Since we published our e-Discovery predictions for 2011, one more industry vendor has added their predictions to the mix. With only a few days left until 2011, there isn’t much longer until the future is now. Yet, from early case assessment to GRC, it’s apparent that the future of e-Discovery holds many opportunities.
ECA Moves Left
Let’s start with early case assessment. While it wasn’t addressed specifically in our previous list, Steve d’Alencon, Chief Marketing Officer of CaseCentral thinks that in 2011
Software on the “left-side” of the EDRM, concerned with information management, continues to get smarter, meaning that analysis of data can now occur ‘in the wild’ and with this increased intelligence, subsequent collections are getting smaller.
Until now, the primary application of ECA has been to quickly analyze collected data sets to provide insight before moving to full-scale review. According to d’Alencon, early case assessment is better than that and can be expanded to include more analysis and a more narrowed collection of data.
