The founders of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, have gone high-tech, launching Apersee, a web-based tool designed to help firms and individuals make educated decisions about which e-discovery vendors to approach. The tool works with most web browsers without any plug-ins or additional software, and is compatible with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and above, as well as Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.
"Apersee comes from the French word aperçu, meaning an immediate understanding or insight," they explain on the product's website: "That's exactly what we want you to find here. With minimal time and effort, the Apersee Selection Engine can give you insight into the e-discovery products and providers who can address your unique needs and priorities."
The search engine "draws heavily" from both the EDRM and the Electronic Discovery Survey material that Socha and Gelbmann formerly produced and published. The co-authors have been monitoring electronic data discovery vendors since 2003. They conduct exhaustive research, publish a summary of the results every August in Law Technology News, and make drill-down information available to subscribers.
Through 2008, their LTN report included both analysis and detailed charts, ranking vendors both for overall achievement, and comparing vendors within specific areas (e.g., identification, preservation, collection, etc.). But in 2009, the pair decided to end the tradition of ranking, because, ironically, it had become way too successful. Instead of doing appropriate due diligence, firms, individuals, even investors would simply rely on their survery rankings -- which chilled the two consultants, because doing so defeated the whole purpose of their research: to help folks evaluate vendors, not just grab a list.
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Source: law.com
By: Monica Bay and Sean Doherty
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