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Columbus and Cleveland, OH and Seattle, WA – April 1, 2020 – ProFile Discovery, a leading forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber security consulting firm today announced a partnership with ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigations.

ESI Analyst, the data-focused electronic discovery review and investigation platform, announces the release of its Beta on-demand translation module, supporting over 80 languages. ESI Analyst’s Partners are now able to offer affordable and secure machine translation across a variety of mixed data types, without the requirement of upfront conversion of short messages to an unwieldy and cumbersome document format.

NASHVILLE, TN and SEATTLE, WA, February 17, 2021 — Insight Optix and ESI Analyst announce a new collaborative partnership to help clients speed discovery assessment, address modern data sources, and reduce costs prior to processing.

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The ever-evolving state of technology and eDiscovery can be daunting. See three of the industry’s thought-leaders as they simplify Office 365 and Technology Assisted Review and provide straight-forward solutions to dealing with mobile devices and corporate chat applications.

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Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA – January 21, 2021 – Digital Discovery, LLC, one of the country’s leading forensic acquisition and investigation companies, today announced a partnership with ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigations.

Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), a forensic accounting, data governance technology solutions and forensics consulting firm, today announces that ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigations, has joined its FRA Pulse technology innovation think tank.

ESI Analyst, the data focused electronic discovery investigation and review platform, announces new scalable burst pricing models that scale for all matters, large or small. ESI Analyst Partners are now able to scale review and analysis of millions of chat-based communications, geolocation, computer activity and more, effectively budgeting for a multitude of matters. Burst rates can span three, six or twelve month increments and can be consumed across multiple matters.

JANUARY 12, 2021 – ESI Analyst and Vestige Digital Investigations are pleased to announce their strategic partnership, combining ESI Analyst’s innovative technology with Vestige’s industry-leading expertise in digital forensics, electronically stored information (ESI), and cybersecurity to deliver expanded services to their clients around the world.

ESI Analyst is pleased to announce its latest innovation, ESI Desktop. This initial release represents a milestone, demonstrating our commitment to simplifying processes and review of a multitude of modern data types. With this innovation, ESI Analyst becomes the first SaaS based electronic discovery investigation and review platform to automate the ingestion of mobile device data directly from Cellebrite’s UFDR export file format.

At the dawn of this century, a new phase of legal discovery began and a transformation from paper-based discovery to digital discovery changed legal discovery forever. Since then, the amount of data and types of data sources has grown exponentially – although the (FRCP) rules governing ESI have remained relatively unchanged.

San Diego, CA, and Seattle, WA – November 19^th, 2020 – Intrepid Managed Discovery (Intrepid), a leading forensics, eDiscovery Processing, Data Hosting, Information Governance and Managed Review consultancy firm today announced a partnership with ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigations.

ESI Analyst is excited to be one of the four winners selected to present during the 2020 Georgetown Global Advanced eDiscovery Institute’s Judge Tank session. The Judge Tank session featured a panel of distinguished Judges that were presented with the four winning entrepreneurial ideas from lawyers, law students, non-lawyers, vendors and the like. During the panel, the four winners pitched their novel and creative ideas about eDiscovery, privacy, or Big Data to the Judges, similar to the popular TV program “Shark Tank”.

ESI Analyst, the first SaaS based electronic discovery investigation and review platform to ingest text-based communications at the individual message or “item” level while dynamically reconstructing 24-hour chat threads, announces their new “in-thread” tagging functionality.

Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), a leading forensic accounting, data governance, technology solutions and forensics consulting firm today announced a partnership with ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigations.

Chicago, IL and Seattle, WA – October 13, 2020 – BlueStar, a tenured data solutions consultancy for corporate legal departments, law firms and government agencies, today announced a partnership with ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigations.

ESI Analyst continues to be the pioneer in modern data discovery and investigations, combining traditional document review with multiple forms of modern-day communications and disparate data types. Their latest software release brings yet another market innovation, allowing for 24-hour thread-level search of chat-based communications while continuing to maintain each message as an individual item. This revolutionary approach to modern electronic discovery preserves message-level metadata while avoiding upfront and costly conversion processes.

In the early 2000’s, the world of discovery entered the digital age as desktop computers became the new corporate file cabinet. By the middle of the decade the FRCP pushed digital evidence into the limelight clarifying its definition and relevance. Fast forward to present day and that once desktop-based corporate file cabinet is much larger than one can imagine, often in the cloud, generating data at incredible speed and accessible from anywhere via a myriad of modern-day connected devices.

