Relativity vs. Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Relativity
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Relativity (formerly kCura) is a data e-discovery solution supporting litigation, government inquires, internal investigations and data governance policies within a secure cloud platform, from the company of the same name headquartered in Chicago.N/A
Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Actiance was a social media compliance and archiving platform acquired by Smarsh in November 2017. It is now part of the technology underlying the Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform. Actiance products Vantage and Socialite are now Connected Capture. Actiance Alcatraz is now Connected Archive.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
RelativitySmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(7 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.1
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User Testimonials
RelativitySmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Likelihood to Recommend
kCura
Relativity is well suited for all the eDiscovery workflows. It's excellent for document review, coding, active learning, content and structured analytics, searches, persistent highlights, imaging, and burning redactions into productions. The error rates with processing in Relativity are a little compared to other eDiscovery processing tools in the market. It is solely for document review purposes legal scenarios or otherwise, but it is not a complete solution for building customized hosting nor neither it is a replacement for conventional websites.
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Smarsh
This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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Pros
kCura
  • 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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Smarsh
  • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
  • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
  • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
  • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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Cons
kCura
  • 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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Smarsh
  • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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Likelihood to Renew
kCura
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Smarsh
It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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Alternatives Considered
kCura
It has the ability to provide all discovery features under one roof. It is adept for working in the data discovery domain with efficiency. Globally renowned software with features that are not available in many tools. Automation is a plus and Active learning in relativity is the absolute example of its class.
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Smarsh
This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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Return on Investment
kCura
  • 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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Smarsh
  • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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