Reports
The analysts at eDiscoveryJournal continuously research trends, best practices, and technologies that affect our market. Our formal research reports provide in-depth, pragmatic advice on the issues most important to eDiscovery professionals. Each report follows a thorough research methodology including actual product testing, interviews with vendors and end-users, and peer review. The research documents don’t simply report on the issues, but provide real advice on how to make the practice of eDiscovery more effective and efficient.
Publication date: Jan 3, 2012 Few topics are as hyped right now as The Cloud and social media. Both promise great benefits to companies; The Cloud can drastically reduce the costs of storing information and implementing software applications while social media enables more efficient collaboration and lets companies increase marketing and brand reach more quickly than ever before.
Just because The Cloud and Social Media are hot topics and seem to gaining traction, however, does not necessarily mean that they have gained mainstream usage in corporations. The topics have taken the Information Governance (IG) and eDiscovery markets by storm, though, because these new sources and forms of information present new and unique management, collection, preservation, analysis, review, and production challenges. Fifteen years ago, companies were slow to react to a new form of information called email; no company wants to be behind the eDiscovery eight ball with The Cloud and Social Media in same way they were with email over the last decade.
eDJ has found that while The Cloud and Social Media are gaining mindshare and traction with companies, official usage is evolving slowly. This gives companies the opportunity to get ahead of the curve on how to apply IG and conduct eDiscovery on these new sources and types of information. It will not necessarily be easy to address the new challenges associated with The Cloud and Social Media, but ignoring these topics will leave companies with higher eDiscovery costs and higher risk exposure. ... [read more]
Publication date: Dec 15, 2011 In this document, eDJ Analysts look back on the eDiscovery market in 2011 and forecast what is to come in 2012. ... [read more]
Publication date: Oct 12, 2011 On August 18, 2011, H-P agreed to buy U.K. software firm Autonomy Corp. for just over $10 billion, a multiple of more than 10x Autonomy’s estimated revenue for next year. Those kinds of numbers grab attention – and they raise the inevitable scrutiny of all affected by the acquisition: customers, competitors, employees, former employees, and shareholders. This report analyzes how Autonomy can impact HP's business, how customers should think about the new combined entity, and the impact that the combined HP/Autonomy entity can have on the information governance and eDiscovery markets. ... [read more]
Publication date: Oct 10, 2011 In a relatively short period, the phrase, “Information Governance” has evolved from an obscure specialist term to a branded concept that some global software and hardware companies are spending millions of dollars to popularize. In 2004, there were just over 400 instances of the phrase in Google’s US index; today there are hundreds of thousands. Publications such as The Economist have covered the concept in detail and information management associations have begun to use the
term to describe their member’s activities. Some organizations have created Information Governance departments and staffed them with a mix of lawyers, IT professionals, records managers, and business managers.
But, despite this rapid evolution, there is still no universally understood definition of Information Governance (IG). Beyond definitions, there is a more fundamental lack of consensus about whether the concept of IG has validity, or even it is even needed. Some grouse that IG is simply a rebranding of existing disciplines like records management, business intelligence, or master data management that is only designed to sell more product and services. Others argue that perhaps a little rebranding is not a bad thing, given the internal funding challenges that information management initiatives often face.
Whatever the case, it seems clear that the concept of IG has entered the consciousness of global corporations – an entry that does not seem likely to reverse itself for some time. Consequently, we need to investigate what we mean when we talk about IG. That is the purpose of this survey report.