LOS ANGELES, CA, and SEATTLE, WA – September 30, 2020 – ProSearch, a leading provider of comprehensive discovery solutions to corporate legal departments and law firms, today announced a partnership with ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigation.

August 13^th, 2020

Seattle, WA and Kansas City, MO – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution, is proud to announce a new channel partnership with Complete Legal, a Kansas City, Missouri-based eDiscovery provider.  

Seattle, WA and Atlanta, GA – June 23, 2020 – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative data analysis and investigation, today announced a new channel partnership with SullivanStrickler, an Atlanta, Georgia-based firm specializing in complex legacy data services, computer forensics, and electronic discovery support services.  

Corporate communications are moving away from email and turning to real-time messaging apps like Slack, Teams, LINE, Hangouts, Zoom and others. How does this impact discovery, internal investigations or other litigation? How should you manage it when there is a litigation event? Does this also expand out to mobile devices?

Join industry thought leaders, Joy Murao, George Socha, Richard Robinson and Robert Keeling as they discuss their perspectives on how to include these emerging communication applications in discovery.

ESI Analyst, the cutting edge platform tailored for modern data investigations and electronic discovery, announces the addition of Rob Lekowski as their Vice President of Sales bringing his 20+ years of forensic & eDiscovery experience to the ESI Analyst team.

ESI Analyst, the cutting edge platform tailored for modern data investigations and electronic discovery, is pleased to announce compatibility with Hashtag Legal's Message Crawler application, which recently released support for conversion of ESI Analyst’s DAT exports for chat-based communications to Relativity Short Message Format (RSMF).

ESI Analyst, the cutting edge platform tailored for modern data investigations and electronic discovery, announces their most recent update for Q2 of 2020! This latest release of ESI Analyst includes significant updates to import workflows, simplifying the ingestion of various metadata from a wide variety of digital evidence. 

The need to include data that resides on a smartphone is no different than when the industry was looking to incorporate emails and electronically stored information in discovery in the early 2000’s. The growth of smartphone data is exponential, which compounds the need for these to be included as part of any discovery and preservation plan.

ESI Analyst is proud to announce the release of its export functionality that includes production of geolocation-based data. Locations can be easily produced and shared between parties using our convenient self-contained HTML export format that includes an embedded map with location indicator. Features include options to choose various zoom levels and map types ranging from street view to hybrid satellite view.  

ESI Analyst’s new export functionality delivers chat-based conversation threads paired with in-line media in HTML format. Images, animated GIFs, and video appear within the HTML as well as links to other attached documents, speeding analysis and review of conversation threads. Gone are the days of reviewing chat communications in cumbersome spreadsheets attempting to piece together chat-based conversations from WhatsApp, iMessage and more!

The growth of commercial communication applications, social media, cyber criminal events, various transaction types, and data volumes has forced many peripheral (to legal) industries to come together to solve problems associated with these data. The interview by Stephen E. Arnold with DarkCyber of ESI Analyst’s Trent Livingston walks through a logical progression of how ESI Analyst approaches many of these problems.

As the dividing line between our lives and technology thins, questions concerning privacy and the ownership of our personal data arises. At the intersection of technology and the law, legal professionals are prompted to answer these difficult questions even as the explosion of electronic data sources provides its own set of challenges.

This year is Atlanta, Georgia’s first Master’s Conference, and we are looking forward to not only educating on our popular conference topic, but learning how Atlanta has been managing their own solutions for these complex investigation and discovery challenges. The needs of legal professionals are constantly evolving, and so too are the electronic discovery tools and workflows designed to manage these changes.

Security, privacy and compliance are an ever-evolving discussion between IT and legal departments. ESI Analyst is continually focused on how our platform protects and manages our partners’ ESI in the context of discovery and investigations. These recent AWS infrastructure investments reflect our continued commitment to deliver top tier performance, compliance and data security.

The early 2000's witnessed the evolution of electronic discovery tools and workflows designed to manage the very first cases involving ESI, addressing the proliferation of electronic documents subject to discovery.

Seattle, WA and Greensboro, NC – September 30th, 2019 – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative data analysis and investigation, today announced a new channel partnership with cDiscovery, a Greensboro, North Carolina based consulting firm specializing in complex eDiscovery solutions and computer forensics and electronic discovery for litigation and internal investigations.

