? My first post in this community. Greetings all.
My very large, international company is evaluating eDiscovery Search&Collect tools. EnCase eDiscovery Suite is high on that list.
To date, it looks like our top choice…
However, some firms that use EnCase have told us they have serious network overloading, long collection times, and noticable impact to users when collecting from their PCs.
What is the experience and "Buzz" out there on this aspect of EnCase EE and/or eDiscovery Suite? Are there companies out there doing well using eDiscovery Suite to collect across their (large) network? Having problems?
It is really going to depend on the network and hosts. If you have WAN links on low bandwidth pipes and old hardware it is going to take a loooooooong time. You are going to face that with all products though.
Disclaimer I don't use EnCase.
Disclaimer I use Encase. I don't use Access Data.
I've used Encase Enterprise for nearly four years in a corporate environment, for ediscovery collection as well as forensics. I've not had a reported user level detection of servlet deployment or data collection yet using EE, but I've not been permitting to do whole disk imaging over the network, either. Most ediscovery under the recent FRE changes doesn't require whole disk imaging.
On several occasions, I've looked at Guidance Ediscovery. Unless you're handling large, complex discovery, you can accomplish the vast majority of what most of these forensic based Ediscovery tools can do simply by writing some advanced Enscripts. Not only that, but the scripting skills will be very usable in other forensic cases processed with Encase.
I understand Access Data is looking at an ediscovery offering. If I were getting in at ground zero, I'd look at that.
There's an important thing to remember about "ediscovery" tools. Some are extensions to forensics and are fully capable of network forensics, and some are middleware for counsel that organize, provide non-technical search capabilities, timelining and charting, discovery organization and so on far beyond the scope of "regular" forensics.
For corporate ediscovery solutions, it's critical to know/find out what your counsel are looking for, especially if you could wind up supporting it or administering it. You and counsel may be using "ediscovery" to mean two completely different types of tools…