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Structured Data & Analytics

Databases are evidence, and they behave differently.

What is structured data analytics at iDS?

Structured data analytics at iDS treats databases as evidence. We identify, acquire, analyze, and produce data from enterprise systems including SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2. We read the system before we read the data, then use visualizations and statistical models to show whether a claimed pattern holds at population scale.

The questions we answer

  • Does the claimed pattern hold at population scale?
  • What do the transactional records actually establish about conduct, hours, pricing, or class composition?

How we work

Identification, acquisition, analysis, and production of enterprise systems including SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2. We read the system before we read the data, then use visualizations and statistical models to make the volume comprehensible.

What you receive

Population-level analysis rather than sample anecdote, visual exhibits a jury can follow, and testimony on method as well as result.

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Frequently asked questions

How can structured data help in a class certification fight?

Structured data shows whether the claimed pattern holds at population scale, rather than relying on sample anecdote. We work from the system that produced the records before touching the records themselves. In one matter, 75 billion records were analyzed and the class was decertified six weeks before trial. In another, years of footage showed the delays were exaggerated, and certification was defeated.

Which database systems can iDS analyze?

We handle identification, acquisition, analysis, and production of enterprise systems including SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2. Databases are evidence, and they behave differently. We read the system before we read the data, then use visualizations and statistical models to make the volume comprehensible, with visual exhibits a jury can follow.

Why not analyze a sample of the records instead of all of them?

Sampling may not settle the question either way. Our work delivers population-level analysis rather than sample anecdote, so counsel knows precisely which parts of a theory the data supports and which it does not. We also provide testimony on method as well as result.

You do not have to know which discipline you need. Tell us what you are trying to establish and we will tell you which of these it takes, or that it does not take us at all.

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What is at stake

The earlier you understand the evidence, the better the decisions that follow.

The evidence is abundant. But volume is not access. Access is not understanding. And understanding is not an expert opinion.

Increasingly, evidence is buried across devices, applications, databases, cloud systems, transactions, and other complex sources. It must be found, preserved, made accessible, understood, and interpreted in the context of the matter. And when expert testimony is required, that understanding must support an independent, defensible opinion.

When important evidence surfaces late, assumptions may already have become strategy. When it is identified, tested, and understood early, your team can build its strategy around what can actually be shown. This isn’t just for trial. It is also for TROs, letters rogatory, discovery requests, subpoenas, depositions, summary judgment, mediation, and arbitration.

You bring the legal expertise. We bring the evidence expertise.

iDS combines technical, analytical, and subject-matter expertise to help you move from evidence to understanding, and, when necessary, from understanding to opinion and testimony.

You know the law. We help you know the evidence.

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Tell us what you need to establish. We will tell you what the evidence shows, what it does not, and what it means for your case.

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