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An Analysis of the Market for
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RADICATI MARKET QUADRANTS EXPLAINED .................................................................. 3
MARKET SEGMENTATION ................................................................................................ 5 EVALUATION CRITERIA ................................................................................................... 8 MARKET QUADRANT - EDISCOVERY .............................................................................. 11
KEY MARKET QUADRANT TRENDS ............................................................................ 12 EDISCOVERY - VENDOR ANALYSIS ................................................................................ 14
TOP PLAYERS ............................................................................................................. 14 TRAIL BLAZERS ......................................................................................................... 33 SPECIALISTS ............................................................................................................... 45
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RADICATI MARKET QUADRANTS EXPLAINED
Radicati Market Quadrants are designed to illustrate how individual vendors fit within
specific technology markets at any given point in time. All Radicati Market Quadrants
are composed of four sections, as shown in the example quadrant (Figure 1).
1. Specialists – This group is made up of two types of companies:
a. Emerging players that are still very new to the industry and have not yet
built up much of an installed base. These companies are still developing
their strategy and technology.
b. Established vendors that offer a niche product.
2. Trail Blazers – These vendors offer cutting edge technology, but have not yet
built up a large customer base. With effective marketing and better awareness,
these companies hold the power to dethrone the current market leaders. “Trail
blazers” often shape the future of technology with their innovations and new
product designs.
3. Top Players – These are the current leaders of the market, with products that
have built up large customer bases. Vendors do not become “top players”
overnight. Most of the companies in this quadrant were first specialists or trail
blazers (some were both). As companies reach this stage, they must fight
complacency and continue product innovation, or else they will be replaced by the
next generation of “trail blazers.”
4. Mature Player – These vendors have large, mature installed bases of customers,
but no longer set the pace for the rest of the industry. These vendors are no longer
considered “movers and shakers” as they once were.
a. In some cases, this is by design. If a vendor has made a strategic decision
to move in a new direction, it may slow development on one product line
and start another.
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b. In other cases, a vendor may simply become complacent as a top vendor
and be out-developed by hungrier “trail blazers” and other top players.
c. Companies in this stage either find new life and revive their R&D, moving
back into the “top players” segment, or else they slowly fade away as
legacy technology.
Figure 1, below, shows a sample Radicati Market Quadrant. As a vendor continues to
develop its product, it will move horizontally along the “x” axis. As market share
changes, vendors move vertically along the “y” axis. It is common for vendors to move
between quadrants over the life of a product, as their products improve and market
requirements evolve.
Figure 1: Sample Radicati Market Quadrant
Functionality – is rated from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, and 1 – the lowest.
Market Share – is assigned according to the company’s ranking in our latest
annual reports, based on its user Installed Base (e.g. the company with the largest
installed base market share is number 1, the one with the second largest installed
base market share is number 2, etc.).
Functionality
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Top PlayersMature Players
Specialists Trail Blazers
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Company B
Company G
Company F
Company D
Company H
Company J
Company Y
Company Z
Company E
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MARKET SEGMENTATION
This edition of Radicati Market Quadrants covers the eDiscovery market, which is
defined as follows:
eDiscovery Solutions – include data analysis solutions, with advanced electronic
data identification, collection, analysis, and presentation tools. Leading
eDiscovery vendors and service providers in this segment include: AccessData,
Catalyst, EMC, Exterro, FTI Technology, Guidance Software, HP, kCura,
KPMG, Kroll Ontrack, Recommind, Symantec, UBIC and others.
Not all vendors listed above cover all phases of the EDRM, in particular some focus
mostly on left-side functions (e.g. identification, collection, preservation) whereas
others focus mostly on right-hand functions (e.g. processing, review, analysis,
production and presentation). Increasingly, however, vendors are adding support for
all stages of the EDRM.
Many information archiving vendors, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and
other types of data management vendors also offer eDiscovery modules or add-on
components to their solutions and claiming that they support “eDiscovery”. These
vendors are not included in this report as they typically cover only the very early
stages of the EDRM and the functionality they provide is really meant to ease access
to their own data repositories for later transfer into full-fledged eDiscovery solutions.
eDiscovery solutions can be acquired from:
o Pure-play Vendors – These are vendors that focus strictly on satisfying the
EDRM. Some pure-play eDiscovery vendors target specific phases of the
EDRM, while other vendors have solutions that cover the EDRM in its
entirety. These vendors typically target mainly legal firms, or the legal
departments within corporations.
o Enterprise Software Vendors – eDiscovery solutions may be offered as an
add-on component or functionality by vendors that offer information
governance product portfolios. The information governance solutions that
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most often include eDiscovery are: information archiving, Enterprise Content
Management (ECM), and records management solutions. The majority of
eDiscovery solutions offered by enterprise software vendors are targeted at
corporate organizations and their internal legal departments.
o Hosting Providers – an increasing number of hosting providers integrate
eDiscovery services from multiple vendors to offer a complete end-to-end
eDiscovery solution. These providers will typically target both legal firms and
corporate in-house legal teams.
eDiscovery solutions are available in different form factors as follows:
o On-premises Software or Appliance – These are solutions deployed on-site
and managed by a corporate organization. This deployment model is usually
found among larger sized organizations that have the resources to setup and
manage an eDiscovery solution in-house.
o Cloud-based Solutions – SaaS solutions are growing in popularity across
organizations of all sizes, as they provide predictable costs, require no upfront
investments, minimal management overhead and can be easily replaced by
another solution. Increasingly vendors in this market are experimenting with
offering different kinds of cloud based solutions, some offer mainly storage,
others include access to online software, and yet others include bundled
professional services.
o Hybrid Offerings – many eDiscovery vendors today are offering hybrid
deployments that allow corporate organizations to complete different stages of
the EDRM in-house or in the cloud. For instance, it is quite typical for a
customer to conduct the ESI collection and processing stages in-house on-
premises, and then move the data to a cloud-based review platform where it
can be more easily worked on by outside counsel.
Note: This Market Quadrant only covers the sale of eDiscovery software and technology.
1. The eDiscovery market has a large professional services and legal consulting
component which is not included in this Market Quadrant.
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2. Also, this Market Quadrant does not include eDiscovery add-on solutions offered in
conjunction with information archiving, or other repositories and where the eDiscovery
component is aimed primarily at dealing with the data stored in those specific vendor
repositories.
Figure 1, shows the worldwide eDiscovery revenue forecast from 2014 to 2018. The
eDiscovery market is expected to grow from over $1.6 billion in 2014 to over $3.8
billion in 2018, representing an average annual growth rate of over 24% over the next
four years.
Figure 2: Worldwide eDiscovery Revenue Forecast, 2014-2018
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
eDiscovery vendors are positioned in the quadrant, according to two criteria: Market
Share and Functionality.
Market Share – is based on the revenue published in our “eDiscovery Market, 2014-
2018” report. The vendor with the largest projected revenue has a market share of 1, the
one with the second largest projected revenue has a market share of 2, etc. Vendors with
larger market shares are positioned either in Top Player or Mature quadrants. Vendors
with a smaller market share, are positioned either in the Trail Blazer, or Specialist
quadrants.
Functionality – we assess each vendor’s solution based on a number of key features that
they offer out of the box. These capabilities do not necessarily have to be the vendor’s
own original technology, but they should be pre-integrated and available for deployment
when the solution is purchased.
In order for an eDiscovery vendor to be on the right side of the quadrant (Top Player or
Trail Blazer), their solution should have the following capabilities:
Standard ESI Support
Standard ESI support includes archived emails, IM
messages, and documents from desktops, laptops,
network shares, Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
and other data repositories.
Advanced ESI Support
More vendors are now offering advanced ESI support
for social media content, audio, cloud based platforms
such as Microsoft SharePoint, Google Docs, Microsoft
Office 365, and more.
