Datacert

Datacert
Datacert
Type Private
Industry Computer Software
Predecessor DataCert
Founded 1998
Headquarters Houston, Texas, United States
Area served Worldwide
Key people James Tallman
(President & CEO)[1]
Products

Passport, Advanced Invoice Management System , Corporate Legal Desktop

[2]
Employees 227 (2011)
Website Datacert.com

Datacert is a computer software company that provides of enterprise legal management software and services designed for law departments.

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History

1998 – Datacert was founded in Houston, Texas by Eric Elfman. The company’s original product was an online document exchange where send law firms would submit submit bills to corporate legal departments electronically.

2001 – Datacert acquired DigiContract, adding online document collaboration to its service offering portfolio. [3]

2004 – Datacert was named one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, placing #194 on the Inc. 500 list. [4]

2005 – Datacert Europe Ltd. opened its headquarters in London.

2007 – Additional European offices were opened in Paris and Frankfurt. The company acquired Corprasoft [5] , a matter management company

2008 – James Tallman was appointed President & CEO [6]

2009 – Datacert Europe expanded its presence with a new office in Basel, Switzerland.

2010 – Datacert opened offices in Toronto and acquired a software development and professional services center from Symcon Global Technologies, resulting in an additional office in Chennai, India. Datacert also launched its patent-pending technology platform, PassportTM [7] .

2011 – Passport experiences industry adoption securing, among others, Fortune/Global Fortune #1, Walmart, as a platform client [8]

Products

Passport

Passport, Datacert’s award- winning flagship product, is a patent-pending technology platform that enables corporate legal departments to consolidate all systems that support the legal function on a single, secure, collaborative framework. Included in this legal “ecosystem” are Datacert systems built on Passport (e.g., Passport Legal Spend Management and Passport Legal Matter Management), systems a company already has for things like eDiscovery, document management, and accounts payable, and new applications the company or third parties develop on Passport.

  • Core Components

Passport core components represent the infrastructure that is common across all legal systems, such as a database, workflow, a rules engine, business intelligence, security, search, etc. These components can be leveraged by all applications built onto or integrated with the Passport platform, supporting system interoperability and data sharing and making administration and support more efficient.

  • Toolkits

Passport includes a suite of toolkits that allow clients and third parties to administer, configure, test, and integrate the Datacert solution.

  • Collaboration Portal

This patent-pending feature enables in-house and outside counsel to securely collaborate on invoices, matter updates, budgets, timekeeper rates, accruals, or custom forms of collaboration.

Awards

Datacert launched Passport in late September 2010. Less than a year later, the platform was honored with the "People's Choice" Stevie® Award at the 2011 American Business Awards in the category of Favorite New Server Software Product.[9] Datacert’s has experienced annual revenue growth since its inception in 1998. This consistent financial performance has garnered the company multiple accolades, including consecutive rankings on the Inc. 5000 (Inc. (magazine)), Software 500 (Software Magazine),[10] Houston Fast 100 (Houston Business Journal),[11] and Houston Fast Tech 50 (Houston Business Journal)[12] awards lists. In conjunction with the 2010 Fast Tech 50, the Houston Business Journal also awarded Datacert the “Pinnacle Award” for placing on the list of Houston’s fastest growing technology companies for seven consecutive years, a designation only three other companies have ever received.

In 2010, Datacert received the “Technology Implementation of the Year” award from the International Legal Technology Association for the successful international implementation of AIMS (Advanced Invoice Management System) for a Fortune Global 50 healthcare company based in Switzerland. The company was also recognized in 2010 as a “Market Innovator” in an independent legal industry research report, which was published by Hyperion Research and entitled, "MarketViewTM Report: e-Billing and Matter Management Systems for Corporations[13]" Hyperion Research, the only provider of market research and advisory services focused exclusively on legal technology and operations, also designated Datacert as the market leader in Europe in this report.

Offices

Datacert is headquartered in Houston, Texas and operates corporate offices throughout North America, EMEA, and APAC. The company’s EMEA headquarters are in London with three more European offices in Basel, Paris, and Frankfurt. Datacert’s APAC office is located in Chennai, India [14]

References

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  2. ^ "Datacert Products". Datacert. September 5, 2011. http://www.datacert.com/Products/Passport_Overview.asp. 
  3. ^ "DigiContacts Company Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=1067623. 
  4. ^ "Datacert Inc. Company Profile". Inc.. http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/datacert. 
  5. ^ "Corprasoft". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=8100794. 
  6. ^ "James Tallman". SMARTBUSINESS. http://www.sbnonline.com/2011/03/asserting-growth-in-a-downturn/. 
  7. ^ "Datacert Products". Datacert. September 5, 2011. http://www.datacert.com/Products/Passport_Overview.asp. 
  8. ^ "Think twice before suing Walmart". Retailing Today. January 6, 2011. http://www.retailingtoday.com/article/think-twice-suing-walmart.. 
  9. ^ "2011 Stevie Awards". Stevie Awards. Jun 27, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLudqTa1im8. 
  10. ^ "27th Software Rankings". Software Magazine. September 1, 2009. http://online.qmags.com/SWM0909/Default.aspx. 
  11. ^ "Fascinating facts put Houston’s Fast 100 in focus". Houston Business Journal. October 3, 2010. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/10/04/editorial1.html. 
  12. ^ "HBJ names Fast Tech 50 winners". Houston Business Journal. November 5, 2010. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2010/11/05/hbj-names-fast-tech-50-winners.html. 
  13. ^ "E-Billing and Matter Management Systems for Corporations". Hyperion Research. http://www.hgpresearch.com/ebil/ebil_mv_summaryreport. 
  14. ^ "Datacert About Us". Datacert. http://www.datacert.com/AboutUs/Contact.asp.. 

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