H5 and Its Classifier for Information Governance
February 1, 2010
I came across H5’s technology in the course of a medical information project. A while later, we encountered the firm’s technology in a government information application. My recollection is that the firm’s software works fine. I read the news item “H5 Introduces H5 EDGE Classifier for Enterprise Information Governance” because I did not understand the relationship between text metatagging and “information governance.”
Source: H5.
I learned that the acronym EDGE is short hand for “Electronic Data Governance Engine.” After reading further, I learned:
“Many organizations have invested in enterprise search, archiving, and other technologies in order to better manage information, but the return on these investments cannot be fully realized unless organizations can determine what to retain and what to discard with considerable certainty,” said Nicolas Economou, H5’s CEO. “If companies don’t have a method that assures principled, accurate, document-by-document decisions on information, they’re leaving themselves open to substantial risk and cost. Because the H5 EDGE Classifier provides a proven means to achieve accurate assessments, our clients benefit from significant and measurable reductions in data volume and in associated costs and risks.”
The firm’s PDF brochure said:
H5 EDGE Classifier is a document classification application that seamlessly integrates with and runs on top of organizations’ existing search and classification technology to more accurately cull, filter, and classify e-mail and other electronic documents to meet information governance goals.
I remain unclear about the meaning of the phrase “information governance.” If you are looking for a content processing system that classifies, take a look at H5. If you are in the hunt for an information governance engine, H5 may be your system of choice.
Stephen E Arnold, February 1, 2010
To the US government: I was not paid to admit my lack of understanding when it comes to “information governance”, which seems to be a bit of eDiscovery, a dash of records management, and a whole lot of buzzwording.
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