Search Criteria
Flexible specification of keywords, phrases, dates, users,
and other search criteria that can be easily customized
by the customer.
Legal Hold
Relevant or specific data can be placed on legal hold and
preserved for litigation. Integration with Active
Directory or other user databases for custodian mapping.
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Early Case Assessment (ECA)
Ability to analyze collected and preserved data prior to
processing and review. Legal teams can access data sets
and determine the potential time and costs that would be
required in order to move forward with a particular
matter.
Technology Assisted Review
(TAR)
Predictive coding technology which speeds up document
review based on a set of acceptance criteria. Based on
the information provided, TAR software is able to
review the remaining data set, increasing the speed of
the review process and reducing costs.
Potential Cost Estimates
Relevant data can be analyzed to gain an understanding
of who the custodians are, how large the volume of data
to be collected is, how long it would take to collect and
process it, and what would be the potential expense of
such collection.
Deduplication
Deduplication is a data culling technique used to
minimize data and provide only relevant content.
Duplicate or similar documents are automatically
removed and/or combined into similar documents.
Deduplication dramatically reduces the volume of data
that needs to be reviewed.
Data Categorization Potentially non-compliant documents are automatically
assigned to individual reviewers based on keywords,
concepts and other customizable criteria.
Data Presentation
The search results are usually highlighted for easier
review. If many data types are archived together, the
interface (preferably) should be able to present the data
of each document in its native format, without
converting it to a common file.
Data Management
Individual documents or clusters of documents can be
open/closed, assigned to groups of documents and
moved around on the computer screen with a drag and
drop feature.
Data Export Relevant data can be exported in its native format and
converted to PDF or TIFF images
Added Notes/Explanations A reviewer can add notes to any document.
Solution Form Factor
The solution is available as:
on-premises software,
cloud-based SaaS, or
hybrid.
Some vendors offer the ability to have parts of their
eDiscovery solution on-premises while other parts are
cloud-based to facilitate attorney access and review.
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Professional Services
Many vendors offer professional services and their own
teams of legal experts. This is a value add for smaller
companies involved in litigation but can also be
important for larger customers dealing with complex
cases. Vendors often bundle professional/legal services
with their solution pricing.
Note: On occasion, we may put a player on the right side of the quadrant by giving them
a higher than typical Functionality Score, even if they are missing one or two of the
features mentioned above, if we feel that the other aspects of their solution are very
unique and innovative.
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MARKET QUADRANT - EDISCOVERY
Figure 3: eDiscovery Market Quadrant, 2014
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product reviews, primary research studies, vendor interviews, historical data, and other metrics.
The Radicati Group intends its Market Quadrants to be one of many information sources that
readers use to form opinions and make decisions. Radicati Market QuadrantsSM are time
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Radicati Group disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of such information.
The Radicati Group shall have no liability for errors, omissions, or inadequacies in the
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Functionality
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Symantec
AccessData
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kCura
Recommind
EMC
Kroll Ontrack
Catalyst
Guidance Software
UBIC
Exterro
KPMG
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KEY MARKET QUADRANT TRENDS
Top Players in the eDiscovery market are Symantec, FTI Technology, HP, Kroll
Ontrack, kCura, Guidance Software and Recommind.
o Symantec – Symantec offers a complete eDiscovery solution that covers
the full spectrum of the EDRM as well as integrates with its own on-
premises and cloud based information archiving solutions.
o FTI Technology – is well known for its Ringtail platform which features
strong predictive coding, and a wide range of visualization tools that are
essential for quick and efficient eDiscovery.
o HP– has a strong eDiscovery solution targeted at complex corporate
scenarios which need to address all the key stages of the EDRM model.
o Kroll Ontrack – offers a new, cloud-based platform aimed at customers that
require multi-case support and wish to benefit from the economies of scale of
leveraging the same platform and processes repeatedly.
o kCura – was best known as a best-of-breed review platform among law
firms. The vendor, however, has now added all other components of the
EDRM and is actively targeting the corporate market.
o Guidance Software – covers all phases of the EDRM and focuses on
corporate customers that want to bring end-to-end eDiscovery in-house.
o Recommind – is a well-known innovator in eDiscovery, and provides
robust solutions that address of all key stages of the EDRM.
The Trail Blazers quadrant includes AccessData, Catalyst, UBIC and Exterro.
o AccessData – is one of the earliest, well established vendors in the
eDiscovery space. The company recently announced that it will split into
two separate companies, AccessData and Resolution1 Security, which will
offer customers the ability to pick the level of EDRM coverage that best
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fits their needs.
o Catalyst – offers a cloud-based approach that has resonated well with both
corporate customers and legal firms. It offers one of the early technology
assisted review (TAR) platforms to handle Asian languages.
o UBIC – offers a solid set of well-integrated solutions to cover the main
phases of the EDRM. It has a focus on the Asian market and offers strong
support for Asian languages.
o Exterro – is an established player in the eDiscovery market, and offers an
integrated platform specifically designed to address the needs of corporate
enterprises that want to bring eDiscovery in-house.
The Specialists quadrant includes EMC and KPMG.
o EMC – offers a well-respected eDiscovery solution focused on legal hold,
ECA, and collection.
o KPMG – is a well-respected player in the eDiscovery space and offers a
robust and flexible platform which is further augmented with its Forensic
practice.
There are no Mature Players in this market at this time.
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EDISCOVERY - VENDOR ANALYSIS
TOP PLAYERS
SYMANTEC
350 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
www.symantec.com
Symantec provides a broad range of security, storage, and systems management solutions
and services for consumers and businesses. Symantec’s product portfolio covers
eDiscovery, archiving, security, and more. Symantec recently announced that the
company is splitting in two, independent publicly traded companies: one will be focused
on security, and the other will focus on information management.
Symantec’s eDiscovery solution is the Symantec eDiscovery Platform powered by
Clearwell, which provides full coverage of the EDRM. The key features include:
Legal Hold — the Symantec eDiscovery Platform has robust features for the legal
hold process, including automated hold notices that can be scheduled to assure
response from custodians, detailed reports on the status of notices, custodian
surveys, and the ability to save these settings as templates for reuse, or future
legal holds.
Identification and Collection — Symantec’s solution allows investigators to
identify data sources through an interactive data map and custodian manager. The
Symantec eDiscovery Platform supports collection from a wide set of sources,
including hosted collaboration services (e.g. Microsoft SharePoint), as well as
laptops, desktops, and other network shares or cloud-based applications. ESI can
be filtered by keywords and metadata, is stored in a central location, and can be
collected onto external hard drives or USB devices when a network connection is
unavailable. The latest update includes audio search capabilities to meet new
federal regulations.
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Processing, Search and Analysis — pre-processing features provide summation
and analytics of data collected before the analysis process; the processing
supports a wide range of formats and languages. Search and analysis features
include search preview, keyword search reports, concept search, advanced
analytics and more.
Review and Production — the review process allows for linear review and
Technology Assisted Review (TAR), as well as near-native document viewing, hit
highlighting, decision tree tagging, near-duplicate identification, redaction
capabilities and more. The Symantec eDiscovery Platform produces documents
in native formats, as well as PDF or TIFF formats.
Packaging — the Symantec eDiscovery Platform is modularly packaged,
allowing each of the components described in above to be purchased as an
independent product to better meet an organization’s needs.
The Symantec eDiscovery Platform also integrates with Symantec’s information
archiving solutions, Symantec Enterprise Vault and Symantec Enterprise
Vault.cloud, for efficient collection, processing and analysis of archived content.
Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud, which is Symantec’s cloud-based archiving solution,
includes Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery.cloud, which grants legal teams roles-
based, self-service access to archived information and a collaborative workflow. This
functionality includes assigning reviewers with distinct privileges such as managing and
editing matters, exporting ESI, adding notes and more.
