Why Ontrack® Firstview™?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could quickly and easily display e-mail messages to see relationships between people, events, and communication patterns when faced with an internal investigation or litigation? Now you can.
Experience the power of Ontrack Firstview’s data analytics and advanced visualization technology.
INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
Unlock a window into important e-mail communications using Ontrack Firstview. Who was involved? What was said? When was it said? Who else did they tell? Ontrack Firstview can help you determine the answers to these crucial, case-altering questions.
For example, the CEO of your company informs you that the Board of Directors for your company is interested in all information relating to stock option packages issued in the last two years. The CEO indicates that the company Controller may have backdated the grant date on some executives’ stock options. He asks you to determine the scope of the problem in preparation for the Board of Directors meeting. After engaging your IT department to gain access to several key e-mail accounts, you create a case in Ontrack Firstview named “Stock Option Investigation” and analyze the information displayed on the communication, subject, and timeline graphs. You are able to locate several key e-mails between the Controller and Chief Financial Officer revealing a blatant stock option backdating scheme.
EARLY CASE ASSESSMENT
When litigation is likely, or as soon as a complaint arrives on your desk, you need to assess the merits of the case against your corporation. Using Ontrack Firstview to see e-mail communication relating to the issues in the suit, general counsel can form their legal strategies and determine whether to settle the case or hire outside counsel to contest the claims.
For example, a formal employee files a civil suit alleging gender discrimination against your corporate client, to help you evaluate the merit of the claims, you ask your IT department to access the former employee’s e-mail mailbox, as well as the mailboxes of all of the former employee’s immediate co-workers and direct supervisor. You open Ontrack Firstview, create a case named “Employee Gender Discrimination”, and begin to analyze the communications between the employees implicated in the suit. Using the timeline, subject, and communications graphs in Ontrack Firstview, you chart the key discriminating communications and present this information to the CEO and outside counsel.
ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY
As a paralegal or in-house counsel, you can use Ontrack Firstview to prepare for e-discovery by pre-filtering the data and intelligently identifying custodians based on communication patterns, time periods and sent and received e-mail information. By targeting your data collection efforts and only submitting custodians that you know contain potentially relevant data to your e-discovery service provider, you will minimize e-discovery costs for your corporation down the road.
For example, your corporation is sued for trademark and patent infringement. It is your responsibility to identify custodians, keywords, and timeframes and begin preparing and collecting data to be sent to the corporation’s e-discovery service provider. After engaging your IT department to gain access to an e-mail storage database, you create a case in Ontrack Firstview named “E-Discovery Collection” and begin identifying key data for discovery. You isolate key timeframes and data custodians by running searches in Ontrack Firstview. Instead of sending the entire e-mail storage database for e-discovery processing, you create a few smaller PST files for transport to your e-discovery service provider.
