Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Sfile Appoints New President

Company Selects Industry Veteran Kevin O’Connell, Former SVP at Datacert Inc.


Houston, TX – March 3, 2011 - Sfile Technology Corporation (“Sfile”) today announced the immediate appointment of longtime industry veteran and former Datacert executive Kevin O’Connell as President and member of the Board of Directors. Sfile’s founder Frank D. Perez, will continue to hold principal roles as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

“I am excited to have a proven executive join Sfile to further advance our mission to disrupt the current economic models for electronic discovery by delivering innovative pricing and technology”, said Mr. Perez. “Mr. O’Connell will execute our strategy to expand into new channels where synergies exist to further strengthen our global network. As President, Mr. O’Connell will be responsible for all company operations and future acquisitions.”

As a member of Datacert’s senior executive management team, Mr. O’Connell served as SVP of Business Development and Law Firm Operations where he was responsible for a significant amount of Datacert’s ongoing revenue. While at Datacert, Mr. O’Connell’s accomplishments included growing its extensive partner network in support of Datacert’s patent-pending technology platform, PassportTM, used for consolidating and integrating applications in the legal industry.

“Kevin has strong experience managing large and mid-sized organizations and developing new and growing companies. Sfile will benefit from Kevin’s experience managing a $100M+ business unit with over 300 employees in international and global markets while at Tandem Computers, where he was directly involved in growing and leading the Asia/Pacific Division,” said Mr. Perez. Mr. O’Connell adds that, “He is very excited to join the Sfile team and to take on the challenge of fulfilling its mission of changing the economics of discovery for everyone by leveraging a global channel partner network and delivering well-designed technology paired with transparent pricing models.”

About Sfile

Sfile is a leading online collaboration platform for content management designed to support electronic discovery and document review. Sfile’s solutions are offered through an international network of channel partners and hosted in Sfile’s data center. The Sfile platform is delivered in a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and operates in a multi-tenant environment with high performance parallel processor engines to support ESI processing and analysis. This enables Sfile to offer a market-changing disruptive pricing model that immediately provides economic benefits to Channel Partners, Law Firms and Corporations. Sfile can be found on the web at http://www.sfile.com.

For more information regarding Sfile's press release, please contact press@sfile.com.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Sfile Channel Partner bit-x-bit Receives Endorsement from Allegheny County Bar Assoc

bit-x-bit Partners with Sfile: The Allegheny County Bar Association Extends Endorsement of bit-x-bit to include Sfile’s Web-Based E-Discovery Review Services

Houston, TX - January 8, 2011 - bit-x-bit, the leading provider of forensic and e-discovery services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announced the launch of their web-based e-discovery review platform, powered by the Sfile Technology Platform. Additionally, the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA), which serves more than 6,500 members of the bar in Pittsburgh, has extended its endorsement of bit-x-bit to include the Sfile Technology Platform.

“Our alliance with Sfile will allow us to significantly expand the range and depth of services we provide,” said bit-x-bit CEO Susan Ardisson. “Sfile has one of the industry’s most economical pricing models, and as we continue to expand as a company, we will continue to search for ways to improve the e-discovery value we can offer our clients, large and small.”

“Sfile's core mission is changing the economics of e-discovery by creating value through a convergence of technology and relationships to deliver products and services that have been traditionally unaffordable,” said Sfile CEO Frank D. Perez. “Our partnership with bit-x-bit and the endorsement from ACBA are proof that the Sfile model is ideally positioned to create and serve untapped markets.”

“One of our primary objectives is to offer cutting-edge and affordable products and services to our more than 6,500 members, and this new web based e-discovery service by bit-x-bit and Sfile is another enhancement to our member benefits,” said David Blaner, ACBA Executive Director. “We are proud to have an excellent working relationship with bit-x-bit, whose leaders seem to be a step ahead of everyone else in anticipating the needs of the legal community."

Bit-x-bit chose Sfile over other e-discovery review platforms in the market because of its range of capabilities and its remarkably lower overall costs. Based in Houston, Texas, Sfile is an industry leader in e-discovery software and infrastructure systems, serving the legal community since 2005.

About Sfile

Sfile Technology Corporation offers solutions and services that effectively level the playing field for small and medium businesses through disruptive pricing while simplifying requirements on IT infrastructure and services moving toward consumerism in ediscovery. Sfile's objective is to shrink the cost of e-discovery while capturing the market of new participants. For an evolving marketplace that demands realistic prices to perform necessary services, Sfile offers simple, utility-based, and transparent pricing through B2B co-branding Partners. Sfile is located on the web at www.sfile.com.

