AccessData FTK [EOL] vs IBM eDiscovery Manager comparison

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AccessData FTK [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

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IBM eDiscovery Manager

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9.0

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eDiscovery (20th)

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reviewer1513149

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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Ivan Castaneda

eDiscovery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Stable with administrative aspects and an easy to navigate backend

The initial setup isn't exactly straightforward. It's a little complex. A company really should hire some experts that can navigate the implementation. Including testing, the deployment took about three hours. It's not a long or drawn-out process. Technically, you only need one person to handle the setup, however, it's advisable to at least have two people who are knowledgeable. In our case, we implemented it first in a separate environment and, once we saw everything was working as it should, then we sent it to production. There isn't much maintenance required. There's another application that handles that, however, we do have to monitor logs and the server where we put the searches.

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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."

"Creating and running queries on the solution is very good."

Cons

"I think processing could be better. It really takes a lot of space, and it's very expensive to deploy."

"The initial setup is a bit complex."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AccessData FTK is too expensive compared to EnCase."

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Also Known As

AccessData Forensic Toolkit

eDiscovery Manager

Overview

FTK is built for speed, stability and ease of use. It provides comprehensive processing and indexing up front, so filtering and searching is faster than with any other product. This means you can zero in on the relevant evidence quickly, dramatically increasing your analysis speed.

Exterro

IBM eDiscovery Manager enables authorized IT and legal staff to search, cull, hold and export case-relevant content to manage electronically stored information (ESI). eDiscovery Manager helps you respond to discovery requests and Streamlines and standardizes the electronic discovery process. It Preserves the electronically stored information (ESI) evidence in a security-rich, auditable, high-scale, trusted evidence repository that includes chain-of-custody tracking and Enhances your capacity to organize ESI, email and other content to reduce discovery costs and risks.

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Sample Customers

Royal Military Police

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