- Allows for Comprehensive Approach to Analyzing All Key Corporate Data -

- Further Accelerates FTI's Push into Next Generation eDiscovery and Critical Information Management Application Rollout -

NEW YORK and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FTIConsulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated tohelping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, and EndecaTechnologies, Inc., an information access software company, today announcedthat they have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver Endeca'spowerful information management solutions to FTI's clients for rapid review ofan increasingly broad set of critical business data.

In today's complex and rapidly evolving legal and regulatory climate, aquick thorough and accurate response is essential to the success of aneDiscovery effort. Under the terms of the license agreement, FTI will deploythe Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) to create new applications thatallow for the search and discovery of financial information, transactionaldatabases and other structured and unstructured electronically storedinformation (ESI). The technology, coupled with FTI's proprietary technologyand deep experience in high stakes litigation, will offer clients the abilityto rapidly gain a 360-degree view of all information relevant to litigationevents, mergers and acquisitions, government investigations and other majorevents that affect enterprise value.

'A rapid response to an eDiscovery event often requires pulling together-- and sifting through -- terabytes of information that come from a variety ofdisparate and complex data sources,' said David Remnitz, leader of FTIConsulting's Technology segment. 'FTI's clients are increasingly asking fortools to help manage the discovery and analysis of the total set of corporatedata. This not only includes the 30% of data which is 'traditional'unstructured data in the form of documents and email communications, but alsothe remaining 70% of data which is structured in the form of enterprisesupport and mission critical applications and has not generally been tapped inthe eDiscovery process to date.