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| Survey Results |
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The overview results of the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report are available here in summary form. The full report - 360 pages long - is available for purchase.
The public report was in the August issue of Law Technology News and is on LTN's website at Law Technology News.
Survey rankings can be searched at http://www.sochaconsulting.com/topproviders.php |
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| Market Size and Growth |
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| Our survey covered the 2007 calendar year. Based on our research, we estimate that 2007 commercial electronic discovery revenues were in the range of $2.794 billion - up 43% from 2006: |
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| 2007 Total Estimated Electronic Discovery Market |
| Tiers |
Estimated 2007 Revenues |
| Tier 1 |
$1.171 B |
| Tiers 2 & 3 |
$893 M |
| Do-It-Yourself |
$260 M |
| Software |
$470 M |
| Total |
$2.794 B |
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| As in the past, we used consumer and provider expectations to prepare projections for market growth (or shrinkage) over the next three years - 2008, 2009 and 2010. Judging from those expectations, we anticipate that market growth will continue to be strong with increases of approximately 21% from 2007 to 2008, another 20% from 2008 to 2009, and 15% from 2009 to 2010. |
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| Projected Electronic Discovery Market Growth - Based On Consumer Expectations |
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Projected Market Size |
| 2008 |
$3.381 B |
| 2009 |
$4.051 B |
| 2010 |
$4.666 B |
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| The chart below shows these estimates and projections, and compares them with estimates and projections from our earlier reports: |
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| Top-Ranked
Electronic Discovery Service Providers |
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| Overall | By Corporate & Law Firm Rankings | By Stage of Electronic Discovery (EDRM) |
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Once again, we offer lists of leading EDD services and software providers. We stress, however, that anyone who makes buying decisions primarily on these rankings is a fool.
As with any top-X list, it is important to keep these lists in context and use them only as appropriate. You should not choose a provider based solely on these lists, or solely on the basis of any other top-X list. The factors we examined may not apply to your circumstances, and mostly likely will not apply with the specific weightings and ratings we used. In addition, you will have needs and considerations we could not have taken into account.
It also is important to note that our evaluation model relies heavily on information provided through interviews or questionnaires (spreadsheets). We recognize that there are other vendors with the qualifications to rank within the top X, however the data on them was not available to us. Some providers, including prominent ones, did not provide any data and others, including prominent ones, provided only limited information. |
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| The Top 25 Electronic Discovery Service Providers - Overall |
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We ranked electronic discovery service providers based on a set of seven
criteria:
- Experience and reputation (10%)
- Capacity (15%)
- Types of services (20%)
- Software usage (3%)
- Law firm rankings (18%)
- Corporate rankings (18%)
- Revenue estimates (16%)
To arrive at our ranking, we gathered information for each of the criteria, rated the information, and weighted the results. Weighting of each of the seven criteria is based on our judgment of relative importance of each factor, with the goal of providing a result that rewards the “well rounded” providers.
We used a blend of criteria because we felt it would provide a more nuanced ranking than could be had using any single criterion, such as revenue.
In the lists below, (L) = the listing at the Socha Consulting vendor page, where you can see information about services offered, geographical coverage, and office locations.
