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EDRM, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, is the dominant model for eDiscovery. With each new case, you begin an iteration of EDRM until you complete the case.
When this happens, most people believe that the linear instance of EDRM is now complete.
But what they have either failed to notice or have been unable to take to heart that EDRM is
not a linear process.
The EDRM is, in fact, a cyclical process with the addition of the IGRM or Information Governance Reference Model to the left side of the model. You ll note that thin arrows are coming off of the main processes toward the bottom of the model and then back to the IGRM at every stage in the right-side process.
[author: Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today]
If you’ve read my posts in the past, you’re probably aware that one of my pet peeves in the industry is “marketing speak” that is used a lot, but doesn’t necessarily have any real meaning.
One of the most overused terms in eDiscovery is the term “end-to-end” eDiscovery. Many sales and marketing people in the industry will tell you (proudly, and with conviction, I might add) that “we provide an end-to-end eDiscovery solution!”
But do they really? I mean, REALLY?!?
For many years, when providers said they provided “end-to-end” eDiscovery, what they really meant (in terms of the EDRM model, where the ends were defined) was from Preservation and Collection through Production. But the Preservation and Collection part really meant that they generally provided a mechanism for users to upload data into the solution (thereby performing a level of collection which also preserves a copy of the data during collection). T
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