Native EDD Review

Alextronic Discovery

"... Native native review is the ability to review electronic data right from its actual source. We aint' talkin' print/scan/ocr here nor are we even talkin' bout tiffin' ... Nope. We're looking at the file via a file viewer or pulling the application up from its bootstraps inside of its own application. Some folks call the review process which utlizes .tiff's produced by the ED vendor a native review, but take tiffs out of the picture and you're sitting pretty with a native native review. That's the kind of review that would make Sitting Bull look like a half breed. ..."

Many of you will care less about this topic, but since this is MY blog... ;)

Native review is becoming an "issue" in my industry. This article highlights some of the problems/questions/issues with it and that fact that no one has really figured out a good solution. The EDD industry is moving fast and is as close to "bleeding edge" as the legal lit support is likely to get.

One thing in this article, and that many in the industry still glom on to... the price of Tiff'ing (i.e. conversion of native files to pages).

I have to be careful here. Since this is what I do, and saying too much might be a CLM (career limiting move). I have strong feelings on this subject, but since I play a role in influencing internal direction on this... well showing all my cards here would probably be bad.

sigh...

Let me just say the per page pricing is a hold over from the boxes of papers world. It's time to think outside of those boxes... (Sorry, had too :)