The Challenge - The Increasing Complexity of Technology. Evaluating technologies and technical solutions is becoming increasing difficult because of the pace of technical change, the clutter in the market place, and the growing complexity of solutions. On the other hand, business are becoming increasing dependent on technology for productivity gains. This tension not only creates the needs for experts, but unfortunately can sometimes result in litigation.

Open Data. Open Data's services include providing expert witnesses, litigation support services, and technical due dilligence services in the areas of data mining, business intelligence, fraud systems, transaction processing, e-business systems, data warehousing, web service based data processing, and related areas.

• Expert witness services.
• Independent evaluation of software and technology.
• Competitive analysis.
• Evaluating strategic fit.
• Evaluating technical trends.
• Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of technical approaches.
• Evaluating the likelihood that a technical solution will solve a business problem.