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Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including call center, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise portals, enterprise resource planning, online publishing and security applications.

The Autonomy Group includes: Autonomy ZANTAZ, the leader in the archiving, e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets; Autonomy Cardiff, a leading provider of Intelligent Document solutions; Autonomy etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products, Autonomy Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology and Autonomy Meridio, a leading provider of records management software.

Autonomy's customer base includes more than 17,000 global companies and organizations, including BAE Systems, Ford, Ericsson, Royal Sun Alliance, Sun Microsystems and public sector agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. Strategic reseller and OEM partners include leading companies such as ATG, BEA, Business Objects, Brio, Citrix, Computer Associates, EDS, IBM Global Services, iManage, Novell, Novient, Vignette and Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.

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Why is Autonomy Different?

Autonomy has a number of unusual distinguishing features that, combined together, have created a potent business mix and have produced a truly unique company and technology. This unique combination has delivered unsurpassed, cost effective, high performance, operationally proven solutions and an enviable client list.

Autonomy's Pedigree

The advanced pattern recognition technology that fuels Autonomy's software, originally developed by Neurodynamics, is based on world-leading probabilistic modelling and digital signal processing technologies developed from research at Cambridge University.

Autonomy's Sales & Distribution Strategy

In distinct contrast to other software companies who derive 40-50% of their revenues from services, Autonomy 's strong focus on the indirect channel as a revenue stream enables it to pass virtually all low-margin services to Integrators, Value Added Resellers (VARs), Application Service Providers (ASPs) and distribution partners. The alternative - chosen by many software and technology companies - is to fulfil low margin opportunities and pursue a "solutions selling model". In the short term such a model sometimes creates fast revenue growth but always demands the immediate deployment of additional resources, normally in the form of headcount. As a result, in the medium term this proves not to be a scalable business - due to the need to continually grow headcount in relation to revenues - and in the long-term results in lower operating margins and profitability.

In addition, Autonomy's go-to-market strategy places strong emphasis on leveraging channel partners, thus functioning as a significant and sustainable revenue stream without the headcount growth otherwise needed. This is particularly the case with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners, which ties Autonomy's revenue growth to large and rapidly growing enterprise, web or new media software markets but does not require material input after integration.

Autonomy's Profits & Gross Margins

Ultimately, profit is the "proof of the pudding" of any business success story. Autonomy reports under US GAAP which means we can be directly compared with US technology companies. Such comparison shows that Autonomy's gross margins remain high and reflect the fact that we are all about selling software, not generating revenues from services such as implementation and customization for particular customers. Companies with 60-70%gross margins will typically be in this situation due to the services they sell as part of a software sale, or because they resell someone else's product. Autonomy does neither.

On top of Autonomy's product business, revenue is generated through IP licensing to other software vendors (OEM's). Ongoing royalties are generated to Autonomy by OEM's selling their product containing Autonomy technology - these revenues are 100%gross margin revenues, and extremely scalable since no ongoing effort is required from Autonomy to grow sales by OEM partners.

Autonomy's headcount growth in relation to its revenue growth is decoupled. There is virtually no correlation between revenues and the number of employees and, as a result, revenues have historically grown exponentially while headcount has grown sub-linearly.

The effect of OEM's 100% gross margin royalties multiplies the effect of this important differentiator even separating, perhaps uniquely, any linkage to sales headcount.

Autonomy's Technology

Autonomy's technology enables computers to form an understanding of a page of text, web pages, e-mails, voice, documents and people and is therefore able to power any application dependant upon unstructured information within every market sector, including: e-commerce, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise information portals and online publishing applications. This is evidenced by the significant penetration of the technology in a diversity of vertical markets and has been achieved because every market sector needs to manage and leverage the benefits of unstructured information.

Autonomy employs a fundamentally different and unique combination of pattern matching, signal processing and Bayesian inference technologies. This unique combination also provides a unique combination of advantages:

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An Autonomy Review of 2007

2007 was another outstanding year for Autonomy by every measure, with record results driven by strong organic growth, and the ZANTAZ acquisition. Autonomy performed ahead of analyst consensus expectations, driven by the fundamental shift in the IT world towards the usage of unstructured information, and the secondary drivers of regulatory changes such as the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure resulting in a convergence of legal and operational information systems. Throughout 2007 we consolidated our industry leadership position, and finished the year as the undisputed leader in pan-enterprise search and meaning based computing.

Autonomy continues to deliver strong results:

Evidenced by record Q407 and full year results:

"Autonomy remains unchallenged as customers seek to comply with new regulatory and compliance requirements" - Seymour Pierce, January 2008

"Autonomy is well exposed to the compliance and litigation market, which is currently a must-have investment area for many companies, especially in the financial services sector" - Merrill Lynch, January 2008

"We believe Autonomy's broad and deep product set, which goes beyond simple Enterprise search and covers the broader meaning-based computing arena (encompassing its flagship IDOL software, together with ZANTAZ's archiving capabilities and the Aungate suite of products), positions it as the only beneficiary of this trend among the pure-play search vendors" - Goldman Sachs, January 2008

"Autonomy is a gorilla in its target areas of enterprise search. Its strong execution in these markets is resulting in positive earnings growth and surprises as these markets go through a structural step change in IT spend" - Panmure Gordon, January 2008

"Autonomy is leading the industry on both complete product offerings and innovation and its success in larger deals will act as a catalyst for more standardization deals and its emergence as the dominant corporate standard." - Citigroup July 2007

Industry Awards

Industry accolades and recognition of Autonomy's leadership position at the forefront of infrastructure technology have been widespread since the company was founded in 1996.

	Autonomy CEO and founder Dr Mike Lynch Named Innovator of the Year During the European Business Leaders Awards 2008 Presented by CNBC Europe in Partnership with the Financial Times.
	Autonomy Recognized as the Best Performing Software Company in Europe. Award Presented by the EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media - Miss Viviane Reading.
	Autonomy Selected as One of KMWORLD Magazine's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management".
	Autonomy etalk Receives 2007 Product Of The Year Award Presented by Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine.
	Autonomy wins Best Government Solution and Best Technology Provider at Gartner IT ChannelVision.
	ZANTAZ Wins Deloitte Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies.

Autonomy one of the best performing stocks on the LSE:

Recent Customer Wins

In addition, Autonomy has won contracts with multiple government, defence and intelligence agencies around the globe including in the U.S., France, China, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, the U.K., Spain and Canada.