Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft SharePoint

Chapter 9. eDiscovery

For most organizations, electronic discovery (eDiscovery) goes hand in hand with records management. In SharePoint, the two are used together to enable the gathering of content associated with a specific matter. A matter is a topic of interest related to compliance, legal, or audit activities.

The reason organizations initiate eDiscovery is to compile content that meets a specific criterion that can be associated with a matter for analysis. A wide scale audit or litigation can become very expensive. It all comes down to the ability to find the information that is required to support eDiscovery. Using SharePoint is a way to reduce the risk and costs associated with retrieving and culling content.

In this chapter, we will first ...