Kronos Extends Use of Autonomy Cardiff LiquidBPM


Customers Benefit From Advanced Integration of Business Process Platform for Automating Manual Processes

VISTA, California, March 12 - Cardiff, a division of Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) and leading provider of intelligent document solutions, today announced that Kronos Incorporated has selected the Cardiff LiquidBPM platform for expanded use as the foundation for the delivery of industry-leading business process capabilities to its customer base. Kronos, a global provider of human capital management solutions, empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce.

Cardiff's LiquidBPM is a robust and easily embedded business process management (BPM) software development kit (SDK) that brings advanced process management capabilities to existing applications and systems. Ideal for independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs), the LiquidBPM SDK is designed from the ground-up for rapid and tight integration with enterprise and vertical applications. The Cardiff platform delivers embeddable components in key areas related to BPM including process modeling, process orchestration and real-time process management and reporting.

"Kronos enables organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Delivering a seamless integration of Cardiff's world-class BPM platform enables the repeatable execution of best-practice processes for our customers in all industries," said Peter George, Kronos'chief technology officer.

"Cardiff's LiquidBPM is fundamentally designed to be integrated as an embedded component of leading solutions like Kronos' Workforce Central suite," said Mark Seamans, Cardiff's chief executive officer. "Kronos has taken full advantage of LiquidBPM and has seamlessly incorporated BPM capabilities into its platform in a manner that is intuitive for its customers and includes powerful Kronos-specific tasks and information links."

The integrated workflow and business process management capabilities are available now as part of Kronos' Workforce Central suite.

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos Incorporated empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce. At Kronos, we are experts who are solely focused on delivering software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Kronos serves customers in more than 50 countries through its network of offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. Widely recognized as a market and thought leader in managing the workforce, Kronos has unrivaled reach with more than 30 million people using a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos at www.kronos.com

About Cardiff

Cardiff (www.cardiff.com) is a leading provider of software for intelligent document solutions that unify people, paper and process. Cardiff enables organizations to capture information from paper and electronic sources and to manage the process behind the form by embedding intelligence and enabling better visibility and control. As a result, businesses reduce operational costs, provide a rich customer experience and ensure compliance to organization and government regulation. Cardiff serves more than 8,000 customers worldwide, including many in the financial services, pharmaceutical, healthcare, education, government and manufacturing industries. Cardiff is an Autonomy Group company (LSE: AU. or AU.L)

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: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also 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, Stellent, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO and Vignette. 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.

Source: Autonomy Corporation plc

Autonomy Cardiff Editorial Contacts:

Winifred Shum,
Autonomy (US),
+1-408-542-2363,
wshum@autonomy.com

Edward Bridges,
Financial Dynamics (UK),
+44-207-831-3113,
edward.bridges@fd.com

Marijke Shugrue,
Bite Communications (US),
+1-212-857-9376,
marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com

Ali Merifield,
Bite Communications (UK),
+44-(0)20-8834-3441,
+44-(0)20-8741-1123,
ali.merifield@bitepr.com

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