Teams Meeting Copilot Recap eDiscovery Impact
Q1 2023 Microsoft rolled out the Teams Copilot Recap feature for customers with E5 and Copilot licenses. Most of my global corporate clients are still balancing the user demand for meeting recordings/transcripts against their potential cost/risk downstream. This is complicated by the potential Copilot generated recap summaries, action items/tasks and real time answers. So how can you manage retention and discovery of meeting related Copilot [...]
Microsoft Roadmap – May 2025
488 roadmap updates in May, but only 137 new features added. This translates to a lot of status and release updates. Although there were only 2 Purview eDiscovery additions, they both have potential usage impact. There were also a surprising number of data source features introduced that add potential eDiscovery challenges to preservation and collection. The Copilot tendrils are reaching every user interface and potentially [...]
eDJ Brief: Meet Arctera
Twenty-two (22) years ago Symantec recruited me to manage the Discovery Accelerator within the Enterprise Vault team right after acquiring Veritas. Symantec was a huge technology company and I always felt the enterprise info governance products struggled to thrive in the shadow of the giant consumer security products. The recent Cohesity-Veritas merger spun the three (3) enterprise info governance business (Data Compliance, Data Resilience, and [...]
eDJ Group – Adapting to a Changing eDiscovery Market
The last year has seen unprecedented changes to the eDiscovery market driven by GenAI, consolidation, innovation, regulatory enforcement, and economic uncertainty. I have continued my free-market coverage and research publication on top of my strategic consulting practice because it keeps me on the cutting edge and I enjoy the interactions with you, my peers. Rapidly improving GenAI and tools made me ask, “Do we [...]
Microsoft Roadmap – April 2025
Only 172 updates this month with 28 new items added. This is ten times last month’s updates. The vast majority of updates involve extending Copilot functionality for users. Overall not much with eDiscovery impact this month. As always, search here for specific features or refer directly to the official Microsoft Road Map when trying to understand changes in the Purview UX or underlying data behavior. [...]
eDJ Brief: Elevate LegalWeek 2025
Mark Noel (VP AI & Data Consulting) caught me up on the integration of Redgrave Data into the larger Elevate ecosystem. Since joining Elevate, the Redgrave Data team has focused on developing internal automation, as well as custom tools and capabilities for the broader Elevate customer base. This kind of post M&A work takes time, as the team’s world-class experts need to scale their expertise [...]
eDJ Brief: Pinpoint LegalWeek 2025
Pinpoint Labs has entered the remote mobile collection market with their CrossCopy Enterprise application. VP Shane Havick gave me his annual briefing devoid of market fluff and vague value propositions. If you have tracked my recent return to the trenches supporting complex international matters, you may guess that mobile devices have been a particularly challenging ESI source. My recent experience with Cellebrite and ModeOne primed [...]
eDJ Brief: Hanzo LegalWeek 2025
Hanzo’s new CEO Sarai Schubert clearly articulated Hanzo’s shift from compliance archiving to unified navigation and access of diverse collaborative enterprise sources. It could be that I am just out of date with their brand shift, but the briefing put them back on my RFP list for Enterprise clients seeking governance solutions for Slack, Teams, Google Workplace, Atlassian, Asana, Websites and other dynamic SaaS collaboration [...]
eDJ Brief: Everlaw LegalWeek 2025
Everlaw Founder and CEO AJ Shankar responded to my question, “Tell me what makes Everlaw’s new Project Query different?” with a deep dive into their implementation of RAG AI. Instead of complicated prompts or rigid review workflows, this extends the EverlawAI Assistant portfolio by allowing non-technical users to just ask questions and get a GenAI summary derived exclusively from and linked to your hosted documents. This [...]
eDJ Briefing: Relativity at LegalWeek 2025
Phil Saunders Phil Saunders kicked off the briefing by tackling his January announcement that many have interpreted as Relativity Server EoL in 2028. I had certainly heard from many competitors eager to take advantage of Relativity Server customers not ready to embrace the cloud for a variety of reasons. I get the 'new' Relativity leadership vision that cutting edge AI driven eDiscovery [...]
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