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Autonomy Taps 'Ant Intelligence' to Teach Application Intelligence to Enterprise Search
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New Search Paradigm Incorporates Business Applications and Dynamic Data Sources to Improve Corporations' Access to Information
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 7// -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE:AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced the next generation of enterprise search, with the introduction of Intelligent Ant technology. This new search paradigm is the latest enhancement to the company's leading edge infrastructure platform, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL). By complementing traditional spidering techniques with Intelligent Ant technology, Autonomy is significantly enhancing the quality and relevance of searches within the enterprise, enabling customers to receive real-time results from business applications and from dynamic data sources. Autonomy is the first vendor to deliver this technology.
"Nowadays, workers performing electronic searches want access to far more of the data available to their companies - and better technologies for delivering it," says Whit Andrews, research vice president, Gartner. "This new era demands fresh approaches to designing intelligent search systems and a new metaphor for the process of discovering, distilling and delivering information." Gartner published research written by Mr.
Andrews titled When Ants Beat Spiders: Toward Better Enterprise Search Tools.
By incorporating Intelligent Ant functionality into Autonomy's IDOL platform, Autonomy is expanding what is searchable within an enterprise.
This reaches far beyond static documents and relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to a wide range of corporate applications, as well as information on the World Wide Web. This ensures all relevant search results are delivered to users. Intelligent Ant technology is a software element that mimics the behavior of ants, traversing relevant business applications and data sources periodically so they know the best paths to take to deliver relevant results quickly.
"Now workers can automatically access virtually any source of information across the corporate network and the world wide web to get real-time results, all from a single, easy to use interface," said Dr. Mike Lynch, chief executive officer, Autonomy. "Automating the understanding of information contained in these data sources further delivers on Autonomy's vision of Meaning-Based Computing."
About IDOL
At the heart of Autonomy's infrastructure software is the Intelligent Data Operating Layer(TM) (IDOL). IDOL sits above an organization's data and serves as a platform for the conceptual and contextual understanding of information in an enterprise. This complete infrastructure layer allows for the automatic categorization, tagging, linking, retrieval and profiling of all forms of unstructured information in real-time regardless of repository. It automatically analyzes any piece of information from 1,000 different content formats, including text, voice or video and delivers over 500 functions including hyperlinking, agents, summarization, taxonomy generation, retrieval, channels, clustering, eduction, profiling, sentiment analysis, collaboration, and alerting.
The IDOL platform provides a flexible framework incorporating the essential attributes of an enterprise infrastructure platform:
o Scalability - a linearly scalable system that can grow with the evolving information needs of an organization.
o Mapped Security - delivering document and intra-document access control against user, group and role level entitlement
o Global Language Support - to enable the delivery of content in multiple languages
o Support for Future Technologies - delivered through an architecture that is extensible and can grow and adapt to new requirements and technologies.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, compliance and litigation solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including BAE Systems, Boeing, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Shell, AOL, BBC, Reuters, Hutchison 3G, Ericsson, T-Mobile, Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Lloyds TSB, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. Autonomy has over 300 OEM partners and more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Vignette, TIBCO, Stellent, Symantec and Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, specialist in Real-Time Enterprise Governance; Virage, a visionary in Rich Media Management and Security and Surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products, and Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Autonomy Editorial Contacts:
Winifred Shum Ali Merifield
Autonomy Bite Communications (UK)
+1-408-542-2363
wshum@autonomy.com +44-(0)20-8834-3441
+44-(0)20-8741-1123
ali.merifield@bitepr.com
Edward Bridges Marijke Shugrue
Financial Dynamics Bite Communications (US)
+44-207-831-3113 +1-212-857-9376
edward.bridges@fd.com marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com
Source: Autonomy Corporation plc
Winifred Shum, Autonomy, +1-408-542-2363, wshum@autonomy.com, Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics, +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com, Ali Merifield, Bite Communications (UK), +44-(0)20-8834-3441, +44-(0)20-8741-1123, ali.merifield@bitepr.com, Marijke Shugrue, Bite Communications (US), +1-212-857-9376, marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com