Symantec AdvisorMail is a cloud-based archiving solution designed to meet the
compliance supervision needs of SEC and FINRA-registered organizations. Though not
primarily an eDiscovery product, it offers partial EDRM coverage and can help
compliance personnel manage and review archived emails and instant messages.
FUNCTIONALITY: 9
MARKET SHARE: 1
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KEY STRENGTHS:
Though the Symantec eDiscovery Platform covers the entire EDRM, the platform
strongest in the processing and analysis stages, including features such as pre-
processing summary and analytics, predictive coding (TAR), and advanced concept
search capabilities.
For Enterprise Vault and Enterprie Vault.cloud customers, integration with the
Symantec eDiscovery Platform easily extends the coverage of these solutions by
expanding the collection stage to include already existing and secured archives.
The modular packaging of the Symantec eDiscovery Platform makes it a highly
versatile and flexible solution for customers with different needs.
Symantec eDiscovery Platform offers support for audio search, in compliance with
newer federal regulations, a feature that few other vendors provide.
WEAKNESSES:
Though the Symantec eDiscovery Platform can integrate with other archiving
solutions, Symantec has focused on marketing and integration primarily with its own
with Symantec Enterprise Vault information archiving solution.
Symantec’s eDiscovery solution is considered somewhat more expensive than other
competing solutions.
FTI TECHNOLOGY
1101 K Street NW
Suite B100
Washington, DC 20005
www.ftitechnology.com
FTI Consulting provides a broad range of enterprise services, including: corporate
finance and restructuring, economic consulting, forensic and litigation consulting,
strategic communications, and eDiscovery software and services. FTI Technology is the
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eDiscovery software and services arm of FTI Consulting.
Ringtail, FTI Technology’s eDiscovery software provides case management, processing,
document review and production functionality. Ringtail can be deployed on-premises, as
a hosted or “SaaS” solution, or as and “on-demand” solution which includes hosting and
professional services. The key features of Ringtail include:
Integrated Processing – Ringtail offers integrated workflow that can be
customized to meet different project requirements. It offers easy to use
dashboards, rich configuration options and support for more than 400 file types.
Visual Document Review — Ringtail’s search and review capabilities include
keyword search, concept clustering, and visual review. Documents that relate to a
particular subject, topic, or theme can be quickly identified for review and coding
based on their conceptual similarities, timelines, or communication patterns using
Document Mapper.
Visual Analytics — leverages data and concept analysis to enable teams to
navigate and make sense of large document collections. It delivers information-
rich progress reports, trend analysis, and statistical samples of document sets to
power case strategies.
Production — production and redaction tools provide a robust set of features that
enable legal teams to produce relevant documents in an accurate and efficient
manner. Documents can be produced in their native format, TIFF, PDF, or in a
combination of these formats. Configurable permissions allow for secure
productions down to the document level.
FTI Technology added several new features with its latest release of Ringtail in August
2014. Key additions include: macro-to-micro analytics for drilling into conceptually
similar documents, a simplified interface for advanced searches, and additional user
experience enhancements.
FTI Technology also offers a variety of additional professional services including:
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Acuity managed review — FTI’s managed review offering encompasses legal
review attorneys, software and workflow. Acuity seamlessly integrates with other
FTI eDiscovery services to provide comprehensive coverage of clients’
eDiscovery needs and a single point of accountability. FTI Technology offers
gigabyte or per document reviewed pricing model for Acuity.
FTI Investigate — FTI conducts forensically sound collections from the cloud,
mobile devices, social media, structured data sources as well as foreign locations.
FUNCTIONALITY: 7
MARKET SHARE: 2
KEY STRENGTHS:
FTI Technology’s eDiscovery products are available as on-premises, or as a
hosted “SaaS” solution, or “on-demand” which includes hosting and professional
services.
Ringtail’s predictive coding is a differentiator due to its visualized training
feature, which allows users to maximize the efficiency and accuracy of the
Technology Assisted Review.
The visual analytic tools and Ringtail’s ability to visualize trends provide efficient
identification of relevant documents. Legal professionals can gain quick insight
into the accuracy of document sets through Ringtail’s visual review tools.
FTI Technology’s volume-based or perpetual license pricing and its flexible
deployment options make it more accessible to customers.
FTI Technology’s consulting services offer broad support for the eDiscovery
process that other vendors often lack.
WEAKNESSES:
It may not be clear to customers that FTI Technology’s product portfolio provides
complete EDRM coverage, as professional services must also be purchased for
the collection and preservation phase.
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Ringtail’s advanced technology may seem too complex for some users’ needs.
HP
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
www.autonomy.com
HP provides software and hardware solutions for consumers and enterprises. Its product
portfolio includes desktops, laptops, printers, networking and storage, mobile devices,
and more. In 2011, HP acquired the unstructured information and analytics vendor,
Autonomy, which is now part of HP Software’s Big Data Solutions Business Unit.
HP’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) powers HP’s Big Data solutions with
its advanced pattern-matching and analytics technology. HP IDOL collects and stores
data from a diverse set of data connectors where it is then indexed, optimized, and made
available for analysis, retrieval, and management. HP IDOL supports hundreds of
languages, relevant file types, and data source repositories.
HP’s eDiscovery solution is a key component of their Information Governance portfolio,
which comprises Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Information Archiving, and
eDiscovery. Solutions in the portfolio can be combined in a modular fashion to allow
organizations to proactively prepare for litigation and achieve time and cost savings.
HP’s eDiscovery solution is comprised of two key products: HP Legal Hold and HP
eDiscovery.
HP Legal Hold - enables customers to identify, preserve and collect potentially
relevant information. It provides an automated means for managing legal hold
notifications and custodian interviews in a repeatable, defensible manner. It also
provides a comprehensive solution for managing the release and disposition of
data at the end of a matter. Key aspects of the product include:
o Notification and interview management - allows customers to automate
notification workflows and interviews ensuring defensibility by tracking
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and documenting notifications, acknowledgements, and reminders.
o Litigation lifecycle management - automatically tracks data throughout the
litigation lifecycle: it provides an online collaboration and tracking
environment that facilitates initiation of hold actions, tracking of results,
review of activity, and reporting.
o Matter management integration – allows legal staff to relate collections
and notices to a set of matters, interoperate with existing matter
management systems, and allows content collected or preserved to be
shared among all matters.
o Preservation and collection – is supported through forensically sound
collection (copying native content and metadata) or, for certain
repositories, in-place preservation (locking the content and metadata
within its current repository). In place preservation is available for:
On-premise HP repositories, such as HP Consolidated Archive or HP
WorkSite;
Third-party data repositories, such as Windows file shares or
SharePoint; and
Laptops and desktops (through the Desktop Legal Hold agent).
HP Legal hold is an on-premise offering; however SaaS-based legal hold capabilities are
available with certain HP archiving solutions.
HP eDiscovery - combines processing, Early Case Assessment, analysis, review
(including Technology-Assisted Review), and production into a single solution.
Some of its most prominent capabilities include:
o Early Case Assessment - enables customers to gain insight into large
volumes of data using advanced analytics such as automated concept
clustering, communications mapping and multi-faceted filtering. The
tools help customers identify common themes, spheres of influence,
unknown custodians and unusual behaviour in a simple, streamlined
process. ECA also helps customers determine collection parameters and
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prepare for negotiations with opposing parties as well as court-mandated
status conferences.
o Analysis, Review, and Production - helps customers quickly and cost
effectively identify data in a large document collection with high
probability of being responsive. Built with enough flexibility to match the
right workflow with each unique matter, customers have a choice of
review workflows, such as traditional linear review, non-linear (clustering-
enabled) review, or Technology-Assisted Review.
Deployment options for eDiscovery include: on-premise software, appliance, full-service
SaaS, and OnDemand, HP’s self-service, cloud-based option released in 2014.
