HP and Autonomy to Effect Change on Each Other
October 11, 2011
It was recently announced that HP would acquire Autonomy for $10 billion. The article, Exclusive: HP’s New Software Guy Hints at Products to Come, on InfoWorld discusses the changes coming to HP due to the merger as told and hinted at by Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy in a recent interview.
Autonomy’s major product, IDOL Structured Probabilistic Engine (SPE), is described by Lynch as “advanced probabilistic technology for unstructured information…bring(ing) business intelligence to structured data. IDOL SPE can automatically make connections in the data that the standard search engine cannot,” as quoted by a recent EWeek articlehighlighting Autonomy reconfiguration of the tool.
That directional intent on structured data, however, is not seen in the InfoWorld article. Rather, Lynch is quoted as saying,
Unstructured information growth is so high now, and it’s becoming such a core part of what we have to do within the enterprise, that it’s time for the database to be eclipsed by something that can handle both rather than just one type of information.
It will be interesting to see in what direction Autonomy moves now that their acquisition by HP is a done deal. Will they continue to move into the structured data management direction or turn their attention back to unstructured data? How will HP’s contributions play into their decisions? Regardless of how Autonomy’s IDOL SPE changes HP will definitely see some changes thanks to Autonomy’s innovating ideas and services.
Catherine Lamsfuss, October 11, 2011
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