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 [...]
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 It could be that I am just out of date with their brand shift, but the briefing put them back on my RFP list for Enterprise clients seeking governance solutions for Slack, Teams, Google Workplace,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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
With 1784 updates to the Microsoft Roadmap, March seems to have had an ‘update your release dates’ mandate to the PM teams. We did have 253 actual new additions that seem to be focused on the new eDiscovery Portal, expanding CoPilot integrations, new IRM controls and more. There are a LOT of date and content updates to Purview eDiscovery items, so it is worth [...]
CEO Mike Schubert barely mentioned their new StreemView AI search in our briefing. Instead, he hammered on how StreemView's architecture and UI is uniquely designed for the mobile and collaborative data sources at the heart of modern investigations. Having spent the last quarter struggling with mobile and chat content in complex international investigations, his arguments resonated with me. Most lawyers think of evidence as [...]