Collect phase

You can collect information to add to a new project or an existing project. The type of information to collect depends on the source. Epiq Discovery enables you to collect information from a variety of sources, including:

• Local, which includes files you can access from your personal computer, shared drives, and network shares.
• Email, which collects information from a particular email address.
• Cloud, which collects information that exists on Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or Amazon S3.
• Mobile data, which process mobile data collected via Cellebrite.
• Website, which collects information that exists at a particular URL to a maximum page depth.
• Bloomberg, which collects Bloomberg chat and email data.
• Microsoft 365, which collects Microsoft 365 OneDrive, Outlook mailbox, and Outlook calendar data from multiple accounts within an organization at the same time.

• Microsoft Teams chats and modern attachments, which collects Microsoft Teams chats and modern attachments. You can collect modern attachments, GIPHY attachments, and reactions from the Microsoft Teams chats and Outlook emails. To collect Microsoft Teams chats, modern and GIPHY attachments, or reactions, you need to collect a PST file containing the Microsoft Teams chats or Outlook emails using the local file collection.

Automatic processing during collection

During Collection, you can automate subsequent tasks that occur during the Process, Analyze, Review, and Production phases to save time. In order to automate most of these tasks, you must select an existing template that defines the settings to complete the task. Each task you automate creates a separate job that runs in logical order by phase.

Processing does not require a template. However, before you automatically promote, image, or create production, verify that the applicable templates exist or create them. The following list shows tasks you can automate using Process Automation.

• Process. The system also performs the following jobs during processing.
  • Email Categorization. This function is disabled by default. To enable this function, refer to Modify email categorization setting for more information.
  • Deduplication. This function is enabled by default. To disable this function, refer to Enable Data Assessment Dashboard for more information.
  • Post Processing. Refer to About Post Processing for more information.
• Analyze>Filter/Promote or Export, which requires a filter template.
  • PII/PHI Detection during Promotion. This function is disabled by default. To enable this function, refer to Modify PII/PHI detection settings.
  • Entity identification during Promotion. This function is disabled by default. To enable this function, refer to Manage entity identification.
• Review>Image, which requires an image template
• Review>Produce, which requires the following:
  • Bates Prefix information when stamping by bates number
  • a production template

Collection size limitations

While Epiq Discovery can collect a large number of documents, at this time, limitations to collection includes:

• A total upload size that exceeds 1 TB. Instead, divide the documents into multiple uploads.
• An individual file that exceeds 20 GB.