Canadian Financial Forensic Services Firm Bases Its e-Discovery Practice On Viewpoint™ All-in-One Solution

HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- E-Discovery software leader Lateral Data, LP today announced that Froese Forensic Partners Ltd. has selected Lateral Data's Viewpoint™ all-inclusive e-Discovery platform as the core application for its computer forensics and e-Discovery practice.  

Froese Forensic Partners (FFP), based in Toronto, Ontario, is one of Canada's largest independent financial investigative firms.  The company is dedicated exclusively to providing expert opinion, reports and testimony in matters such as forensic accounting and fraud investigations, financial damages, corporate investigations, business valuation, professional misconduct and auditor negligence, and personal injury damages.  Among its many areas of expertise, FFP is an acknowledged authority on fraud and has assisted many companies and law enforcement agencies in uncovering criminal evidence via its analysis of financial activity.

Since it became an independent company in 2009, FFP has sought a durable, defensible, accurate and cost-effective technology base for its e-Discovery division.  "We first became aware of Viewpoint at LegalTech New York last year," commented Kevin Lo, a Managing Director at Froese Forensic Partners.  "After spending time learning about the platform, we tried it out and became convinced it had the power to drive our entire e-Discovery practice."

Viewpoint, Lateral Data's flagship product, is a licensed solution that facilitates virtually all the major components of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) spectrum including collection and preservation of data, pre-processing, full processing, analysis, review and production.  The product was developed over a seven year period of real-world use by a legal services company, giving it significant advantages in both core and convenience features over products developed by software companies not in the legal profession.

Featuring a familiar Outlook-style interface, Viewpoint can execute tasks at speeds two to five times that of other leading platforms.  In a single package, it delivers all the E-discovery tasks a service provider needs, enabling the user to do more with a dramatically smaller technology investment.

"Viewpoint gives us the horsepower to compete effectively, without purchasing an entire collection of more limited applications," Lo said.  "It's designed at the right level for our firm."

"When a company of the caliber of Froese Forensic Partners selects Viewpoint, it truly affirms the reliability of our product," said Matt Berry, Founder and CEO of Lateral Data, LP.  "This is a firm that understands the complexity of data, and how important it is to have trusted applications to reveal its underlying insights.  We're happy that we can partner with Froese Forensic Partners to serve the Canadian market."

Viewpoint, now in Version 5.0, is currently available for licensing.  For more details or to schedule a demo, log on to www.lateraldata.com or call (713) 592-8585.

About Lateral Data:

Lateral Data, LP is a software development and data processing company headquartered in Houston, Texas.  Founded in 2003, the company has focused its software development and services efforts in the e-Discovery market; its flagship software application, Viewpoint™, covers the primary components of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, bringing end-to-end simplicity and affordability to service providers, corporate legal departments, law firms and OEMs.  Viewpoint is available stand-alone or for multi-tenant environments.  To learn more, visit www.lateraldata.com.

SOURCE Lateral Data, LP