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COVID-19 Constrained? The Impact of Six Issues on the Business of eDiscovery

In the spring of 2020, 51.2% of respondents viewed 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 highest rating for any business performance concern since the inception of the survey. This is also the tenth time in eighteen surveys that the issue of budgetary constraints has been the top concern or tied for the top concern by survey respondents.

April 24, 2020
4 minute read

A Cause to Pause? eDiscovery Operational Metrics in the Spring of 2020

In the spring of 2020, 150 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey participants chose to answer at least one of the optional business operational metric survey questions in the quarterly survey. Exactly 26% of survey respondents reported Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) as decreasing in the spring of 2020. This is a significant increase from the 10% reporting MRR as decreasing in the winter of 2020 and is the highest percentage of respondents reporting MRR as decreasing since the introduction of business operational metric questions to the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey in the winter of 2019.

April 21, 2020
4 minute read

Budgetary Constraints? Eighteen Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Spring of 2020

Based on the aggregate results of eighteen past eDiscovery Business Confidence Surveys, the following findings and charted overviews of responses to survey questions may be helpful for understanding the collective mindset of many industry experts regarding their confidence in the business of eDiscovery between early 2016 and today.

April 17, 2020
6 minute read

Blown Away? eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results – Spring 2020

This is the eighteenth quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey conducted by ComplexDiscovery. It is also the first time the survey has been conducted in a time of worldwide crisis such as today’s current global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 2,089 individual responses have been received from legal, business, and technology professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem since the inception of the survey in early 2016. 172 respondents shared their opinions as part of the spring 2020 survey.

April 15, 2020
4 minute read

Is It All Relative? Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey – Spring 2020 Results

The Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey is a non-scientific survey designed to help provide a general understanding of the use of predictive coding technologies, protocols, and workflows by data discovery and legal discovery professionals within the eDiscovery ecosystem.

February 13, 2020
11 minute read

An Exhilarating Inversion? Eighteen Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Winter of 2020

In the winter of 2020, 51.4% of survey respondents feel that revenue in the next sixth months will be higher than today. This percentage is higher than feelings on this metric in the fall of 2019 (39.3%) and the summer of 2019 (41.6%) and represents a strong rebound rating for this metric as it is the highest rating in this area since the fall of 2018.

January 22, 2020
6 minute read

An Obvious and Immediate Concern? The Impact of Increasing Types of Data on the Business of eDiscovery

In the winter of 2020, 25.3% of respondents to the quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey viewed increasing data types 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 third time in seventeen surveys that this issue has been rated as the top concern by eDiscovery professionals. This is also the highest percentage of survey respondents viewing increasing types of data as a top concern since the inception of the survey.

January 19, 2020
5 minute read

eDiscovery Business Kinetics: A Look at Operational Metrics in the Winter of 2020

In the winter of 2020, 124 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey participants chose to answer at least one of the optional business operational metric survey questions in the quarterly survey. Almost 35% (34.7%) of survey respondents reported Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) as increasing in the winter of 2020. This is a solid increase from approximately 25% (24.8.%) reporting MRR as increasing in the fall of 2019.

January 17, 2020
4 minute read

Beautifully Dormant? eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results – Winter 2020

This is the seventeenth quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey conducted by ComplexDiscovery. More than 1,900 individual responses have been received from legal, business, and technology professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem since the inception of the survey and 146 respondents shared their opinions as part of the winter 2020 survey.

January 13, 2020
4 minute read

The Power of Three? A Short Look at eDiscovery Pricing Over Time

First administered in December of 2018 and conducted three times during the past calendar year with 229 individual responses, the semi-annual eDiscovery Pricing Survey highlights eDiscovery pricing on selected collection, processing, and review tasks. The aggregate results of all surveys as shared in comparative charts may be helpful for understanding pricing and its impact on purchasing behavior on selected services over time.

December 13, 2019
3 minute read