This survey report is based on an industry survey conducted by ViaLumina and eDiscovery Journal in Q3, 2011. A wide variety of industry professionals from a cross-section of vertical industries responded to the survey, providing a solid view into current IG ideas and plans. ... [read more]
Publication date: Aug 18, 2011 This research paper explores the process of creating and documenting a legal hold initiative on an enterprise archive or content management system. Placement of defensible legal holds is essential before expiring the vast quanties of non-record content that are pouring into your digital landfill. This report explores potential strategies, issues, best practices and documentation templates. ... [read more]
Publication date: Jul 7, 2011 As eDiscovery gains a higher profile in the mainstream news and on the corporate radar, there is a strong desire on the part of corporate executives to reduce both costs and risk. We at eDiscovery Journal believe that the way to accomplish both goals without sacrificing legal defensibility is to approach eDiscovery as a manageable, repeatable business process. This report will examine the components of the eDiscovery process and the role of various constituents (e.g. Corporate legal, law firm, service provider) within that process. It will also explore how technology and service solutions can support managing eDiscovery and the trends that affect decision making, such as the emergence of more integrated eDiscovery platforms. ... [read more]
Publication date: Feb 11, 2011 This report defines and differentiates the technologies, architectures and discovery search approaches for enterprise or corporate ESI in the wild. Corporations have implemented enterprise content management (ECM), archives, collection/preservation appliances, forensic imaging and other single purpose tools to address their eDiscovery needs. Search is the common functional component across these solutions, but each solution has a different capabilities, advantages and costs. This leaves enterprises wondering what the right approach to search and eDiscovery is for their unique needs. ... [read more]
Publication date: Jan 22, 2011 The term Early Case Assessment (ECA) means different things to different people. As a result, there is confusion and consternation around the term that stems from the fact that anyone can and everyone will claim to offer ECA functionality - archiving vendors, review vendors, search and collection vendors, legal hold vendors, and even ECA specialist vendors. The reality is that all providers can offer some level of ECA, which means that buyers need to know exactly what level of ECA they are looking for and what processes ECA will support. In the near-term, the onus is on the buyer to wade through the market and determine exactly which solution matches their requirement. This document will help buyers understand the functionality across the spectrum of ECA, use-cases of ECA, and create frameworks with which to evaluate ECA solutions. ... [read more]
Publication date: Jan 21, 2011 Storage plays a critical role in ensuring fast and accurate processing of potentially huge volumes of electronically stored information (ESI), building a scalable eDiscovery infrastructure that supports diverse file types and sizes, and providing a foundation for managing the chain-of-custody of ESI within the eDiscovery process. This document explores the role of storage in eDiscovery and gives IT, legal, and litigation support professionals alike the critical factors to consider when working storage requirements into short- and long-term eDiscovery projects. ... [read more]
Publication date: Dec 15, 2010 Microsoft is promoting Exchange 2010 as an archiving and eDiscovery solution. eDiscoveryJournal ran it through a simple eDiscovery scenario and documented all of the testing process, results and our assessments. Unlike many reports, this one gives you 89 pages of step by step instructions and screenshots of our testing process. If you are upgrading or migrating to Exchange 2010, you need to see what we found. ... [read more]
Publication date: Dec 14, 2010 eDiscovery is a starting point for many organizations’ information governance programs. Implementing effective collection and preservation processes and solutions can dramatically reduce costs and mitigate risks. But, without doing collection in a truly defensible manner, organizations will only make eDiscovery more of a nightmare and face higher costs and negative outcomes. This report shows you how to get started on effective collection initiatives and how to make them defensible. ... [read more]The Cloud And eDiscovery Series: Gearing Up For The Cloud And Social Media$499
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eDiscovery Trends: 2011 Year In Review & Forecasting 2012FREE Download!
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Analyzing HP's Acquisition of Autonomy$500
Report length: 17 page(s)
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Defining Information Governance: Theory or Action?$1800
Report length: 30 page(s)
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Legal Holds for Enterprise Archives$299
Report length: 14 page(s)
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Managing eDiscovery As a Repeatable Business Process$299
Report length: 20 page(s)
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Enterprise Search for Discovery$299
Report length: 21 page(s)
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The eDiscoveryJournal Report: Early Case Assessment (ECA) Comes Into Focus In 2011$599
Report length: 56 page(s)
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The Importance Of Storage In eDiscovery$299
Report length: 12 page(s)
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Exchange 2010 eDiscovery Assessment$799
Report length: 89 page(s)
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Fitting Defensible Collection Into Information Governance Strategies$399
Report length: 15 page(s)
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