October 6, 2011 – Our second annual user conference, Relativity Fest 2011, was recently held at Chicago’s historic Palmer House Hilton. Attendees included 300 Relativity users from more than 100 different companies, with representatives from the U.S., the UK, the Netherlands, and Australia.

The two-and-a-half day event brought participants, expert panelists, and the kCura team together in a casual setting to share ideas and discuss a variety of topics, including Relativity Assisted Review, Method, and building custom applications. Several of our ISV partners were on hand to demo their integrations with Relativity, while kCura staff conducted a series of hands-on labs that allowed attendees to try out new features and workflows in Relativity.

A keynote address on work ethic, meticulousness, and determination was delivered by Buzz Williams, head coach of Marquette University’s men’s basketball team, followed by a social gathering at Chicago’s House of Blues.

We would like to thank our Relativity users for joining us in Chicago – your ideas, support, and commitment to the software continue to make Relativity Fest a success.

Check out www.relativityfest.com for more information, and keep your eyes open for details about Relativity Fest 2012.

October 5, 2011 – We are pleased to announce that Altep, Inc., a national provider of e-discovery and litigation support services, is now a Relativity Consulting Partner. As a Consulting Partner, Altep, Inc. can offer Relativity as a hosted solution for their clients. Relativity will complement Altep’s full-service data and discovery management offering, providing their clients with flexible and scalable tools to tackle review challenges.

To read the entire press release, click here.

October 3, 2011 – Epiq Systems, a leading provider of legal technology services, today announced the expansion of their Relativity hosting services to the UK. As a Relativity Best in Service partner with an international presence, Epiq can now provide Relativity service and support to law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies, and financial institutions in both the United States and the UK.

To read the full press release, click here.

October 3, 2011 – Based on your feedback, kCura will be moving to a quarterly release schedule beginning with Relativity 7.3. The new schedule is designed to address concerns associated with keeping pace with our current bi-monthly upgrades. Additionally, a quarterly schedule will allow us to make more efficient use of development time, resulting in more enhancements and defect fixes per release and a better product for you.

We will continue to issue a one-month pre-release of each Relativity version. The dates for upcoming releases are as follows:

Relativity 7.3
Pre-release - December 2, 2011
Full release - January 6, 2012

Relativity 7.4
Pre-release - March 9, 2012
Full release - April 6, 2012

Relativity 7.5
Pre-release - June 8, 2012
Full release - July 6, 2012

Relativity 7.6
Pre-release - September 7, 2012
Full release - October 5, 2012

If you have any questions about changes to the Relativity release cycle, please contact support@kcura.com.

September 30, 2011 – kCura is proud to recognize Inventus, a national provider of litigation support services, as a Relativity Best in Service partner. Inventus achieved this designation, the highest for a Relativity partner, by exhibiting product expertise, maintaining a sound infrastructure, and providing outstanding customer service.

Inventus has also become a Relativity Certified Reseller and can now offer Relativity as both an in-house and a hosted solution, as well as provide their clients with local training and support, infrastructure maintenance, and project management services.

Click here to read the full press release.

September 28, 2011 – kCura is excited to attend next week’s Masters Conference for Legal Professionals from October 3 to October 5 in Washington, D.C. If you’re planning to attend the conference, please stop by our table in the exhibit hall to learn more about the latest Relativity updates, including Relativity Assisted Review and Fact Manager. To schedule a meeting or product demo during the conference, please contact us at sales@kcura.com.

September 23, 2011 – Relativity 7.2 makes importing and exporting easier by allowing you to save export settings and import metadata for records with zero kilobyte native files. You now have better tools and email alerts to monitor dtSearch index fragmentation. You can also swap dtSearch indexes in a workspace, allowing you to perform maintenance without your users seeing downtime on the index. In addition, Relativity Analytics use and administration is more intuitive, and building applications continues to get easier in 7.2.

Check out the video below to learn more about the updates in Relativity 7.2 from kCura’s Meg Svec and Joe Catrambone.

Relativity 7.2 is available now in kCura’s secure hosting environment, and will be available to Premium Hosting Partners beginning October 7.

Check out the updated documentation here. To view the full release notes, visit the Relativity Customer Portal.

September 22, 2011 – Kensium, a Relativity Independent Software Vendor, today announced the release of Compendium Bridge – LR Version, a plug-in that integrates data between LAW PreDiscovery and Relativity. The integration is part of Kensium’s Compendium Plug-in Suite, a toolkit of plug-ins and scripts that brings increased efficiencies to e-discovery processing. By eliminating the manual configuration steps involved with the import and export of data, Compendium Bridge – LR Version simplifies workflow, reduces the risk of errors, and speeds up production time. The application can be launched from within a LAW case or as a desktop application. Kensium will be on hand to demonstrate Compendium Bridge – LR Version during the Independent Software Vendor showcase at this year's Relativity Fest.

For more information about Compendium Bridge – LR Version, click here or contact sales@kensium.com.

September 22, 2011 – We’re excited to announce that Shepherd Data Services, a Minneapolis-based provider of full-service litigation support and e-discovery services, has become a Relativity Premium Hosting Partner. With their new data center, Shepherd now offers Relativity as a hosted, on-demand solution for rock-solid review, while providing full-service support for their clients.

To read the full press release, click here.  

September 20, 2011 – The 451 Group recently released their E-Discovery and E-Disclosure 2011 report, providing a comprehensive look at the current e-discovery landscape. The report includes a case study on Zelle Hofmann’s use of Relativity, and an in-depth analysis of how kCura differentiates Relativity in the industry through applications, text analytics, and user experience.

For further insight into the report, check out this recent article from LTN. To read an excerpt from the report, click here (PDF link).