Under the “Relativity” section of the website, awaits a six minute video (entitled Video Overview) that highlights key pieces of functionality, and also a click-by-click tour (entitled Relativity Tour) that allows for a more in-depth study of each section of the Relativity system. We hope that these distinct tutorials will help our potential customers to understand our product in a more well-rounded way. In the near future, we will also be uploading tutorials geared for our already valued client base, which will allow for 24/7 access. We hope that you like these additions as much as we do, and we look forward to finding new ways to inform you about Relativity!

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!

I would like to thank all of the folks that took the time to meet with Andrew and me. Your time is appreciated, and your comments and feedback are invaluable tools that enable us to continue to develop Relativity and work toward our ultimate goal of providing the best litigation support platform in the industry. Some of you not only met with us, but helped us along the way by setting up meetings and making new introductions, as well as giving us conference rooms to run demos, catch up on e-mails, make phone calls, or just have a cup of coffee and log some of our notes from the day’s meetings.

Our travels will continue throughout the month and end of the year. We have an aggressive schedule which includes initial meetings, in-person training sessions, and software pilot programs.

Thanks again to everyone we saw over the last couple of weeks.

Nick’s On the Road Top 10 (in no particular order)

1. The lobby of the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C.
2. Timothy Taylor Landlord on cask - London
3. Discussing the Barbican – London
4. The 300+ Starbucks in Manhattan
5. Miss Milford Plaza – New York
6. Always being offered tea, coffee, and sweets at every meeting and lobby reception in London
7. Number 365 from the Malmasion wine list - London
8. Being offered free tickets to Rock ‘N’ Roll – New York
9. The Real Greek – London
10. No matter where we were, or where we were going, every time we asked for directions in central London, we were told our destination was a 10-minute walk

This holiday season will bring the release of Relativity 3.4, which includes enhanced searching capabilities and foreign language indexing; amongst other notable improvements. In addition to version 3.4 of Relativity, kCura will also be releasing version 1.0 of kBrew: Holiday Ale 2007. kBrew 1.0 is an English brown ale brewed with gingerbread spices. Fall has always been my favorite season in the Midwest for reasons ranging from idyllic weather to football to stuffing and gravy. For the homebrewer and beer advocate Fall presents the most rewarding time of the year for robust and flavorful seasonal ales. A good seasonal should make use of quality ingredients and traditions that define and pair well with the season. Our spiced brown ale will attempt to do just that with a caramel and malty profile leading with a bouquet of gingerbread. It will pair well with a gingerbread dessert, any beef dish, game, a hearty stew, or just plain by itself.

This past Saturday was dedicated to the brewing of kBrew version 1.0. We are targeting an early December release. A special mention to Randy Mosher who’s book Radical Brewing gave the idea for a gingerbread beer.

Keep an eye out for Relativity 3.4, as well as kBrew 1.0 (…and NO, kCura does not sell beer. I brew it for enjoyment only!)

For Geeks Only

Beer Style: Spiced Brown Ale

Grain Bill: 4lb UK Pale; 1lb 80L Crystal; 1lb Victory; 1lb Vienna; 1/2lb 30L UK Crystal; Gingerbread Spices

Hops: Fuggles

OG: 1.040

Yeast: British Ale

kBrew - Collaborative Drinking

Relativity is dynamic because we develop, test, and implement new functionality on a continuous basis.  Each new function brings new customer training needs, and we strive for both a broad conceptual understanding, and a customized approach.  If a user requests topic clarification, we will churn out reference guides or cheat sheets addressing their specific concerns.  If further aid is needed, we’ll schedule a personalized training session.  We do this because while sometimes a classroom approach with a large participant pool is suitable, certain occasions call for one-on-one training.  We openly welcome these instances to help our clients feel more comfortable with our product. 

In the end, we want to ensure that everyone has an exceptional experience working with us.  While working in conjunction with the support team, we in the training department hope to holistically educate you on kCura and Relativity.     

In the area of security, Administrators now have the ability to disable local access making it impossible for users to print screens, download, or even a copy and paste text from the native document. This makes Relativity perfect for working with sensitive cases or sharing documents for mergers and acquisitions where complete control is required. Administrators can also create multiple, securable document redaction and annotation sets. This feature is key in making Relativity robust enough to be employed as a single repository for multiple cases or a single repository for multiple parties both friendly and adverse.

Existing users can learn about these, and additional features, enhancements, and defect resolutions, by navigating to our Community page and clicking Release Notes.

Until very recently, kCura never had a formal sales force.  All of our business came from referral and repeat business.  From this, we built personal relationships with our customers by providing innovative technology, developing client-driven features, and providing exceptional customer service.  Our clients like us not only because we try our hardest to take care of them, but because we have a customer-centered approach to our company, products, philosophy, and people.  They learn about us during their day-to-day interactions, but if you are not a customer, or if we haven’t talked in a while, what better way to open up kCura than through a fun and friendly corporate Blog.

What you can expect from kCura’s corporate Blog:

1. Understand the happenings of the company.  We are continually growing, innovating, acquiring customers, and developing new strategic relationships.
2. Gain a personal introduction to our team.   Many of our clients have met me, and know what I’m about, but wouldn’t it be interesting to learn more about Nick Kapuza?  Nick is one of our lead developers who has help build Relativity from the ground up.  He is a great guy, passionate about what he does, and is a pretty interesting character.
3. Insights to our history.  We will explain where our company started and what “kCura” actually stands for.
4. Company-wide philosophies on running a business, servicing our customers, product planning, etc.
5. Sneak-peeks into things we are up to.
6. Insights to how our clients have creatively used our software.
7. The Master Piece…you’ll have to wait for that one!

What you can further expect is a variety of authors.  kCura’s Blog is truly a company Blog.  Our developers, sales, support, testers, and communication teams will be the contributors to this living archive.  We invite your comments and suggestions, so that you too, can help us build a great company!

We have deployed the latest version of Relativity with a long list of New Features and Enhancements. There are more export options, improved handling of certain Native File formats, enhanced production and print options, and improved redaction capabilities to name a few. For the full list, clients may visit our Release Notes in the Community section.

*If you are a current client and have not yet received a username and password for Community access, contact us and we will send you your account information.