Enterprise Search is Dead. A New Approach is Here.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, employee productivity hinges on robust enterprise search capabilities that allow quick and easy retrieval of an organization’s documents, emails, and other unstructured data. Despite the …

X1 In-Place Data Discovery

X1 Achieves Unmatched Throughput and Results in Several Recent M365 eDiscovery and Information Governance Engagements 

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier  As discussed previously on this blog, X1 and our active enterprise customers believe X1 Enterprise Collect is the best solution available to address M365 …

Disruptive Data

Microsoft 365 eDiscovery Throttling is Structural and Won’t Be Going Away

By Chas Meier Users of Microsoft 365 for eDiscovery and Information Governance continue to encounter significant problems with low throughput and defensibility. Many customers report to us that Purview eDiscovery …

Information Governance

Index and Search In-Place Workflows Are Essential for Information Governance

By John Patzakis and Charles Meier Accurate pre-collection data insight is a game-changing capability that enables organizations and their legal teams to determine the scope, volume, and content of electronic …

Beware of False Vendor Claims

Index-In-Place eDiscovery Tech is in High Demand, but Beware of False Vendor Claims

Proportionality-based eDiscovery is a goal that all in-house corporate legal teams want to attain. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1), parties may discover any non-privileged material that is relevant …

Modern Attachments

Microsoft 365 Modern Attachments Pose Significant eDiscovery Challenges and Risk

In their excellent publication, 2023 eDiscovery Case Law in Review, Winston and Strawn, LLP, one of the top law firms in the US, highlights the challenges legal and eDiscovery professionals …

Defensible, Targeted Collection with X1

Modern, Targeted ESI Collection Can Cut eDiscovery Costs by Over 90 Percent

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier eDiscovery can be an expensive and time-consuming process when traditional data collection methods are employed. With legacy processes, it can take weeks for electronically …

Massive Data Centralization for MS 365 Does Not Work for Enterprise eDiscovery and Information Governance Workflows

By John Patzakis and Charles Meier CIOs and legal and compliance executives often aspire to implement information governance programs like defensible deletion, data migration, and data audits to detect risks …

X1 Enterprise Collect Platform Unique Solution Capabilities

X1 Expands Cutting Edge MS 365 Support With Very High and Unmatched Throughput Capabilities

Earlier this year, X1 launched MS 365 data connectors to our X1 Enterprise Collect platform to provide a previously unmet critical need for enterprises to conduct cost-efficient yet highly scalable eDiscovery search …

Special Master Report

Special Master Determines Microsoft Purview Does Not Comply With FRCP 26(g) Due to Unreliable and Incomplete Search Results

Recently, Special Master Phillip Favro appointed by a federal district court in a pending case Deal Genius, LLC vs. O2Cool, LLC, 21 C20156, (N.D. IL) issued a published report with …

X1 Enterprise Collect - Enterprise Manager

Court Decision in Lubrizol vs. IBM Provides Important Guidance on MS Teams Discovery

Recently, a federal district court in Ohio issued a ruling concerning an eDiscovery dispute involving both Teams and Slack, Lubrizol Corp. v. IBM Corp., No. 1:21-CV-00870-DAR (N.D. Ohio May 15, 2023). …

X1 Enterprise Collect Platform and Relativity

eDiscovery Journal Highlights X1’s Game Changing Support of MS 365

Greg Buckles of the eDJ, arguably the top independent eDiscovery industry analyst, penned an important article outlining X1’s support for MS 365 data sources within the X1 Enterprise Collect platform …

X1 Enterprise Collect Now Supports MS Teams

X1 Delivers Cutting-Edge MS Teams Support

The prominence of Microsoft 365 data sources continue to grow in eDiscovery matters exponentially. However, most non-MS eDiscovery tools collect from MS 365 by simply making bulk copies of data …

X1 Introduces Cutting-Edge Instagram Support with X1 Social Discovery Version 7

Since I joined the X1 team last year as CEO, I have made it my priority to double down on our support and expansion of our X1 Social Discovery solution. …

Three Major Observations and Developments from the Legalweek Conference

By Larry Gill and John Patzakis Last week X1 attended and exhibited at Legalweek in New York, engaging with many customers, partners, and industry colleagues. It was great to connect …

A Tectonic Shift is Occuring in eDiscovery

Guest Blog Post by Insight Optix Original post date by IO: February 23, 2023 Editor’s note: Today we are featuring a guest blog post from legal technology company Insight Optix …

A.I. and eDiscovery

A.I. Bot ChatGPT Explains How Corporate Legal Can Streamline eDiscovery Processes

Over the weekend I was about to write a blog post on how corporate legal departments can streamline and improve their internal eDiscovery processes. I instead asked ChatGPT to write …