Social Media: Highly Relevant, Clearly Discoverable but No Workable eDiscovery Workflow – Until Now
As reflected by extensive recent discussion in the legal and eDiscovery community in recent months, it is clear we all understand social media evidence is relevant to just about any type of civil and criminal case and thus must be routinely addressed in discovery. However, despite the obvious necessity for social media eDiscovery, legal and investigative professionals have lacked an effective means to effectively address social media evidence in their workflow in the same manner as email and files.
Recently, we launched X1 Social Discovery to enable a far more efficient, cost-effective and defensible process to address social media evidence. In a nutshell, X1 Social Discovery provides two core benefits. First, it is very fast, comprehensive and intuitive, collecting and indexing tens of thousands of potentially relevant social media items per hour and searching them with the instantaneous and patented X1 Search technology all in a very simple user interface. Secondly, it provides best practices for the preservation and authentication of social media, generating hash values for all collected items, collecting and preserving dozens of unique social media metadata fields and documenting a clear and concise chain of custody from collection through export to load file or native format.
In sum, we believe X1 Social Discovery represents enabling technology that addresses a critical need with an order of magnitude solution — One that allows for eDiscovery and legal professionals to not only reactively but proactively harvest the vast ocean of social media evidence in a rapid, defensible and cost-effective manner. We hope you agree and look forward to your comments, suggestions and continued support.
By Guest Blogger: X1 Social Discovery
