Transform Your Operations by Moving from Expert On-Prem to Expert Sierra
With constantly shifting market trends and client demands, your firm needs to stay agile, innovative, and efficient. Running a critical system on-premises may be constraining your growth and potential. Modernize your operations by moving to Expert Sierra, our cloud-hosted solution. Take advantage of powerful cloud technology without losing your existing configuration, customizations, or integrations.
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The #1 Choice for Law Firms Across the Globe
Challenges of Operating an On-Premises System
How Expert Sierra Transforms Your Operations
Unlock the Next Generation of Financial Management
Expert Sierra is more than a move to the cloud – it’s your gateway to Aderant’s next generation of financial applications, analytics, and AI-powered innovation. Built on Stridyn and enhanced by MADDI AI, these solutions help law firms streamline financial operations and gain deeper business insight – while providing a foundation for continuous innovation.
Applications & Capabilities Only on Sierra
| Capability/Advantage | Expert | Self-Hosting | Expert Sierra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next-Generation Applications Aderant Accounts Receivable Aderant General Ledger Aderant Analytics Future Financial Applications |
X | X | ✓ |
| AI & Intelligence askMADDI Natural Language Queries MADDI AI-Powered Automation Agent Center & AI Financial Agents |
X | X | ✓ |
| Platform Unified Stridyn Experience AI-Ready Data Foundation & Data Plane Continuous AI & Platform Innovation |
X | X | ✓ |
Powered by AWS to Deliver the Utmost Security & Risk Reduction for Your Firm
- Hosted on AWS: Trusted by the military, global banks, and other highly-secure organizations.
- 200+ Fully-Featured Services: Built to support any cloud workload.
- AWS Partnership: Access to AWS’s highest level of support, including regular security design reviews and strategic partnership programs.
How Will This Transition Impact My Firm?
- Keep Your Existing Configuration: No data conversion or changes to your customizations and integrations.
- Deploy with Minimal Resources: The same team, process, and timeframe as a typical upgrade.
- Migrate with Ease: We’ll get you up and running in the cloud rapidly, securely, and without disrupting your business.
“Expert Sierra saved the IT staff many hours a month not having to worry about servers. It gave us time back that we lost every month maintaining the servers.”
– Rivkin Radler Attorneys at Law
“We partnered with one of the leading business management software firms in the world to assist us in progressing our digitization strategy. Aderant Expert enables us to leverage new technology that is agile enough to meet the growing needs of our clients and our business. The Aderant team clearly understood our focus and the need to deliver benefits to our clients as well as our internal stakeholders.”
– Jodi Proudlock, COO, Meridian Lawyers
“We have reduced our prebill time by more than 50%.”
– Holland & Knight LLP
“Knowing your system is secure and having that peace of mind is invaluable for us. So, something tested and trusted over time with a proven vendor that can handle it all seamlessly was a major requirement. We’ve really trusted Aderant with security and Sierra’s really performed well and has been a cornerstone of our operational success.”
– Fross Zelnick
“With Expert Sierra, we are embracing the latest technology while maintaining our customizations, integrations, and progressive approach to leverage powerful time and billing solutions that will help us deliver the high standard of excellence our clients expect and deserve.”
– Holland & Knight LLP
“Cash Receipt Automation has cut the time to process receipts in half.”
– Kostelanetz LLP
What Clients Say About Expert Sierra
“Expert Sierra saved the IT staff many hours a month not having to worry about servers. It gave us time back that we lost every month maintaining the servers.”
– Rivkin Radler Attorneys at Law
Innovate With Confidence and Cost Efficiency
| Feature | Expert | Self-Hosting | Expert Sierra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server and Network Hardware | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OS + Virtualization Software | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data center/Colocation Floor Space | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power and Cooling | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data center Personnel | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hardware Install/Racking | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hardware Maintenance | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Assurance Support | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Emergency Security Patching | $ | $ | ✓ |
| Security Compliant Data Centers | $ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC Audits | $ | $ | ✓ |
| Annual Pen Tests | $ | $ | ✓ |
| DB Tuning | $ | $ | ✓ |
| Weekly Backup and Recovery | $ | $ | ✓ |
| Disaster Recovery | $ | $ | ✓ |
| 24/7 Monitoring | $ | $ | ✓ |
| On Demand Infrastructure Scaling | – | $ | ✓ |
| On Demand Application Patching | $ | $ | ✓ |
| On Demand Application Upgrades | $ | $ | ✓ |
| Application Troubleshooting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Environmental Troubleshooting | $ | $ | ✓ |
| Staying up to date with technology | $ | $ | Priceless |
Learn at Your Leisure: Webinars On-Demand
Discover firsthand how firms are navigating the transition to Expert Sierra—from real-world migration experiences to debunking common myths and unlocking powerful cloud-driven efficiencies.
Client Roundtable: Why Firms Are Hitching Their Wagon to Expert Sierra
Hear directly from two law firms about why they made the switch to Expert Sierra, their migration stories, and explore key milestones and insights.
Debunking Myths & Misconceptions about Expert Sierra: Part 2
Explore Expert Sierra migration, benefits, and technical optimization—separating hearsay from reality.
