Every investigative team has its preferred methods of collecting digital data from different devices and apps – that’s as it should be, make the most of the tools and expertise available to you.
Similarly, every investigation has the potential to include a wide variety of data types and formats – whether you’ve extracted it yourself or obtained it though other sources, not all meaningful data will come to you in a single homogeneous format.
What investigative teams need, then, is a way to efficiently parse, process, and derive meaning from ALL case-relevant data, regardless of source or format.
Oxygen Forensics technology was developed to do just that.
While many know Oxygen as a sophisticated data extraction tool capable of collecting data directly from mobile phones, computers, and the widest range of cloud data and services in the industry, including email, messaging apps, automobile, drone, apps that rely on location data, and much more, it can also ingest 24 types of data (more than 30 depending on how one defines data types) provided by other extraction tools and third-party sources.
Oxygen software normalizes more inputs than any other tool on the market and quickly organizes all of that different data into readily actionable content including a comprehensive timeline.
What we are suggesting is that you use Oxygen Forensics technology as your central data analytics engine.
How Oxygen Forensics’ Data Standardization Works
Oxygen emphasizes consistency across sources, normalizing and linking all sources to build a record and populate fields of sortable information. It’s that process that allows our amazing data sorting and comparisons to improve your performance and results.
Oxygen’s normalization technology helps you avoid spending hours cleaning, converting, or mapping raw data by automatically aligning:
- Timestamps for consistent timelines across apps and devices
- Geolocation data for accurate person and entity mapping
- Calls logs and call records
- Media pictures and videos
- Contact and communications fields
Sharper insights can be gained using our analysis tools like Social Graph, Timeline, and Keyword Search for quick clarity across all normalized data sets.
Our Customers Testify to the Benefits of Oxygen Forensics Standardization
Oxygen Forensic technology can import data extracted from other tools, process and analyze it up to 10 times more quickly than our competitors based on results from head-to-head comparisons reported by users.
This quote comes from a current Oxygen customer:
“We collect data using [Oxygen Forensics] and other tools and load it all into Oxygen because we find that Oxygen tends to be incredibly efficient at processing the data, which helps us get to our end result the fastest. We often have collections that we need to turn around the same day, so it was a real breakthrough to discover even if we’re using collections from a number of other tools, we’re still able to load all the information from any of these sources into Oxygen and get the data processed and exported very quickly.”
Another current Oxygen customer shared this at a recent industry event:
“Like many here (at the conference), we use a variety of tools for collection – and in our case, we first started using Oxygen because of its cloud collection capabilities – but it didn’t take long for us to notice that if we load a variety of collected data into two tools, one being Oxygen and the other being literally any other tool we have, Oxygen routinely processes the data, provides it to us in a reviewable form and then exports the end result before other tools have even finished processing the data for us to begin looking at it. Based purely on our own in-house experiences, it’s safe to say that Oxygen makes our data processing and analysis 5 to 10 times faster than any other tool we’ve used. Because of this, Oxygen has made a significant impact on our case backlog and has become instrumental to our workflows.”
A third Oxygen customer provided this example:
“One of our larger recent cases required extraction and analysis of a particularly large amount of data – we had been performing essentially continuous, 24-hour extractions for weeks at a time, pulling down enormous amounts of highly varied data. We were curious and a bit apprehensive about the processing of so much data, how much time that would take, and were making timeline projections in terms of weeks — but Oxygen came through impressively, processing the entire quantity in less than a day and presenting it to us in a format that allowed us to produce our final output in less than an afternoon. Again, we found that Oxygen had outperformed not just other tools, but also our own expectations.”
Time and Work Saved with Oxygen’s Database Resiliency
Oxygen Forensics technology is database-driven, while many of our competitors are not. Today’s enormous volumes of data frequently overwhelm memory-based technologies, leading to crashes and lost work.
Your work in our software is continuously committed to the database, eliminating lost work. Your investigation remains productive, avoiding our competitors’ need to recreate everything and start again at the point of the last save.
Industry-best normalization across multiple sources and time-saving resiliency makes Oxygen Forensics technology a must for handling cross-platform and multi-source investigations in which unified evidence clarity is essential.