Attenex

I get great support from the states and never heard any serious complaints from our users. The Technical guys at Attenex are very quick to respond and are always open to new ideas (e.g. Combining Tiff and OCR to generate concept searching etc).

They are very open to discussing their techniques for deduping and near deduping. Teams that have used it have praised how quick it is to learn and easy to use. It certainly is easy to demonstrate to people. We have found it has helped on our Lotus Notes issues and the back-end database structure is very easy to understand, as it is structured very well. We have used the system a lot, and its very quick when set up correctly over even a slow internet connection. It’s going to save an awful lot of people and awful lot of time!

Martin.

Discover-E again

Just had the presentation from Rich Radford et al, and this product looks slick! We’ll check it out with some of the guys that run it, but we are very impressed so far. hoever, as with all these things, you really have to look at what you’ve got and what you need and test the products thoroughly! Needless to say we have had some very good recommendations though! Thanks Rich! http://www.discover-e-legal.com

Martin.

Discover-E

I would be interested to hear anyones feed back on this product. We are about to get a demonstration and wondered if anyone has experience of the company and the support it offers. Also, does anyone have the product?

 Martin.

‘Copying Websites’

The best ‘internet explorer’ option would be to create a ‘favorite’ and tick ‘Make Available offline’. Click customise and it will give you some options as to how many links ‘deep’ you want to go.

A better free tool for this would be HTTRACK, which is highly configurable and is completely open source, so the support is there.

All of this depends entirely on what the copy of the website will be used for, (i.e. evidence, reference etc) and how dynamic the website is. (i.e. imagine trying to ‘copy’ yahoo. Each individual user has their own settings that can dynamically change based on preferences. Using most of the methods suggested would only result in your ‘version’ of the website being copied.) The only true way to copy a website (especially a complex dynamic one) would be to image all of the servers (content, databases, images etc) so the site can be recreated on other servers. It may be possible to retrieve back up tapes from the servers which will contain this information.

So, the key to what you do depends on the type of site. If its static its easy, if its dynamic, it can be hard depending on what you want.