For more information regarding Sfile's press releases, please contact press@sfile.com.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Sfile Founder Returns to CEO Role

Sfile Technology Corporation Announces the Return of Founder, Frank D. Perez, to the Role of CEO and His Vision for Paradigm Change and Innovative Technology in the E-Discovery Industry

Houston, TX - October 8, 2010 - Sfile Technology Corporation announces the return of founder, Frank D. Perez, to the role of the company's Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Perez will lead the company’s efforts to change the economics of electronic discovery with innovative technology and pricing models delivered through a cloud computing architecture. As CEO, Mr. Perez will be better able to advocate the company’s goals, which includes making e-discovery affordable to organizations of all sizes - from small and medium size businesses to Fortune 100 companies.

Mr. Perez’s leadership was instrumental in identifying a need for a paradigm change and the development of the technology necessary to accomplish it. According to Mr. Perez, “The global marketplace has changed over the last decade. Access to people and resources are now available through ever expanding technologies such as fiber optics, the internet, highly condensed multi-core processing, and virtualization. This has led to new methods that enable people to participate and function in specialized teams which can be created in an instant over a web based community platform in order to accomplish highly specialized functions and disseminate them with greater efficiency. Sfile is positioned to be the enabler of organizations of all sizes to meet ever more demanding challenges through a highly efficient cost model without sacrificing quality. In fact, better quality can be achieved when the choices for talent are extended with the reach of the internet to find the right resource, whether it be human or machine, for the right price to get the job done. Sfile is the right solution at the right time.”

Mr. Perez will lead Sfile’s global expansion of its partner network of the industry’s premier regional providers of forensic and e-discovery services, combining the best resources for any size matter and its challenges. Sfile’s existing partner network reaches over 20 marketplaces including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Houston, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.

About Sfile

Sfile is a leader in eDiscovery 3.0, leveraging a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology infrastructure to deliver industry-changing economics to an inefficient and costly process. Sfile is able to disrupt the current industry economic model through our integrated, unified Electronic Document Discovery (EDD) platform that combines evidence archiving, processing, early case assessment, document review (native, TIFF-On-Demand and scanned documents) and production. Sfile also provides highly scalable and adaptable enterprise content management (ECM), E-Serve “file & serve” and virtual data room solutions.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

SFILE ANNOUNCES APPLE IPAD SUPPORT

Sfile’s eDiscovery, E-Serve, Virtual Data Room and Content Management Solutions Support A Wide Range of Internet Browsers and Mobile Devices

Houston, TX - April 14, 2009 - Sfile Technology Corporation today announced the immediate availability of support for the new Apple iPad. Sfile users can continue to use a wide variety of computer operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Apple or Linux without being penalized by incompatible plug-ins, malformed web page formatting or loss of functionality. Users of advanced mobile devices can access information and view documents regardless of their location.

Browser Independence

Users can access Sfile via Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Chrome and Safari without the need to download or install plug-ins.

Mobile Device Access

Users of mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android and Window Mobile can access Sfile content wherever they are, both in and out of the office.

Universal Document Viewer – No Plug-Ins Required

Fully integrated into Sfile is a universal document viewer. The Sfile iDox Viewer, a server based rending engine, allows the viewing of hundred of file types without the need to have the native software. This makes all content highly available with no need to load any software to see a file. Native files can be viewed in TIFF, PDF and XML/HTML format.

About Sfile

Sfile is a leader in eDiscovery 3.0, leveraging a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology infrastructure to deliver industry changing economics to an inefficient and costly process. Sfile is able to disrupt the current industry economic model through our integrated, unified Electronic Document Discovery (EDD) platform that combines evidence archiving, processing, early case assessment, document, review (native, TIFF-On-Demand and scanned documents) and production with Social Networking capabilities. Sfile also provides highly scalable and adaptable enterprise content management (ECM), E-Serve “file & serve” and virtual data room services. Sfile is located on the web at www.sfile.com.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Sfile E-Serve Reaches 250,000 Delivery Milestone

Sfile E-Serve, a Multi-Party Matter Communication Platform that Streamlines the Delivery of Court-filed and other Litigation-related Documents, Delivers 250,000 Communications Within 4 Months of Launch

Houston, TX – March 26, 2009 – Sfile Technology Corporation today announced that Sfile E-Serve, a multi-party matter communication Software-as-a-Service product that streamlines the delivery of court-filed and other litigation-related documents, has delivered 250,000 communications since the product was announced in November 2009. These 250,000 electronic deliveries have saved Sfile customers almost $6M versus traditional paper-based delivery. The amount of savings is based on paper-based costs of $10 per delivery in pre-delivery preparation and post-delivery recording keeping and $15 per delivery in shipping costs.

