eDocs is the new feature that handles electronic evidentiary documents. Version 2 includes a new “eDocs and eMail” folder in the Case Explorer. Within this folder are repositories for eDocs (any Windows compatible file in its native format), eMail (from either Outlook or Lotus Notes), and eMail attachments. Users can search these folders along with other evidentiary information, such as documents that originated in hard copy, transcripts, and notes. Special icons in the search results screen identify the search result hits from eDocs and eMail. Electronic documents can be viewed either in their native file format or as a text document.

E-Loader Lite allows you to easily load e-mail (from Outlook or Lotus Notes) and attachments into the document database for quick searching and retrieval. Using the new E-form (created for the viewing of electronic documents), you can see how many attachments are associated with an e-mail and zoom into the documents themselves or the record in the document database associated with the attachments.

Production tools allow users to create automated, Bates numbered production sets, and then print them with stamps and redactions. Moreover, users can instantly retrieve a detailed production history for each document in the database or production set. iBlaze users can electronically archive production sets as searchable Briefcases with permanently stamped and redacted images. Briefcases can then be burned to a CD in a format which allows any user to view the images and document abstract data via a Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 & up) - enabling paperless document productions.

Pleadings Search Capability allows users to search internal key pleadings along with other case components. Version 2 can point to a directory of pleadings right on the firm’s network or a user’s hard drive. These files, even though they are not "loaded" into Summation, can be searched along with your other case data, and the Pleadings hits appear in Summation's integrated search results screen. Users can have multiple pleadings folders in their Case Explorer. Also, users can zoom to the document in its native file format from the Search results.

To accommodate the eDocs and eMail capabilities, Summation now includes another form -- E-form -- that has several additional fields, including a Bates Range field, making it easier to track documents.

Quickly Build Lookup tables in new cases by using the entries in existing Lookup tables.

OCR Current Document is the new iBlaze feature that allows you to instantly OCR your images that are attached to a database record. ocrBases up to 10 Gigabytes are now supported with Blaze® LG Gold and iBlaze.

The new incremental Blaze feature applies to ocrBase and eDocs. When you load new documents, they are blazed and added to your current index without requiring a re-index of all previously-loaded documents.

Browser Briefcase allows users to export briefcased records and associated images to an easily readable HTML format. Anyone, even non-Summation users, can view the briefcase via a Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 & up). Great for paperless document productions or sharing selected documents with peripheral litigation team members.

Assign transcript designations across multiple transcripts. With this feature, you can create reports and exhibits (like Transcript Cites).

Edit Remote (iBlaze only) and Companion (iBlaze and LG Gold) databases. Previously, Remote and Companion Databases were limited to searching, but beginning with Version 2, you can add to and edit these databases, provided you have been granted the proper permissions. Databases hosted by CaseVault can be edited using any version of Summation (LG, LG Gold and iBlaze). Briefcases in iBlaze can be edited, as well.

The Companion Connection button allows users to easily create connections to other Summation databases and tables.

Import revised or added field data into existing Core Database records.

Shared Evidence Links is a new feature that offers the ability to create links to transcripts, document images, Web pages, and any Windows file that can be associated with an application in the Windows File Types list. With Evidence Links, users can chain together pieces of evidence in a case to preserve and illuminate combinations of crucial information. Prior to Version 2, these links were private and accessible only to the user who created them.

• Beginning with Version 2, transcript and image links are shareable between version 2 users.
  
• Security can be set so that transcript and image links cannot be modified by anyone other than the author, unless permission is granted.
  
• Transcript links can now be color-coded.

View and Print compound documents allows you to view and print documents with their associated attachments, and view and print related documents as well.

Several third-party software programs now integrate with Summation:

• CaseSoft’s CaseMap 3.5 and TimeMap 2
• inData’s Trial Director 3.0 & 3.1
• IPROView and IPROScan
• Verdict Systems’ Sanction II

For more details on the links with these and other products, see the white papers on Summation’s website, Summation’s news page, or visit the Web pages for each of the companies listed.

Summation’s improved integration with SQL Server gives users the option to take advantage of the speed and flexibility of Microsoft's enterprise-level SQL Server database.

Includes a new OCR indexing option to ignore hyphens, replace hyphens with a space, recognize hyphens, or all of the above. The OCR indexing default has also been enhanced to ignore unrecognizable characters.

Concurrent with the release of version 2, Summation is releasing the Summation Web Server Console (SWSC), a software accessory for iBlaze. With the SWSC, IT professionals can expeditiously take advantage of Summation's integration with SQL server, iBlaze's remote connectivity, and Summation's remote and companion database editing.