Lima

Additional features

End-to-End Workflow Management

Manages the entire forensic process from initial inquiry, evidence collection, processing, quality checking, and final case reporting, ensuring a disciplined and exacting workflow.

Comprehensive Evidence & Chain of Custody

Provides robust features for maintaining a secure and auditable chain of custody for all physical and digital evidence and exhibits, with real-time tracking of their location and status.

Powerful Search & Indexing (dtSearch)

Integrates the dtSearch engine for instant, advanced keyword and full-text searching across all uploaded documents, including attachments within attachments, significantly reducing information recovery time.

On-Premises Deployment

Uniquely focuses on on-premises installation, giving organizations full control over their data, ensuring enhanced privacy, security, and compliance with stringent data protection requirements.

Task Management & Workload Allocation

Enables the allocation of specific case tasks to colleagues, specialists, or technical groups, allowing users to track progress and facilitating efficient workload management across the lab.

Quality Assurance & Accreditation Support

Built to help laboratories meet and maintain compliance with international quality standards like ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 9001, and ISO/IEC 27001, crucial for accreditation.

Automated Document Generation & Reporting

Instantly creates various customizable reports (e.g., for evidence items, complete cases) and automatically generates documents (e.g., receipt forms) based on pre-defined templates, saving time and ensuring consistency.

Contemporaneous Notes & Case Logging

Provides functions for users to produce traceable and auditable contemporaneous notes within the system (e.g., phone calls, emails, meeting notes), with time/date stamps and audit logs.

Forensic Tool Compatibility

Allows uploading output and capturing essential information from a variety of different forensic tools (e.g., EnCase, FTK, Logicube, XRY) into the case management system.

Management Reporting & KPIs

Offers a browser-based platform to view real-time data on staff and asset utilization, case tracking, evidence tracking, and lab performance, with comprehensive metrics and dashboarding (e.g., Power BI integration).

Customizable Workflow & Interface

Highly configurable to fit any standard investigation procedure or format, with a clean, modern, and intuitive user interface featuring customizable dashboards to tailor views for individual user roles.

Resource & Asset Management

Tracks the use of hardware and software tools, staff time recording, and manages supplier and client contacts, optimizing resource utilization.

Secure Communications & Client Portal

Ensures all communications remain within the specific case record for accountability and provides a secure, browser-based portal for clients/investigators to submit requests, track progress, and communicate with lab staff.

Continuous Support & Development

Receives regular updates and feature enhancements based on user feedback, along with dedicated customer support.