Company, People, Legalities

X-Ways Software Technology AG is a business incorporated under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany as a stock corporation. X-Ways is operated from Cologne, with legal headquarters in Bünde, registered in Bad Oeynhausen under No. HRB 7475. European VAT No. DE813417489. DUNS number: 34-471-4881. NCAGE Code: DJ465. Enrolled in the CCR U.S. government contractor database.

CEO: Stefan Fleischmann. Supervisory board: Dr. Marlies Horstmeyer (chairwoman of the board), Anna Lena Fleischmann (vice chairwoman), and Renate Fleischmann.

Line of Business

X-Ways is the leading developer and supplier of computer forensics software outside of the US, or, if you consider EnCase and FTK inferior to X-Ways Forensics, maybe worldwide. Our software is used for computer forensics, electronic discovery, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. Plus we offer computer forensics training and courses for our software.

International Partners

Distributor in China: Beijing Computer Forensic Service Center
Distributor in Australia: AFS Computer Forensics
Distributor in Switzerland: ARINA electronic
Reseller in Japan: dit Co., Ltd.
Korea: RedEye Forensics Co., Ltd., JETCO Technology, Inc
Poland: ProCertiv
Taiwan: iForensics Digital Inc.
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus: Forensic Technologies Ltd.
South Africa: Risk Diversion PTY (LTD)
Italy: GOV. Forensics srl.
Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, Phillipines: Infinity Forensics
Malaysia: E-SPIN
Nigeria: Data Recovery Specialist Limited

cleverbridge AG process online orders on our behalf (credit card sales are billed by them).

Products, Customers

Our main products WinHex and its forensic edition X-Ways Forensics have more than 35,000 registered users all over the world, including home computer enthusiasts as well as professionals in all kinds of businesses, public administration, education, U.S. federal law enforcement, government and intelligence agencies, and in the military. Excerpt from our official customer list (referenced with permission): Microsoft Corp., Hewlett Packard, Toshiba Europe, Novell Inc., National Semiconductor, Ontrack Data International Inc., KPMG Forensic, Ernst & Young, Siemens AG, Siemens Business Services, Siemens VDO AG, Infineon Technologies Flash GmbH & Co. KG, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Ericsson, TDK Corporation, Seoul Mobile Telecom, German Aerospace Center, Visa International, Commerzbank AG, Technical University of Vienna, Technical University of Munich (Institute of Computer Science), Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, German Aerospace Center, German federal bureau of aviation accident investigation, law enforcement agency of Lower Saxony, Australian Department of Defence.

Sales-wise (software only), the majority of our customers reside in the USA (34%) and Germany (33%), UK (6%), France (5%), Australia (3%), China/HK (3%), Austria (2%), Switzerland (2%). ROW: 12.5%. All our software products are multi-lingual and can be downloaded from the Internet and evaluated free of charge.