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Platform Overview
Innovated by CDS, Refined in Partnership.
CDS Convert is a proprietary data transformation platform built to standardize and unify data from a wide range of sources into a seamless review experience.
Designed around the needs of legal teams, CDS Convert supports every stage of the EDRM, from early analysis and cost-saving filtering to enriched, defensible data preparation for review and production. With powerful reporting, flexible filtering, and high-quality data outputs, CDS Convert helps teams accelerate workflows, reduce risk, and achieve consistent, successful outcomes.
CONVERT TOOLS
Robust, Fit for Purpose Data Transformation
Achieve consistent, high-quality data conversion from 40+ forensic tools and direct application exports, delivering enriched, reliable datasets for even the most complex matters.
Key Benefits:
- Early Case Assessment for cost-saving data reduction
- Large application coverage for consistency across data types
- Unified solution for mobile device data
- Customizable settings and output formats
- Real-time tracking and full auditability
Forensic Software Support
Get complete visibility across every major data type; chat, SMS, email, location data, and more; with a unified solution that leaves no stone unturned.
Our platform supports mobile devices, tablets, cloud collections, and computer acquisitions created with leading forensic tools including Magnet Axiom, Cellebrite, Oxygen, and XRY, CDS Convert provides comprehensive application coverage for widely used communication platforms such as Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, and WeChat.
No matter the source, format, or collection method; you can rely on full compatibility and seamless analysis.
Collaboration Platforms & Social Media
Efficiently manage large-scale collaboration data with robust support for Google Chat, Slack JSON exports, Microsoft Teams PST/HTML, and modern attachments, purpose-built for ECA filtering and high-volume corporate environments.
Handle social media data with ease, from wall posts to direct messages,
across Twitter/X, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and more. Our platform standardises diverse data sources into a consistent, review-ready format, no matter which platforms are in scope.
Financial Platforms & Ticketing Systems
Financial trading tools like Bloomberg, ICE, and Refinitiv can generate millions of events; notifications, disclaimers, messages, and more. Our system cuts through the noise to quickly surface the information that matters.
Ticketing systems power critical internal and customer-facing workflows. With support for Jira, Freshdesk, and Zendesk, you can ensure seamless, accurate discovery across all your case and communication data.
Archiving Tools
Organizations rely on archiving and compliance platforms to centralise email, mobile data, ticketing records, and chat content. With support for GlobalRelay, Mimecast, Proofpoint, and Smarsh, our solution converts and standardizes your archived data into a consistent, review-ready format.
MOBILE DATA
One stop shop for all mobile data artefacts, built for scale
CDS Convert offers a single solution to process all artefacts collected by the world’s leading forensic tools. Convertand extract every artefact type through one streamlined workflow or selectively target only the data types that matterto your case.
Deliver threaded communications from iMessage, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal and more, in an interactive, near-native format.
Capture visual events—emoji, GIFs, reactions, stickers along with detailed call logs showing who communicated, when, and for how long.
Extract and convert email data for seamless searching and threading, and process social media messages and wall posts with full fidelity.
Extract detailed location information including Wi-Fi hotspots, network connections, map searches, and travel app activity.
Enrich raw geolocation coordinates into actionable insights, identifying addresses, regions, and countries of origin. Apply powerful location-based filters through enhanced metadata and dashboards.
Optionally embed map tiles to visualize locations to streamline review and analysis.
Optionally extract stored device files, including audio, images, videos, and documents for seamless review.
Convert calendars, contacts, and notes to enable full-text searching of user-generated content.
Process voicemails and audio recordings, with the option to embed the data for review and include transcription where needed.
Extract detailed logs for advanced searching and filtering, aligned with your chosen unitization settings.
Capture key device information; including financial data, passwords, account details, and other usage-related artefacts.
Identify system activity such as power on/off events, health data, internet history, and additional sensitive insights essential for comprehensive analysis.
PRODUCTION READY
Regulatory Body Compliant Exports
Metadata
Extract application-specific metadata to power advanced searching and visualization, with 40+ fields captured seamlessly during Relativity processing. Metadata overlays are also available for non-Relativity platforms.
Platform Agnostic Exports
Support for Relativity Short Message Format (RSMF) across Relativity, Everlaw, and Reveal. Generate PDFs with metadata .dat overlays, JPGs with .dat and .opt image overlays, and EML exports for archiving platforms like Smarsh and GlobalRelay.
Unitization
Flexible, customizable document unitization tailored to client needs. Options include year, month, week, day, message-count, and quiet-time grouping, with support for both document-level and room-level searching.
Production Specifications
Exports engineered for global production requirements, with metadata structured to meet regulator standards such as the DOJ and SEC. Data unitized to align with case needs, and Relativity slicing is supported to minimize redactions by extracting message-level events.
CORPORATE COLLABORATION PLATFORMS
Robust handling for platform specific features
Slack
Overcome Slack’s data volume challenges, from high message counts to large attachments that can span terabytes.
Maintain full compliance with Slack-specific functionality, including canvases, embedded threads, edited messages, and more.
Microsoft Teams
Process Teams data regardless of licensing level, with support for MSG, PST, and HTML formats and full custodial de-duplication.
Embed attachments, meeting recordings, and audio transcripts to deliver a complete, review-ready dataset.
Google Chat
Convert exported data from Google Vault or Google Takeout with de-duplication across mailboxes.
Embed attachments and visualize modern data such as gifs and emojis. Identify edited and deleted messages.
NON-COMPLIANT BUSINESS MESSAGING
Handle large off channel datasets
Not every matter sits neatly within corporate business systems. Ensure your team can handle communications from Telegram, Signal, Twitter/X, Discord, LinkedIn, and other modern platforms with a solution built to process and standardize even the most unconventional sources.
Crypto Disputes involving exceptionally high message volumes spread across multiple communication platforms
IP theft and patent infringement matters involving data exfiltration through personal accounts or recovery from corporate devices
DSAR, FOIA and CCPA requests that involve a
blend of on, and off-channel communications captured from company-issued mobile devices
Internal Investigations with employees sharing information via off channel cloud, desktop and mobile applications
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