Autonomy Upgrades Investigative System
November 15, 2008
Autonomy, based in Cambridge, England, continues to be one of the most agile of the information access and services company. The firm has updated its Intelligent Investigator & Early Case Assessment software. You can read about the story here or visit the Autonomy Web site for more details. Autonomy asserts that its software can understand the meaning of large volumes of data collected in an investigation or similar procedure. Once the structured and unstructured data are processed, an investigator can use the Autonomy system:
to reconstruct what occurred, develop informed case strategies and sweep aside non-responsive data. A seamless link with Autonomy Legal Hold software automatically provides a legally defensible preservation and collection process.
Features of the investigative system include:
- A case centric view of the data. The idea is that an investigator can get a bird’s eye view of information, events, persons of interest, and time in a matter
- A new feature to analyze data where it resides and provide answers to queries without building a collection and performing some of the manual tasks other systems require
- A risk component
- Enhanced entity extraction and alias identification
Other companies offer case management and investigative tools. Autonomy’s broad sweep of software and systems allows the company to provide a solution that can mesh with almost any organizational or legal requirement. Will Autonomy sweep the field in this market? I know the company will try? The challenge will be to convince investigative units and lawyers to try new methods. Investigators and lawyers can be like my grandmother–set in her ways. A number of search and content processing companies are looking closely at these specialized markets. When the economy goes south, legal activity goes north. Autonomy has demonstrated it knows which way the compass is spinning.
Stephen Arnold, November 15, 2008
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Stephen, from my experience of you you don’t tend to accept things at face value, so why acccept Autonomy’s own pr?
My experience of sites where Autonomy has been installed would indicate that although they claim what you say the reality is different. The consultancy fee for actual implementation of the application is more often than not more than the list price of the software; there is an obligation to have an Autonomy team do the implementation and an implication that Autonomy will be called in again later.
Barry,
Do you have specific facts that indicate Autonomy’s investigative tools are not as stated? I am an addled goose, but when an invetigative entity shows me Autonomy tools, that’s a good starting point for me. From my pond in Kentucky, may I politely suggest that you need to offer specific and facts that counters what I saw with my aging eyes. Feel free to post but the addled goose is skeptical of those who make assertions that don’t match the goose’s first hand information.
Stephen Arnold, November 15, 2008