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While a LOT of features got status updates this month, I only found 73 new features added. That does not mean that your Purview eDiscovery UX and features have been static. ‘Data Sources’ tab has returned to many tenants so that your default holds/searches again reflect your custodian targets. So we are seeing a lot of older roadmap features finally rolling out ahead of [...]
Last year my friend Doug Austin wrote a nice exploration of the new Copilot automatic summarization feature rolling out to Word and other Office apps. While trying to find Teams Copilot meeting recap content last week I was surprised when a flood of these document summaries appeared in my Purview eDiscovery search results. Despite my monthly diligence reviewing and highlighting Microsoft Road Map items [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]