E-discovery
September 13, 2008
One overview of e-discovery
I just found a year-old (almost) blog post from EMC executive Andrew Cohen that succinctly lays out his view (which he believes to mainly be a consensus stance) on e-discovery. Cohen is evidently both a lawyer and a honcho in document management system vendor EMC’s Compliance Division, which is probably relevant to interpreting his outlook, in the spirit of the old Kennedy School dictum that “Where you stand depends upon where you sit.”
Highlights included:
- Information management is central to e-discovery.
- In particular, auditability (my word) is central, if you want electronic documents to hold up as evidence in court.
- Search is good enough, but it’s not the biggest issue in e-discovery.
- E-mail archiving has reached the tipping point, and is increasingly a must-have, largely for its e-discovery benefits.
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September 1, 2008
How good does e-discovery search need to be?
Two years ago, CEO Mike Lynch of Autonomy tried to persuade me that Autonomy was and would remain dominant in the e-discovery search market because: Read more
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