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What’s Happening with Summation?FAQsWHY?Why did AccessData choose Summation over competing products, such as Concordance or CaseLogistix?Actually that is a fairly difficult question to answer, because it involves countless discussions all covered by NDAagreements. All we can really say is that there were only a few viable options with comparable technology and nonewith comparable brands or presences. So we feel very fortunate to be able to include Summation in our portfolio ofproducts.INTEGRATION -- MAKING FTK THE UNDERLYING FOUNDATION OF SUMMATION SOLUTIONS:Will Enterprise be integrated with FTK or only iBlaze and CaseVantage?We are a mid-sized law firm, representing employers. We have had Summation for 10 years, and we havehad troubles using the client in the last 2 years, and support has been unable to work out the bugs. Will thenew FTK replace Summation's guts/GUI?FTK technology will become the core engine of all Summation products including iBlaze and CaseVantage, but theworkflows and product interfaces of these products will remain familiar to Summation users and simply be enhanced.These changes are being introduced to increase speed, functionality and efficiency in our litigation support software,but also to increase stability.Does this mean that there will be no distinction between the Summation and Summation Enterpriseproducts?I am an Enterprise user -- you keep saying iBlaze -- do you view them as the same thing?We are eliminating the gap between iBlaze functionality and Enterprise functionality. iBlaze and Enterprise will beknown simply as Summation. The only difference between the two products is that Enterprise will be licensed tohandle greater data volumes. So technically speaking, there will be no difference between the two products, butpractically, they will be licensed differently.Are you saying that iBlaze will scale better?Yes much better.When you mention the "guts" of FTK that iBlaze will be integrated with FTK are you referring to a SQL orOracle backend or something else?Will the core DB of these products be SQL?Will Summation Enterprise be moving away from the SQL backend? If so, what backend will the new iBlazeproduct be using? Is AD planning to eliminate the Saturn DB engine of iBlaze and develop this into SQL,possibly SQL Express?What will be involved in migrating our Enterprise databases into the new platform?The core products will ship with PostgreSQL. However, it will also support MS SQL and Oracle. Therefore, amigration path is part of our core development to ensure seamless migration from the older version of the databaseto the new and enhanced version. Migration tools will be made available to enable this migration tools that aremuch better than what have been provided in the past.

Will Enterprise and iBlaze remain as a “thick client” or is there a focus on converting these applications to aweb interface?Will the Summation software still be usable without Web interface, using the database on the law firm'sserver [depositions and documents stored on firm’s network rather than web database]?iBlaze and Enterprise will have the same functionality, and be known simply as “Summation”. The iBlaze\Enterpriseproducts and CaseVantage web-based platform will work seamlessly together. Customers can choose a single-userlicense (iBlaze) or Enterprise licenses to allow multiple concurrent users on the network. Summation users can addCaseVantage licenses to their review infrastructure to enable web-based collaborative analysis as needed.Summation users can choose to work in a web-enabled environment or offline as they see fit.What about Web-Blaze is that gone? Is CaseVantage replacing WebBlaze?The future of WebBlaze is somewhat uncertain at this point. We are looking into whether it is best to leave WebBlazeits own stand-alone platform or upgrade users to CaseVantage, making CaseVantage our standard web-basedplatform.What is the timeline for getting all the features of iBlaze into Summation Enterprise?When we will see a demo of all of the integrated products – Summation Enterprise, iBlaze and web?We are planning to release the integration in the middle of 2011, and demonstration videos of the product line will beavailable shortly after release.Is there going to be any future development for Summation Enterprise or is it going to be shifted to FTK?By integrating the features of iBlaze and Summation Enterprise and bringing in FTK as the underlying engine, we willbe able to deliver valuable product enhancements and new capabilities to customers who are currently using iBlaze,as well as those currently using Summation Enterprise. This will solve the issues experienced in the past with regardto product support and development.What are you going to do about the Summation interface?This is a very interesting question because the user base is very much split between loving the current interface andbeing extremely frustrated by it. We faced this same dynamic with FTK at AccessData. What we did with FTK andwhat we expect to do with the Summation products is honor those customers that like the existing interface bykeeping it as an option but offering extensive configuration capabilities to enable other users that don’t like it toradically change it. How successful we will be at this is unknown at the moment, but that is the path we are currentlytravelling.PRICING MODEL:In short, for the smaller firms, can we afford it? Will the pricing be tiered?Will you change your pricing structure for iBlaze?We will continue to have pricing models (tiers) and product offerings to meet all sizes and shapes of law firms andcorporations. AccessData has always had a large customer base of smaller organizations, and we will continue tomake our technology affordable to those smaller firms and corporations. While we see significant value in owning asingle, integrated litigation support software infrastructure, we recognize the challenges in adopting and introducing aunified solution. Our intention is to simply support our client’s workflow at any point in their process by keeping oursolution modular. Therefore if an organization is not interested in addressing everything from litigation hold toattorney review with AccessData, we make it possible for that organization to implement just the capabilities theyneed to fill out their eDiscovery process. Licensing options will continue to be available for everything from the singleuser instance to the multi-user enterprise-class install.

