Google Does eDiscovery
April 4, 2012
The freethinking Google has decided to launch an eDiscovery app to help reduce the cost of finding and capturing data for litigation. CBR writes about the new app in, “Google Adds eDiscovery Option to Apps Platform.” Google’s new app dubbed Vault allows businesses to preserve and identify information for legal purposes. Once the data is saved in the Vault a “legal hold” is placed on it, meaning it cannot be modified. We learned:
Vault helps protect your business with easy-to-use search so you can quickly find and preserve data to respond to unexpected customer claims, lawsuits or investigations. With an instant-on functionality and availability of your data a few clicks away, Vault provides access to all of your Gmail and on-the-record chats and can provide significant savings to your business over the traditional costs of litigation and eDiscovery,” Jack Halprin, Google’s head of eDiscovery, added.
Vault uses the same architecture as other Google Business Apps and it can easily be added to clients’ accounts for another $5/month. Vault can also record IM messages and G-mail accounts, but it cannot capture any data outside the Google platform. It does prove that Google is dedicated to expanding their capabilities, especially their cloud-based software. Google has been lauded as the business model of the IT world with a jeans, sneakers, and T-shirt approach to business, but now Google is serving enterprise niches and it suggests a more disciplined approach to the enterprise market. Will a suit and tie be next?
Whitney Grace, April 4, 2012
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