Sfile E-Serve provides file and serve capabilities to support law firms, corporations and courts, providing control, cost and time savings over required communication activities throughout the litigation life cycle, including service of pleadings, court orders and discovery productions.
Sfile streamlines the delivery of court-filed and other litigation-related documents. Now law firms can eliminate the logistics of paper production and delivery by serving documents electronically through a secure, password-protected portal. Entities within the matter can receive immediate notification of when documents are served and can log in and access them in Sfile. Delivery of communications, site access and document access are automatically recorded, allowing for electronic record keeping. Some of the postings commonly used within Sfile E-Serve include:

• Public Notices
• Pleadings
• Court Orders
• Notice of Appearance
• Calendar/Schedule Items
• Other court related communications
• Productions

“Managing communications between parties in multi-party matters is laborious, inefficient, expensive and error-prone using traditional paper delivery methods,” said Frank D Perez, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Sfile. “ When parties use the Sfile E-Serve communication platform, electronic communications to multiple parties take only a few minutes and are automatically tracked, creating a simple, efficient, cost-effective process.“

About Sfile

Sfile is a leader in eDiscovery 3.0, leveraging a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology infrastructure to deliver industry changing economics to an inefficient and costly process. Sfile is able to disrupt the current industry economic model through our integrated, unified Electronic Document Discovery (EDD) platform that combines evidence archiving, processing, early case assessment, document, review (native, TIFF-On-Demand and scanned documents) and production with Social Networking capabilities. Sfile also provides highly scalable and adaptable enterprise content management (ECM), E-Serve “file & serve” and virtual data room services.

For more information regarding Sfile's press releases, please contact press@sfile.com.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Sfile Announces Channel Partners Per GB Unit Pricing for E-Discovery SaaS Bundle of ESI Processing and 12-Months of Review Hosting for Unlimited Users

Company Also Announces the Sfile Managed E-Discovery Service. This Service Uses a Local Server at the Customer’s Office and is Remotely Operated and Managed by Sfile

Houston, TX - January 28, 2010 - Sfile Technology Corporation today announced the immediate availability of a revolutionary new pricing model designed to disrupt the high-cost E-Discovery economic model currently created by inefficient technology and processes. Sfile’s E-Discovery Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) price is a one-time fee per GB of Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) to Channel Partners at a cost savings of up to 75% from competitive offerings. Sfile executes Sfile-defined standard ESI processing per the customer’s processing specifications and provides repository and review hosting for an unlimited number of users for one year. Users can Organize, Filter, Create Review Sets, Review, TIFF-on-Demand and Produce. TIFF or PDF image productions are priced at $0.04 per page including branding and Bates stamping.

Sfile’s unique contribution to E-Discovery technology is to be the first company to provide a single system with integrated document processing, culling and document review platform built to be flexible, scalable and high performance. Sfile’s technology platform is built using SaaS architecture, allowing Sfile’s software to easily operate either at Sfile’s data center or at customer offices via Sfile’s Managed E-Discovery Service (“SMES”). The SMES delivery option is designed for customers and partners looking for faster service (by eliminating data shipping time) and who do not want data to leave their facility. The SMES delivery option is available at the SaaS pricing, but does require the customer or partner to provide a physical server that meets Sfile’s minimum specifications and remote access by Sfile to the server via VPN.

“The E-Discovery market has lacked a high-value service offering at a price that made sense for the majority of projects being performed,” said Bob Gomes, CEO of Sfile. “Sfile’s technology enables our ability to offer this pricing while maintaining high quality, reliability and process soundness.”

Sfile is actively recruiting new business partners for these new services.

Detailed information and pricing for Sfile E-Discovery SaaS is available on the web at http://www.sfile.com/saaslp1.html.

About Sfile

Sfile is a leader in eDiscovery 3.0, leveraging a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology infrastructure to deliver industry changing economics to an inefficient and costly process. Sfile is able to disrupt the current industry economic model through our integrated, unified Electronic Document Discovery (EDD) platform that combines evidence archiving, processing, early case assessment, document, review (native, TIFF-On-Demand and scanned documents) and production with Social Networking capabilities. Sfile also provides highly scalable and adaptable enterprise content management (ECM), E-Serve “file & serve” and virtual data room services.

For more information regarding Sfile's press releases, please contact press@sfile.com.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sfile In Booth #2513 at NY LegalTech

Sfile will be presenting the company's latest software release, a major announcement and holding an Apple iPod itouch give-away.