Autonomy Wins Spanish Health Service Deal
July 9, 2008
On July 8, 2008, my trusty news reader displayed “Spanish Health Service Provider Selects Autonomy to Deliver Innovation within Healthcare.” You can read more about the deal here. Hard on the heels of a slam dunk in Lyon, France, Autonomy appears to be mounting a sales charge in Western Europe.
The most interesting part of this deal is that it is in health care, one of the niches that search and content processing vendors are pursuing. Autonomy’s angle is health care modernization, which I think blends content processing and operational efficiencies. One part of the new system will “provide alerts on patient prescription conflicts as part of a national project.”
Some Spanish government agencies have been flirting with open source. Autonomy leveraged its IDOL (intelligent data operating layer) into a key position in this region, which is smaller than other Spanish governmental units.
Kudos to the Autonomy sales team. If I am able to determine if this was a clean win or an upsell from a previous Verity installation, I will include that detail in an update to this news item. I am seeing a flood of Autonomy related news and interviews with Autonomy professionals. Lots of activity from this giant in search, content processing, and related systems. In fact, from where I sit, Autonomy’s ramp up parallels Google’s “transparency” PR push. One oddity I noted is that Microsoft Fast Search has gone quiet in the search marketing visibility arena.
Stephen Arnold, July 9, 2008
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Hi Steve,
I support your comments re:strategic importance of Search projects in health care. Spot on! This is yet “virgin land” for search software vendors and integrators.
Regarding your thoughts on whether this has been a K2 upsell or not, I can assure you, as the project manager of this project, that it has been an IDOL 7 implementation from scratch. We (Colbenson SL) have been not only the integrator that implemented this system but also the “thinkers” (naturally in collaboration with the SES team of truely innovative business champions) behind the concept of autonomy as the intelligent repository of drugs , patient records and clinical analysis databases.
This project has been a success and has delivered real tangible value!
If you are interested in knowing a bit more about this project, or other vertical search projects we´ve been recently involved in (i.e. Legal, Banks, Press, etc), I´ll be glad to present them to you in more detail.
more on : http://www.colbenson.es/blog (sorry it´s in Spanish, we´ll work in an englosh version after the summer)
Regards,
Borja Ramirez
Thanks for the additional information. Feel free to contact me if you want to do a short write up for Beyond Search. Keep me posted on this project. I bet the open source folks will be watching how the project stays on track, within budget, and helps people.
Stephen Arnold, July 10, 2008
Stephen, I see you are well informed on what happens with Spanish Gov and open source, there is been a lot of flitring as you say, and into the private sector too.
However, in my view there is no overlap between open source and complex text processing software. On the contrary there is a potential overlap on most Site Search or more basic retrieval scenarios.
Angel, you are correct… for Spain. In some countries–Germany comes to mind–the picture is more complex. As the global economy deteriorates, I expect push back for certain procurements that may carry big price tags. In those circumstances, folks like the honchos at the Eclipse Foundation will be quick to assert that open source provides a better deal for a taxpayer. Will it? Governments are not very efficient, but the vote getting power of an open source pitch may be more persuasive that a slick marketing professional’s PowerPoint.
Stephen Arnold, July 12, 2008, 11 32 am Eastern
Definitely open source is more persuasive and fits well on a politician PowerPoint…
Thanks for your blog and the thinking it inspires…
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