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Vendors Consolidated; Technology Drove Market Change.
On the e-discovery vendor front, the pace of consolidation of large service providers in 2016 was unprecedented compared to prior years. Technological change, including the availability of relatively inexpensive and secure cloud-based data hosting and the availability of e-discovery software through the cloud on a subscription basis, meant that companies and law firms increasingly could handle e-discovery tasks themselves without needing the assistance of an e-discovery services provider. This trend is likely to increase with the coming move of the dominant document search and review software to a cloud-based model. These changes may be detrimental to some service providers, but beneficial to consumers of e-discovery services.
In sum, 2016 was a good year for e-discovery and there is no reason why these overall positive trends should not continue in the coming year.
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