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AccessData FTK [EOL] vs kCura Relativity comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AccessData FTK [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
kCura Relativity
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1513149 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybercrime Investigator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A user-friendly forensic toolkit with many valuable features
I think processing could be better. It really takes a lot of space, and it's very expensive to deploy. It needs a lot of resources. I also think if it can be cheaper. We can use more, but we don't right now because it's expensive. Maybe in the future, it can also extract data from mobile phones.
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Legal Associate at Elevate
Easy to categorize documents and offers transparent view of documents
I found Relativity very useful because it's easy to categorize documents. If you get more complex litigation, like around 500,000 or 1,000,000 documents, it's easier to categorize them in Relativity. So, it's a more powerful tool for reviewing documents. I haven't faced any problems using Relativity yet. I found it very useful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"All of the features are most valuable because we're able to recover hard disks."
"It can analyse various types of mobile phone forensic images."
"The solution has great searching capabilities, and it's very reliable."
"Unquestionably, kCura Relativity is a scalable solution."
"There are a lot of ways to QC your work and save your searches, and we had really good case support from the Relativity team."
"kCura Relativity is easy to use, and it is reliable."
"The searching capability of the product is definitely very valuable to our organization."
"The ease of navigation from dock to dock, and that kind of usability, is quite helpful."
"I like Relativity's blackout feature, as well as the Case Dynamics function."
"Caplets are a very good technical feature."
 

Cons

"I think processing could be better. It really takes a lot of space, and it's very expensive to deploy."
"Link files and external devices are lacking. We use other software in conjunction with FTK to conduct these type of investigations."
"The price per user could be improved. We'd like for it to be more affordable."
"I think RelativityOne, because it is so powerful, can be very difficult to use and there's a lot that can go wrong if you don't know how to use it."
"You are charged per user. It can get pretty expensive if you have a lot of users in your organization."
"They require more built-in support for some third-party applications."
"The platform's integration of advanced AI features could further enhance its capabilities."
"I would definitely not recommended it unless you have someone who has had experience with it and knows how to work the program."
"There are a lot of bugs on the development side."
"What I dislike about Relativity is that we have to go through the host in order to do productions and loads. It is not a do-it-yourself tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AccessData FTK is too expensive compared to EnCase."
"Users are typically charged a fee per user account and a separate fee based on the amount of data processed and hosted."
"The pricing is extremely complicated."
"They are maintaining the per gigabyte pricing, and it's based on tiers of how much data you host with them."
"It's worth the money."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
 

Also Known As

AccessData Forensic Toolkit
Relativity
 

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Royal Military Police
Webb & Tyler
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