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Only just into the New Year and already the scramble for the biggest piece of the eDiscovery pie continues, this time with the opening of a European office by eDiscovery management specialists Planet Data.

Does your eDiscovery need some advice? Then Guidance Software is here to help. The digital investigation software company has partnered with KPMG (news, site), the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm.

Sometimes companies need a little insight when handling legal holds. Thank goodness that Recommind (news, site) has your back. They have announced the availability of Insite Legal Hold version 2.0.

First there was Star Trek, now there is Autonomy (news, site). The next-generation collection solution for eDiscovery and compliance has arrived, thanks to Autonomy.

Now ESI can be automatically searched, identified, preserved and collected in the cloud from laptops, desktops and more than 400 enterprise repositories, including file and email servers, archives and Microsoft SharePoint.

As the season approaches turkey and mistletoe, predictions for the new year are inevitable. Last year we outlined ten trends for eDiscovery in 2009 as described by Clearwell Systems. Their outlook mostly proved true as corporations did indeed take matters into the own hands and implement in-house ediscovery platforms, and the global economic downturn drove global eDiscovery initiatives.

And though we might not have seen as many companies figure out how to manage the new media of business communication, it has definitely been on their minds.

So this year, we turn once again to Clearwell to outline the eDiscovery trends of 2010. The fact that there are only five may indicate the growth and awareness of eDiscovery in the enterprise. As well, they touch on the functionality and technology of eDiscovery more than anything.

So without further adieu, CMSWire presents Clearwell's Top Five eDiscovery Trends of 2010.

Ever dream of moving electronically stored information from one system to another seamlessly and while saving money? Today is your lucky day. CaseCentral and StoredIQ have formed an alliance in an effort to do just that.

Together, they will provide an integrated eDiscovery offering that ranges from identification, preservation, collection and processing of electronically stored information (ESI) through analysis, review, production and post-production re-use.

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).

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.

It's no secret that regulatory policies often dictate the way that information can be accessed, shared or otherwise managed. Internationally-based companies face challenges posed by privacy laws, like the U.S. Patriot Act and the EU Data Protection Directive, which prohibits the transportation of electronically stored data from the U.S and Europe.

Kiersted Systems has addressed this issue by launching a mobile service for processing electronic discovery data. Prompted by such challenges, Kiersted's mobile processing capability allows companies to perform eDiscovery wherever clients may be: down the street, across the country or around the globe.

A recent trend among the eDiscovery industry is that more companies are bringing the process of search, discovery and document management in house. Companies that once saw eDiscovery as third-party expense left to off-site experts have now come around and have begun implementing cost-saving solutions that allow them to take control of their eDiscovery needs.

Today, Kazeon Systems (news, site) announces the availability of its fourth generation eDiscovery software for use by corporations, legal service providers and law firms. Kazeon's solution solves a wide range of customer challenge such as in-house eDiscovery, internal investigations, audits, legal hold retention management and GRC.

Recently, we had the opportunity to talk with Karthik Kannan, Kazeon’s VP of Marketing and Business about v4 and the future of eDiscovery.

The folks at Clearwell Systems, whose platform works to streamline the eDiscovery process, have looked into their crystal ball and have offered a few predictions for the new year. Among them, trends that respond to financial and legal stresses as well as a need for more collaboration. The most compelling of their predictions lay within the realm of compliance and technology.

eDiscovery powerhouse CaseCentral has teamed up with CommVault, a provider of high-performance data protection and data storage to deliver an end-to-end eDiscovery solution.  

The goal is to combine the indexing, search and retrieval capabilities of CommVault Simpana Archive and Search software, with CaseCentral’s eDiscovery Review Platform. Together, they will be able to offer a suite of solutions that cover the entire EDRM model.  

Kazeon has been hard at work. We first profiled their work within the eDiscovery industry in October, and then again last week we covered the benefits of their Information Server, which allows for agent-less eDiscovery analysis.

Now, Kazeon has announced the launch of KazForensics, a comprehensive set of forensics capabilities that creates new standards for complete authenticity of data and meta-data, as well as maximum defensibility of the eDiscovery process.