FUNCTIONALITY: 9
MARKET SHARE: 3
KEY STRENGTHS:
HP’s eDiscovery products can be combined with other modules in HP’s powerful
Information Governance portfolio to deliver greater synergies and streamline
processing.
HP’s solution provides end-to-end functionality, covering the entire eDiscovery
lifecycle. This allows organizations to save time, remove risks associated with
handing off data from one system to the next, and best leverage analytics throughout
the process.
HP IDOL, which powers HP’s eDiscovery solutions, provides advanced pattern
recognition and analytics, allowing organizations to derive human understanding
from hundreds of relevant data sources, file formats, and languages.
HP offers deployment flexibility by delivering its solutions in multiple form factors,
which include: as an eDiscovery appliance, On-Premise software, as a Hosted/SaaS
offering, OnDemand, or as a hybrid offering.
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WEAKNESSES:
HP Legal Hold is a separate product, and must be purchased in addition to HP
eDiscovery.
Though HP eDiscovery integrates with a wide range of solutions in HP’s Information
Governance portfolio, customers must make a deep investment in HP technology to
benefit from this integration.
HP’s On-Premise eDiscovery platform requires a significant investment as well as the
resources to properly maintain and manage the solution. However, HP also offers a
SaaS-based solution, which is a popular alternative with many customers.
KROLL ONTRACK
9023 Columbine Rd
Eden Prairie, MN 55347
http://www.krollontrack.com
Kroll Ontrack is a private company founded in 1985. Kroll Ontrack is the technology
services division of Kroll, which provides a broad range of investigative, intelligence,
financial, security and technology services to organizations and multinational
corporations around the world. Kroll Ontrack originally launched an eDiscovery product
line in 1999. In October 2013, the company launched a new eDiscovery product suite
under the ediscovery.com brand.
Kroll Ontrack has transitioned to an integrated product suite with collection, analysis,
review and management software, all of which are available through ediscovery.com.
The new ediscovery.com platform comprises three main components:
ediscovery.com Collect – designed to identify, preserve and collect ESI and related
metadata. Collect can be deployed behind the firewall.
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ediscovery.com Manage – a tool to allow the management of eDiscovery matters as
a portfolio, rather than as disjointed, individual projects.
ediscovery.com Review – a unified platform to conduct early data assessment
(EDA), analysis, review and production across individual or multiple matters.
Includes predictive coding for technology assisted review (TAR) and a nearline
storage feature to control hosting costs.
The three components of ediscovery.com may be used together or separately.
In addition, in order to offer its clients a choice in review platforms, in 2014, Kroll
Ontrack chose to partner with kCura to offer Relativity, as an alternative to its own
review platform. As such, Kroll Ontrack is a Relativity service provider, and offers the
following through kCura’s Relativity technology: a customized ECA workflow, review,
legal hold, and consulting on Relativity matters.
FUNCTIONALITY: 7
MARKET SHARE: 4
KEY STRENGTHS:
Kroll Ontrack has trusted eDiscovery data centers around the world, with five data
centers on three continents (US, EMEA, APAC). Kroll Ontrack plans to continue to
open additional global data centers in 2015.
Experienced case managers that can handle projects involving multi-lingual data.
Kroll Ontrack’s ECA and review tool, ediscovery.com Review, provides strong
Technology Assisted Review/Predictive Coding capabilities.
WEAKNESSES:
Kroll Ontrack’s strength is in its deep understanding of eDiscovery practices, and its
strong professional services team, however, the company tends to be less of an
innovator than other competitors in this market.
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KCURA
231 South LaSalle Street
8th floor
Chicago, IL 60604
www.kcura.com
kCura is a developer of web-based eDiscovery software. kCura’s flagship solution,
Relativity, now covers the complete EDRM, from legal hold through production. kCura
was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
kCura’s Relativity is a web-based eDiscovery platform for enterprises, government
agencies, law firms, and service providers. It provides complete capabilities for
eDiscovery challenges, including litigation, document review, information governance,
internal investigations, and more. It also includes a mobile application for preparing for
trial and depositions. Relativity 9 is the latest version of the platform released in
November 2014. Relativity is available as an on-premises solution, as well as an on-
demand service through kCura’s partnerships with hosting providers. The key features of
Relativity include:
Legal Hold – Relativity Legal Hold allows organizations to build defensible,
repeatable workflows for managing legal holds.
Collection – Allows organizations to perform a targeted collection or forensic
image, onsite or remotely. A feature called scout allows the identification and
analysis of what data lives on a custodian’s machine before collection.
Processing – Relativity Processing is fully integrated with review, so reviewers
can ingest data directly into their review workspace. Full metadata and container
extraction, including EnCase Logical Evidence Files, domain parsing, and native
application imaging are part of the solution. An inventory option expands
container files one level deep and extracts metadata to allow quick insight into the
data, as well as the option to cull junk, prior to processing.
Text Analytics – Provides advanced technology to organize documents based on
concept. Relativity Analytics also includes features like email threading and near-
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duplicate detection.
Computer-Assisted Review – Utilizes Relativity’s text analytics engine to code
statistically sampled subsets of documents. Providing Relativity with a sample set
of coded documents, allows it to amplify the expertise of reviewers to code the
remaining documents in a collection.
Mobile – kCura Binders is a desktop and web based application accessible from
any tablet or computer, which is specifically designed for attorneys who need to
highlight, annotate, search, print, and email important case documents. kCura
released an iPad app in August 2013
Applications – Custom applications can be built on top of the platform for
improved organization, sorting, and searching of structured data as well as the
ability to address processes outside of eDiscovery. Building applications for
Relativity does not typically require extensive programming knowledge or
training. Applications built by kCura and their development partners can be
shared via kCura’s app market, the Relativity Ecosystem. kCura currently has 31
apps available in the Ecosystem.
Security – Supported security features include: integration with Microsoft Active
Directory, two-factor authentication, strong password enforcement, automatic
locking out of service after a certain number of failed password attempts,
MobileIron support for mobile, and more. All incoming and outgoing data is
encrypted. Additional security features include extensive audit logs, restricted
document access, and more. Relativity’s granular security architecture allows
anything in the system to be secured on a customized basis.
Productions – During production, documents can be produced as TIFF or PDF
files in their native format, or a combination of both. For export, Relativity
supports the following file formats: DAT, CSV, HTML, TXT files along with
Opticon and iPRO support.
Data Visualization – Relativity utilizes a visualization tool, Pivot, to enable
administrators to analyze collected data and coding decisions. Documents can be
culled and prioritized for review and reviewer progress can be tracked.
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Foreign Language Support – Relativity supports multiple encoding types and is
fully Unicode-compliant.
FUNCTIONALITY: 6
MARKET SHARE: 5
KEY STRENGTHS:
kCura was traditionally well-known for its review capabilities, has now added all
other key components of the EDRM for full coverage of all aspects of
eDiscovery. This allows the company to position itself as a much stronger player
in the corporate market.
The Ecosystem app market continues to be a unique offering in the eDiscovery
space and now offers 31 apps available for kCura customers. kCura’s open
platform design has led to greater innovation and increased functionality and
product customizations for customers.
The availability of Binders which provides access for tablets from any browser, or
a mobile app for the Apple iPad, is a very forward-thinking move as more
professionals are ditching laptops in favor of tablets for their day-to-day work.
kCura has one of the broadest collections of hosting, consulting, and technology
partners in the eDiscovery market.
WEAKNESSES:
Deploying kCura’s Relativity platform on-premises may be overwhelming for
smaller-sized organizations. However, kCura’s hosting providers offer on-demand
services meant to cater to customers that have limited IT resources and require a
simpler implementation process.
kCura does not currently collect ESI directly from Microsoft SharePoint, Google
or social media.
kCura’s Relativity’s legal hold does not currently preserve in place.
