Autonomy: Leading the Search Herd with Its Positioning

March 26, 2008

Autonomy Corporation rolled out its Pan-Enterprise Search platform at a trade show in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2008.

The company has been able to stay one or two steps ahead of other behind-the-firewall search vendors since the company rolled out its “portal in a box” campaign in 1999. Autonomy was first out of the gate with its smart desktop search system Kenjin in 2000. Then Autonomy was one of the first search-and-retrieval vendors to redefine its system as a platform.

Today’s announcement gives IDOL a positioning that may force super platform vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle to do a better job of explaining what their behind-the-firewall systems deliver to a customer.

The Sun Herald quoted Mike Lynch, founder and chief executive officer of Autonomy, as saying:

Despite standardization efforts, information is scattered across the enterprise among different vendors’ software, in different formats, and among numerous servers and laptops. Autonomy’s Pan-Enterprise Search platform is the only FRCP [Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]-compliant enterprise search platform available in the market, delivering a single unified and vendor-neutral platform for searching all [sic] file formats and media-types for legal and business purposes.”

New IDOL features in the Pan-Enterprise Search platform include video indexing, enhanced geographic clustering, and an improved relevancy method. The new approach–intent-based ranking–uses algorithms to determine a user’s intent. Autonomy asserts that its new approach matches results to the user’s context. Autonomy said it made changes to enhance system performance. A new multi-dimensional index rounds out the information platform.

Additional information about the Pan-Enterprise Search platform is available from Autonomy.

Stephen Arnold, March 26, 2008

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