I like the scalability concept, will licensing and pricing follow that too?Yes but we will not use a per-GB pricing model that many of our competitors use, because we believe these modelsare designed to milk the customer, while providing little value. We firmly believe that an enterprise license shouldallow our clients to use our products as much and as often as they need.WHAT FEATURES ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AND WHAT IS COMING SOON?Also, are you working on an early case assessment tool such as what Clearwell offers?The AccessData eDiscovery solution already delivers a very robust set of ECA features, and we continue to improvethe workflow, functionality and user experience. The AD eDiscovery product is far superior in its ability to handlelarge data sets both in efficiency and accuracy, when compared to its competitors, because we have been deliveringforensic-level processing and deep analytics to law enforcement and government agencies for a decade.You may want to review our tocompare ediscovery.html),which include a product demonstration covering the early case assessment capabilities of AD eDiscovery. We will besending out an updated product demonstration soon, which will illustrate the new features that will be available in ourupcoming product release. You will receive an email with that new video when it is available.Many large organizations already rely on AD eDiscovery’s web-based early case assessment capabilities for itsanalytics, including email threading, sophisticated search options and filtering. AD eDiscovery also supportscustomizable export to support an organization’s existing litigation support tools. This feature will be further enhancedwith the next release, which is due out this year.Will you outline your analytic upcoming features, such as auto reporting of email thread, doc clusters ?Further enhanced email threading, native variable near-dupe analysis, concept clustering, and extensivevisualization. The deep integration of the AccessData scalable architecture and core competencies within FTK willallow us to deliver native and forensic file ingestions, processing, culling, first-pass review, visualization, analytics,conversion and load file generation. We will include abilities to convert data into load files, native files and TIFF/PDF.Will AD continue working with third-party software providers such as IPRO’s eScanIT solution?What, if any, integration will you have with products, such as CaseMap, Trial Director or Sanction, as well aswith products such as Analyst Notebook?Yes, we see no benefit to “locking” clients into using our tools or solutions exclusively. We make every effort tomaintain compatibility with products both upstream and downstream in the litigation process. Also many of thefeatures in some of the above-mentioned products will be native to the integrated Summation application, such asdocument conversion. Compatibility with other tools is purely a function of customer demand. We strive to meet ourclients’ unique needs through development of our products. For example, our development to support data collectionfrom structured repositories, such as Symantec EV and Microsoft SharePoint, has been completely client driven.Contact your local sales representative for specific compatibility questions: 800.574.5199 / 1.801.377.5410What is happening to customers who are still running Summation LG Gold?Blaze LG and LG Gold products will not be receiving further updates, instead we are devoting our resources tobringing more stability and advanced features to iBlaze, Enterprise and CaseVantage. Please note that you will beautomatically upgraded to iBlaze at your regular support renewal time and that iBlaze offers all the same functionalityas LG and LG Gold.