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kCura’s Relativity’s Early Case Assessment could be improved, it currently does
not offer key word search, and no 2nd phase searching and culling.
kCura’s Relativity offers some tools for developing cost estimates prior to
collection and processing, however, these are still fairly basic and could be
improved upon.
GUIDANCE SOFTWARE
1055 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91106
www.guidancesoftware.com
Guidance Software is a developer of software for digital investigations. Guidance’s
solutions and services include electronic discovery, data audit and compliance, incident
response, security analytics, digital forensics, evidence presentation, and trial testimony.
Guidance was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.
Guidance provides full coverage of the EDRM. Guidance’s flagship EnCase eDiscovery
solution provides legal hold, continuous case assessment, collection, preservation,
processing, analysis, review, and production. The key features include:
Legal Hold — a one-page legal hold interface allows users to easily create and
manage legal holds on a wide range of data sources through customizable and
reusable templates. In addition to sending automated notices and custodian
surveys, all stored in questionnaire and notice libraries for easy reuse, legal hold
can be audited to track progress and a custodian’s current legal hold status. In
addition, the platform’s Active Directory integration assists in managing
custodians and issuing notices, reminders, and escalations regarding legal hold
and preservation.
Collection and Preservation – the EnCase platform features pre-collection
analytics that allow for continuous case assessment. Pre-collection analytics uses
advanced criteria and search term analysis to predict the potential costs, relevant
keywords and custodians before retrieving ESI. The collection process is
automated and collects only relevant ESI based on custodians, date ranges,
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keywords, hash values, or any other file system metadata properties. The platform
supports a wide range of data sources and types, including documents, images, e-
mail, web mail, Internet artifacts, HTML page reconstruction, chat sessions,
encrypted files, and more. Following the collection phase, data is preserved and
locked in a court-approved, forensically sound logical evidence file (LEF)
container.
Processing – the fully automated processing stage allows for the reduction of
irrelevant or redundant ESI through culling and deduplication. In addition, further
processing enables additional refinement and separation of collection results
through text extraction, exploding containers, cracking passwords, performing
OCR, and indexing the data for further culling. During this stage, ESI’s metadata
is fully preserved and kept intact. It also provides visual representations of the
processed ESI.
Analysis and Continuous Assessment – the Early Case Assessment capabilities
(including pre-collection analysis) allow analysis and first pass review at any
point during the electronic discovery process; before, during and after collection.
The review of post-collection and processing results provides robust analytical
data to optimize review.
Review — authorized users can search through collected data using proximity and
nested proximity search, wildcards, and modifiable stemming. Advanced features
include Technology Assisted Review, linear review with hit highlighting, email
threading, conversation viewing, user defined tagging, comments and
classification, and more.
Production — the EnCase platform can produce documents in their native format
as well as any format required for legal presentation. Additionally, it provides
flexible criteria for automated exportation and delivery of data. The documents
can be protected using the platform’s information rights management capabilities,
which continues to preserve these documents from alteration until the case is
settled.
Central Legal Repository — multi-matter support allows users and legal
professionals to manage litigation across multiple cases. In addition to single-
instance storage of evidence, which significantly reduces evidence storage costs,
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the central repository allows for cross-case work product re-use for reduced costs
associated with review. This feature helps organizations streamline, standardize,
and reduce costs and risks associated with the electronic discovery process for all
cases and matters.
The EnCase eDiscovery platform is available as an on-premises deployment with
additional functionality for the review and production stages offered through a hosted
service to allow legal professionals to work on a customer’s case from any Internet-
connected web-browser.
FUNCTIONALITY: 7
MARKET SHARE: 6
KEY STRENGTHS:
EnCase offers broad source collection capabilities that include traditional
repositories as well as newer cloud based repositories such as Microsoft Office
365, Box, Google Drive, and Amazon S3.
EnCase eDiscovery’s unique continuous assessment feature allows for highly
detailed analysis at any time during the eDiscovery process, allowing
organizations to track progress and efficiently understand the relevant ESI.
Multi-matter management support eliminates redundant processes and storage
across all cases. Customers are able to standardize the eDiscovery process by
reusing collected ESI, classifications, work products, and settings from previous
cases.
Guidance Software offers an optimized deployment architecture that allows
customers to conduct collection and preservation on-premises where the data and
custodians reside, while review and production utilize a private cloud to ensure
secure collaboration among geographically dispersed legal teams.
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WEAKNESSES:
Guidance Software is perceived as more expensive than many of its competitors,
and therefore tends to be selected mainly by larger customers with highly
complex eDiscovery requirements.
Guidance Software offers limited functionality for the collection and searching of
social media data within its EnCase solution.
RECOMMIND
650 California Street,
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.recommind.com
Recommind provides business software and services for eDiscovery, enterprise search,
email management, information governance, and information access. Recommind
solutions are built on top of and powered by their patented CORE (Context Optimized
Relevance Engine) platform.
Recommind offers comprehensive coverage of the EDRM with the following solutions,
Axcelerate Legal Hold, Axcelerate ECA & Collection, Axcelerate Review &
Analysis, and Axcelerate Data Management. Recommind’s Axcelerate solutions can be
deployed individually or together depending on a customer’s specific eDiscovery needs.
Key features of each solution include:
Axcelerate Legal Hold - provides cloud based management and execution of
legal hold notifications with full audit trails, immediate setup, and an API for user
network integration as desired.
Axcelerate ECA & Collection - provides enterprises with the ability to preserve,
collect, process, cull and analyze ESI. Analysis is powered by Recommind’s
SmartTaggers and Smart Filters technology. Prior to collection, ESI can be
explored and potentially relevant data can be preserved. Data can be remotely
collected from various enterprise data sources, including: laptops, desktops, file
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shares, email servers, email archives, cloud-based sharing solutions such as Box
and Google Apps, endpoint backup archives such as Druva inSync, social
collection sources such as Actiance, and enterprise collaboration platforms such
as Microsoft SharePoint. The solution can be run for a specific case, or on a
scheduled basis.
Axcelerate Review & Analysis - includes Recommind’s Predictive Analytic and
Predictive Coding technology for enhanced review and analysis of ESI. Data is
processed, culled, and filtered based on document responsiveness, privilege, and
issue relation. The Predictive Analytics technology provides automatic
identification of key topics, documents, concepts, and issues based on
sophisticated keyword, Boolean, and concept search. Key people, phrases, and
concepts of interest can also be identified for improved visibility into a document
collection. Key features of Axcelerate 5, released in February 2014, include
Hypergraph for visualized communications analysis, built in End-of-Branch email
thread analysis, and Smart Redactions, enabling a wide range of manual and
automated redactions across data sets with no pre-imaging.
Axcelerate Data Management - enables proactive and automated management
of information earlier in the information lifecycle. Axcelerate Data Management
leverages Recommind’s expertise in machine learning. It actively crawls and
indexes content from any source, including document management systems,
intranets, web sites, CRM applications, databases or file systems. Based on the
content, documents are associated with one or more categories such as topics,
document types, geographic locations, industries, and tagged as such enriching
the document’s metadata. Axcelerate Data Management is able to perform
automated categorization of new documents based on a training set using positive
and negative sample documents, and can be augmented by user-defined rules.
Recommind also offers Axcelerate On-Demand, a hosted service based on the
Axcelerate Review & Analysis solution. The centralized web-based application delivers
processing, culling, and filtering of ESI via a cloud-based service with a full range of
operation services, project management and expert consulting.
In August 2014, Recommind introduced Axcelerate SaaS, providing organizations all
the benefits of Axcelerate on a subscription basis in a dedicated, private cloud
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infrastructure. Unlike other hosted solutions, Axcelerate SaaS requires no external
processing, third party licenses, or monthly user fees.
Axcelerate Unlimited is an all-in-one subscription-based eDiscovery service that
includes all of Recommind’s eDiscovery solutions at a fixed price.
