Are you curious to know the alternatives for a Digital Evidence Management System?
Here is the comparison of VIDIZMO and NICE Investigate, one of the best options for a Digital Evidence Management System.
Digital evolution has taken the world in its fold. Law enforcement agencies and other governmental organizations are moving towards digital, cloud-based, solutions for a smooth and secure digital evidence management experience
With increased crime rates, digital evidence management systems have become a necessity. It is vital to understand the different digital management systems and their offered dispersed features before deciding to move digitally.
A Brief Introduction before Diving Deeper
VIDIZMO offers a secure, device-agnostic Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) that enables law enforcement agencies and other organizations to store, manage, analyze, and share a vast amount of digital evidence.
VIDIZMO offers a CJIS-compliant platform to ingest digital evidence from multiple sources like body-worn cameras, CCTV, drone cams, etc.
It includes remarkable features like AI-based automatic multilingual transcription and translation of digital evidence, automatic detection and redaction of personally identifiable information, role-based access control, and flexible deployment options with the highest level of security.
On the other hand, NICE helps you to gather digital evidence by integrating and connecting with multiple systems such as CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch), RMS (Records Management Systems), Video cameras (CCTV, Body-worn) etc., in a time-efficient manner.
NICE VS VIDIZMO: A Head-to-Head Comparison
Let us dive deep into the details!
Here are some distinguishing features which will help differentiate VIDIZMO and NICE.
Sharing Digital Evidence
VIDIZMO: VIDIZMO DEMS enables you to share evidence with internal and external portal users with limited or controlled access. It also caters to limited sharing options where the authority can personalize limited sharing features with external users by emailing a link.
It allows only authorized users to view evidence files and add notes. You can block the download option for some users as well. Along with that, you can restrict access to specific domain IP addresses.
NICE: NICE creates virtual folders to store and organize data digitally. It ensures secure evidence sharing with end-to-end encryption. The case folders are created and organized within the portal for efficient data segregation.
Investigators can share evidence with prosecutors by emailing a link to a digital case file in a time-efficient and secure manner. NICE offers bulk evidence sharing which allow third-party ingestion in the digital case folder on the portal.
Deployment Models
VIDIZMO: VIDIZMO offers extensive and flexible deployment options, including on-premises, Hybrid, commercial and government cloud. It provides SaaS on the public cloud and deployment on Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud catering options according to customer requirements.
NICE: NICE offers on-premises and SaaS deployment (on the public cloud). However, NICE does not offer an on-premises version of the investigation. It is also available on Azure Cloud, but AWS Cloud integration is still unavailable.
AI-Based Transcription and Translation
VIDIZMO:VIDIZMO provides AI-Powered transcription, which is faster, saves time and increases productivity. It enables automatic closed captions and transcription in 39 languages. It also allows us to edit and download transcriptions. Transcription is provided through Azure and AWS Cloud; however, it is not available in the VIDIZMO indexer.
NICE: NICE provides automated speech-to-text transcription, eliminating third-party transcription software's role. The transcription engine accurately transcribes audio in 44 different languages. Transcriptions can be edited and downloaded in PDF form.
Automatic Case Creation
VIDIZMO: Automatic case creation empowers users to create a case folder automatically in the portal. VIDIZMO currently offers manual case creation where folders are created manually, by adding digital evidence files in the folders.
To increase efficiency, VIDIZMO uses custom attributes to highlight key details like Case ID, Case Status, Associated Investigating Officer, incident time, and date associated with each case to keep a proper record of each case easily.
NICE: NICE automates the process of case creation in the portal and builds case folders automatically through Case Management System integration. NICE automatically collects, correlates, and assembles digital evidence into case folders.
The automatically created folders are suggested to investigators working on similar cases to ensure that no potential evidence is left behind.
Automatic Audio and Video Redaction
VIDIZMO: VIDIZMO provides a standalone redaction tool that can detect faces, people, objects, license plates, and other PII (Personally Identifiable Information) in video and audio files automatically.
You can quickly redact sensitive information by within both audio and video evidence files with just a few clicks. VIDIZMO also offers a manual redaction option for accurate results. On top of that, you can redact multiple files simultaneously. Additionally, various redaction options are available such as blur, pixelate or adding a redaction box over the detected object.
NICE: NICE offers smart redaction capability for audio, video as well as document files. It can easily redact multiple audio segments that contain sensitive information before exporting any Evidence file.
Its built-in video redaction functionality can automatically hide sensitive information in videos. Along with that, you can also redact any sort of confidential words in documents.
Chain of custody
VIDIZMO: The chain of custody provides complete documentation of activities performed, which is a complete report of actions performed on digital evidence. It provides an option to filter the access of viewing rights to officers and form a consolidated chain of custody.
VIDIZMO allows you to download and then share audit trail and chain of custody reports.
NICE: NICE offers Evidence Tracking Software, which can automatically track case Evidence files, e.g., who has accessed files or when accessed, ensuring evidence integrity, and maintaining chain of custody.
The chain of custody records event logs to ensure the evidence has not been altered. NICE offers to share evidence files with the chain of custody reports. This option is available in their limited sharing feature and provides greater usability experience.
Security Features and Compliances
VIDIZMO: VIDIZMO DEMS ensures an elevated level of security and protection with FIPS Compliant, AES 256 Encryption at rest and in transit. Detect any alterations in digital evidence with the SHA cryptographic hash function.
It is designed to meet the security requirements of CJIS, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPPA and other compliances.
NICE: NICE is CJIS Compliant and offers security features that include ISO/IEC Certification, AES Encryption at rest, FIPS 140-2 at transit, Antivirus protection, Secure hashing for maintaining Evidence integrity, and 2-factor authentications.
All data is encrypted at rest. All data in transit outside the Service is carried to HTTPS using TLS 1.2.
Make Your Decision Wisely
So, what makes the difference?
Before deciding which software is best suited for your needs, it is essential to understand the features offered by each vendor clearly.
Fortunately, VIDIZMO Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) is recognized in IDC MarketScape 2020 and has been well known in the industry for its AI-Powered features.
It simplifies and streamlines ever-increasing digital evidence by providing a robust platform for digital evidence ingestion, storage, management, and secure sharing in a centralized repository while ensuring the highest level of security and meeting compliances like CJIS. VIDIZMO enables its users to store files of various sizes, from smaller than a few KBs to massive files of 100 GB data to a centralized platform.
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