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Time to Express Your Confidence Level in the eDiscovery Ecosystem (Again): eDiscovery Trends
After his inaugural eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey yielded some interesting results, Rob Robinson has made good on his plan to conduct the survey quarterly on his terrific Complex Discovery site with the Spring 2016 Survey. Now is your chance to express your confidence in the eDiscovery ecosystem!
As he notes on the site, Rob’s eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is a non-scientific survey designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem. The term ‘business’ represents the economic factors that impact the creation, delivery, and consumption of eDiscovery products and services.
Like last quarter, Rob asks questions related to how you rate general business conditions for eDiscovery in your segment of the eDiscovery market, both current and six months from now, a general sense of where you think revenue and profits will be for your segment of the market in six months and which issue do you think will most impact the business of eDiscovery over the next six months, among other questions. It’s a simple nine question survey that literally takes about a minute to complete. Who hasn’t got a minute to provide useful information?
Individual answers are kept confidential, with the aggregate results to be published on Rob’s Complex Discovery site upon completion of the response period, which runs from May 1 through May 30.
Last time, there were 80 total respondents, which is not bad for the two weeks that the survey was open! Looks like Rob decided to allow a full month to respond this time, which should allow for even more respondents. Of course, last time over two-thirds of respondents were providers; hopefully, there will be a more even distribution this time around. A majority of respondents last time considered business in eDiscovery to be good and most expected it to be as good or better six months later. Our coverage of the last survey, with a link to the full survey, is here.
This time, with stories such as the resolution of the Apple v FBI dispute (at least temporarily), the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report and the “Panama Papers”, it will be interesting to see if a new issue becomes the issue that will most impact discovery over the next six months.
The more respondents there are, the more useful the results will be! Click here to take the survey yourself. Don’t forget!
So, what do you think? Are you confident in the state of business within the eDiscovery industry? Share your thoughts in the survey and, as always, please share any comments you might have with us or let us know if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
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