Recommind also offers the following related solutions:
Decisiv Search – An enterprise search tool with concept-based search
technology. Search results can be optimized based on their freshness, rank,
specific metadata, and document length. Federated search enables searching
across internal and external content sources. Decisiv Search supports over 400
document formats.
Information Governance Suite – which incorporates Axcelerate Data
Management, and is one of the first integrated governance solutions built from the
ground up to manage and organize large amounts of unstructured data using
court-approved machine-learning technology.
FUNCTIONALITY: 9
MARKET SHARE: 7
KEY STRENGTHS:
Recommind offers highly advanced technology assisted review functionality with
their Predictive Coding and Predictive Analytics tools.
Recommind delivers their solutions through three different pricing models,
perpetual license, on-demand service, and a cloud-based subscription service.
These options provide customers with a flexible pricing structure that best suits
their needs.
The Axcelerate Unlimited service is a unique offering that combines all of
Recommind’s eDiscovery solutions into a single service with a flat subscription
rate.
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Axcelerate 5’s Smart Redactions capabilities enable a wide range of manual and
automated redactions across entire data sets at no additional cost, and with no pre-
imaging required.
Axcelerate 5’s HTML5 interface provides a simple, efficient user experience for
reviewers.
WEAKNESSES:
Recommind, well known for its Technology Assisted Review and predictive
coding capabilities, continues to face increased competition from other vendors
that are also adding predictive coding capabilities to their own platforms.
Recommind has been working to simplify the user experience across its solutions,
however, given the richness of functionality provided for investigating attorneys
and case managers, some of the features may still feel intimidating to users with
more basic needs.
TRAIL BLAZERS
ACCESSDATA GROUP
588 West 400 South Suite 350
Lindon, Utah 84042
www.accessdata.com/
RESOLUTION1 SECURITY
1100 Alma Street
Menlo Park, California 94025
www.resolution1security/
AccessData is a pioneer in digital investigations, endpoints/mobile forensics and the
litigation support market. The company offers eDiscovery and forensic automated tools
to large to medium customers representing legal organizations, law firms, government
agencies, law enforcement and enterprises.
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In November 2014, AccessData Group announced the splitting its businesses into two
independent companies, AccessData, and the newly formed Resolution1 Security,
effective January 1, 2015. Resolution1 Security will deliver real-time insight, analysis,
response and resolution of data incidents while integrating threat intelligence.
Resolution1 Security is based in Menlo Park, CA with customers around the world.
Resolution1 Security offers Resolution1 eDiscovery a solution that integrates collection,
litigation hold, processing, and early case assessment features along with the final review
functionality of AccessData’s Summation.
AccessData offers Summation a solution that covers the post data collection stages of
the eDiscovery process featuring processing, early case assessment and final legal
review.
Key features of these solutions include:
Resolution1 eDiscovery 5.5 — The latest version of Resolution1 eDiscovery’s
on-premises and web-based solution addresses the full EDRM with features that
include:
o Litigation hold, collection, processing, ECA, and document review and
production. A broad range of structured and unstructured data sources are
supported, including: Google Docs, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft
SharePoint, Microsoft Office 365, Oracle URM, FileNet, OpenText, EMC
Documentum, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Xerox Docushare, Druva, and
more. Resolution1 eDiscovery features distributed processing, which can scale
to handle terabytes per day, and the ability to de-duplicate, OCR (optical
character recognition) and handle encrypted files.
o Resolution1 eDiscovery can scale globally to handle in-region collection,
processing and review under one license and implementation.
o ECA tools offer a culling and collection tool that can filter by 100s of factors
like custodian, data source, document metadata, keywords, and type. ECA
support is provided in many file formats and multiple languages. It can collect
and process simultaneously, reducing cost and time, as well as maintain data
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chronology in email threads. It also offers annotation and bookmarking
features.
o During the production phase, documents and email can be produced in native
formats as well as image file formats such as PDF or TIFF. Data can also be
exported as load files for use by third-party review tools.
o Resolution1 eDiscovery also includes the full functionality of AccessData’s
Summation legal review platform described below.
AccessData Summation — Summation is a web-based solution that combines
data processing, early case assessment, final review, transcript management and
case organizer management into a single platform. This helps eliminate the need
for iterative processing, data loading and repetitive review cycles. Offered as a
stand-alone, appliance or as a component of Resolution1 eDiscovery, Summation
covers the post data collection stages of the eDiscovery process as well as
transcript and case management functionality. Summation features include:
o ECA tools offer robust loading and culling functionality. Data can be loaded
and filtered by 100s of unique factors like custodian, data source, document
metadata, keywords, and type. ECA support is provided in many file formats
and multiple languages. It can load and process simultaneously, reducing cost
and time, as well as maintain data chronology in email threads. It also offers
annotation and bookmarking features.
o Near-native Document Viewer and Editor allows users to apply color
redactions on near native files, which allows them to redact first and then
image only the redacted set. Summation lets user can drag the redaction tool
over a whole sentence as if highlighting text in MS Word.
o Technology Assisted Review, with a visualization module for the graphic
representation of case data. It includes advanced data filtering, production
tools, as well as offline mobile case review.
o Imports Concordance and Relativity load files, native Concordance database
migration, exports Concordance, Relativity, Ringtail, iConect, Introspect and
EDRM XML load files.
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Mobile Phone Examiner Plus — MPE+ is a stand-alone mobile device
investigation solution that includes enhanced smart device acquisition and
analysis capabilities. MPE+ allows mobile forensic examiners to collect, identify
and obtain the key data.
FUNCTIONALITY: 7
MARKET SHARE: 8
KEY STRENGTHS:
AccessData and Resolution1 Security provide full coverage of the EDRM, from
litigation hold to final review and production, through the combined Resolution1
eDiscovery and Summation platforms.
AccessData and Resolution1 Security provide one of the broadest support for
different ESI types with support for most popular data sources and repositories.
AccessData and Resolution1 Security offer key new features for technology
assisted review, visualizations, evidence tracking, transcript management, case
organizer management, as well as the ability for Resolution1 eDiscovery case
managers to view collection status in real-time.
Mobile Phone Examiner Plus is one of the first products available for eDiscovery
targeted at mobile devices.
WEAKNESSES:
Resolution1 eDiscovery and Summation’s pre-processing, cost assessment
capabilities are somewhat basic. Future releases should address this and help
improve cost assessment analysis moving forward.
Resolution1 eDiscovery and Summation’s TAR capabilities, while offered at no
extra cost, are not as highly developed as those of some competing vendors. We
expect to see this evolve in future releases.
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CATALYST REPOSITORY SYSTEMS
1860 Blake Street, 7th Floor
Denver, Colorado 80202
www.catalystsecure.com
Catalyst has been a pioneer, for the past 15 years, in delivering secure, cloud-based
software to help corporations and their law firms handle eDiscovery, compliance and
regulatory matters. Catalyst focuses on the right-hand side of the EDRM, with cloud-
based document repositories and review software platforms that deliver search, review
and technology-assisted review in multiple languages.
Catalyst delivered one of the first cloud-based document repositories and review software
platforms in the eDiscovery market. The company is a known leader in providing search,
review and technology-assisted review in multiple languages, including Chinese,
Japanese and Korean. Catalyst bases its search and analytics functionality on a NoSQL
engine it licenses from MarkLogic. In January 2014, Catalyst simplified its pricing
through a new subscription pricing model.
Catalyst offers three main products, as follows:
Catalyst Insight – was built to handle big data discovery, by offering enterprise-
scale workflow for clients engaged in multiple legal matters. It leverages XML-
based technology to link individual documents and their coding to multiple cases
without creating duplicate data sets, thus reducing storage costs and eliminating
coding conflicts. The repository also has a fully automated de-duplication process.
