Realising positive returns through eDiscovery

Investing in eDiscovery may seem like an unwanted expense, but could you really afford to do nothing? There are few organisations who can afford to do nothing, as the consequences of not being prepared can cost a company considerably more.

Bringing an eDiscovery solution in house and preparing for potential litigation, drastically reduces storage costs, legal fees paid to outside vendors and lowers IT operations costs.

This paper discusses the possible cost savings in the several stages of the process and illustrates how you can lower costs by being proactive towards organisation and management of relevant information.

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Forty (information management technology) Vendors We’re Watching: 2012

For a third year we (http://www.information-management.com) bring you our list of up and coming vendors on our radar that are doing their part to shape the groundswell in information management technology in the 21st Century.

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Information Overload's 2,300-Year-Old History

We're all worried about the costs of information overload and we typically associate these problems with new digital technologies. But actually information overload has very deep roots: signs of information overload were present already in the accumulation of manuscript texts in pre-modern cultures and were further accelerated by the introduction of printing (in the 15th century in the case of Europe).

The overload we experience today — millions of Google search results in a fraction of a second — has its costs, but it is also a privilege, the result of the efforts of generations of accumulation before us and of massively increased access to the consumption and production of information in the digital age. Yes, overload creates problems, but it has also inspired important solutions — methods of selecting, summarizing, sorting and storing first devised centuries ago and that still work today, as well as new ones no doubt forthcoming.

Read this HBR blog post