Autonomy and Search: A Surprise Regarding Search

June 9, 2014

I was flipping through the Overflight links for HP Autonomy. One item caught my attention. The tweet pointed me to the HP Autonomy Web site at this link http://bit.ly/1hJQXzx. IDOL is now at version 10.5. Keep in mind that the system was rolled out in 1996, so big leaps are not what I expect. HP defines Autonomy in terms of these functions or applications:

Big Data Analytics
Compliance Archiving
Contact Center Management
Database & Application Archiving
Document and Email Management
Enterprise Search
Knowledge Management
Legal Hold
Litigation Readiness Archiving
Media Intelligence
Policy-driven Information Management
Records Management
Rich Media Management
SFA Intelligence
Storage Optimization Archiving
Supervision & Policy Management
Video Surveillance
Voice of the Customer
Web Experience Management
Web Optimization

Quite a list of buzzwords. With Elasticsearch toting around $70 million, it might be difficult for HP to get IDOL to pay off the $11 billion purchase price, grow its top line revenues, and generate enough profit to keep stakeholders happy. One thing HP has going for it. HP is explaining IDOL search somewhat more clearly than IBM describes Watson. By the way, what is “SFA Intelligence.” I suppose I could ask Watson if there were a public demo.

Stephen E Arnold, June 9, 2014

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Marketing, News, Search

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.