AccessData Group, LLC to Offer Broadest eDiscovery Solutions in the Market
LINDON, Utah and NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ – AccessData Corporation and CT Summation today announce they've signed an agreement to join forces and merge into a single company, AccessData Group, LLC. The new company will deliver an end-to-end eDiscovery software solution capable of addressing all phases of the litigation workflow.
As the leader in in-house eDiscovery collection, processing and analysis, AccessData brings to the merger an unsurpassed technology portfolio, designed to enable the world's largest companies to take control of eDiscovery and dramatically reduce costs. Its AccessData eDiscovery software is currently the most comprehensive eDiscovery solution on the market, enabling organizations to address litigation hold, automated collection, processing, and analysis prior to attorney review.
CT Summation, the premier provider of litigation workflow and eDiscovery solutions to law firms and corporate legal departments, brings to the deal a comprehensive suite of software products that are the gold standard throughout the legal community. CT Summation's iBlaze, Enterprise, WebBlaze, CaseVault, CaseVantage and Discovery Cracker products have received more than 45 legal industry technology and "Reader's Choice" awards since 1997. CT Summation is part of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services, which operates under the CT brand. Wolters Kluwer will remain as a strategic investor in the new AccessData Group, LLC, with a minority stake in the company.
By combining these complementary workflow solutions, AccessData will be able to deliver the first, true end-to-end eDiscovery software solution for corporations and law firms that supports the litigation process from litigation hold through trial.
"This is honestly the most exciting thing we have ever done here at AccessData, and I believe it will outright revolutionize the eDiscovery industry by streamlining customer's workflows and introducing substantial cost and time savings, reducing the expense of litigation," said Tim Leehealey CEO of AccessData. "Bringing together the legal and IT communities engaged in the eDiscovery process has long been a focus at AccessData, and this merger brings us dramatically closer to achieving that."
The reach of the new AccessData Group will be unparalleled, encompassing the broadest set of solutions in the eDiscovery marketplace and will enable faster, more cost effective methods of gathering and reviewing electronically stored information. The new capabilities and seamless end-to-end workflow delivered by AccessData Group stands to not only dramatically enhance the user experience, but also to facilitate faster, more productive and more accurate communication between IT departments, corporate legal departments and law firms.
"The combination of these two market leaders will create a powerful end-to-end eDiscovery solution for litigation professionals," said Richard Flynn, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services. "CT Summation has a long history of innovation and market leadership. We see this merger with AccessData as a unique opportunity to better serve our corporate and law firm customers with a robust product offering that will support them throughout the litigation cycle."
CT Summation's customers will benefit from the combination of the two companies in the near term, as they will soon have access to the integrated processing, powerful analysis tools, and early case assessment capabilities inherent in AccessData eDiscovery.
Will hurt the investigator side of things.
Most of us who have been around enough dealing with firms know that they use Summation a lot and now they could easily think to get a few FTK's in house and handle issues internally.
While I know that there will still need to be a degree of separation on working an entire case, I think they will (and do) now hire out for CF people to make images and then turn the images over to them so they can do in house work.
BTW, notice this statement in the release.
"IT departments, corporate legal departments and law firms"
Notice how they never talk about the CF people who got them where they are today, those ppl who have lots of their licenses and took all their classes and pay their maintenance fees each year.
Their CS has gone downhill the past few years, as was stated in a different thread, you rarely get the same answer from two different people.
Gone are the days of calling CS and getting that one person we all loved and having her know the issue and getting it fixed for you.
We need to support companies like Paraben, Tech Path, etc. and hope that Guidance and AD don't merge.