eDiscovery Priorities Among Corporations from Highly Regulated and Litigated Industries: What Happened in 2009?

Abstract

This IDC study reviews the 2009 corporate eDiscovery technology priorities among corporations from the most highly regulated and frequently litigated industries.

"Regulatory reform and the expected rise in regulatory oversight combined with the deployment of new media content, new devices, and emerging technologies will underpin the robust growth in preservation- and compliance-intense data," says Vivian Tero, program manager for GRC Infrastructure, IDC. "Corporate eDiscovery response teams must be prepared to handle the retention and disposition, preservation, collection, and review of multiple content types. To do this, corporations should consider regularly benchmarking their information management and eDiscovery protocols against their peers."

Table of Contents

• IDC Opinion
• In This Study
• Situation Overview
• The Pressure to Do More with Less Increases
• Corporations Continue to Build Their In-House eDiscovery Capabilities
• Future Outlook
• Technology Investment Priorities: Information Retention and In-House eDiscovery
• Healthy Demand for Specific Third-Party Services
• Essential Guidance
• Learn More
• Related Research
• Synopsis