Ediscovery News & Articles

Let’s start with a question. Who knows you best? Your spouse, friend, boss or… Google? Admit it, you know the answer. Google has the ability to capture, store and use all your likes, interests, purchases, comments, documents, emails, photos, personal information and aesthetic preferences. This collection of data is known in the cyber world as your personal data profile. Depending on its contents, your data profile could be very helpful or very damaging.

Last week, Index Engines provided its take on how to best prepare and manage corporate data. The discussion didn’t end there, however. Today, Symantec released its 2011 Information Retention and e-Discovery Survey, which examined the retention policies of the enterprise. The survey reveals that  email is no longer the most commonly requested records companies must produce -- further complicating the way information and the kinds of information are managed. 

We thought this was the perfect opportunity to have Symantec weigh in. We asked Greg Muscarella, senior director of product management for Symantec’s Information Management Group, the same three questions about how to effectively manage your corporate data. 

A new report from Symantec shows that retention policies are still not fully developed within companies, leaving many unprepared to handle increased requests for information.

Earlier this year, Science Express published researchers’ calculations of the world's total technological capacity in an effort to determine how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute. What they found indicated that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. It’s unclear how much of that information accounts for redundancy or duplication, however.

In March, we told you about Recommind’s new predictive coding website, which provides online resources dedicated to explaining and demonstrating Recommind’s predictive coding capabilities for expedited document review. This week, Recommind received a patent for its predictive coding process, a move that gives Recommind, its customers and its partners exclusive rights to use, host and sell systems and processes for iterative, computer-expedited document review.

Looking for an e-Discovery tool that encompasses the entire process in a way that’s not just efficient but also give gives IT and Legal teams more control? This week, BIA introduced TotalDiscovery.com, a SaaS e-Discovery application that gives IT complete visibility over the discovery process.

Need an e-Discovery solution that reflects perspectives of both the IT and legal departments? The search may be over. Today, Exterro released a new data management layer for its integrated solution suite. Fusion Zeta is an automated, easy-to-administer application designed to handle in-place early case assessment, preservation, collection and analysis. But perhaps most importantly, it gives legal teams 360-degree access into the entire e-discovery process, while eliminating the chaos of manual processes.

With some concern, we wondered what Nuance (news, site) could add to OmniPage that it hasn't crammed into any of the 17 previous editions. Panic not, there's lot of good new stuff for those drowning in paper documents.

Information archiving does not consist only of storing data, but rather more powerful data management, which includes search, retrieval and analysis. MessageSolution's (news, site) latest SaaS release features advanced management functionality for Lotus Domino Application-based environments, as well as for other systems.

This week HP has launched a suite of new products that aims to offer enterprises developing hybrid clouds GRC across applications and infrastructure, Guidance extends e-Discovery software to iPad, Digital Reef and Relativity team-up for e-Discovery, and Protiviti adds Arabic to its governance portal.

If 2011 is really about customer experience management, as Forrester suggests, it shouldn’t surprise you that many vendors are focused on it as well. From Oracle to Adobe, everyone seems to be getting in on the action. Get ready to see more customer engagement systems in the vendorscape.

This week, two well-known vendors released partnerships and features that speak to customer experience initiatives. Let’s take a look.

Are lawyers getting sanctioned for electronic-discovery violations more than before? So it seems, according to a study done by King & Spalding and reported in the Duke Law Journal. Such results are puzzling, considering that e-Discovery was supposed to simplify litigation.

When we look back at GRC, there are some stories that stand out more than others. In 2010, the enterprise embraced social media and with that came questions and challenges about how to effectively manage it. In addition, the rise of cloud computing posed storage problems for companies’ unstructured data. Let’s take a look at the year’s top stories.

Since we published our e-Discovery predictions for 2011, one more industry vendor has added their predictions to the mix. With only a few days left until 2011, there isn’t much longer until the future is now. Yet, from early case assessment to GRC, it’s apparent that the future of e-Discovery holds many opportunities.

This week in the GRC space, we look at e-Discovery in BPOS (and Office365), LiveOffice archives Salesforce Chatter, OpenLogic offers open source governance for agile developers and new research reveals how safe our smartphones really are.