Global eDiscovery Market Expected to Reach $25.2 Billion by 2031—Allied Market Research

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Global eDiscovery Market," The global ediscovery market size was valued at $10.9 billion in 2021, and is estimated to reach $25.2 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 8.9% from 2022 to 2031.

Electronic discovery (often referred to as e-discovery or eDiscovery) is the discovering of material in digital form during legal procedures such as litigation, government investigations, or information rights requests as electronically stored information (ESI). Electronic discovery is governed by civil procedure standards and agreed-upon methods, which frequently include a review for privilege and significance before data is given over to the seeking side of a lawsuit.

Increasingly stringent monitoring, cross-border privacy legislation, and sophisticated benchmark datasets have contributed to the expansion of the scope and size of eDiscovery techniques. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed eDiscovery practices, to become cost effective as it helps companies reduce their overall operating expenses. Modern eDiscovery software market has evolved into a critical tool for the company's operations.

Significant factors that impact the growth of the global eDiscovery industry include increase in protection of Metadata, rise in adoption of digitalization, and dependency on artificial intelligence (AI). However, high initial cost of installation and maintenance hampers the growth of the market. On the contrary, surge in market penetration in various end-use verticals is expected to offer potential growth opportunity for the eDiscovery market during the forecast period.

According to eDiscovery market research, the solutions segment was the highest revenue contributor to the market, is expected to remain dominate during the forecast period. Rise in adoption of cellphone-based data analytics technology have led to increase growth of services segment.

IT and telecom operational units are huge private and commercial data servers. These data centres have vital information from various individual, commercial, and government sectors, which with the help of eDiscovery is transformed into legitimate evidence during the course of legal actions. Therefore, IT & telecommunication data storage & operation units demand enhanced eDiscovery solution that provide elevated digital forensics, AI data analytics review, legal advisory solutions and spend management solutions. eDiscovery services supervise in constructive effective clauses and laws for maintenances of resources, enhancing digital data security, reducing hardware and manual data collection costs. Therefore, eDiscovery service market aids the operational efficiency for various end-users.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 has significantly impacted the eDiscovery solution market growth. Rise in demand for digital evidence across various sectors has significantly propelled the growth of the eDiscovery service market during the pandemic. However, the emergence of third wave of COVID-19 across the U.S. and UK is anticipated to affect the growth of eDiscovery market in 2022. Moreover, the BFSI sector globally started to deploy eDiscovery solution, and thus is expected to drive the eDiscovery market growth post pandemic.

eDiscovery solutions help to automate and enhance the electronic discovery process. This process includes various eDiscovery solution such as forensics & collections, processing & hosting, data analytics, document review, contract solutions, business advisory solutions, spend management solutions and others. These solutions help attorneys the extract the valuable data, concerned to lawsuit and eliminate the manual process. Therefore, eDiscovery solutions assist the legal analysis to speed up the procedure well as lessen the jeopardies in the process of valuable data extraction concerned to the legal proceedings. Therefore, aforementioned factor have led to increasing adoption of eDiscovery solution market during the forecast period.

Region-wise, North America holds a significant share in the global eDiscovery industry, owing to the presence of prime players in this region. The adoption of forensics & collections and data analysis is expected to propel the growth of the eDiscovery industry in this region. Moreover, surge in awareness of investigation, litigation & legal operations and freedom of the information act (FOIA) eDiscovery use case request in North America are anticipated to drive the eDiscovery market trends in this region.

KEY FINDINGS OF THE STUDY

• On the basis of offering, the solutions segment was the highest revenue contributor to the market, and is estimated grow with impressive CAGR.
• Investigation and litigation & legal operation use case are widely being applied in various government and corporate legal proceedings.
• On the basis of region, North America is expected to prevail its dominance during the forecast period.
• The report provides a quantitative analysis on the global competitive landscape.

The key players profiled in the report include CloudNine, CS DISCO Inc., Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu Limited, International Business Machines Corporation, KLDiscovery Limited, Lighthouse eDiscovery Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Nuix Limited, Onna Technologies Inc. and ZyLAB Technologies. Market players have adopted various strategies, such as product launch, collaboration & partnership, joint venture, and acquisition, to expand their foothold in the eDiscovery market.