Why Ontrack® Firstview™?
Ontrack Firstview is powerful, yet easy-to-use software that enables IT professionals to produce on-demand email investigations and analysis. It finds crucial emails fast, so potential legal issues can be dealt with quickly. When combined with Ontrack® Power Controls™, the software tool which recovers and restores lost emails, Kroll Ontrack provides a fully integrated solution to conduct fast and efficient email investigations of current or archived data.
Ontrack Firstview delivers cost-effective email investigations through low start-up requirements, intuitive design and advanced search capabilities.
- Conceptual Searching – Enables users to enter a keyword or phrase and obtain items that contain concepts related to that term, delivering faster and more accurate results than conventional searches because of the technology’s ability to identify associated terms and concepts, even if they do not match any words in the query.
- Advanced Visualization – Demonstrates, at a high level view, what topics and themes the messages contain and how they relate to each other, ultimately revealing connections that might have not been apparent using other review and analysis tools.
- Advanced Reporting – Provides legal and IT departments with the ability to output key information and comprehensive analytic graphs or charts in an easily readable format, aiding users in demonstrating conclusions and findings to corporate executives, opposing parties or judges at the end of an analysis or anywhere along the way.
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No additional system requirements |
Short set-up time, Ready on-demand |
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Intuitive navigation and functionality |
Easy-to-use, delivers significant resource savings |
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Intelligent reporting, summarising critical issues visually |
Identifies key issues quickly |
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Advanced search functions, including concept searching |
Ensures thorough investigation |
Contact our software Team on 01372 741 999 for further information or for a demo version of 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.
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 and possible reporting to the FSA, SFO or DTI. 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 analyse the information displayed on the communication, subject and timeline graphs. Using keyword searching and external e-mail evaluation, you are able to locate several key e-mails between the Controller and Chief Financial Officer, some reaching their personal e-mail accounts, 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 claim. Using Ontrack Firstview to see e-mail communication relating to the individuals and issues in the suit, counsel can form their legal strategies and determine whether to settle the case or investigate further to contest the claims.
For example, a former employee files a civil suit alleging gender discrimination against you or your client. To help you evaluate the merit of the claims, you ask your IT department to gain access to 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 analyse 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 in-house legal team.
ELECTRONIC DISCLOSURE
As litigation support, law firm, or in-house counsel, you can use Ontrack Firstview to prepare for e-disclosure 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-disclosure service provider, you will minimise e-disclosure costs for your organisation down the road.
For example, your organisation 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 organisation's e-disclosure service provider. After engaging the IT department to gain access to an e-mail storage database, you create a case in Ontrack Firstview named “E-Disclosure Collection” and begin identifying key data for disclosure. You isolate key timeframes and custodians by running various searches in Ontrack Firstview. Instead of sending the entire e-mail storage database for e-disclosure processing, you create a few smaller PST files for transport to your e-disclosure service provider, saving time and money while improving accuracy.
