SUMMATION BLAZE

Summation® Blaze elegantly integrates Summation's document database, transcript, annotation and case organizer features together with Summation's document imaging module.

Summation Blaze is an easy-to-use litigation support software package that meets the challenge of the litigation process by enabling you to manage all of your evidentiary documents quickly and efficiently.  Summation provides a database for summarizing documents as well as a full-text retrieval program for searching the entire text of transcripts and depositions.

Summation Blaze features Blaze®, a technology developed for faster document database searching and sorting of information.  Blaze can increase search speeds by orders of magnitude over searches done with traditional databases.

Summation organizes your files through a Case Management System that works the way you do.  You set up each case by naming it; then Summation organizes your files into the appropriate directories.  You work with your files on a case-by-case basis, just as you do with actual office files.

With your transcripts and depositions, Summation takes advantage of technology available in computerized court reporting stenographic machines.  Your court reporter can provide you with transcripts stored on floppy disks  (usually in addition to the hard copy)  which you can easily transfer to your computer's hard disk. 

Summation can then read the depositions and locate any word, phrase, date or number in seconds.  You can make notations while viewing the files on screen or digest excerpts of the testimony into your annotation files.  You can search your transcripts individually or search through many transcripts at once.

The Case Organizer gives you the ability to organize case data into outline form.  You can transfer data from transcripts, annotations, the document database, the search results window, digests, Summation's MovieClipper, HTML files.  You can also drag and drop text from other OLE-based programs into case outlines.

Summation Imaging provides instant on-screen access to your litigation documents, anywhere within the program.  You can view images using the Quick View feature, attach images to transcript annotations or link them to document summaries.  Any black and white Group IV TIFF image can be displayed an manipulated using Summation's imaging tools.  Summation Imaging features include redaction, where you can black out any area of the image so it is hidden when displayed or printed.  You can also add an electronic Bates-stamp to an image, which is especially helpful when as identification number has been assigned after the document was scanned.