E-discovery company Relativity is today announcing new pricing and licensing options for its cloud-based RelativityOne product, reducing data fees by up to 50 percent, introducing a more flexible billing model for all RelativityOne customers, and creating a special licensing option for e-discovery service providers at a lower wholesale rate.
Today’s announcement encompasses five changes to RelativityOne’s pricing and licensing. At a media briefing last week, Nick Robertson, chief operating officer at Relativity, outlined the changes.
Reduced data fees. Relativity will lower the overall data fees for RelativityOne by up to 50 percent. Video and rich media data will also be billed at a reduced rate of 50 percent of normal data fees. In addition, Relativity will roll out flexible data storage models that provide prices that it says will be more commensurate with the value users get from that data. Data used for early case assessment, or repositories where data is reused across multiple matters, will be charged at 33 percent the cost of active data, while archived case data in cold storage will be charged at 25 percent. Relativity says these pricing changes are being made to eliminate the cost barriers for organizations that want to move to SaaS. New “RelativityOne User.” Until now, a customer could not purchase RelativityOne separate from Relativity. Their license gave them access to both the on-premises version and the SaaS version. Now, Relativity is introducing a new customer category of RelativityOne user, for customers who want to work exclusively in the SaaS product. These customers will have unlimited access to all RelativityOne features at a cost up to 60 percent lower than current user rates. Unlimited analytics. RelativityOne users now get unlimited access to analytics, including email threading and active learning, at no added cost. As new analytics tools are developed for RelativityOne, customers will
