a nearly native format and produce in popular document forms such as HTML, PDF, Tiff, and more. Case teams can efficiently ingest and organize millions of short message data by conversations between two or more participants multi-direct participants and channels, regardless of the number or people involved. The review experience is optimized to mirror what is seen in the communication applications, granting teams valuable insights into the context of the communication. Reviewers can even see if a conversation starts in email, switches to Slack and then ends in a 35-minute phone call.
Notably, CloudNine Analyst doesn’t just handle today’s short message data formats; it goes beyond by providing comprehensive context with geolocation data, social media posts, comments, replies, financial transactions, and user-generated activities sourced from devices, laptops, servers, and other platforms. Legal teams, for instance, gain the ability to see a person’s location around the time a text message was sent, or a social media post was made.
Upon completing the analysis or review, CloudNine Analyst allows seamless export of all data into document formats for production or integration into a traditional document review platform such as CloudNine Review.
Examples of easily importable data into CloudNine Analyst:
- Mobile Communication Apps: WhatsApp, WeChat, text messaging (SMS), Facebook Messenger
- Corporate Communication Apps: Slack, Teams, and more
- Geolocation Data: From devices, cell towers, call detail records (CDR)
- Social Media Data: Meta / Facebook, TikTok, Twitter / X, Truth Social
- User Activities: Registry Files, shellbags, link files, and any user activity recorded on devices, hard drives, servers, or cloud service providers
- Financial Transactions: Debits and credits typically found in spreadsheets
Specific analysis use cases include Slack eDiscovery, Facebook eDiscovery, Short Message Data eDiscovery, and so much more.
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