Electronic discovery (e-discovery) refers to the initial stage in civil litigation and regulatory inquiries. The e-discovery process includes tasks to identify, preserve, process, produce, and present potentially relevant data. E-discovery solutions help the legal team manage legal and compliance obligations required during the e-discovery phase.

When data relevant to e-discovery is in the Data Vault, a legal team might depend on a technical team to search and preserve data through the Data Archive interface. This dependency might lead to delays between the request and response or to incomplete responses. To reduce the risk of e-discovery fines due to late or incomplete responses, enable a legal team to directly search and preserve data in Data Vault through a single, central application, the e-discovery solution.

To integrate Data Archive with an e-discovery solution, you must have both applications installed and configured to communicate with each other.