Electronically stored information (ESI) is a rich source of material in litigation proceedings, and as a result, eDiscovery has experienced rapid growth during the last five years. It has taken center stage in numerous high-profile cases as corporations have struggled to identify, collect, cull, analyze and review ESI in a cost-effective and defensible manner. The problem is that eDiscovery is largely a reactive and manual process.
Now, with eDiscovery requests growing and the data volume increasing from the gigabyte to the terabyte range, corporations struggle to meet the new regulations and timelines -- largely imposed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Corporations are beginning to look to technology to streamline the traditionally manual discovery process, deliver a defensible process and reduce high labor expenses.
At the same time, information compliance and governance issues have grown to critical proportions. With the pace of regulation continuing to increase, its impact on IT has become substantial. Regulatory compliance has become a critical element in IT decisions in the same way that client/server, ERP and other major technological innovations have in recent years.
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Source: scmagazineus.com
By Karthik Kannan
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