According to our survey results, the top five market leaders in 2007 were, in alphabetical order: |
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Top 5 Electronic Discovery Service Providers
Based on 7 Criteria
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Alphabetical Order |
| Autonomy ZANTAZ |
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| Fios, Inc. |
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| FTI Consulting |
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| Kroll Ontrack |
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| LexisNexis |
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| The next five after that were, in alphabetical
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Top 6-10 Electronic Discovery Service Providers
Based on 7 Criteria Sets
Alphabetical Order
Includes Ties |
| Encore Discovery Solutions |
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| Epiq Systems, Inc. |
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| Huron Consulting Group |
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| KPMG LLP |
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| Renew Data Corp. |
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| Ranking 11-15 were, in alphabetical order: |
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Top 11-15 Electronic Discovery Service Providers
Based on 7 Criteria Sets
Alphabetical Order
Includes Ties |
| Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. |
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| Ernst & Young |
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| Merrill Corporation |
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| ONSITE3 |
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| Stratify, Inc. |
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| Ranking 16-25 were, in alphabetical order: |
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| The Top Electronic Discovery Service Providers - By Experience, Capacity, Corprate & Law Firm Ranking |
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| Following are service provider rankings by top-level category for four of the sets of criteria we used - experience, capacity, corporate and law firm rankings: |
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| ALC Legal Technologies |
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| AlphaLit, a Division of Alpha Systems |
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| Anacomp, Inc. |
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| Autonomy ZANTAZ |
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| CaseCentral, Inc. |
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| Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc. |
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| Computer Forensic Services |
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| Daticon |
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| Discovery Mining Inc. |
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| DTI Global (Document Technologies, Inc.) |
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| Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. |
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| eMag Solutions |
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| Encore Discovery Solutions |
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| Epiq Systems, Inc. |
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| Equivalent Data |
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| Ernst & Young |
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| Fios, Inc. |
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| Focus Solutions |
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| FTI Consulting |
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| Guidance Software, Inc. |
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| Huron Consulting Group |
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| IE Discovery, Inc. |
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| Integreon Managed Solutions, Inc. |
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| Ivize |
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| Kiersted/Systems, Inc. |
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| KPMG LLP |
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| Kroll Ontrack |
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| LDiscovery |
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| LexisNexis |
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| LuciData, Inc. |
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| Merrill Corporation |
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| Océ Business Services |
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| ONSITE3 |
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| Pitney Bowes Legal Solutions |
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| Renew Data Corp. |
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| SPi |
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| Stratify, Inc. |
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| Symantec Corporation |
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| TechLaw Solutions |
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| Xact Data Discovery |
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| The Top Electronic Discovery Service Providers - By Stage of Electronic Discovery (EDRM) |
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| Once again, we have ranked service providers based on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model stages: |
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| Top-Ranked Electronic Discovery Software Providers |
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| Overall | By Corporate & Law Firm Rankings | By Stage of Electronic Discovery (EDRM) |
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Once again, we offer lists of leading EDD services and software providers. We stress, however, that anyone who makes buying decisions primarily on these rankings is a fool.
As with any top-X list, it is important to keep these lists in context and use them only as appropriate. You should not choose a provider based solely on these lists, or solely on the basis of any other top-X list. The factors we examined may not apply to your circumstances, and mostly likely will not apply with the specific weightings and ratings we used. In addition, you will have needs and considerations we could not have taken into account.
It also is important to note that our evaluation model relies heavily on information provided through interviews or questionnaires (spreadsheets). We recognize that there are other vendors with the qualifications to rank within the top X, however the data on them was not available to us. Some providers, including prominent ones, did not provide any data and others, including prominent ones, provided only limited information. |
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| The Top 20 Electronic Discovery Software Providers - Overall |
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We ranked electronic discovery software providers based on a set of seven criteria similar to the ones we used for service providers:
- Experience and reputation (10%)
- Nature & scope of software offered (3%)
- Capacity (5%)
- How extensively consumers used the software offered (30%)
- Law firm rankings (18%)
- Corporate rankings (18%)
- Revenue estimates (16%)
To arrive at our ranking, we gathered information for each of the criteria, rated the information, and weighted the results. Weighting of each of the seven criteria is based on our judgment of relative importance of each factor, with the goal of providing a result that rewards the “well rounded” providers.
We used a blend of criteria because we felt it would provide a more nuanced ranking than could be had using any single criterion, such as revenue.
In the lists below, (L) = the listing at the Socha Consulting vendor page, where you can see information about services offered, geographical coverage, and office locations.
According to our survey results, the top five market leaders in 2007 were, in alphabetical order: |
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Top 5 Electronic Discovery Software Providers
Based on 7 Criteria Sets
Alphabetical Order |
| Autonomy ZANTAZ |
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| Clearwell Systems |
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| FTI Consulting |
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| Guidance Software, Inc. |
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| LexisNexis |
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| The next five after that were, in alphabetical order: |
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Top 6-10 Electronic Discovery Software Providers
Based on 7 Criteria Sets
Alphabetical Order
Includes Ties |
| Attenex Corporation |
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| CT Summation, Inc. |
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| Epiq Systems, Inc. |
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| iCONECT Development, LLC |
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| Symantec Corporation |
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| 10-15 were, in alphabetical order: |
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Top 11-15 Electronic Discovery Software Providers
Based on 7 Criteria Sets
Alphabetical Order
Includes Ties |
| AccessData Corporation |
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| Equivio |
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| i365 MetaLINCS E-Discovery Solutions |
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| Kazeon Systems, Inc. |
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| Kroll Ontrack |
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| The Top Electronic Discovery Software Providers - By Corporate & Law Firm Ranking |
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