Database Discovery

iDS provides experienced testifying and consulting experts to address the acquisition, analysis, and production of your structured enterprise application data (Enterprise Databases). Our expertise is demonstrated by:

• Database experience in a variety of platforms, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Informix, Lotus Notes, and DB2.
• Preservation and collection from large enterprise database systems, including both active and legacy systems.
• The ability to properly transform complex data sets stored in proprietary, flat file, or relational table structures into a consolidated and accessible database in order to facilitate data analytics.
• The development of complex modeling and analytical queries to provide reports to subject matter experts.
• The ability to provide expert testimony on enterprise systems and data analytics methodology.

Practically speaking, data analytics allows your legal team to:

• Sort through large amounts of structured data to identify relevant information.
• Interpret relationships between large data sets.
• Seek-and-compare among data to identify anomalies within databases.
• Analyze data points within systems that are required for restatement of earnings, shareholder disputes, assessment of damages, securities matters, or the analysis of business interruption claims.
• Support subject matter experts such as forensic accountants and damages experts working on antitrust, financial and accounting matters.

Tackling the discovery challenges of structured enterprise application data is much different than any other aspect of e-discovery and is a cornerstone of iDS. Preservation and collection of such data not only requires the consideration of the highly dynamic nature of these systems, but also requires a team that can understand and break down the complex relational structures contained within those databases. Once our team collects the information, it is often necessary to transform the data into a useable format to perform reliable content analysis.  During the content analysis phase, iDS is also able to analyze the data for relevant case-related information to provide to your legal team for review. One of the benefits of working with iDS’ Data Analytics team is our ability to help you understand what the databases contain and their underlying structure, along with our unique ability to present the data in meaningful ways.

Armed with an experienced team of programming and database consultants, our experts have been called upon to verify and validate our methodologies and deliver analytic results. iDS has been engaged to work with transactional data on some of the largest and most complex cases in U.S. history. Consisting of a wide range of matter fluency and testimony experience in government and regulatory investigations, restatements of earnings, fraud investigations, insider trading, class action matters involving large financial and insurance institutions, as well antitrust second requests, intellectual property theft, and contract disputes, we believe we have a team that will be able to assist your team with any matter.