The e-discovery solutions market comprises vendors offering technology solutions that facilitate the electronic discovery process. E-discovery solutions specialize in one or more areas to identify, collect, preserve, process, review, analyze and produce electronically stored information (ESI). ESI fulfills legal and compliance requirements for discovery that result from a variety of investigative scenarios. The scope of ESI often includes data sources, such as digital communications, file systems, cloud office platforms, endpoints, databases and applications. E-discovery solutions market includes software vendor offerings for a customer’s own deployment on-premises and in cloud infrastructure, as well as hosted offerings provided by software vendors and services providers.
File analysis (FA) products analyze, index, search, track and report on file metadata and file content, enabling organizations to take action on files according to what was identified. FA provides detailed metadata and contextual information to enable better information governance and organizational efficiency for unstructured data management. FA is an emerging solution, made of disparate technologies, that assists organizations in understanding the ever-growing volume of unstructured data, including file shares, email databases, enterprise file sync and share, records management, enterprise content management, Microsoft SharePoint and data archives.