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Search Tools Product Report

DolphinSearch Intelligent Archive Director

Product Information

Price: Dolphin Intelligent Archive Director is $1,000-$2,000 per seat per year. For more pricing information, contact company.
Platform: Appliance: propriety hardware included.

DolphinSearch offers both prepackaged and custom solutions for litigation and electronic discovery, corporate compliance, and enterprise document management and archiving.

Features

• Uses neural networks to perform pattern and concept recognition in text.
  
• Designed for specific domains, especially intranets and law firms; uses training documents to adapt its capabilities.
  
• Does not require human editors.
  
• Recognizes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail, PDF, and Lotus Notes files as well as HTML, text, and more.
  
• Dolphin Intelligent Archive Director stores documents according to corporate records retention policy; at the end of the retention period, documents are irretrievably destroyed.
  
• Archive Director finds and holds documents by selection criteria including concepts, keywords, and metadata. Holds can be applied proactively to future documents as well as existing ones.
  
• Reads data from various media, including hard disks and CDs.
  
• eDiscovery solution includes redaction features. Documents can be produced for review as TIFF images, PDFs, native files, or a database.
  
• Customers can access findings via the web.
  
• Hardware configures itself and does not require server space.

Articles & Reviews

• Dolphins Aid Compliance Byte and Switch: May 12, 2005 by Mary Jander
  
  Explains the foundation of DolphinSearch's technology and its use in their ComplianSeek solution, which combines legal and financial intelligence.


• Dolphins Aid Compliance BizTech Magazine: March 2005 by Wylie Wong
  
  A profile of DolphinSearch, delving into its use in electronic discovery and litigation.


• DolphinSearch's KnowledgeBox Trawls Networks Forbes.com: October 17, 2000 by Matthew Herper
  
  Information about the company, product and distribution network, with comments from the company founders and industry analysts.


• Ride Dolphin Through Web Waters PCWorld: May 5, 2000 by David Essex
  
  Describes the technology, with reaction from an MIT scientist who tried a demonstration version.