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Relativity 3.4 - Better, Faster, Stronger

We have wrapped up version 3.40 and while I write, we are deploying to our customers.  Although, the time cycle on this release was relatively small, the functionality we introduced is significant.  Some of the more notable enhancements are:
 
Foreign Language Capabilities
We have come to understand how critical foreign language capabilities in a modern, global, litigation situation have become, therefore, we have made UNICODE data fully supported in Relativity.  You can import and export UNICODE documents and meta-data, TIFF, and run cross-language searches against the full-text and fielded data. 

Scalable Enterprise  Architecture
Every component of the system can now be distributed to many machines.  We can now deploy Relativity on a redundant web farm; running databases deployed on multiple servers, and then have a processing grid of servers for running productions.  Our clients consider our system business critical and now we give them the tools to deploy in a highly redundant and scalable infrastructure.
 
Enhanced Searching
With ranked searches, proximity support, and smarter operators, we continue to integrate features to aid in culling document collections.
 
We now have the capability to join multiple search providers into Relativity.  Of course we deliver Relativity with a robust and scalable search engine, but we also give you alternatives so you can choose what’s best for your review.  It's also a great mechanism to build creative search providers.  We’ve developed an experimental search provider that uses a pattern matching algorithm to run linguistic searches against the existing keyword index.

I'm excited to see how our clients and partners roll with this.  Often when I talk about Relativity it's more than just a application, it's a platform.
 
Enhanced Speed
We always find ways to make things better and faster.  And of course, this release is no different.  We’ve improved doc to doc speed and including families or duplicates into queries is lightning fast on multimillion record datasets.

More of the Little Things
We continuously incorporate little nuggets of functionality that make Relativity more intuitive and useful.  My favorite in this release is something we call the Active Record.  Relativity will now follow a user in and out of the document list and document review screen, and always keeps the record you last looked at, or selected, in the list view.  Searching, sorting, and filtering will also page to the Active Record so the users never loses context to where they were at.
 
While these are several major accomplishments, this is just a handful of what we've done.  Existing users can learn about others by into our Support page and clicking Release Notes.
 
We at kCura hope you enjoy the release and wish you a Happy Holiday!

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 06:48PM by Registered CommenterAndrew Sieja | CommentsPost a Comment

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