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With local implementation and support staff in key markets around the world, and its extensive base of Global 500 customers, DataCert is unique in its understanding of the challenges associated with managing a global legal department and is leading the market in the development, deployment, and support of global legal operations management solutions.

Other providers advocate global deployments of solutions that were designed and configured to meet US business needs. DataCert understands that this "one size fits all" approach doesn't work, often resulting in frustrated global users and inefficient parallel processing of paper invoices to comply with local regulatory requirements. In contrast, DataCert delivers solutions that are configured to meet the specific requirements and regulations of each region and are designed to handle the complex requirements of a global legal department, such as:

Flexible invoice submission options - DataCert enables 100% capture of global legal spend:

• Law firms and vendors can submit invoices in their native currencies and languages
• For vendors that cannot generate a LEDES file, DataCert offers alternative invoice submission methods that meet EU tax requirements

Advanced multi-currency support - With the AIMS Advanced Multi-Currency Module, users can easily toggle between currencies and use their preferred local currency to:

• Review and approve invoices
• View financial details
• Create and manage matter budgets
• Establish invoice approval authorities
• Analyze and report on legal spend

Localized automated guideline compliance - Global customers enjoy the efficiencies and cost savings associated with an automated audit and compliance engine, with the flexibility to uniquely configure business rules to accommodate regional differences in outside counsel guidelines, tax requirements, currency usage, and business practices.

Support for compliance with local regulatory requirements - DataCert understands that value added tax (VAT) compliance is much bigger than simply supporting an international LEDES format. With the Global Compliance Module, DataCert delivers a comprehensive solution for achieving compliance with local VAT requirements, including:

• Support for the LEDES 98BI format, which captures all information needed to comply with VAT requirements
• Support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system requirements, in accordance with EU and country-specific guidelines
• Use of digital signatures, as required in some European jurisdictions
• VAT archive support, including key reports that meet VAT audit guidelines
• Automated credit note processing
• Software escrow services in Europe

Advanced reporting for global business units and divisions - Insight, DataCert's advanced business intelligence solution, empowers global legal departments to conduct multi-dimensional analysis and reporting in local currencies, as well as easily aggregate multi-currency data for comprehensive reporting across the entire department. Localized display of field names and data and the ability to easily customize reports ensure that each global business unit can tailor its reporting to track, analyze, and effectively communicate its most critical key performance indicators.

Localized formatting - DataCert solutions support the localized display of currency, date/time, and character sets for Western languages, allowing users to view data in customary regional formats.

Global deployment options - To meet customers' unique needs and objectives with respect to compliance with local IT security policies, application support and maintenance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), DataCert solutions can be installed behind the customer's corporate firewall, anywhere in the world, or DataCert can host the application at a SAS 70 Type II-audited datacenter managed by Savvis, our Safe Harbor-certified hosting services provider. DataCert's hosted solution option offers clients end-to-end security and data privacy protection.

Premier worldwide support services - Flexible support options can be configured to align with each customer's regional business hours, ensuring global users always have help when they need it. In addition, each customer's international network of law firms, agents, and vendors is supported by DataCert's in-house law firm team, which manages all vendor onboarding activities and provides ongoing 24/7 technical support, freeing corporate customers from these responsibilities.

Whether embarking on a new project or extending the value of an existing legal operations management solution globally, DataCert's unparalleled depth of experience, keen understanding of global solution requirements, and premier worldwide support model make it the partner of choice for world-class global legal departments.