Breaking with traditional linear-review approaches, Insight uses non-linear
methods to help reviewers see broader patterns in documents and data sets.
Visualization tools enable creation of social-network diagrams, timelines and
other graphical depictions of data. Advanced analytics translate to shorter review
times and reduced review costs.
Catalyst Insight Predict – released in early 2013, is one of the first technology-
assisted review (TAR) products specifically designed to handle Chinese, Japanese
and Korean (CJK), and other languages. It also is the first to use continuous
ranking and Continuous Active Learning, helping to reduce review time and
costs. It integrates seamlessly with the Catalyst Insight eDiscovery platform, and
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uses artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance human review. It ranks all
documents in a collection (rather than just a reference set), and handles rolling
document uploads by supporting continuous ranking as new documents are added.
OnRamp and Fast Track – are tools that allow corporations and their legal
teams to fully automate data processing, loading, searching, tagging and culling,
thereby eliminating vendor-handoff errors and saving valuable time. This helps
reduce costs associated with the uploading and ingestion of documents. Catalyst
offers OnRamp and Fast Track at no additional cost to customers.
FUNCTIONALITY: 8
MARKET SHARE: 9
KEY STRENGTHS:
Catalyst offers a cloud based document repository and review platform, which
delivers lower cost, and improved scalability via a secure, private cloud.
Catalyst is a leader in multi-language eDiscovery support. The company offers
technology-assisted review for Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese and
Korean.
Catalyst Insight is an eDiscovery software platform designed specifically for big data,
which utilizes a central legal repository built with XML technology to deliver fast
speed in processing large cases (i.e. Gigabytes or Terabytes of data).
Catalyst Insight offers single instance storage, multi-party and multi-matter
eDiscovery capabilities.
Catalyst Fast Track and On Ramp tools offer automated data handling from ingestion
and processing through search, review and production.
Catalyst Insight Predict offers Technology Assisted Review (TAR) with continuous
learning capabilities, using NoSQL-based predictive ranking technology.
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WEAKNESSES:
Catalyst’s cloud based software focuses on the right-hand side of the EDRM from
Processing through Production, relying on key partners for left-hand side functions
from Information Management through Preservation. This may cause some exposure
as partners change their strategies and in some cases look to provide the full EDRM
functionality on their own.
Catalyst would benefit by expanding its partner base to include more information
archiving vendors and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
UBIC
3 Lagoon Dr., Suite 180
Redwood City, CA 94065
www.ubicna.com
UBIC is a pioneer of cross-border litigation support and forensic investigation and a
leader in Asian-language eDiscovery. The company has staff, offices and secure data
centers in the U.S., UK, Taiwan, Korea and Japan and owns TechLaw Solutions, Inc., a
litigation support company with over 30 years of experience in the US. UBIC has its
worldwide headquarters in Japan and is listed on both the Tokyo Stock Exchange and
NASDAQ.
UBIC’s eDiscovery solution, called Lit i View E-DISCOVERY, is designed to address
the full-spectrum of the EDRM (from Collection to Production and Hosting). The
company also offers solutions outside of the scope of eDiscovery, these include: a digital
forensics solution, Lit i View XAMINER; email auditing software, Lit i View EMAIL
AUDITOR; and case management solution, BIG DATA CASE MANAGER.
UBIC’s Lit i View technology platform is available as on-premises software, as a cloud-
based solution, or through a combined hosting and review packaging. Lit i View provides
the following key features and components:
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ECA – search simulation simplifies data identification and provides Early Case
Assessment understanding.
Search – Lit i View’s drag and drop search simulation tool provides strong query
support.
User interface – is available in both Japanese and English making it easier for
administrators and reviewers to work in their native language.
Language support – Lit i View moves beyond Unicode, to understand and support
various encodings such as JIS, Shift JIS and EUC. Also, search can be run for the
same term in multiple languages simultaneously. Search results are presented
separated by language making language-specific review faster and simpler.
Support for Asian Business Productivity Tools – Lit i View supports software tools
commonly in use in Asia. File types of hwp and mbox are supported as well as
proprietary encryption systems.
Customizable – Lit i View allows control by cases, roles, tags and documents. Users
can set persistent keyword highlighting, and allow or block document printing.
Predictive Coding – Lit i View provides CJK Technology Assisted Review,
predictive coding designed specifically for Asian languages. It allows a document
reviewer’s decisions to be populated across an entire data set to aid in early case
analysis, data reduction, document ranking and review distribution. Lit i View also
provides a pre-set of training data that can be used with Predictive Coding, which
incorporates knowledge from UBIC’s extensive experience in providing eDiscovery
and forensics support. This allows customers to run predictive coding without the
need of creating their own training data from scratch.
Advanced Data Reduction – Lit i View allows to reduce data size with de-duplication,
de-NIST, and CJK Technology Assisted Review.
Behavior Informatics – Central Linkage is UBIC’s behavior informatics augmented
technology, which creates visual diagrams of communication networks to expose
connections between people. Central Linkage also contains the Behavior Extractor, a
tool that allows users to quickly identify the theme of conversations in email
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messages by deconstructing a sentence into their relevant grammatical pieces and
visually revealing how individuals discuss words and concepts in their proper context.
FUNCTIONALITY: 7
MARKET SHARE: 11
KEY STRENGTHS:
UBIC offers a complete EDRM platform comprising collection, processing, review,
production and hosting.
UBIC has a strong R&D team committed to deliver advanced technology features
such as predictive coding.
UBIC provides an easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI).
UBIC’s Litigation Hold (Easy Hold) feature has unified data management
capabilities.
UBIC is a leader in Asian language support, and has a deep understanding of
eDiscovery requirements in Asian countries.
UBIC offers local support with an experienced staff that understands the local culture,
and language. The product is able to deal with proprietary applications, file types and
character encodings provides CJK TAR.
WEAKNESSES:
UBIC has raised its presence and visibility in North America through its TechLaw
Solutions acquisition, however, the company still needs to invest in further in its
marketing efforts as it is currently still better known in Asia than North America.
UBIC does not currently offer support for cloud based data sources such as Microsoft
Office 365, SharePoint online, Google Apps for Work, and other similar solutions.
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UBIC can improve its data management support features and interface.
UBIC Lit i View currently allows users to leave notes/comments on documents being
reviewed, however, it does not currently have a text annotation functionality that
would allow users to annotate texts or regions of the document within the file.
EXTERRO
4145 SW Watson Ave, Suite 400
Beaverton, Oregon 97005
www.exterro.com
Exterro is a provider of eDiscovery software designed for use by in-house legal and IT
teams at global 2000 organizations. The company was founded in 2004 and is
headquartered in the U.S., with a research & development office in India.
The Exterro E-Discovery Solution is an enterprise-scale software suite that enables
organizations subject to manage litigation and regulatory issues. The Exterro Fusion
Platform integrates corporate IT systems and third-party EDRM tools with all Exterro
applications to unify and support end-to-end e-discovery management. Exterro is
available as an on-premises solution, as a cloud based solution through Exterro Cloud, or
as a hybrid deployment.
The core Exterro E-Discovery Solution comprises the following key applications:
Exterro Data Mapping - Exterro Data Mapping is designed to create a data map
of all of an organization’s ESI. It enables legal teams to rapidly identify the most
relevant ESI repositories to a legal matter and eliminate those that may add
unnecessary cost and time.
Exterro Legal Hold - Exterro’s automated legal hold management system,
provides complete visibility into custodian actions, compliance levels and tasks
across all matters.
