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About DataCert
DataCert was founded in 1998 with the goal of moving and standardizing electronic invoices over the Internet as well as creating solutions to streamline the legal invoice review process and analyze legal costs. Today, DataCert is the premier global provider of legal operations management solutions, including matter management and legal and intellectual property spend management software and services. In addition, DataCert offers Stack, an expert witness service, which is designed to uncover and control the hidden costs of expert witnesses. Many of the most demanding and complex corporate legal departments in the world trust DataCert solutions to manage, analyze, and optimize legal operations.

Customers
DataCert has a proven history of implementing and supporting complex legal and intellectual property spend and matter management solutions in every major industry sector. Of the over 140 corporations that have implemented DataCert's solutions, 10 are in the Fortune 20 and 5 are Fortune Global 10 companies. Additionally, DataCert serves law firms, IP agents and vendors in over 150 countries worldwide. Here's a sample list of our corporate customers:
AOL
Aon
AGL
American Airlines
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
BJ Services
Chrysler Financial
ConocoPhillips
Entergy
Hewlett-Packard
Honeywell
Johnson & Johnson
Lear
Los Angeles Unified School District
Merck
Microsoft
Norfolk Southern
RJ Reynolds
Schering-Plough
Southern California Edison
SunTrust Bank
Texas Instruments
The Home Depot
Thomas Miller & Co.
UPS
Union Pacific
Visteon

Key Partners & Alliances
Aderant, Duff & Phelps, Huron Consulting Group, Microsoft, Savvis, Thomson Elite

Executive Officers
James Tallman, President and Chief Executive Officer
J. Alan Harding, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Chris Fields, Chief Technology Officer
D. Mark Poag, General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Marketing
Kevin O'Connell, Senior Vice President, Law Firm Operations and Business Development
Don Schad, Senior Vice President, Customer Operations

Board of Directors
James Calaway (Chairman), President and CEO, Calaway Interests, LLC
Jim Witherington (Vice Chairman), Managing Partner, SSM Partners
Robert Egan, CFO of Hollywood Marine, Inc. (Retired)
J. Alan Harding, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, DataCert
Gene Landoe, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services (Retired)
James Tallman, President and Chief Executive Officer, DataCert
Hugh van Cutsem (Board Advisor), Chairman, Ecospray Ltd.

Key Milestones
Apr. 1998 Company founded as Occam's Razor Technologies
May 1999 Secured first customers - UPS, Chase Manhattan and Honda
Feb. 2000 Changed name to DataCert.com
Aug. 2001 Acquired DigiContract, adding online document collaboration
Oct. 2003 Created first customer advisory board and held inaugural meeting in San Francisco
Oct. 2004 Named one of America's fastest-growing private companies by Inc. magazine with a ranking of #194
Apr. 2005 Opened European office in London
Oct. 2005 Ranked #115 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 with a five-year revenue growth of 1,900%
Dec. 2005 Processed $6 billion in legal electronic invoices
Mar. 2006 Selected as a top-10 technology business user by Dell and the National Federation of Independent Business
May 2006 Introduced www.datacerteurope.com in French, German and localized English
Jun. 2006 Entered intellectual property market with launch of AIMS IP
Oct. 2006 Earned fourth consecutive listing on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 with revenue growth of 902% from 2001 to 2005
Dec. 2006 Welcomed six new corporate clients, including 3 Fortune® Global 500 corporations
Mar. 2007 Opened additional European offices in Paris and Frankfurt
May 2007 Added matter management capabilities to e-invoicing and legal spend management solutions with the acquisition of Corprasoft
Aug. 2007 Landed on Entrepreneur Magazine's Hot 500
Nov. 2007 Named leading e-billing provider for AmLaw 200 by Law Firm Inc.'s 12th AmLaw Tech Survey
Apr. 2008 Released CLD 10, an integrated solution for e-invoicing, matter management and legal spend management
Jul. 2008 Selected by DHL to lower legal services spend
Aug. 2008 Appointed James Tallman president and chief executive officer
Dec. 2008 Released DataCert Insight, a powerful business intelligence solution designed for corporate legal departments
Jan. 2009 Achieved ten consecutive years of revenue growth, with revenue up 31% in 2008
Sep. 2009 Delivers market-leading globalization features, including the only comprehensive VAT solution, digital signatures support, Global Compliance Module, and Advanced Multi-Currency Module
Oct. 2009 Expanded European presence, opening new office in Zurich
Nov. 2009 Launched Stack expert witness service
Dec. 2009 Achieved 60% revenue growth in EMEA over 2008
Jan. 2010 Achieved 11 consecutive years of revenue growth, with revenue up over 20% and acquired a software development and professional services center from Symcon Global Technologies; opened new office in Chennai
Apr. 2010 Opened new office in Toronto, solidifying DataCert's Canadian presence

Contact Information
North America Headquarters:
3040 Post Oak Blvd., Suite 1900
Houston, Texas 77056
Phone: (713) 572-DATA (3282)
Fax: (713) 572-3286
information@datacert.com
EMEA Headquarters:
90 Long Acre
Covent Garden
London, WC2E 9RZ UK
Phone: +44 207 849 3033
Fax: +44 207 849 3200
emeainformation@datacert.com


 

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