RDC Analytics Launches as Content Analytics Consulting Firm to Dramatically Expedite and Lower Cost and Risk of eDiscovery

Firm’s content analytics experts and broad array of language-based tools offer a more complete, transparent, and defensible alternative to many narrowly focused software packages

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RDC Analytics, a consulting firm focused on utilizing content analytics to analyze unstructured data for eDiscovery, launched today at LegalTech New York (booth #524). This innovative firm leverages language to interpret and understand content (content analytics), uniting the expertise of forensic linguists, mathematicians, librarians, and attorneys to bring an unprecedented combination of speed, transparency, quality, and cost savings to eDiscovery and investigations.

“With proven benefits, highly differentiated intellectual property, and an expert team of specialists to deliver the service, we are well positioned to change the game in the eDiscovery market.”

The firm’s launch answers the growing market demand for improving and expediting the analysis of large amounts of electronic data with a high degree of transparency and defensibility. Too often, law firms and corporate law departments rely heavily on brute technical force and complex pattern-matching in many of today’s software packages that can be difficult to interpret or understand. Content analytics conquers this challenge by turning the problem of looking for relevant data on its side. Instead of looking for what is relevant, it methodically identifies what isn’t relevant by utilizing a broad array of language-based processes to understand what each document is about. The result is time and cost savings – with less risk and greater client understanding of why documents were found to be not relevant.

RDC Analytics has perfected the expertise, techniques, and tools necessary to extend content analytics benefits to law firms and corporate law departments, and it has already achieved significant benefits for its clients. In published case studies, RDC Analytics clients reported accomplishments such as saving $4 million by eliminating more than 50% of a collection and completing Early Case Assessment on almost a million documents with just three attorneys in nine days.

“RDC Analytics uniquely addresses a growing problem in eDiscovery by quickly identifying relevant documents within large collections of data while maintaining a high degree of transparency and defensibility,” said Matt Nelson, Partner at Warner Norcross & Judd LLP. “Their consultants are experts in analyzing the content of data collections. They leveraged their linguistic knowledge with RDC Analytics' proprietary tools to make our data review faster while also providing greater confidence that all potentially relevant documents had been identified. Best of all, the review process made intuitive sense to anyone with experience searching legal databases.”

RDC Analytics’ consultants work with clients to understand the characteristics of each case in advance and then apply the right methodology and tools to solve the problem. Armed with an array of technologies that include keyword analysis, predictive coding, bulk tagging, and visualization, the firm is equipped to solve a wide range of problems such as 26(f) preparations, keyword negotiations, early case assessment, smoking gun analysis, content filtering, review, and investigations.

“Many organizations involved in eDiscovery and investigations don’t have the full breadth of tools or depth of expertise to solve every problem facing them,” said Brian Babineau, VP of Research and Analyst Services at Enterprise Strategy Group. “RDC Analytics’ tool-agnostic approach to content analytics takes advantage of a full spectrum of technologies to analyze data. When delivered with a deep level of expertise, content analytics can help organizations effectively meet a wide range of eDiscovery and investigation challenges – driving speed, cost savings, and confidence into projects involving the analysis of large volumes of data.”

Content analytics is based on proven methodologies that result from working with some of the largest organizations in the world. As a division of RenewData, RDC Analytics has been perfecting these technologies and methodologies since 2009.

“We believe that content analytics has the ability to redefine eDiscovery, and we have been amassing the tools and expertise to deliver the industry’s most complete content analytics consultancy for the past few years,” said Jim Blayney, CEO of RDC Analytics. “With proven benefits, highly differentiated intellectual property, and an expert team of specialists to deliver the service, we are well positioned to change the game in the eDiscovery market.”

Visit RDC Analytics at booth number 524 during LegalTech New York or learn more by visiting www.rdcanalytics.com, emailing [e-mail], or calling 855-599-RDCA (7322).

LegalTech New York Presentation

Join Andy Kraftsow, Chief Scientist of RDC Analytics, Rich Cohen, President of RenewData, and Judge Andrew Peck, US Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York during a special presentation at LegalTech New York titled “Content Analytics Case Study: Taking the Fight out of Keywords.” The session, scheduled for February 1, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. ET, will discuss how organizations can rely on content analytics to inspect large volumes of unstructured data, the selection of keywords during the eDiscovery process, and how content analytics methodologies can reduce the complexities of keyword identification while driving greater transparency and cooperation into the process.

About RDC Analytics

RDC Analytics is a content analytics consulting firm that specializes in lowering the cost and risk associated with investigating large volumes of data for legal, regulatory, and business purposes. Its team of forensic linguists, mathematicians, librarians, and attorneys has deep domain expertise in eDiscovery and investigations, as well as broad experience applying language-based methodologies and tools to quickly analyze a document collection and methodically narrow results with optimum transparency and defensibility. For more information on RDC Analytics, visit www.rdcanalytics.com, email [e-mail], or call toll free 855-599-RDCA (7322).

RDC Analytics is a division of RenewData, a venture-backed eDiscovery service provider that has been in business since 2001.