Top Accountancy Firm BDO LLP selects Digital Reef’s eDiscovery Solution from eOrigin

BOXBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Reef, provider of the first massively scalable and open solution for eDiscovery and Early Case Assessment (ECA), has announced that it has been chosen to deliver their technology to support BDO LLP (“BDO”) with its eDiscovery work. BDO selected Digital Reef through one of the company’s UK partner’s, eOrigin.

“We are looking forward to supporting BDO with the Digital Reef solution”

BDO is the award-winning UK member firm of the BDO international network, the world's fifth largest accountancy and business advisory firm, with more than 1,000 offices in 119 countries.

With the full application of Digital Reef’s proprietary technology, BDO LLP’s eDiscovery and ECA offering will be significantly enhanced allowing faster processing of larger volumes of data at a reduced cost.

“Digital Reef’s world class technology offers us the unprecedented speed, ease of use and cost effectiveness we need. By processing our eDiscovery work through Digital Reef, we will be able to deal with larger volumes of information in a timelier manner than ever before. ” said William Wilkinson, head of Technology Forensic Services, at BDO LLP.

BDO selected the Digital Reef solution because of its fast processing and advanced analytic capability, the connectivity between Digital Reef and kCura’s Relativity review platform, and the electronic disclosure expertise of the Digital Reef partner, eOrigin.

“We are delighted that BDO has turned to Digital Reef and eOrigin with their e-disclosure matters,” said Digital Reef’s CEO, Chris Risley. “Our customer base has grown significantly in the past year and now boasts numerous major UK enterprises, law firms and legal service providers. These customers depend on our solution to accelerate Early Case Assessment, increase review throughput and improve the defensibility of their electronic discovery processing. ”

“We are looking forward to supporting BDO with the Digital Reef solution,” said Nick Pollard, Managing Director for eOrigin. “We have been working with Digital Reef for the last few years and knew it was the right solution for BDO due to its superior performance and analytics.”

About Digital Reef

Digital Reef, recently named a market leader by analyst firm IDC, is a leading e-discovery and e-disclosure software provider helping enterprises, law firms, and litigation support service providers with their largest and most complex eDiscovery matters. Digital Reef’s e discovery platform is the first truly enterprise-scale e-discovery solution that manages all legal matters, regulatory inquiries, and corporate investigations. Using the industry’s fastest, most scalable and secure grid-based SaaS eDiscovery platform, leading companies have chosen Digital Reef as part of their EDRM system to process, analyze, review, and produce ESI. As a result, they accelerate early case assessment (ECA), increase review throughput, reduce movement of data across multiple tools, and improve the defensibility of their electronic discovery processing. Digital Reef gives businesses an unprecedented control of their information which can be derived from wherever it resides including emails, documents, repositories, and over 400 different types of files, including images.

Digital Reef is headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts. For more information call 978-893-1000 or visit http://www.digitalreefinc.com.

About BDO

BDO LLP, a UK limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under number OC305127, is a member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of independent member firms. A list of members' names is open to inspection at our registered office, 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU. BDO LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority to conduct investment business.

The combined fee income of all the BDO Member Firms, including the members of their exclusive alliances, was US$5.28 billion in 2010. The global network has 1,082 offices in 119 countries, with almost 47,000 partners and staff providing business advisory services throughout the world.

BDO is the brand name for the BDO International network and for each of the BDO Member Firms.

BDO Northern Ireland, a partnership formed in and under the laws of Northern Ireland, is licensed to operate within the international BDO network of independent member firms.

About eOrigin

eOrigin has effective solutions which provide unique and innovative stance in the Legal, Risk & Event Management markets. For Legal & Professional services our key partner is Digital Reef Inc. Digital Reef has enabled eOrigin to resell its technology and services into the UK market. Our solutions cover Legal, Corporate and Government sectors. The Digital Reef technology was recognised a Market Leader in a recent IDC ECA vendor review of the innovators in Early Case Assessment. To complement the technology, eOrigin has a unique pricing support structure for the UK market and can deploy Digital Reef in a mobile, secure hosted or in-house capacity.

eOrigin is headquartered in Ashford, Kent and secure hosted facilities at the Kent Science Park