Autonomy enables users to search across numerous repositories – and even multiple languages – using a single query. Results from all repositories are returned in a single unified results list. Relevance can be normalized across all repositories, enabling users to compare relevance across multiple repositories easily. Users may also choose to keep the original relevance scoring.
Autonomy AQF
Autonomy can perform federated searches across multiple, disparate resources, including:
Federation across the enterprise from desktop, to corporate intranet, to external valuable repositories (FDA data for pharma)
Web federation
Federated queries to other search engines
IDOL federates the query to a subsystem it has identified as the correct specialist based on its conceptual understanding of the query itself. For example, if a user enters a shipment tracking number, IDOL recognizes from the form of the query that the shipping company will be most likely to return the correct result, and federates the query to that system. In this way, unlike alternative approaches, IDOL avoids bombarding all of the systems with the same query – and simply selects the one most likely to return the specialist result. Using the hybrid spider and ant technology, AQF updates what is happening to rapidly changing data and trains itself to use the optimum search technique. For each query, it can identify whether it is better to look in internal applications for data, or whether to search for fresh information and update the index dynamically.
When Spiders Talk to Ants
The information that drives the enterprise comes from an ever-increasing number of sources. Experts estimate that by the end of 2008, 20% of results in new information access projects will be refreshed every time a query is entered. The average worker is dealing with information overload on a daily basis - how to process it, where to locate it and how to derive meaning from it. Increasingly, workers familiar with consumer search technologies expect access to all forms of data, including information from the Internet, and not just static files.
At the moment, most search engines use spiders that navigate an information web and create a basic configuration of the linked documents. By rebuilding the image from scratch at defined intervals, the spider creates a simplified picture of the overall structure of the network it is searching. In between those time intervals, however, the information can easily become outdated and the results returned irrelevant. Spiders are unable to return real-time, dynamic information.
Ant technologies, on the other hand, respond to the current landscape and deal with rapid changes. Real ants do not formulate a conceptual image of the landscape as they explore; they simply relay new discoveries back to the colony, which responds in a dynamic fashion. Software ants behave similarly, in that each ant will travel familiar paths to find the most relevant piece of information. However, in the Internet Age, ants are required to make periodic investigations of relevant enterprise applications to ensure they locate the optimum route and deliver results quickly.
The solution lies in a hybrid of both technologies where the two work together to access and deliver relevant information. Spiders go about their normal tasks, such as monitoring and analyzing information, then relay the information to an ant. When something changes, ants learn from the variation and can pass it along in real-time. Variations allow ants to adapt and optimize the way in which information is gathered. Systems react instantly because updates are reported immediately and new paths are dynamically created.
Summary: ...knowledge can result in incomplete submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and ultimately serious delays in the regulatory approval process. Similarly, the inability to access the results of prior work on specific compounds can result in costly, time consuming and avoidable duplication of...
Summary: ...enables ABN AMRO to make pertinent information available and to identify experts within the group rapidly, avoiding potential risks associated with the use of outdated information, breaking up information silos, eradicating the duplication of efforts and increasing productivity. On a different but equally...
Summary: ...online business strategies, that also empowered the subject matter experts or the publishers, forced us to re-examine all our processes and procedures for content creation. We really had to start from scratch in order to establish a clear picture of how we produced material, how knowledge was created...
Summary: ...system with next-generation enterprise search and analysis capabilities. VMS relies on numerous capabilities of Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), including its following capabilities: • Automatically ingest more than150,000 index-able documents every day. • Return meaningful information...
Summary: ...system with next-generation enterprise search and analysis capabilities. VMS relies on numerous capabilities of Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), including its following capabilities: • Automatically ingest more than150,000 index-able documents every day. • Return meaningful information...
Summary: ...Channel 4 - Case Study. Forms make it simple to make text updates to sites, while maintaining complete consistency in branding and user experience. Graphics and video can be managed easily with an intuitive, easy to use system that allows users to find, tag and upload content quickly. Updates and video...
Summary: ...n Osborne Clarke is able to gain further business efficiencies through even wider knowledge sharing n The firm has seen a much better use of external databases and higher return on investment n Private documents’ accessibility issues are being solved much faster Osborne Clarke Powers Firm-wide Search...
Summary: ...Meeting regulatory requirements for data retention As a multi-specialty physician practice, research facility and university, the UNT Health Science Center must comply with a host of legislation, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Summary: ...marketers (who are wondering “how can I up-sell or cross-sell this customer?”), for engineers (“is the product working as planned?”), and for service and support departments (“how can I stay ahead of what’s happening and sell the customer the best support plans?”). Getting fast answers to...
Summary: ...for the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotech markets. The company has been market leaders in the design and manufacture of innovative containment systems for over 25 years with a well established product range delivering optimum operator and product protection satisfying the most demanding applications...
Summary: ...Team Leaders could spend more time - as much as 80 percent - on their core function of agent skill development. Qfiniti made it easy for them to evaluate customer/agent interactions and spot potential problems quickly, make adjustments and ensure optimum customer satisfaction. In addition, Qfiniti seamlessly...
Summary: ...and distributor networks to place orders and retrieve status online, 24/7. Immediately popular, Internet FYI grew and new applications were developed and delivered. However, the site soon proved burdensome to the company’s understaffed IT department tasked with administering thousands of users and rapidly...
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Summary: ...profile of the information usage of each user. The system can then identify user’s current interests to refine search accuracy without any manual input and deliver targeted updates instantly. Agents – Agents can be created to deliver conceptually related information based on users’ profiles and...
