E-discovery News & Articles

One of the advantages that cloud technologies have afforded us is the ability to share and access content without having to create more than one copy. So you’d think there would be a lot less document duplication in the enterprise. But according to a new report from Symantec, you’d be wrong.

While the upgrade to Xerox’s document review platform is interesting from a functionality point of view, it's even more interesting from an industry perspective because it shows the company's ongoing commitment to extending and building its document management capabilities.
 

There have been a number of announcements in the GRC space in recent weeks, including the acquisition of Digital Reef by TransPerfect. Varonis has also upgraded DatAdvantage, while Guidance has upgraded its e-Discovery product. There is also a new resource for e-Discovery documentation.

Walking the halls at ILTA it’s very clear how far the legal tech community has come. Wasn’t it just two years ago that vendors in the e-Discovery space were talking about how lawyers should get empowered to adapt new technologies into their workflow? And now, not only have they begun to adapt, they’re reshaping the landscape of legal tech.

An employee, excited about a new product the company is developing, mentions it on Facebook. Due to his privacy settings, a competitor gets wind of potential trade secret information. In another situation, a disgruntled employee sends a negative Tweet about his company to hundreds of followers, including company shareholders.

Many companies faced with a growing number of channels and ways to access information just push ahead and hope they will hit on the right formula to stay in the enterprise information management space (EIM). Not OpenText. The changes in the market are so profound, its new CEO Mark J. Barrenechea has redefined the company’s strategy in five key areas.

This week, MetricStream announces that it has bought TBD Networks, Pathway and Equivo Partner for better email management, Gartner releases its e-Discovery Magic Quadrant and Kroll offers easy data recovery, while SOA offers better cloud governance.

E-Discovery is growing. If you had any doubt about it, a quick look at this year’s Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery, would indicate just how tight competition is getting in the market with six companies in the Leaders quadrant and another four jostling to bust in from the Challengers Quadrant. But like all IT areas that have a high content element, the market is shifting.

Some interesting announcements in the GRC space this week, among them the release of e-Discovery services onto AWS by X1 Discovery, Symantec releases its annual disaster preparedness report, Agilance upgrades its Federal offering with FedRAMP Content Pack and Logic Buys Quantum.

Quite a bit of movement this week in GRC, including the release of the upgrade to SAS’s GRC solution, the acquisition of BWise by NASDAQ OMX, Microsoft patches up another bunch of vulnerabilities, Clearwater expands its reseller program and Daegis offers free tools for calculating e-Discovery costs.

This week, Facebook took further steps to secure its users by teaming up with McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Sophos to offer better protection, which is probably good in light of the new Symantec Internet Security Report. Also this week, TEAM and EntropySoft get together for compliance with Oracle email management, while CDS and Tactical get together to offer e-Discovery services.

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

Seems like GRC companies are still only recovering from LegalTech NY this week, as it’s been relatively quiet. That said, SAI has finalized the Compliance 360 deal, Ricoh is expanding its e-Discovery reach again, Congress is taking on spyware and Guidance has bought CaseCentral.

This week in GRC was always going to be about LegalTech and everything that came out of it. Well, it's finishing up today, and it didn’t disappoint. There were releases from Autonomy, Recommind, Digital Reef and a whole lot more.

If anyone was wondering what Autonomy was going to do after getting the check for US$ 12 billion, then the upgrade to its e-Discovery software is a good indicator: It appears to be carrying on business as usual, even if it is now branded as a HP company.