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:
- Assign email threads for review, ensuring coherent review of email data.
- Start review of an email thread by reading the first "Inclusive". An Inclusive is the last email in a thread. Equivio verifies that each Inclusive contains the entire history of the thread.
- Review the other Inclusives in the thread with the Equivio>Compare tool. Equivio>Compare highlights between emails, eliminating the wasteful review of email data that the user has already seen. The user reviews unique data only.
- 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, while also facilitating thread analysis on OCR collections.
Benefits: Read less. Think more. Win bigTM
By capturing and reconstructing email threads, Equivio eliminates data redundancy, exposing the unique data. The result:
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Less costs. Equivio technology 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 preservation, coding and annotation of very similar documents. The need for consistency applies throughout the data cycle, from the feed of emails into the retention archive, through the implementation of storage policies, and the treatment of documents in a specific litigation or regulatory event.
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Enhanced findability of data: By allowing the virtual suppression of redundant data, Equivio helps users cut directly to the information they need. The focus on unique data enhances data findability, and reduces 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 zoom in on the information they need to build and argue their case.
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In data management, Equivio's ability to group similar documents reduces the implementation costs for data preservation systems, while ensuring the consistent application of archiving, declassification and treatment policies.
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In data search, Equivio allows the structured presentation of files retrieved by a search engine. Equivio enables the search results to be presented in a compact manner, grouped into sets of near-duplicate documents and email threads.
Applications
Equivio is offered as a specialized component for integration within third-party services and applications for:
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E-discovery: including ediscovery and internal investigations. Equivio is used to support both service providers and product vendors
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Document retention: including litigation readiness, email archiving and document preservation
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Intelligence: including applications for data analysis, data mining and de-classification
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. | 
