Ediscovery News & Articles

Confirming the recent Forrester Report that showed a widespread lack of management of electronic records, AIIM (news, site) has just published a similar report that shows 26% of organizations admitting that they have no electronic records management policy.

The report also shows that nearly half of companies surveyed (44%) have no procedures for freezing electronic records in the event of litigation or compliance issues.

KMWorld (news, site) has dropped its list of Trend Setting companies for 2009 and there are more than a few familar faces making the list.

The latest report from Forrester Research (news, site) would seem to suggest that companies are slowly coming around to the fact that it's bad business to put investment in records management on the back burner.

While there is a recognition that records management is a core business process in any company, only 20 per cent of companies would be “very confident” that they could meet eDiscovery or compliance requests if they were asked to do so in the morning.

However, the good news is that by the end of 2010 more than half of those surveyed in the 14-page report, entitled Records Management: User Expectations, Market Trends, And Obstacles written by Brian W.Hill of Forrester with Matthew Brown, Peter Schmidt, say they will be expanding their technology deployments in this regard.

With the general launch of Trusted Edge v4.0, Maryland-based FileTek is taking the unstructured content bull by the proverbial horns and -- transparently, the company says -- going onto employee’s laptops and desktops to get all that pesky content properly classified.

What this version of FileTek will do is to extend existing enterprise content management policies and go rummaging through desktops where FileTek reckons up to 80% of this content resides.

What’s even better the company says, is that you don’t have to be working with a FileTek product to use it as it can be easily integrated with the majority of large ECM systems, including SharePoint, IBM Content Manager, Open Text Livelink and EMC. 

If August went by as fast as you thought it did, don't waste any time this September making your eDiscovery plans.

In case you missed it, last month, the eDiscovery Planning & Decision Guide: Technology, Process & Policy was published.

Written by Robert F. Smallwood, industry expert and author of such reads as eDiscovery Readiness for Lawyers, Leveraging Microsoft SharePoint Services to Manage Electronic Records and Taming the Email Tiger, the eDiscovery Guide reviews market trends and covers 20 vendors in the industry.

It's all about enhancing eDiscovery these days. Equivio is leading the charge with its announcement of Relevance, an expert-guided system that enhances the eDiscovery process through automated document prioritization.

Instead of having to use keywords to pre-filter documents prior to processing the report, Equivio recognizes that too many relevant documents may go missing or unfiltered, and as a result, have designed Relevance to use statistical and self-learning techniques to calculate relevant scores for each document in the data collection.

This week in Governance, Regulation and Compliance examines the current state of eDiscovery and issues within the oil, gas and energy sector.

Curious about the future of eDiscovery?

We sat down with Recommind's (news, site) VP of marketing Craig Carpenter at the International Legal Technology Association conference and discussed challenges facing the eDiscovery industry, hypothesized about the direction that it was likely to head and the growth of Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery On-Demand platform.

The final day of the International Legal Technology Association's (ILTA) annual knees-up still gives you time to catch-up on the new additions to Open Text’s (news, site) stable of legal solutions that were unveiled over the course of the five day conference.

For anyone that checked-out their roadmap for 2009 at the end of last year, the two principal additions will be no surprise.

Open Text announced the further integration of its eDocs products with its Open Text enterprise content management suite, and it unveiled a new version of its Enterprise Connect, which offers new plug-ins for Microsoft SharePoint and eDOCS DM.

Workshare and NetDocuments are extending the scope of their integrated document management product resulting in a more comprehensive document management solution that should appeal to their base clientele in the legal industry.

Whether the new offering is in response to growing compliance demands generally, or whether it is to copper fasten their collective hold on the legal market is not clear.

What is, though, is that this broader, or deeper, integration provides multiple options to leverage this document comparison product that has been on the market since 2001.

eMag Solutions (news, site), provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic discovery solutions will introduce the launch of PreVu 3.0 this week at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference in Washington, D.C.

PreVu 3.0, a hosted raw data culling application, allows corporations and law firms to sort, search and filter electronically stored information (ESI).

There are many solutions available for eDiscovery. Yesterday, we talked about Clearwell Systems' initiative for updating data without having to move it.

Today, Recommind (news, site) says there's no need to go back and add or change keywords when you can have a concept search engine that knows all the keywords for you.

Recommind with its Mindserver Categorization focuses on enterprise and legacy data and provides some tools that aim to make records management a little easier.

If the process for managing records or search and discovery was linear, we wouldn't need many fancy, sophisticated tools to help us. But as it turns out, the process can be quite complicated and can go in many different directions.

Clearwell Systems (news, site), known for its eDiscovery platform, has announced the addition of three new modules to help users simplify the process by eliminating the need to move data across multiple tools.

eDiscovery solution services all aim to save customers and companies time and money. Due to the non-linear structure of eDiscovery, there are so many ways to go about making the process, whether it be pre-processing, data collection, filtering, review or post-processing phases, more pleasant for the user.

IBM (news, site) is focused on the analytics part of eDiscovery. Today they announced new IBM eDiscovery software with advanced analytics features. The goal is to help clients not just find information, but have them understand it better.

Anacomp (site) updated its CaseProduction module, which is part of CaseLogistix, to improve and refine eDiscovery and document production.