Ediscovery News & Articles

For as many eDiscovery vendors there are, there are as many eDiscovery prices. Two vendors, who have announced the availability of new pricing models, hope to revolutionize the industry.

It was inevitable that at this year’s LegalTech conference eDiscovery-related announcements would abound. So the announcement that archiving specialist Mimosa (news, site) and legal consulting and risk management company Navigant have integrated their products is not really that surprising. Between the two, they hope to be able to deploy software that cuts the costs of eDiscovery while providing a more efficient and more streamlined product.

In a world full of Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, RenewData (news, site) wants to be a Honda. That is, the eDiscovery provider would rather be regarded as automated, reliable and affordable than manual, over-priced and out of reach.

What’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound? Superman, of course, but when it comes to processing data at the speed of 1 terabyte per day and scales to 100 million documents on a single appliance – that’s version 5.5 of Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.

CaseCentral (news, site), a provider of on-demand eDiscovery software has announced a new connector that will help eliminate manual exports and uploads, saving time and processing fees.

Stratify, a California-based division of Iron Mountain (news, site) has acquired Legal Imaging Technologies to beef up its eDiscovery capabilities.

When it comes to eDiscovery Bridgeway Software (news, site) goes straight to the source -- their customers -- to understand exactly the processes they use. So when it comes to Bridgeway Legal Hold 2.1, Bridgeway’s newest release, the new enhancements reflect the needs of their users.

More releases from Autonomy (news, site)  this time an appliance that will facilitate eDiscovery with early case assessment and legal hold and a new solution specifically for the law profession that will automatically tell users when there is a conflict of interest in cases.

Amongst the many releases from Autonomy (news, site) this week is a consolidated email management and archiving solution that will cover all the email requirements of small and large enterprises in terms of management, eDiscovery and governance.

Early case assessment is an important part of the eDiscovery process and Equivio (news, site) demonstrates that with some updates to their product Relevance.

With the growing importance of compliance and eDiscovery issues for many companies, it might be time to consider deploying a records management system. Chances are that your company already uses some kind of document management system. The question is, will your document management system also support records management?

At the core of this question is what is the differences between document management and records management. Let's examine six differences.

The problem of unstructured information floating around enterprises has reached such epidemic proportions that AIIM (news, site) has decided to take to the road at six locations over the coming months to persuade companies to develop a holistic information strategy.

The six seminars will take the guise of AIIM's “8 things about . . .” framework and will specifically look at eight factors to consider when creating an information strategy for enterprises.

With the release of Guidance Software (news, site) version 4 of EnCase eDiscovery, you can now perform analysis and first-pass review capabilities at any stage of the eDiscovery process, such as during collection, post collection, or during and after processing.

Like the beginning of any other year there’s been a lot of crystal ball gazing about what will and will not happen in the year ahead. Gartner (news, site) is no exception with their latest report on business process management highlighting what they see as the five major trends in business process management for 2010 and beyond.

It has often been said that recession is good for business. In the ranks of eDiscovery software vendors there are few who will argue as recent research by Gartner (news, site) shows companies moving to in-house eDiscovery and a corresponding, consistent growth in sales of eDiscovery software.