Autonomy: An Interview with Andrew Kanter
November 18, 2008
Andrew Kanter is the chief operating officer of Autonomy, a vendor of enterprise infrastructure and content processing systems, participated in the Search Wizards Speak series. Mr. Kanter addressed a number of topics in this wide ranging discussing, including the firm’s “meaning based computing” technology and the company’s move into cloud computing and hosted services. Autonomy was founded in 1996, but the company has been at the forefront of advanced content processing for more than a decade. Some analysts peg Autonomy as the world’s largest vendor of search systems in the world. The firm’s system is described as a “pan enterprise search platform” and incorporates technology that handles content automatically via the firm’s intelligent data operating layer or IDOL system.
Mr. Kanter said about the tough financial climate that is burdening some information system vendors:
Autonomy has closed some of the biggest deals in our history in recent months, reaching to $20 million, $70 million and more. These companies themselves often don’t know what’s happening within their own walls until it’s too late. In some ways it’s a sad truth but there is always going to be a demand for this type of [Autonomy] solution, whatever happens to the macroeconomic climate.
Mr. Kanter also talked about Autonomy’s ability to index audio and video content which is proliferating at some organizations. He said:
These days it’s very rare that we have a purely text-centric installation because we naturally communicate as human beings through rich forms of information such as voice and video. Autonomy’s IDOL is at the heart of our Autonomy Virage technology, applying the same conceptual analysis to audio and video content as to text. Further, even if demand today is only for text, most enterprises want to have the capability of including audio and video at a later date. They are bringing into their systems conference calls, webinars and other rich media content. In fact, we are seeing an increase in customers using our Autonomy Virage rich media solutions across all verticals. The strength of the platform approach is enable the architecture to evolve to accommodate the enterprise’s changing needs, without having to rip everything out.
You can read the complete interview with Mr. Kanter on the ArnoldIT.com Web site. Navigate to http://www.arnoldit.com/search-wizards-speak/ or click here to access the interview directly.
Stephen Arnold, November 18, 2008
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