Extract from Petra Pasternak’s article “Novel Data Types Slowing You Down? There’s a Tool for Grabbing Them Fast”
Five years ago, Slack and Zoom were practically obscure. Just 8% of U.S. knowledge workers used Slack in 2018 and only 9% used Zoom. Since then, the two online collaboration tools have rocketed to the top of the charts. According to Okta’s 2023 annual report, Slack is now deployed by 36% of its customers and Zoom is used by 48%.
The numbers – driven by the pandemic – create new headaches for in-house legal professionals. Every new video conference recording and Slack message adds to the vast quantities of electronically stored information that can hide crucial evidence for a company investigation or litigation. Much of this data is hard to extract and harder to mine for insights.
It’s not just Zoom and Slack. Large companies now reportedly use more than 200 apps on average. What legal professionals need are tools that can capture novel data types directly from their cloud sources in a unified platform for easy review.
To help legal teams scale their work no matter the apps of choice in their organization, Everlaw recently launched connectors for Zendesk, Asana, and Jira to its existing series of cloud connectors that include M365, Google Drive, Box, Zoom, Slack, and more.
Today’s legal professionals have more options for tackling the data deluge. There’s the old way – slow, tedious, and costly – and the new way – fast, efficient, and far less nerve wracking.
