Aderant Broadens Scope of Expert Sierra to Include Canada

Cloud-based legal software now available to Canadian firms as in-country servers are in place to support privacy and data portability regulations

ATLANTA – August 20, 2020 – Aderant, a global industry leader in providing comprehensive law practice management software, is pleased to announce further expansion of Aderant Expert as a cloud service to Canada. Fueled by client demand and a growing trend toward a service model of support and upgrades, Expert Sierra can now be deployed in compliance with Canadian regulations.

The cloud-based option of Expert – Expert Sierra –has seen significant client growth in North America over the past two years and was immediately successful with its expansion to both the Asia Pacific region in late 2019, as well as the United Kingdom and Continental Europe in early 2020. Expert Sierra delivers access to the premier solution that powers the top global law firms, enabling lawyers and staff to work anywhere, any time while taking away the burden of managing on-premise hardware and software updates. Configured with scalability and reduced infrastructure in mind, Expert Sierra users benefit from:

• Robust functionality. Ideal for firms with at least 40 users, Expert Sierra provides mobile access to the comprehensive Expert financial, time and billing, and case management modules.
• Improved agility. Expert Sierra enables collaboration, automation and mobility, whilst allowing firm lawyers and staff to efficiently work through matters, parties, tasks, appointments and filings, anywhere, any time, on any device.
• Reduced infrastructure costs. Providing Expert as a service in the cloud means firms will no longer require heavy investment in hardware, servers and maintenance resources. Software system security, licensing, upgrades, updates, and more, are managed by Aderant Cloud Services Team so you can handle your daily tasks efficiently.
• Security. Expert Sierra is secured through Amazon Web Services (AWS), the gold-standard in cloud infrastructure. Through AWS, Aderant manages your Expert system from deployment, to upgrades, to security. Expert Sierra provides the most security and availability to your data, with flexible scalability and reliability exceeding industry high-performance standards.

“Our success in the United States, Asia Pacific and European markets continues to create demand in other markets,” said Josiah Chaves, Aderant’s Director of Expert Sierra. “We look forward to helping our Canadian partners experience Expert as-a-service, reducing administrative overhead while ensuring security and performance of their all-important practice management software.”

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