Logikcull vs. NetBeans vs. Relativity

Logikcull is a fabulous tool for the firms that do not have a dedicated Litigation Support department. They offer a tool that is very simple and easy to use. You do not need to be highly tech-savvy to use it. And their support team is absolutely fabulous.

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NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in Eclipse. It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools.

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In cases involving massive datasets (I.e. regulatory investigations, cross-border litigation), Relativity's powerful search, deduplication, and technology-assisted review features enable fast, accurate identification of relevant documents. For example, we used it in a front-running investigation involving a large asset management firm, where Relativity streamlined data review across multiple custodians. There are multiple use case available.

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• It ingests data robustly, allowing the user to set a variety of ingestion rules.
• It provides an interface for attorney review that significantly reduces user training.
• It has robust user features to enhance the review and tag function of an attorney review team.
• There are too many wonderful export features to list, but suffice it to say very robust.
• Support is at the platinum level with real-time chat interface with REAL tech types who can solve issues, without going through a script
• The company obviously invests heavily in development and seems to always be on the industry edge of simply making things better, faster, more efficient, and cost-effective.

• Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem.
• Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools.
• Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish.
• Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools.

• Searching for documents and native files with various terms and approaches.
• Tagging documents and native files for further review.
• Creating and downloading collections of documents and native files for depositions.

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• I would like to have an easier way to identify the last email in a string that includes all the attachments in the string
• Other areas I have contacted Logikcull about I have been pleasantly surprised to find out that either there had been an update that solved my issue or one was on the way.

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• NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans.
• File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files.

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• Very powerful tool, but does require a high level of expertise and head count to administer the product.
• If hosting yourself, requires investment in servers and ideally is housed in a data center
• Providers need to pay kCura a monthly user license fee for every user who has access to the tool. Providers can purchase blocks of users, but with a large amount of users on a case, it's cost that some external clients are not thrilled about

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The platform and user interface are very intuitive and easy to use. Built-in features obviously come from a team that knows the industry, and it is customizable for all the odd uses, and individual issues we have with each project. I’ve been able to manage things incredibly easily without the use of third-party vendors, and when I hit a snag, the support team is easy to contact and quick to resolve issues.

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Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code.

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Relativity is a well established tool that continues to evolve and look for ways to improve. Particular focus on Australian workflows is very promising for us and appreciated. There is a lot of scope for improvement in the processing and PDF workflows but it is great to see Relativity being proactive in those areas

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The Support Team is very responsive. They offer lots of convenient training sessions in either a group or individual setting. If you have a problem or can't figure out how to do something in Logikcull, they are easy to reach and will easily walk you through every step of the process.

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NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums.

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Again, specifically for Slack JSON parsing, I think Logikcull's handling of the data is the best. It handles Thread messages very nicely and things like "code snippets" display much like they do in Slack itself. I have not found a Slack JSON parser that is better.

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It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE with google chrome browser

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Relativity contains all the features together in a single platform. And most of all other than Brainspace none of the other tools have document review capability as good as Relativity has.

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• One of the issues we had with using Logikcull was the expense. It was difficult for our attorneys to pass along the hard copy expense of paying for the service based on the types of clients we have. Logikcull was very good at trying to help us with this challenge, but in the end, we found that our attorneys were hesitant to use the product because of the fear that there would be a high hard-cost expense that the client would not pay. This was one of the primary reasons we stopped using it. Our firm has the technical personnel and equipment to maintain an eDiscovery platform in-house, so the investment to bring in another product was, for our firm, a better solution for the long run.
• As we were developing our litigation support department, Logikcull was the perfect product for us. It allowed us to provide for our attorneys a review platform when they had the cases that could not be managed without one but also gave us the simplicity we needed as we learned how to provide litigation support services to our legal teams.

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• By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work.
• Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this.

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• Saves time spent searching for documents and native files.
• Easy to download materials when needed.
• Can share collections of materials across team members in other offices.

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