As helpful as e-discovery can be at eliminating the paper processes of old, there remains many opportunities for the process to become more efficient. Ipro Tech believes the answer falls with automation, and the company has released what it calls the world's first fully automated and integrated e-discovery solution to prove it.

Ipro's Automated Digital Discovery (ADD) platform automates key data management and production steps, which the company says can help avoid common time delays, errors, and budget overruns. The goal of the platform is to dramatically reduce errors that occur through human input in the process, only requiring people to configure workflow and settings, and add more data when needed.

“Current systems are still employing the Inefficient old way of batch processing with all the starts and starts that force data into one system and then require users to wait for it to copy before you can even have users start look at what they have,” said Kim Taylor, the president and COO of Ipro Tech, to Legaltech News. “Not only is the current process incredibly inefficient, it is very costly both in terms of money but also potential risk. These stops/starts introduce multiple points for human errors, from procedures and steps not being done according to policy or just plain old mistakes. Data that shouldn't be processed gets moved down the line.”