dtSearch Case Study — FTI Consulting - Ringtail

FTI Consulting's Ringtail is a leading provider of Web-based legal and justice application technologies and services. The company's Ringtail product suite is comprised of a series of integrated and compatible modules to assist the legal practitioner at each stage of the legal process, from electronic discovery to trial presentation. The company also provides a range of legal-oriented services, such as ASP hosting of litigation databases. In addition to some of the world's largest law firms, including O'Melveny Myers, Bryan Cave, Fulbright Jaworski, Allan & Overy, and Lovell & Lovell, Ringtail clients include 3M, Wyeth, UK Inland Revenue, the Australian Federal Courts, and the Canadian Department of Justice..

Ringtail has a set of integrated modules that are designed to manage the materials and processes within a legal case to ensure quality, reduce risk and increase productivity in a cost effective manner. The use of advanced web technologies and techniques has made Ringtail a pioneer and leader in legal information management in both direct client installations and in the hosted ASP sectors of the legal market,” states a Ringtail white paper. "Ringtail has developed a framework for meticulous document tracking and validation. Ringtails advanced modules are designed to deal with the challenges of both traditional imaged materials and also of native electronic documents.”

Ringtail recently determined that it needed a new full-text search engine. “The scale of an electronic discovery can be overwhelming,” states the Ringtail white paper. “Anything from hundreds of megabytes, gigabytes or even terabytes of duplicate documents, repetitive email strings, system files and every conceivable type of media - from back up tapes to mirrored hard drives are included in the initial acquisition of information.”

After surveying the marketplace, Ringtail chose the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine for full-text searching embedded in its product suite, and for use in searching through its ASP-hosted legal data repositories. According to the Ringtail white paper: “dtSearch is an industry leading keyword search application that has been integrated into Ringtail.” Adds Eddie O'Brien, Ringtail: “We did a pretty thorough evaluation of search engines and dtSearch is clearly a best of breed tool with the best search engine API for our integration purposes. Ringtail has found the dtSearch team to be responsive to the requirements of innovative product upgrades.”


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