Repository For Collected Data
The foundation of Servient’s E-Discovery Platform is the Litigation Hold Archive. A company or government agency can store and manage all the files collected for a single case or multiple legal matters.

Creating an archive separate from the standard business systems ensures a legally defensible process and reduces business disruption.

Custodian Organization
The data within the Servient Litigation Hold Archive is organized by Custodian and collection date. This organization enables the archive to serve as a repository for all of a company’s data held for all pending matters.

Supplemental collections for Custodians can be easily managed without duplicating data. Custodian-based archiving also allows for defensible purging of data when the litigation hold expires for a given Custodian.

Preserve Evidentiary Integrity
As collected data is imported into the Litigation Hold Archive, the collection history and local system settings are recorded.

All dates are stored in UTC format with the applicable time bias documented based on time zone associated with the collection.

MD5 hash values are created for each file providing verifiable authenticity and chain of custody tracking.

First Level Filter
Data collected can be filtered during import into the Servient Litigation Hold Archive to limit the volume of data that is archived during the pendency of the matter.

System file removal (De-NISTing), file type and date filters, as well as de-duplication against data already in the archive can be run as import settings.

All documents removed from the litigation hold set through application of the import filters are logged for process defensibility purposes.
Automated Data Processing
As files are introduced into the Litigation Hold Archive, all processing required to support the E-Discovery workflow is fully automated. The automated base processing includes:

File type identification
Password protected file identification
Advanced de-duplication (based upon file hashes and configurable content analysis)
Metadata extraction
Container file extraction (zip, rar, etc.)
Email extraction (pst, nsf, mbox, etc.)
Parent/attachment flagging
Embedded file extraction and flagging
Full-text indexing

“State of the Art” Text Analytics
Servient automates the processing necessary to support the advanced analytics that are core to the Servient Search & Cull and Document Review components.

The analytics processing includes parts of speech tagging, phrase identification, named entity extraction, n-gram analysis, conceptual clustering, thread detection, core term analysis, communication path tracking, as well as text classification feature identification and analysis.

Servient’s text analytics processing leverages the latest map reduce technology on the Hadoop-based distributed platform providing for massive scalability.
Evidence Tracking and Reporting
Detailed evidence tracking is built into the core of the Litigation Hold Archive. From collection history through each processing step, all aspects of evidence handling are documented. Reports of the logged data can be accessed through the Servient applications.