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The growing business world, with its technologically innovative infrastructure and the global presence has paved way for a vast amount of information to be stored electronically. Besides, with compliances, regulations, lawsuits and internal investigations all being a part and parcel of the today’s business environment, the security and forensics departments are faced with the challenges of accurate data analysis.

The vast amount of electronically stored information (ESI) being available for review makes it a difficult proposition for the investigators to go through every single detail. Further, new laws also require corporate IT departments to locate and produce documents far more quickly than ever before. All these circumstances bring together the requirement of software wherein the keyword search would make electronic data discovery easier. Use of Litigation software for keyword search helps in uncovering relevant information and culling-down large amounts of the electronically stored data before reviewing.

Litigation support software is used by attorneys and paralegals, to assist them in organizing, storing and summarizing information, gathered through a keyword search from the vast collection of electronically stored data. In the course of a lawsuit, this software is used to manage and control the information in a presentable and clear format for the attorneys. The onset of electronic discovery, or e-discovery, has made the data discovery process overwhelming. This combined with the litigation support software and personnel makes the process much easier and far less time-consuming. However, the growth of the electronic data demands that today’s litigation support software needs to have a better search technology, one that is more transparent. This would provide the electronic data discovery users understand the results as well as include certain practices such as sampling, testing, and iterative refinement with the leverage to run multiple queries.

However, with a number of software service providers having designed and developed litigation support software, it is not a one size fits all program. Hence, while choosing litigation software, enterprises need to check for the ease of use of the software, foreign language support, ability of the software to handle all file types and feasibility for document categorization. The top of the service providers in the field of electronic discovery services provides services that would benefit the client organization in a long way. The features include electronic data identification, collection, pre-processing filtering, processing, analysis, review, redaction, and production, in a single, integrated product. This   eliminates the need for importing and exporting of data between multiple litigation software tools or upgraded versions of the software thus reducing manual errors, and lowering the overall cost and duration of electronic data discovery.