AccessData Opens Office in Sydney, Australia

Dec. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- LINDON, UTAH— AccessData, the pioneers of digital investigations and litigation support, announced the opening of a Sydney, Australia office to meet the needs of a growing community of eDiscovery, computer forensics and incident response clients in that region.

AccessData's award-winning flagship product Forensic Toolkit (FTK) has been the product of choice among computer forensics investigators in Australia for several years. The company also provides advanced incident response and e-discovery technology to support government agencies and corporations throughout the country. With the growing demand for the company’s e-discovery technology, which was built on FTK, the company realized the need for an Australian office to better serve its clients.

“The e-discovery climate is very different in Australia than it is in the U.S., due to the Federal Court making standards with very specific requirements. We look forward to working closely with our clients to ensure they are complying with these requirements,” stated Brian Karney, President and COO of AccessData Group.

The latest version of its e-discovery software solution, AccessData eDiscovery 3.3, incorporates support for data formats specified by the Federal Court Practice Note CM 6, as well as the load file format used by the Ringtail legal document review and production platform. However, even though AccessData places great importance on ensuring its solutions accommodate customers’ existing technologies, such as Ringtail, AccessData is looking to broaden the Australian user base of it newly acquired review technology, Summation.

“Our recent merger with CT Summation really bridges the gap between two best-of-breed technologies AD eDiscovery and Summation,” stated Brian Karney, President and COO of Access Data. “By opening an office in Australia, it allows us to work more closely with Australia’s litigation support professionals, providing easy-to-use software solutions that will literally walk them through the entire e-discovery lifecycle.”

The company’s e-discovery technology address the e-discovery lifecycle from legal hold to attorney review and case data management, which is performed using tools such as Ringtail or AccessData’s own Summation platform. The Summation legal review platform is currently the world's leading legal review and case management technology.

About AccessData
AccessData Group has pioneered computer forensics and litigation support for more than twenty years. Over that time, the company has grown to provide a broad spectrum of stand-alone and enterprise-class solutions that enable digital investigations of any kind, including computer forensics, incident response, eDiscovery, legal review, IP theft, compliance auditing and cyber security. Its AD eDiscovery product, which is built on the industry-leading Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) technology, is an automated, in-house solution that addresses the left half of the EDRM model. It enables litigation hold, identification, collection and preservation, processing and de-duplication, ECA and first-pass review and then generates a load file for common third-party review tools. AccessData's award-winning AD Summation legal review technology, addresses the right half of the EDRM model and is the gold standard throughout the legal community, having received more than 45 legal industry technology and “Reader’s Choice” awards since 1997. More than 100,000 clients rely AccessData. From desktop and server applications, to hosted solutions, AccessData combines its innovative technology with market-leading expertise to provide the decisive advantage for law firms and legal departments, large or small. In the E-DISCOVERY AND E-DISCLOSURE survey conducted by The 451 Group, AccessData was cited more than any other eDiscovery vendor by respondents planning to purchase eDiscovery software in the next 12 months.

For more information on AccessData Group's eDiscovery solutions, please visit www.eDiscoveryWithAccessData.com.

Contact:
Erika Lee, AccessData
(323) 304-2261
elee@accessdata.com

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AccessData Group has pioneered computer forensics and litigation support for over twenty years. Over that time, the company has grown to provide a broad spectrum of stand-alone and enterprise-class services that enable digital investigations of any kind.