Equivio>EmailThreads captures and reconstructs email conversations. By identifying the unique emails in a collection, the tool drastically reduces the number of emails that need to be reviewed.
The Equivio tool simplifies the review of emails, while allowing the review of the email within its original context. The result is a streamlined review process:
- Assign email threads for review, ensuring coherent review of email data.
- Within an email thread, review just the "Inclusives". An Inclusive is the last email in a thread. Equivio verifies that each Inclusive contains the entire history of the thread.
- Users can bulk handle all the emails in a thread, reducing time and cost, while also ensuring that all the emails in the thread are treated consistently.
Equivio's content-centric technology for email threads allows users to review only emails that contain unique content. Applied to data in the Enron case, Equivio was able to reduce the overall review effort by 60%. The content-centric approach is robust, eliminating any dependence on the idiosyncrasies of email metadata.
Benefits
By capturing and reconstructing email threads, Equivio eliminates data redundancy, exposing the unique data. The result:
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Reduced costs. Equivio directs the reviewer to what's important; viz. to documents that contain unique information, and to the unique information within each document. Proven in hundreds of cases, Equivio's technology consistently reduces review and handling costs by 30 to 50%.
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Consistent treatment. The Equivio groupings ensure consistent treatment of all the emails belonging to a thread. Email threads can be bulk handled, for example, in applying responsive/privilege tags in litigation review, classification policies in homeland security, and document release policies in response to a regulatory request.
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Enhanced findability of data: The email thread groupings enable more compact presentation of search results, with all the emails belong to a thread condensed under one item. This allows users to focus on the unique data they need, enhancing data findability and reducing the risk of missing critical information.
Use Scenarios
By reducing complexity, Equivio's technology gives the winning edge in data review and management applications:
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In data review, Equivio enables the suppression of redundancy, allowing users to focus on the information they need for the task at hand. The focus on unique data is critical for information workers, whether youג€™re an attorney defending your corporate client against a litigation suit or an intelligence analyst researching a homeland security issue.
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In data management, Equivio's ability to capture email threads ensures the consistent application of archiving policies, release decisions and treatment annotations.
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In data search, Equivio allows the structured presentation of emails retrieved by a search engine. Equivio enables the search results to be presented in a compact manner, grouped into the original thread structures from which the emails originated.
Applications
Equivio is offered as a specialized component for integration within third-party services and applications for:
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Litigation review: Equivioג€™s data groupings reduce the cost and enhance the quality of litigation review.
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Content management: The reconstruction of email threads enables the more compact organization of data in primary and secondary storage systems, including content management and litigation readiness applications.
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Intelligence: Equivioג€™s email thread technology is used in intelligence analysis applications to reduce data volumes and focus on unique data.
Integration
Equivio is built for straightforward plug-in as an OEM component, using the Equivio SDK, or as a standalone application, using the Equivio GUI, integrated within a broader third-party solution or service offering. | 
