History
ACT, as a private company, has been in business for 22 years, has been providing digital document management services for 16 years and has been involved in electronic discovery for 7 years.
| 1984 | ACT is founded by engineers as a custom software developer for the emerging PC industry. |
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| 1985 | ACT enters the Local Area Network (LAN) market, partnering with Novell and Microsoft and focusing on providing networking solutions to law firms. |
| 1988 | In response to growing requests from law firm clients, ACT develops a series of utilities to review and fix coded data delivered to law firms by other litigation support vendors. |
| 1990 | ACT is hired to design, develop and install the software and hardware for the JDDI (JEDI) electronic repository. This repository holds 16 million pages, supported 47 law firms and is accessible, pre-Internet, via ISDN connections. The JDDI system is generally considered to be the first large-scale PC-based electronic document repository and functions until 1994. |
| 1995 | ACT sells its LAN division to focus entirely on automated litigation support activities including scanning, coding, automated productions and high-volume printing. |
| 1996 | ACT forms an operating joint venture and opens its own offshore coding facility. ACT currently has three coding facilities in the Philippines. |
| 1997 | ACT’s coding facilities are awarded the coveted ISO 9000 International Quality Assurance certification. |
| 1999 | ACT begins providing electronic data discovery services. |
| 2003 | ACT begins providing services using advanced technologies to cull large document populations. |
| 2004 | ACT begins offering internet accessible Native File review services designed to reduce the quantity of electronic data files prior to any type of processing. |
| 2006 | ACT’s data lab capacities and capabilities are significantly expanded in response to a tripling in size. ACT makes significant investments in personnel, equipment and space. |
| 2006 | ACT begins work on expansion of its off shore offering to include subjective coding, such as; issues coding, potential responsive and potential privileged document identification services. |
| 2007 | ACT begins its first multi-million page document review projects. First three large projects total over 55,000,000 pages for review. |