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•Contributing Editorial: No Tears Shed Over Socha-Gelbmann's Recent Decision To Kill Rankings In Its Annual Survery

By Jerome Wendt, DCIG LLC

The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery survey will continue but its rankings are gone. The announcement that was recently posted on Socha Consulting's blog that it is killing its ranking that made up a component of its annual survey since its inception caused a small stir among the vendors covered in the report. However apparently very few vendors shed any tears over Socha-Gelbmann's decision to drop these rankings from its annual report, even among those it benefited.

Vendors do not dispute that a need for such rankings by a third party analyst firm exists. Yet how the Socha-Gelbmann survey arrived at the numbers in its rankings and the conclusions it drew from them were coming under increasing criticism by the vendors and end-users it was supposed to serve. Even vendors like Kazeon Systems, which for the most part received favorable ratings, felt that a change was in order.

The crux of the criticism about the rankings in the Socha-Gelbmann report stems from two principle areas. The first is the types of the companies covered in this report. The rankings included data from over 150 organizations. Of these, 107 of these organizations were third party service providers and another 29 were law firms. It was the minority of end-user corporations covered in the report (only 19) that was causing some heartburn among vendors.

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•Contributing Editorial: No Tears Shed Over Socha-Gelbmann's Recent Decision To Kill Rankings In Its Annual Survery