Autonomy Deconstructed

March 24, 2014

Autonomy has been broken up! According to InfoWorld article “HP Breaks Autonomy IDOl Into Discrete Services,” developers will be able to add advanced text processing compatibilities to their applications with a new PaaS option. HP Autonomy’s IDOL used to only be a software package, but the company sees it has to adapt.

“ ‘If we want to be successful as a platform today, we have to do more than create a large installable product. We have to enable it so developers can use it,’ said Robert Youngjohns, senior vice president and general manager of HP Autonomy.”

The new discrete services make the IDOL features available to enterprise developers, so they can augment their own applications and programs without writing the base code or using third-party libraries. The IDOL services are divided into two categories: stateless APIs and the ones that remain in the HP Cloud. IDOL 10.5 is the basis for the new offering. Eventually Youngjohns want all of IDOL’s features exposed for developers.

Mike Lynch took a “one product approach”now HP disaggregates IDOL’s applications. Was Dr. Lynch wrong about how to make money from IDOL? We’ll find out at when the next HP quarterly report’s financials become available.

Whitney Grace, March 24, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, News

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