George J. Socha, Jr., Esq.


2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey

Top Electronic Discovery Services Providers - By Corporate Rankings, Law Firm Ranking & Software Usage

The overview results of the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report are available here in summary form. The full report - 360 pages long - is available for purchase.

The public report was in the August issue of Law Technology News and is on LTN's website at Law Technology News.

Survey rankings can be searched at http://www.sochaconsulting.com/topproviders.php

The Warning

Once again, we offer lists of leading EDD services and software providers. We stress, however, that anyone who makes buying decisions primarily on these rankings is a fool.

As with any top-X list, it is important to keep these lists in context and use them only as appropriate. You should not choose a provider based solely on these lists, or solely on the basis of any other top-X list. The factors we examined may not apply to your circumstances, and mostly likely will not apply with the specific weightings and ratings we used. In addition, you will have needs and considerations we could not have taken into account.

It also is important to note that our evaluation model relies heavily on information provided through interviews or questionnaires (spreadsheets). We recognize that there are other vendors with the qualifications to rank within the top X, however the data on them was not available to us. Some providers, including prominent ones, did not provide any data and others, including prominent ones, provided only limited information.

The Rankings

We are disclosing software provider rankings by top-level category for three of the sets of criteria we used - corporate rankings, law firm rankings and software usage:

1-5 = 1-5   = 6-10   = 11-15   = Listing at Socha Consulting vendor page

Provider Corporate Rankings Law Firm Rankings Software Usage Listing
AccessData Corporation 6-10 11-15 1-5
Attenex Corporation 1-5 6-10 6-10
Autonomy ZANTAZ 6-10 1-5 6-10
AXS-One Inc. 6-10
Clearwell Systems 1-5 6-10 6-10
CT Summation, Inc. 11-15 6-10 1-5
eMag Solutions 6-10
Epiq Systems, Inc. 11-15 6-10 11-15
Equivio 11-15 6-10
Exterro, Inc. 11-15
FTI Consulting 11-15 1-5 6-10
Guidance Software, Inc. 1-5 1-5 1-5
iCONECT Development, LLC 11-15 1-5
Kazeon Systems, Inc. 6-10
Kroll Ontrack 1-5 1-5 11-15
LexisNexis 1-5 1-5 1-5
PSS Systems 11-15 11-15
Recommind 11-15
StoredIQ Corporation 11-15
Symantec Corporation 6-10 11-15
Wave Software 11-15