eDiscovery Surveys Archives - ComplexDiscovery

Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols: Fall 2019 Survey

The Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey is a non-scientific semi-annual survey designed to help provide a general understanding of the current application of predictive coding technologies, protocols, workflows, and uses by data discovery and legal discovery professionals.

As your opinion is essential in helping form a complete picture of the interest and impact of predictive coding in eDiscovery, please do take the time to complete this short, anonymized survey, as the results will help legal, business, and technology professionals in the eDiscovery ecosystem better understand the current use of predictive coding.

August 23, 2019
9 minute read

eDiscovery Business Kinetics: DSO, MRR, and Customer Revenue Distribution (Summer 2019)

In the summer of 2019, 156 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey participants chose to answer at least one of the optional business operational metric survey questions in the quarterly survey. Almost 33% (32.7%) of survey respondents reported Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) as increasing in the summer of 2019. This is a solid increase from approximately 29% (28.5%) reporting MRR as increasing in the spring of 2019.

August 12, 2019
4 minute read

Proceed with Caution? Eighteen Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Summer of 2019

In the summer of 2019, only 39.9% of eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey respondents feel that business climate conditions will be better in six months. This is approximately the same percentage (40.0%) of respondents who in the spring of 2019 felt the business conditions would be better in six months. However, it is the lowest rating in this area since the inception of the survey and may indicate a continued cautiousness about future business conditions.

August 1, 2019
5 minute read

The Issue That Currently Concerns eDiscovery Professionals The Most: Budgetary Constraints (Summer 2019)

In the summer of 2019, 27.2% of respondents viewed increasing budgetary constraints as potentially having the greatest business impact on their business in the next six months. This percentage is the highest of all concerns represented in the survey and also is the eighth time in fifteen surveys that this issue has been rated as the top concern.

July 24, 2019
4 minute read

An Unusually Warm Summer? eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results – Summer 2019

This is the fifteenth quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey conducted by ComplexDiscovery. More than 1,621 individual responses have been received from legal, business, and technology professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem since the inception of the survey and 173 respondents shared their opinions as part of the summer 2019 survey.

July 19, 2019
4 minute read

All Systems Go? An Early Look at Three eDiscovery Business Metric Trajectories

This in-progress overview of three important business metric trajectories is provided as a precursor to the final results of the fifteenth quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey currently being conducted by ComplexDiscovery. These preliminary results highlight the responses of legal, business, and technology professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem to three specific business questions regarding days sales outstanding (DSO), monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and customer revenue distribution metrics.

July 8, 2019
2 minute read

Feeling the Heat? The Summer 2019 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey

This is the fifteenth quarterly eDiscovery business confidence survey conducted by ComplexDiscovery. Since January 2016, more than 1,448 individual responses to the survey have been received from legal, business, and technology professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem. As your opinion is important in helping form a complete picture of the business confidence of those operating in the eDiscovery ecosystem, please do take the time to complete this short, anonymized survey as the results help all eDiscovery professionals better understand the industry’s current state of data and legal discovery business confidence.

June 29, 2019
2 minute read

Considering eDiscovery Review? Task, Spend, and Cost Data Points

Based on the complexity of data and legal discovery, it is a continual challenge to understand the relationships, opportunities, and costs of specific eDiscovery tasks. With this challenge in mind and to provide information and context to discussions around the eDiscovery task of review, the following review-centric task, spend, and cost data points may be beneficial to legal, business, and IT professionals considering the economics of eDiscovery.

June 17, 2019
3 minute read

Considering eDiscovery Processing? Task, Spend, and Cost Data Points

Based on the complexity of data and legal discovery, it is a continual challenge to understand the relationships, opportunities, and costs of specific eDiscovery tasks. With this challenge in mind and to provide information and context to discussions around the eDiscovery task of processing, the following processing-centric task, spend, and cost data points may be beneficial to legal, business, and IT professionals considering the economics of eDiscovery.

June 16, 2019
3 minute read

Considering eDiscovery Collection? Task, Spend, and Cost Data Points

Based on the complexity of data and legal discovery, it is a continual challenge to understand the relationships, opportunities, and costs of specific eDiscovery tasks. With this challenge in mind and to provide information and context to discussions around the eDiscovery task of collection, the following collection-centric task, spend, and cost data points may be beneficial to legal, business, and IT professionals considering the economics of eDiscovery.

June 14, 2019
2 minute read