Soft Data, Warm Data, Little Thread of Emails: The Big Bang Theory Meets ILTACon

Monday, September 12, 2016 by Thought Leadership Team

The hit CBS show, The Big Bang Theory, returns this month and fans are eagerly awaiting developments with each character’s storyline – from relationships between Leonard, Penny, Sheldon and Amy to the impending arrival of baby Wolowitz (which may interfere with the gang’s annual Comic-Con plans).

One thing that cannot be interfered with is the legal tech industry’s own Comic-Con – better known as ILTACon. At ILTACon, the Big Bang Theory clan would be right at home, diving headfirst into technologies that improve law firm and corporate law/IT department responsibilities. Frankly, this tradeshow is known for being a total geek-fest. (And the lawyers, litigation support professionals and IT staff in attendance are cool with that.)

Bazinga! Just Another One of Kroll Ontrack’s Inventions

At ILTACon this year, Kroll Ontrack was excited to announce its newest gizmo to aid document review: Communication Insight.

To understand the benefits of Communication Insight, a Relativity-based application, it is worth elaborating on what viewing retrieved emails is like without it. Normally, when an email is reviewed, it is very difficult to piece together conversations and themes. Going through each file is time-consuming (read: expensive) and presents the risk that important information will be missed because the email is not viewed as part of a whole conversation. The bottom line – document review needs to be intuitive.

Kroll Ontrack Presents: Fun with Emails

At its core, Communication Insight makes it easier to view threads of emails and understand what happened in the entirety of the conversation. With this technology, the user is able to tell when the subject of an email changed, who was part of the conversation and if attachments were dropped. It provides a comprehensive overview of the conversation, so that complicated email chains can be read in context. Emails are displayed in a manner familiar to email users and the program notifies users if someone was added to or left the conversation. Through a logical display of conversation data and dynamic visual cues, reviewers can quickly make decisions and intuitively focus their review.

For Relativity users, Communication Insight is a new feature Kroll Ontrack is proud to bring to the platform. #ILTACon2016 attendees seeing Communication Insight in action noted that it gives them everything they need, front and center…and even a non-geek can appreciate that.