eDJ Contributor: Barry Murphy
Barry’s past experience includes covering content management, business process management, and Web services technology as an analyst with The Delphi Group. Prior to Delphi, Barry was a management consultant at the boutique eBusiness strategy consulting firm eMaven. In this role, he was responsible for both creating technology strategies and for managing projects to execute those strategies. Barry began his career in advertising with the DDB Needham agency.
Barry has spoken at numerous industry events, including the Forrester IT Forum, AIIM Conference & Expo, the ARMA conference, and LegalTech. At these events, he has delivered keynotes and provided industry expertise on moderated panels. He has been quoted in publications including the Wall Street Journal, KM World, Red Herring, Computer World, and Intelligent Enterprise, and has appeared as an industry expert on outlets such as CNBC.
Barry received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A from the University of Notre Dame. He is an active member of both AIIM and ARMA.
Posts by Barry Murphy
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- January 27th
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It’s Off To LegalTech We Go
The eDiscovery year tends to begin with a bang at the LegalTech Conference in New York (LTNY). LTNY 2011 promoted some pragmatic ideas such as managing eDiscovery as a process and taking control of Information Governance (IG), while also hinting at forthcoming heat around “the Cloud” and predictive coding. If my pre-briefings from vendors this week are any indication, LTNY 2012 will feature similar issues, albeit flavored a bit differently to taste.
posted at 10:39am on Jan 27th
- January 24th
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2012 eDiscovery, Info Governance & Data Analytics Forecast from Analyst Firm eDJ Group
2012 is a critical year for the eDiscovery market. Companies have matured and now demand that eDiscovery processes be more predictable, efficient, and less costly. It is not uncommon to see companies connecting eDiscovery with broader information gov…
posted at 2:57am on Jan 24th
- January 16th
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Symantec Buys Into The Cloud With Acquisition Of LiveOffice
As the buzz around The Cloud has built over the last few years, one company remained noticeably silent about plans for The Cloud – Symantec. Rival companies like IBM and Autonomy began introducing cloud archiving products in addition to existing on-premise archiving products. With its market-leading archiving product Enterprise Vault, Symantec no doubt felt the competitive impact of cloud solutions, but when queried about a cloud strategy, the company would only mention its partnership with LiveOffice. Turns out, LiveOffice is the Symantec cloud strategy – Symantec has acquired LiveOffice for $115 million.
posted at 2:46pm on Jan 16th
- January 12th
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eDJ Survey On Predictive Coding And Debate Over PC-TAR Term
A recent Forbes blog by by Amanda Jones & Ben Kerschberg pointed out how technology-assisted review in eDiscovery can increase review accuracy and decrease overall review costs. The article mainly refers to the use of predictive coding, but touches on what has been called “technology assisted review.” Last month, Jason Velasco here at eDJ offered up the acronym PC-TAR (predictive coding – technology assisted review) to avoid controversy.
posted at 9:16am on Jan 12th
- January 10th
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New eDJ Group Report – Gearing Up For The Cloud And Social Media
For the past two months, eDJ has been running a survey on eDiscovery and The Cloud. The results teach us some excellent lessons: that eDiscovery is an afterthought in The Cloud and that The Cloud does not kill off on-premise collection and preservation tools. Now, eDJ has published the first report in our series on eDiscovery and The Cloud: “Gearing Up for The Cloud and Social Media.” One finding is that The Cloud and Social Media have generated more heat than actual action.
posted at 10:53am on Jan 10th
- January 6th
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Research Evolves On Predictive Coding-Technology Assisted Review (PC-TAR)
One of eDJ’s predictions for 2012 is that PC-TAR (predictive coding-technology assisted review) goes mainstream. Instead of just sitting and waiting to see what happens with PC-TAR, we are actively researching it. Watch for the launch of an eDJ survey on the topic next week (and the chance to win yet another prize from eDJ for participating in our research). Jason Velasco did a call-out for anyone using PC-TAR to speak with us and we’ve been able to talk to actual practitioners. I want to quickly share some of what we are learning and call for anyone else trying PC-TAR to email us and share your story.
posted at 12:17pm on Jan 6th
- December 29th
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EPIQ’s Acquisition Of De Novo Legal A Sign Of Things To Come
Yesterday, EPIQ Systems announced its acquisition of De Novo Legal for $68 million. It’s a 2011 transaction, but look for it to be indicative of something to expect in 2012 – service providers getting bigger and broader geographic coverage via acquisition. While huge acquisitions on par with HP’s purchase of Autonomy or Symantec’s purchase of Clearwell are certainly a possibility, the real action is more likely to be in the service provider business.
posted at 10:31am on Dec 29th
- December 21st
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More Perspective Needed On eDiscovery Burden Argument?
At eDJ, we’ve been thinking a lot about the recent Congressional Hearing on The Costs and Burdens of Civil Discovery. Being deeply involved in the eDiscovery market, we hear every day from companies seeking to make discovery a more efficient process. We also work with companies seeking to put in place proactive information governance (IG) initiatives with the ultimate goal of making eDiscovery less of a reactive, expensive burden.
posted at 11:25am on Dec 21st
- December 15th
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eDJ’s eDiscovery Trends: 2012
What a year 2011 has been for the eDiscovery market. The Analysts at eDJ put our heads together and reviewed what transpired in 2011 and what kind of trends we will see in 2012. As a thank you for your support throughout the year, eDJ’s report “eDiscovery Trends: 2011 Year in Review and Forecasting 2012” is available for free download. 2011 saw trends around pragmatic ideas such as managing eDiscovery as a process and taking control of Information Governance (IG), while also hinting at forthcoming heat around “the Cloud” and predictive coding. We also saw the beginning of the rise of the “eDiscovery platform,” with vendors advertising solutions that could manage the full eDiscovery lifecycle. And, there was continued merger and acquisition (M & A) activity in the Discovery marketplace, with two acquisitions in the “bombshell” category given the premiums paid by acquirers. Symantec bought Clearwell in June, 2011 for close to $400 million (a premium of approximately 8x Clearwell’s revenues), while HP bought Autonomy for about $11 billion (a premium of more than 10x).
posted at 10:55am on Dec 15th
- December 1st
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Thoughts On The State Of Information Governance
Currently, we are working on a “State of Information Governance” report, wherein we slice the numbers from the survey a bit further to gauge how mature the practice of IG is. While the general results of the survey show IG gaining traction within organizations, the actual practice of IG seems to be fairly basic thus far. The State of IG report will go further into the many reasons we say this, but we wanted to share one statistic that shows IG programs have yet to completely evolve.
posted at 10:16am on Dec 1st