ESALAB provides specialized services in legal litigation, risk management or dispute avoidance in situations involving information processing and telecommunication technologies.

With computing technologies that are increasingly complex and ever more present in our everyday life at home and in the corporate world, EsaLab brings expertise and methods in the technical analysis of software to help preventing or resolving litigations.

EsaLab provides services  to establish evidence of performance flaw, non-conformity, or malfunction in both computer hardware and software.

Our knowledge of data-processing systems and our equipment also enable us to carry out investigations on data, to recover, to investigate and to interpret them.

Thanks to its in-depth experience, EsaLab advises client companies on how to manage the risks of disasters or litigations.

Mission and Services : the electronic evidence and the software appraisal

Created on 2004, ESALAB provides technical services for IT-related investigation :

• Software appraisal;
• Comparative software analysis with SIMILE workshop in cases of counterfeit litigation;
• Data recovery, investigation and interpretation of databases, data files or programs used on personnal computers or enterprise servers;
• Data processing, statistical or graphic interpretations of data, or custom software development;
• Characterization of malfunction, non-conformity or performance flaw.

An independent company, ESALAB invests the inforensic hardware and software tools needed by the increasingly complexity and diversity of high technology. We also carry out specific R&D programs in collaboration with university research laboratories. 

ESALAB offers objective model and tools for software appraisal

The OSAM model (Objective Software Appraisal Model) results from the experience of ESALAB in the evaluation and the analysis of software, and takes into account specificities of their creation processes.

OSAM is founded on an original analysis tool, designed by ESALAB, providing software inventory as well as precise and relevant countings by a semantic analysis of the codes and their structures, and thus comprehensive set of data to determine their reconstitution cost:

ESALAB offers comparative analysis services to detect and evidence counterfeit software. 

ESALAB has developed “SIMILE Workshop”, an unrivaled and innovative suite of proprietary software tool, which allows the detection of :

• Copyright infringement by dubious object code in comparing files  with any known copyrighted source code;
• Software counterfeit in comparing 2 sets of source code.

ESALAB provides its services mainly in support of court-mandated forensic analysis. It also helps companies in the protection of their intangible software assets or investment firms in the value assessment of software assets .

ESALAB is an innovating IT company. 

ESALAB enjoys status of a French "Young Innovating Company" (JEI).

Supported by OSEO/ANVAR (the French Agency for Research and Innovation) and the Ile-de-France region, ESALAB is a prize winner from the SCIENTIPOLE Initiative association which helps innovative growth companies and regroups enterprise or academic research  laboratories located in the "Plateau de Saclay" area, and includes CEA, CNRS, EDF, X, ORSAY,.. organizations with which ESALAB develops collaborations.

ESALAB is hosted in the business incubator hostel of Gif-sur-Yvette located in the heart of the scientific community of the "Plateau de Saclay" area.