Blue Hill Research dives into Kroll Ontrack's launch of ediscovery.com. Principal analyst David Houlihan explores the current state of ediscovery and explains what you need to know to help your business.

1. Kroll Ontrack ediscovery.com
Collaboration and Control
David Houlihan, Principal Analyst, Blue Hill Research
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2. What You Need To Know
On October 28, 2013, Kroll
Ontrack launched
ediscovery.com
A web-based delivery platform
for its suite of electronic
discovery support products.
Kroll Ontrack promotes ediscovery.com with the
goal of creating a flexible process that helps
control costs.
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Kroll Ontrack positions the launch as the
“salesforce.com of ediscovery.”
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Time will tell whether or not ediscovery.com will
prove as successful, it represents a serious
step towards a mature “solutions-based”
approach to the ediscovery market.

3. The Current State of Ediscovery
Generally, ediscovery requires organizations to sift through huge reserves
of unstructured information to find a limited set of relevant material
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Ediscovery
In its simplest form, “ediscovery” refers to the
collection, review, and production of
electronically-stored information in response
to litigation, audits, or investigations
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Ediscovery currently costs anywhere from
$5,000 to $30,000 per gigabyte
Discovery tends to be one of the least
predicable and most expensive phases of
litigation
Organizations can needlessly add to costs by
„starting fresh,‟ as opposed to leveraging
previous ediscovery efforts
With a few exceptions, the universe of vendors addressing
these problems has not addressed the challenges of
managing ediscovery as an ongoing enterprise function.
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4. Solution Overview: Ediscovery.com
o Ediscovery.com is a cloud-based ediscovery platform. While it
repackages many of Kroll Ontrack‟s existing capabilities, it also
expands its process management capabilities and simplifies its pricing
model
o Three products fall within the ediscovery.com platform:
o Collect
o Manage
o Review
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5. Ediscovery.com Solution Overview
o Ediscovery.com Collect:
o Incorporates PowerControls by Kroll Ontrack as a data aggregation platform
o Reduces the administrative burden of ediscovery process
o Ediscovery.com Manage:
o Creates ability to track spend, project time, and performance in real-time
o Monitors performance by conducting cross-project analytics
o Configurable dashboard reporting
o Ediscovery.com Review:
o Predictive Coding for Technology Assisted Review
o Allows organizations to leverage predictive coding at the earliest stage to sift
out data that has no relevance
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6. Takeaways
o Core differentiators are:
• Mobile accessibility through a centralized, cloud-based platform
• Real-time, social collaboration in Project Wall
• Expanded project management and performance analytics
• Greater flexibility in TAR processing formats
• Front-end use of predictive coding to filter out irrelevant information
• Strong vision for a comprehensive, standardized strategy
o Organizations using other providers will need to consider how the migration costs
and changes in practice will be affected. However, the potential benefits of
collaborative, better-managed ediscovery should prompt some tough questions.
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