Autonomy Releases Second Major Technology
September 17, 2009
eWeek ran an interesting article “Autonomy Retools Search Engine to Work in Databases” on September 16, 2009. The core of the story consists of statements made by Autonomy to the eWeek writer, Chris Preimesberger, about a major enhancement to Autonomy’s technology. The gist of the innovation is that Autonomy can process structured and unstructured information. One quote that caught my attention was:
“Autonomy was built on one fundamental technology, IDOL, that brought meaning to human friendly information,” Lynch said. “IDOL SPE is our second fundamental technology and ushers the database market into the era of Meaning Based Computing. Organizations are now able to free data from rigid structures to deliver relevance and understanding that can impact literally every type of computing application.” Autonomy’s IDOL SPE is available now in limited release as a standalone product or as an add-on accelerator to existing database applications.
A battle in dataspace is looming between Autonomy and Google, whose technical papers suggest a similar functionality under development. IBM DB2, Oracle, and business intelligence companies may face severe disruption if Autonomy and others get traction in this new frontier.
Stephen Arnold, September 17, 2009
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