Comments on: Are The Winners And Losers In The eDiscovery Software Market Already Determined?

By: Barry Murphy

Barry Murphy — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:27:27 +0000

Sunil:

You hit on a great point. There are certainly vendors that did not get covered in this article and we will be doing period market update posts with updated paragraphs about where we see vendors and how the market seems to be evolving. UBIC will certainly be included in that going forward.

By: sunilmgn

sunilmgn — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:27:40 +0000

Greg,

Are you going to do a follow-on to this story to cover some other vendors that have been left out?

We are listed on Gartner MQ but not on your list.

Jason knows about UBIC very well.

By: Greg Buckles

Greg Buckles — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:20:57 +0000

Good insight. We did spend considerable time deciding who to give perspective on on this first round. There are many excellent products that do not appear to have gained substantial market share or are simply not have the level of market recognition/brand awareness. The current eDJ Matrix covers all software product’s cobjective features and we are moving to expose more of the analyst engine in the new site under development.

I’m interested to see if Thompson will have better success with any of their acquisitions than their rival Lexis. Both of these legal research power houses have not yet really shown that they can transform or integrate their acquisitions into their sales model. Perhaps the move to the Cloud will make that an easier transition.

Thanks for the good feedback!

By: epete

epete — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:01:46 +0000

It’s interesting that you failed to mention Thomson’s CaseLogistix platform, which they acquired from Anacomp. Although Thomson remains one of the powerhouses in the legal market; their document review platform seems to have hit a stall in terms of adding in advanced features that we’re seeing in other’s platforms (e.g., ECA, Predictive Coding, Analytics, etc.). Two other contenders on my short list are (1) Venio FPR and (2) RevealData’s InControl. One feature that CaseLogistix offers, and others seem to not is the level of customization that one can achieve to meet client demands. Providing the ability to write executive level dashboards and reports, inside the application itself (via a web portal tab), is high on my wish list of features from any new document and ESI processing platform. Clients want to see what the document collection “haystacks” look like, but aren’t necessarily interested in all the needles inside.

In terms of your list, I see Summation’s new offering heading to a strong position. But, not until all the irons have been smoothed out; including their licensing model. Relativity seems to be on everyone’s top 10 list; but I feel they haven’t embraced enough of the new web architectures to give a richer UI experience, and that’s critical for user acceptance.

By: Greg Buckles

Greg Buckles — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:03:07 +0000

I wanted to add a clarification note in response to several offline inquiries. We limited this piece to strictly software providers because they have been our primary market focus historically. We recognize that it is increasingly hard to meaningfully differentiate software, Saas, managed services and other consumption models. We have been redesigning our analyst platform to address the merger of technology and services. We look forward to expanding our scope of coverage and to bringing you our perspective on the evolving eDiscovery market space.