Info for Service Bureaus

eDiscovery News Flash
Summation® has released of Summation® Blaze LG/iBlaze® Version 2.6, featuring a new dimension in electronic evidence management. Summation iBlaze seamlessly batch imports electronic evidence acquired and processed by eDiscovery vendors and service bureaus in both native electronic and image formats. The nucleus of the new import capability are enhancements to Summation's DII batch load file format, which now embeds extracted text into the DII file. More...

Options for Integrating EDD Data in a DII File
Service Bureaus have many options for delivering processed eDiscovery (email and electronic documents) into Summation. The following links are to White Papers that detail new DII load file options. The White Papers are intended to help service bureaus adapt or create their own export utilities, or better use those contained in leading eDiscovery processing software, to create DII files for their clients who are using Summation.

Class 1 – Converted Image & Text + Family Summary DocID’s
The class I DII file corresponds to the scanned paper paradigm used by many service bureaus for processing eDiscovery. In addition to image information, the service bureau adds parent and attachment Bates numbers to the DII record. This enables the Summation end-user to track family summary information – attachments related to the parent email and vice versa. More...

Class 2 – Native Files
The Class II DII file is used to load email and electronic documents as “eDocs & eMail” in Summation. When faced with large volume electronic discovery disputes, some judges and magistrates have suggested a preference for electronic document productions as searchable native files. At the same time, they have expressed resistance to converting native files to images due to the cost and resulting information loss, such as inability to search a tiff file. As with the Class I files, email family relationships are tracked. More...

Class 3 – Combined Native + Converted
The Class III DII file is the combination of Class I and Class II load file information. A Class 3 DII files combines the benefits of Class 2 native file review with Class 1 large volume conversion economy for redaction and trial presentation purposes. More...