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eDJ Brief: X1 Enterprise Collects Teams and More

The X1 Enterprise Collect Platform now indexes in-place and collects ESI from M365 Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. While most other Microsoft partners utilize the Graph API to extend Microsoft’s Purview eDiscovery and compliance functionality, X1 execs John Patzakis and Kunjan Zaveri gave me a deep dive into the advantages offered by their ‘direct connector’ approach.

Loop Behind New Teams Collaborative Notes

Microsoft’s new Teams collaborative notes are rolling out in public preview and will soon introduce Loop based notes, agenda and tasks to your eDiscovery workflows. Previously, Teams meeting notes and comments were added to the shared Teams channel wiki and had limited functionality/adoption. Having recently spent time developing similar features for productive, well-formed meetings, I am excited to see Microsoft roll out this solution [...]

Azure Form Recognizer – Smart, Actionable OCR

Ever spend hours OCRing and extracting data from years of invoices? Microsoft’s Azure Form Recognizer can be a game changer for peers tasked to reconstruct charges, convert bills to Ledes CSV or support cost overrun scenarios. The traditional Adobe OCR approach usually requires extensive transformations and clean up to get into Excel, Access or an enterprise DB. Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer applies advanced machine [...]

By |2023-06-19T15:21:18-05:00June 19th, 2023|Essay, Analytics, Processing, ESI Sources|0 Comments

25 Million Man Hours for Every Internet Minute

Enjoy my interview with Doug Austin on my global impact extrapolation of his 2023 Internet Minute Infographic! Doug was kind enough to publish his assumptions and sources, so I did an ad hoc research project that calculated a potential 25 MILLION man-hours to create and consume every minute from the 77 MILLION messages flying about the internet. The breakdown graphics and my own homework [...]

By |2023-04-26T16:39:24-05:00April 26th, 2023|Essay|0 Comments

Microplagiarism – Is GPT Stealing Your Work?

“Write a paper on analytic data visualization in the voice of Skip Walter.” That was the rough GPT3 prompt my mentor Skip submitted in our early testing of OpenAI GPT-3 playground. A lifetime rich in academic, professional and patent publications gave GPT-3 more than enough source content to create a convincing literary product. Convincing until Skip started finding familiar sentences and chunks of verbiage [...]

eDJ Brief: EDRM at LegalWeek 2023

The EDRM has flourished under Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad’s guidance. Our discussion at the Blogger’s Brunch was cut short. We circled back to get their impressions of the show and all the new EDRM projects in motion. LegalWeek Impressions: Outstanding show vibe Great reception of EDRM projects 2023 banished prior year’s biz dev drudge Attendees used to flip badges, now asking for booth [...]

By |2023-04-24T17:01:28-05:00April 20th, 2023|Essay|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: eDiscoveryToday at LegalWeek 2023

eDiscoveryToday’s Doug Austin shared his LegalWeek and eDiscovery market impressions after his annual post show series of eDiscovery luminary quotes. We discussed how LegalTech transformed into LegalWeek and what that means for exhibitors and attendees. Walking the exhibit floor: Busiest booth traffic seen since exhibit hall was free There was consistent floor traffic on most visits The delorean was an attraction pulling traffic to [...]

By |2023-04-18T10:58:30-05:00April 18th, 2023|Essay|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Veritas at LegalWeek 2023

Irfan Shuttari, Veritas Director of eDiscovery Strategy, briefed me on the new Veritas Alta unified cloud compliance and governance solution. When I joined the then Symantec PM team over two decades ago, it had been my dream to unify the solutions for universal discovery and governance in place. It looks like the enterprise team and technology are catching up to that dream now that [...]

eDJ Brief: Casepoint at LegalWeek 2023

Vipul Rajpara - COO The steady floor traffic during my briefing at the Casepoint booth seemed to justify their Legalweek spend; lots of prospects wanting a peek at their new legal hold module. Vipul Rajpara, Casepoint’s chief operating officer, said, “The new features are a great example of customer-driven product development. The legal hold module is available as a stand-alone product and integrated [...]

By |2023-04-10T11:05:00-05:00April 10th, 2023|Essay, Legal Holds|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Microsoft Purview at LegalWeek 2023

Microsoft Purview It was a rare privilege to sit down with the nine Microsoft Purview eDiscovery product management and legal team experts to talk about their vision and roadmap. Five years ago, I made the decision to ‘bet on Microsoft 365’ when I realized that every one of my global corporate clients either had or would be migrating the entirety of their [...]

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