IBM is expanding its role in e-discovery through deeper integration with subsidiary PSS Systems, which makes legal hold and risk-management products, and the issuance of new industry reports expected from the IBM-controlled Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council.
The expansion is good news for customers, especially those whose clients already use Big Blue’s databases and storage. It’s also part of a wider trend — mainstream IT companies seeing themselves as players in the burgeoning e-discovery market.