Summary: ...from results • Fast query speeds Federation • Search criteria can be pre-processed and results post-processed in nearly any way imaginable • Intelligently selects the specialist most likely to return a query result, avoiding the need to bombard multiple systems with the same query • Automatically...
Summary: ...proactive security CCTV surveillance is a significant component of modern security. Independent analyst research suggests that there are currently 25 million CCTV cameras worldwide, and this number is set to increase by 37% by 2009. However, indiscriminate recording is not the answer. Poor quality footage...
Summary: ...builds the necessary redundancy into the projections it creates such that a DBA-specified number of site failures can occur without compromising the system. Vertica’s approach to recovery avoids bogging down database performance with expensive logging and two-phase commit operations. Hybrid architecture...
Summary: ...or dies within the organization. Echo follows a file’s path and history and can report on who or what the asset has influenced. It can not only follow a traffic pattern such as the path of an email attachment or voice mail (i.e. the what and when of who read, heard, forwarded and retained it), but also...
Summary: ...of taxonomy generation, allowing experts to focus on the details that really matter. A Unique Approach Autonomy takes a unique, holistic approach to taxonomy generation that strikes the optimum balance between automating processes and support for manual refinement, meaning it’s not an either/or choice....
Summary: ...Vertica’s cost-based Query Optimizer relies on accurate databases statistics to produce the optimum query execution plan. Vertica 5.0 implements essential improvements, enabling administrators to maintain regularly updated database statistics: ? Statistics may be analyzed on a per column basis ? Statistics...
Summary: ...costs incurred by downloading a document over the WAN every time it is requested. Deep integration with remote monitoring and management tools enable a system administrator to easily track and analyze cache performance remotely and to tune the cache for optimum performance. APIs enable administrators...
Summary: ...from local or remote Stellent Content Servers • Import module built-in (see Import Module Technical Brief). • Stellent Fetch behaves as a standard Autonomy Service and can be used in conjunction with DiSH. Features This means that when a document originating from a Stellent Content Server is returned...
Summary: ...with DiSH. Features Content that is stored in IDOL server™ can optionally be returned as plain text in the normal way, with the loss of its original formatting but a decrease in time taken to return the content. Please note, it is necessary to have a local Oracle database or SQL*NET or NET8 to access...
Summary: ...module built-in (see Import Module Technical Brief). • eGain Fetch behaves as a standard Autonomy Service and can be used in conjunction with DiSH. Features This means that when a document originating from an eGain data repository is returned as a link, clicking on the link will automatically pass control...
Summary: ...Import module built-in (see Import Module Technical Brief). • ODBC Fetch behaves as a standard Autonomy Service and can be used in conjunction with DiSH. Features This means that when a document originating from an ODBC database is returned as a link, clicking on the link will automatically pass control...
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Summary: ...Internationalization and Advanced Linguistics White Paper page nine Figure 4: Autonomy document level property model Autonomy does not require the use of stemming rules, as the statistical analysis would normally determine the importance and relationship of those words automatically. However, an initial...
Summary: ...search criteria to be pre-processed and results post-processed in nearly any way imaginable. • Intelligently selects the specialist most likely to return a query result, avoiding the need to bombard multiple sources with the same query. • Automatically merges results from different search engines...
Summary: ...BI teams perform more batch loads with smaller volumes of data, often using change data capture mechanisms to update only those data elements that have changed since the prior interval, instead of refreshing all data from scratch. Depending on the volume of data, BI administrators can drive these mini-batch...
Summary: ...Autonomy Whitepaper - The Power of Autonomy IDOL. This process requires a tremendous amount of effort to sort and distill unstructured information into tidy rows and columns. Using the outmoded processes just described, however, creates an increasingly impossible task as the sheer quantity of data—particularly...
Summary: ...convenience stores, supermarkets, pubs and clubs and fast food outlets. More than ever companies are seeking new measures to combat this illegal activity, however, many businesses still only rely on manual surveillance techniques alone. Research carried out indicates that businesses lost as much as $60...
Summary: ...the keyword “ford,” it would return every instance where that word was matched. This includes a host of irrelevant data and every time someone writes something like “When you get to the airport, look for the blue Ford,” the system would flag the compliance officer. Not only would this be a waste...
Summary: ...or installation instructions. Normally, at this point the automation of supply chain management breaks down, as human beings manually have to process such information or worse, the information is discarded or fails to be recognized at all. Similarly, the same issues can be seen to exist with commerce...
Summary: ...laws regarding transparency requirements, businesses are increasingly aware of the risks of poor governance practices. There is a heightened realization of the need to consistently govern all content types and source targets. The traditional focus on email is outdated, and archive strategies must now...
Summary: ...passwords, the software is left vulnerable to intrusion. It is pertinent that you not only change passwords after the initial install, but change them frequently thereafter. Default port numbers should also be changed after the installation. Maintain a Secure System Systems should be regularly updated...
Summary: ...PCI Compliance - White Paper. The updated PCI-DSS guidelines recognize that the recording of sensitive customer data may occasionally be required by law, but guides that every possible effort must first be made to eliminate sensitive authentication data. In the event this data must be recorded, “there...
Summary: ...Server™. Connected Backup follows Microsoft best practices for security patches. All unnecessary accounts and services are removed. Anti-Virus All Windows systems for Connected Backup run enterprise-level anti-virus software, updated regularly. Auditing Autonomy’s servers log all file accesses, policy...
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