White Papers and Analyst Reports

Analyst Reports

IDC: H5 — Combining Technology and Process Expertise to Facilitate Information Retrieval for Information Retention and eDiscovery

This vendor profile offers an evaluation of H5 and discusses H5's unique combination of technology and human expertise for search and review. [read]

The 451 Group: H5 Puts Data in Its Place with First Product Release, a Document Classifier

Independent technology-industry analyst company The 451 Group provides a review of the H5 EDGE Classifier. [read]

Taneja Group: H5 and Information Governance: Lowering Risk, Lowering Cost

This opinion piece discusses challenges of information governance and how the H5 EDGE Classifier helps organizations meet these challenges. [read]

H5 White Papers

The Professionalization of Search and Review in E-Discovery

KMWorld
This article discusses the need to recognize legal "search" as a professional expert discipline and ways in which information retrieval expertise can reduce costs and mitigate risks. It also explains the leading role of TREC in developing standards for e-discovery search methods. [read]

Court Opinions Show Path toward More Defensible Document Review

H5 White Paper
This paper analyzes three recent opinions by Judge Paul Grimm and Judge John Facciola. Together these opinions provide useful guidance as to how discovery of electronically stored information should be conducted today in order to successfully defend against challenges and thereby avoid incurring the massive costs and legal risks that come with losing such challenges. [read]

Concept Search: Perceived Security, Actual Risk

H5 White Paper
This paper reviews the academic literature on query-based approaches to information retrieval, summarizes the limitations of these approaches, and identifies the key challenges that a successful solution to document review and management problems must overcome. [read]

Benchmarking the Document Review Process

H5 White Paper
This paper discusses a framework for the quantitative evaluation of review solutions along the three key factors of time to completion, cost, and accuracy/risk of missing relevant documents. [read]

Performance and Knowledge of Performance: H5's Quality Assurance Protocol

H5 White Paper
This paper gives a scientific explanation of how H5 maintains and ensures the quality of its results. [read]

Searching in All the Wrong Places: The Effectiveness of Search Tools in E-Discovery

Digital Discovery & e-Evidence
This paper surveys academic studies of the performance of search tools and other information retrieval methodologies. [read]