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Make E-Discovery Software Work for Your Business

E-discovery software is designed to enable the efficient undertaking of various stages of the e-discovery process, including the identification, preservation, collection, processing, review and analysis of corporate information. As pointed out in this ServerWatch article, looking at the range of products (which include appliances and software as a service as well as enterprise hosted software) that assist with e-discovery can be bewildering.

"Locating, securing and producing all the electronically stored information required in the discovery phase of civil litigation can be very time consuming and extremely expensive. However, failure to produce the required information in a timely fashion can lead to fines running into millions of dollars, thanks to revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that came into effect in December 2006.

"Many companies still deal with e-discovery obligations by outsourcing the process to external specialists, who may charge between $250 and $1,400 per gigabyte to sift through corporate data, collect what is relevant, and get it in to a form that can be submitted to lawyers for review. In the past five years, an increasing number of companies have begun treating e-discovery as a routine business process that can be performed in-house. Many of these companies use e-discovery software to help carry out this business process more efficiently."