Besides ranking 20 leaders in the e-discovery space, Gartner's Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software (MQ) report also evaluated the state of the industry. Gartner anticipates that the volume and diversity of data will be the next major hurdle for e-discovery providers.

Catalyst Repository Systems, which was named a “visionary” in this year's MQ report, has been anticipating an exponential increase in e-discovery data volume for some time now, said CEO John Tredennick in a recent interview with Legaltech News. Tredennick discussed the increase in data volumes as they relate to Catalyst software development and the e-discovery industry.

“We're proud to be recognized as visionaries, I think it really highlights the fact that from day one we've had a different approach. Different by design,” Tredennick said “We're different in that we did not choose to build our architecture on dtSearch and SQL. The reason we didn't was because it seemed to us even a decade ago that the volumes of content that would have to be managed in e-discovery were exploding.”