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61 WWW.ILTANET.ORG | ILTA WHITE PAPER LITIGATION AND PRACTICE SUPPORT Beyond Excel: Overcoming Obstacles to Get the Business Intelligence You Need Oasis – Cloud Solutions for Legal Oasis is a solution provider that works with legal teams to bring data under control by taking a new approach to the traditional insource v. outsource models. Oasis builds private cloud environments specifically for legal departments, law firms and the vendors that support them. Working alongside an organization's internal IT, Oasis creates a cloud-based solution that complies with the firm's internal security policies and adheres to ISO27001 and SOC II, international standards for data security and privacy. Once built, migration plans are developed to bring data under full control of the firm. Although Oasis is technically a vendor, the private cloud approach allows clients to remain in full control of their data, processes and costs. Clients enjoy the benefits associated with insourcing while avoiding the cost, risk and pain associated with building and maintaining an internal solution. Once the infrastructure is set and data is in place, clients choose from a list of available technologies to meet their operational goals. Relativity, Brainspace and other leading discovery software can be included in the monthly subscription or can be made available on demand. Oasis separates the technical aspects of eDiscovery – soware and infrastructure – from the services delivered by project managers, consultants and other litigation support professionals. Oasis' role is to secure the data, identify and license the best applications, and make sure all the technology works as it should, providing legal professionals with the tools they need so they can focus on their most important work. The Other Problem: Platforms Unfortunately, it is not just the reach problem that is holding back wide adoption of BI in legal; there is also a "platform problem." Data still needs to be normalized across platforms for dashboards and other BI tools to take effect. Sheila Mackay from Conduent put it this way in last year's ILTA White Paper: Most review platforms have dashboard functionality that allows users to view various metrics associated with their eDiscovery projects. While useful for single maers or across cases when a single platform is used, in reality, most corporations and law firms use multiple review tools and, therefore, have manual processes for comprehensive reporting. Multimaer, cross-platform, unified reporting would provide important information for weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports to management or to clients. Take, for example, the process required to forecast an accurate budget for an upcoming maer. Information may need to be gathered from various applications and systems: Relativity, Outlook, Sharefile, Excel, the firm's billing soware, vendor invoices and more. The usual manual, time-consuming process is beer than nothing but a far cry from the type of dynamic analysis available in BI platforms. True BI platforms aggregate data across platforms, data centers, offices and vendors and then present the information in a dynamic, easy-to- understand format. Not Excel. BRANDON LAW Brandon Law is the founder and CEO of Oasis Discovery and the host of the eDiscovery podcast "The DAT File." An entrepreneur at heart, Brandon founded Oasis in 2012 to establish a fresh perspective on a rapidly changing industry. Prior to Oasis, Brandon worked in senior roles at some of eDiscovery's most well-respected service providers and software vendors.

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