Growing or shrinking?

올해 초, 지난 8년간의 이디스커버리 마켓 성장률을 조사해 본 결과, 이런 결론에 도달했었다.

‘예측한대로가 아니었네 큰 변화가 없잖아’

이를 뒷받침 하듯, 시장에도 많은 변화가 있어 왔다. 그럼 이제 어떻게 될것인가? 난 그 대답이 과거 3년간의 내 활동안에 있었다고 본다. 그리고 이미 그렇게 흘러가도 있다.

Jason points to the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as one potential cause for weakened demand from clients, particularly Rule 37(e) and the reduced likelihood for significant sanctions – due in large part to the new “intent to deprive” standard to be met for significant sanctions to be administered. He notes that, because of the rule change, clients “are less terrified of sanctions and less willing to spend big bucks on a service provider who will collect and process massive data sets.” That, in turn, is leading to consolidating of “old-line e-discovery vendors”, like the LDiscovery $410 million acquisition of Kroll Ontrack in October of last year and the $240 million(겨우?) merger of OpenText and Guidance Software in July of this year. (Doug Austin, CloudNine, 2017)​