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Smarsh alternatives and competitors

The closest alternatives to Smarsh are Theta Lake, Hanzo, BriefCatch and OpenText eDiscovery.

Smarsh is a communications capture, archiving, surveillance and discovery platform from Smarsh Inc. of Portland, Oregon.

The list

10 alternatives to Smarsh

Starting prices are as each vendor publishes them, in its own currency and billing unit.

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    Theta Lake

    Theta Lake captures, archives and supervises the communications regulated firms run on, across voice, video, chat, mobile messaging, email and whiteboards, through more than 100…

  2. H

    Hanzo

    Hanzo is an ediscovery and preservation platform for dynamic and collaborative data, sold to corporate legal and compliance teams.

  3. B

    BriefCatch

    BriefCatch is legal writing and citation checking software for lawyers, judges and courts, used in Microsoft Word, Outlook or a browser.

    Starting price: No published figure
  4. O

    OpenText eDiscovery

    OpenText eDiscovery is an electronic discovery platform covering collection, processing, analysis, review and production, sold to corporate legal departments, law firms and investigating…

    Starting price: No published figure
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    Threadeo

    Threadeo sells cloud software to court reporting and litigation support firms and to the lawyers they serve.

    Starting price: From $199 per month
  6. V

    Venio Systems

    Venio Systems is an ediscovery platform that runs legal hold, collection, processing, early case assessment, review and production in one system for law firms, corporate legal departments…

    Starting price: No published figure
  7. E

    Exterro

    Exterro is a data risk management platform for corporate legal, compliance, privacy, security and IT teams, covering ediscovery, digital forensics, data privacy and information governance…

    Starting price: No published figure
  8. N

    Nuix Neo

    Nuix Neo is an investigative analytics and ediscovery platform built on the patented Nuix Engine, which turns more than a thousand file types of unstructured data into searchable form.

    Starting price: No published figure
  9. A

    AI.Law

    AI.Law is a litigation platform for solo and mid size firms that combines drafting tools with a full practice management system, with roughly sixty named tools.

  10. C

    CaseMark

    CaseMark turns a litigation record into the work product a matter needs, with each statement cited back to the page it came from.

    Starting price: From $100 per user/month
Questions

Smarsh alternatives, answered

What are the best alternatives to Smarsh?

The closest alternatives to Smarsh are Theta Lake, Hanzo, BriefCatch, OpenText eDiscovery and Threadeo. Theta Lake captures, archives and supervises the communications regulated firms run on, across voice, video, chat, mobile messaging, email and whiteboards, through more than 100… Hanzo is an ediscovery and preservation platform for dynamic and collaborative data, sold to corporate legal and compliance teams. BriefCatch is legal writing and citation checking software for lawyers, judges and courts, used in Microsoft Word, Outlook or a browser.

Who are Smarsh's competitors?

Smarsh competes in Litigation & eDiscovery. Other vendors in that category include Theta Lake, Hanzo, BriefCatch, OpenText eDiscovery, Threadeo and Venio Systems.

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