eDiscovery Outsourcing  is subcontracting process  or manufacturing to a third- party company where in electronic data is located, secured, searched, and sought.  Electronic discovery firm Discover-e Legal, for example, offers software for law firms to do their own work, or will tackle off site projects as an outsource r and deliver the results electronically from a secure facility based . Then there are options, like Em Power Research, that use workers in countries such as India, where a large, educated and relatively inexpensive pool of English-speakers can work into the United States

Outsourced eDiscovery consulting services typically over-collect when conducting eDiscovery by taking full hard drive acquisitions and processing all of the resulting data.  eDiscovery's court validated, targeted search capabilities eliminate the need for full hard drive acquisitions, reducing the organization's Pay-Per-Use costs and enabling clients to realize substantial cost savings in their eDiscovery expenditures.

eDiscovery is a solution that operates from a central location to automatically perform search, collection, preservation and processing of electronically stored information from unstructured and semi-structured data stores, such as: workstations, laptops, servers, removable storage devices, archiving and content management solutions, with no business disruption to end-users.