The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference brand, with the goal of raising international awareness of developments, teaching, responsibilities and ethics in the field of cyber security and digital forensics, has grown into one of the most important resources for security professionals, cybersecurity industry leaders, and law enforcement digital forensic specialists.

Seattle, WA and Atlanta, GA – September 10, 2019 – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative electronic discovery investigation and review, today announced a new channel partnership with Infinite Discovery, a seasoned eDiscovery services provider in the Georgia, Alabama and New Orleans markets. Combining technological prowess and expert consultation, Infinite Discovery stands to expands their robust suite of discovery and investigation services.

Come join ESI Analyst at the The Lawyer Invitational on August 19^th, 2019. The event is being held at the Four Seasons at Walt Disney World.

ESI Analyst in conjunction with Chorus Consulting hosted a webinar on August 6th at 2:00 PM ET. The discussion began with how to include smartphone data with your investigations and discovery and transitioned to telling the story of what can be found in smart phone data. 

Below is the link to the presentation slides in which you will find a link to the full video recording of the webinar. 

ESI Analyst is excited to announce they are co-hosting an educational webinar with Chorus Consulting on August 6th at 2:00 PM ET. Learn how to include smartphone data with your investigations and discovery with a fluid process from collection through analysis. Gone are the days of reviewing this data in spreadsheets or shoe-horning this data into legacy electronic discovery platforms. 

The potential discoverable data sources in today's mobile device and technology-enabled world is expanding exponentially. Identifying and preserving this relevant data, as well as presenting it in a usable and persuasive format, is paramount to gaining the upper hand in any legal matter or investigation. 

Seattle, WA and Houston, TX – July 1, 2019 – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative data analysis and investigation, today announced a new channel partnership with Chorus Consulting, a Houston based consulting firm specializing in computer forensics and electronic discovery for litigation and internal investigations.

Seattle, WA and Falls Church, VA – April 9, 2019 – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigation, today announced a new channel partnership with Sandline Discovery, a premier legal services provider in the US and Asia. The partnership expands Sandline Discovery’s technology stack to improve investigations that consist of the growing volumes and types of dynamic data.

Seattle, WA and Las Vegas, NV – March, 26, 2019 – ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. SaaS Solution that empowers collaborative metadata analysis and investigation, today announced a new channel partnership with Litigation Discovery Group (LDG), the premier legal services provider in Las Vegas. Combining technology and experience, LDG is poised to expand discovery and investigation processes to include a wide variety of potentially relevant and robust data sources.

The power of regular expressions are unmatched when attempting to find textual or numeric patterns in a set of documents or metadata. ESI Analyst, understanding their importance to investigations, recently deployed the ability to conduct regular expression searches across its various supported metadata types. Coupled with this new search functionality, search hit highlighting has been added so that a user may quickly identify these responsive patterns when using the various timeline and review interfaces available within the software.

When it comes to lively discussion, The Masters Conference always delivers! Panels at this year’s Dallas event, held at the offices of Jones Day, reflected the comradery of the industry. Professionals from multiple business sectors and legal disciplines met to explore and share their wealth of experience in an interactive and collegial setting.

ESI Analyst, a Tidal Change Technologies, Inc SaaS Solution, is proud to announce the addition of direct to print functionality to the software interface. This new feature allows our end-users to print full reports directly from selected pages thereby creating a method to allow an investigator to produce one-off print outs of various reports, individual metadata points, or a timeline of their choosing.

Legalweek is the premiere annual showcase for the latest in technology focused on the legal market. Technology companies often standardize their sprint cycles to have their major releases ready for mid-to-late January in time for the Legalweek festivities. Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. ("TCT"), with their flagship product ESI Analyst, was no different. Demonstration schedules were packed as TCT executives hosted many top-tier providers and law firms seeking an in-depth look into the unique capabilities of ESI Analyst.

Tidal Change Technologies, Inc. ("TCT") is proud to announce the addition of custom tagging to their metadata investigation and analysis platform ESI Analyst. ESI Analyst empowers digital investigators, legal teams and their clients to quickly isolate and extract relevant information and actionable intelligence from a wide variety of ESI in order to speed strategy development and improve matter collaboration and communication, while reducing overall case costs.