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Exterro E-Discovery Data Management – Exterro’s comprehensive data
management application identifies the most important ESI before collection. Its
end-to-end capabilities enable legal teams to unearth relevant ESI, and reduce
collection volumes. It includes the following processes:
o In-Place Early Case Assessment (ECA) & Analysis – with predictive
coding and search technologies, legal teams can gain quick insights into
data volumes, types and sources. In addition, it enables testing of key
terms and concepts to accurately build case scenarios and budget
comparisons, prior to document collection.
o In-Place ESI Processing - enables clients to determine the data volume
that may require review early in the course of a matter, then process, de-
duplicate and cull ESI prior to collection.
o Targeted ESI Collection - automatically filters, processes, categorizes,
deNISTs, de-duplicates, culls and then collects data, significantly reducing
ESI volumes in advance of review.
o Review and Production – enables document review using Exterro’s
analytic capabilities, including document labeling, mass tagging, and
custodian- and file-level hit reports. Includes native document reviewer
and foreign language support. Load files can be created in multiple
formats, including TIFF, CSV and EDRM XML, as well as exported
directly into third-party review tools.
Exterro Project Management - leverages built-in workflows to automate
repeatable processes for consistent, high quality projects.
In addition, Exterro offers the following add-on applications for added functionality:
Exterro Compliance Portal – provides a consolidated display of custodian
legal hold obligations.
Exterro Comprehensive Interview – provides an integrated, automated
survey system for identification and preservation.
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Exterro Employee Change Monitor - is an early warning system that
mitigates the risk of ESI spoliation by detecting personnel changes and
automatically taking corrective action.
Exterro Cross-Border Compliance – ensure privacy compliance for cross-
border eDiscovery.
Exterro In-Place Preservation - protects and secures ESI from accidental
deletion prior to collection. It integrates with email, collaboration and
archiving applications to prevent deletion of employee data subject to legal
holds or other obligations.
Exterro Predictive Intelligence - applies machine learning to automate the
identification and classification of ESI before and after collection.
Exterro Managed Review - adds expanded review features for multi-party
review, including built-in email threading, tiered and batched review,
redaction, coding pane customization and more.
FUNCTIONALITY: 9
MARKET SHARE: 12
KEY STRENGTHS:
Exterro has partnerships with leading consulting providers, such as Huron Legal,
Epiq, PwC and Deloitte.
Exterro E-Discovery Data Management’s pre-collection analytical capabilities
provide attorneys the earliest possible access to key documents and information.
Exterro’s software unifies the entire e-discovery process through flexible workflows
and an intuitive dashboard.
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WEAKNESSES:
Exterro is not well known in most organizations beyond the legal department. Exterro
is actively working to build out its marketing efforts to appeal to the broader
information governance needs of organizations.
Exterro is in the process of completely re-branding its product suite, which may be
confusing to customers and prospects.
Exterro has focused primarily to date on the needs of in-house legal team. The vendor
is working to also extend its appeal to law firms by partnering with outside providers,
like Aurotech, to expand its reach and sales channel into the law firm market.
SPECIALISTS
EMC
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
www.emc.com
EMC is a provider of enterprise technologies for businesses and service providers.
EMC’s product portfolio includes solutions for Information Governance, eDiscovery,
archiving, backup and recovery, ECM, storage, and more. EMC was founded in 1979 and
is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
EMC Kazeon eDiscovery, is EMC’s flagship eDiscovery offering, which can be
deployed as a hosted service or as an appliance. It focuses primarily on the left hand of
the EDRM. EMC Kazeon eDiscovery supports content sources which include: email
servers (Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Domino Server), file systems (desktops,
laptops, CIFS and NFS file shares), content management and archiving systems (EMC
Documentum, Microsoft SharePoint, EMC SourceOne and Symantec Enterprise Vault),
and more. The key features of EMC Kazeon eDiscovery include:
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Early Case Assessment – enables the culling, review and analysis of ESI through
in-place identification and legal hold capabilities. Analytic capabilities provide
insight into the ESI and allow legal departments to make decisions regarding a
matter based on data volumes and risks.
Collection and Legal Hold – provides high scale and performance collection of
electronically stored information along with auditing and data verification
capabilities. EMC Kazeon eDiscovery supports mobile workforces and can handle
over 400 different file types, which can be recognized and processed in their
native format. It allows legal and IT teams to identify, notify, manage, and release
legal holds across an organization.
Processing, Analysis, and Review – provides post-collection features including:
searching, prioritizing, auditing, data verification and reviewing. Documents can
be reviewed in their native format or converted. Additional features include:
single-click review, filtering of non-relevant data, hit highlighting, email
threading, and fast-tagging capabilities.
Case Management – provides dashboards and reports of legal workflow status
and progress of a particular case. EMC Kazeon eDiscovery provides built-in
reporting features that customers can customize to their specific needs. The
interface’s ease-of-use is designed for non-technical case management.
EMC Kazeon eDiscovery leverages an open Application Programming Interface (API) to
make it easy to develop custom connectors for repositories and applications. It supports
global deployments with multiple language support. It can generate load files, such as
EDRM XML to export information to industry standard review platforms.
EMC Kazeon eDiscovery integrates seamlessly with EMC’s SourceOne archiving
solution, and has an out-of-the box connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault. It also
integrates with the EMC Atmos big data cloud platform.
FUNCTIONALITY: 5
MARKET SHARE: 10
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KEY STRENGTHS:
EMC Kazeon eDiscovery’s ability to integrate with popular enterprise solutions
such as Microsoft Exchange Server, IBM Domino Server, Symantec Enterprise
Vault, and more.
EMC provides regular updates to reinforce its strengths in the areas of scale,
performance, connectivity and content preservation.
Unstructured data can be identified, collected, and processed “in the wild” from
remote desktops, laptops, and other content sources, addressing key enterprise-
grade information governance capabilities.
WEAKNESSES:
EMC Kazeon eDiscovery does not currently offer support for SharePoint 2013
(only SharePoint 2010 is supported), or newer ESI sources such as Microsoft
Office 365, Google Apps, or file and sync solutions.
The EMC Kazeon eDiscovery solution lacks support for searching social media
data.
EMC Kazeon eDiscovery focuses on the left hand stages of the EDRM and does
not offer TAR or predictive coding capabilities.
KPMG, LLP
345 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10154
www.kpmg.com/us
KPMG LLP is the US member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG
International”). KPMG’s accredited Forensic practices in 30 countries include Forensic
Technology services which offer data processing, hosting, and production data centers in
a number of regions worldwide.
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KPMG has long-standing professional services expertise in all aspects of eDiscovery and
Forensics. KPMG, however, also offers its own technology to cover the identification to
production phases of the EDRM. KPMG’s eDiscovery technology, called Discovery
Radar Technology Suite, consists of the following components:
Global Evidence Tracking System (GETS) - maintains chain of custody, audit
trails and notifications, as well as helps monitor project performance.
Discovery Radar Collector - provides identification, preservation, targeted
collection and upfront processing capabilities via network or USB, featuring
message-level decryption and robust audit trail capabilities.
Discovery Radar 5 - is a SaaS-based solution that offers additional processing,
review, analysis and production capabilities. It features concept clustering,
flexible integrated statistical sampling, software-assisted review, and a review
cost calculator.
FUNCTIONALITY: 4
MARKET SHARE: 13
KEY STRENGTHS:
KPMG’s Discovery Radar employs software-assisted review technology and
statistical sampling functionality that supports process validation and control. KPMG
can reduce the time and cost involved in successfully completing a document review
with a specified statistical confidence in review results.
KPMG has a solid experience as an eDiscovery service and software provider. This
expertise allows it to build scalable software for process efficiency and flexibility.
KPMG has global professional services resources that can be made available as
needed for customers that wish to leverage this resource.
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WEAKNESSES:
KPMG’s business model relies on deep and long-standing relationships with a select
client base, which may limit its scope of competition against other vendors that aim at
the mass market with large sales forces.
Despite offering robust eDiscovery technology, KPMG still views itself primarily as a
service provider and treats its eDiscovery technology offerings as part of a larger
client engagement.
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