DiscoveryMining

In this weeks’ Newsfactor, three companies were interviewed about ‘e-discovery’. The article focuses on compliance and archiving, but it also covers FRCP and how broad and deep your e-discovery plans should be. It highlights a few important factors, which could provide a better guideline to clients as to what questions to ask of prospective vendors. Although the article avoids any talk of market direction, I found it interesting that they decided to add Google to the mix.

When asked about their e-discovery approach, Google was very direct with their answer “we are working with partners in the e-discovery ecosystem to ensure that our data can be imported into other technologies”. It’s a good answer, but also highlights how tough the e-discovery process really is. It is not difficult to build search, or buy technology to process data and make images. The challenge is managing all of it from one single repository with real time updates, search, and production.

This is why Discovery Mining uses the SaaS model. It is simply the only way to crunch and search terabytes in a cost efficient and timely way. Not only does the “cloud” afford you on-demand software, it also comes with great service.

I’ve said this many times before, but the article sums it up nicely; E-Discovery is both a business problem and a technology problem. Giving clients access to the best technology in a SaaS model allows them to solve both the business issues and technology issues at the lowest price point.