Autonomy's New Autonomy Activeknowledge™ Technology Brings All Of A Company's Intellectual Assets To Bear On Employee's Daily Work
As Employees Work, Autonomy ActiveKnowledge™ Automatically Brings The Best Internal And External Information To Them, Eliminating Need To Stop Work And Conduct Online Research
San Francisco, Calif. (April 7, 1999) - Autonomy, Inc. today unveiled its new Autonomy ActiveKnowledge™ technology, designed to eliminate the need to halt the work process in order to conduct an Internet or intranet search. As an employee goes about writing a document, creating a PowerPoint presentation, or reading or writing email messages, Autonomy's ActiveKnowledge™ technology automatically analyzes the ideas involved and provides real-time links to relevant internal and external information. These recommended links may include relevant news articles from newsfeeds or Web sites, Lotus Notes files, email messages, word processing files and even the contact information for colleagues working in a similar area.
Autonomy's new ActiveKnowledge™ technology will be incorporated into Autonomy's Knowledge Management Suite 2.0, which is scheduled for release later this spring.
Changing The Way People Work
According to Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, online research is often made into a separate preparatory phase that can take up too much of an employee's valuable time and is often eliminated due to fast, approaching deadlines. "In theory, employees have a wide range of information at their fingertips, from internal documents to breaking news on the Web, but they must stop what they are doing and devote time and energy to find those useful nuggets," said Lynch. "Autonomy ActiveKnowledge™ does the work for them so that they can make informed decisions faster, eliminate duplication of labor and bring their entire company's intellectual assets to bear in their daily work. That is why it will fundamentally change the knowledge management paradigm and render alternative approaches obsolete."
Delphi Group Executive Vice President Carl Frappaolo, a leading authority on knowledge management, explained that many companies make the mistake of seeing knowledge management systems as specialized adjunct applications instead of useful day-to-day tools. "Autonomy ActiveKnowledge™ technology positions knowledge management as an integral part of day-to-day business functions performed by employees -- whether they are writing a new business presentation, a marketing report or an e-mail message," said Frappaolo. "Too often companies create a knowledge management system that is cumbersome to maintain or is underutilized because it requires too much effort to use. By positioning Autonomy ActiveKnowledge™ as an integral part of the business process, user resistance is limited and utilization should be significantly and positively impacted."
Autonomy's Knowledge Management Suite 2.0
Autonomy's Knowledge Management Suite includes a Knowledge Server, which automates the categorization and hyperlinking of large volumes of information and profiles employee expertise as well as the Knowledge Update, a personalized report that helps employees keep abreast of developments relevant to their jobs. According to Lynch, Autonomy's Knowledge Management Suite makes it easy for employees to find the insight they need to increase productivity, eliminate duplication of effort, identify colleagues with relevant expertise and make smarter decisions. "Autonomy's full automated solution is designed to allow companies to achieve these results with minimal fuss," said Lynch. "Other knowledge management systems rely on outdated, less-than-accurate keyword-based technologies or tagging systems that require lots of manual labor to implement and maintain."
Autonomy's Knowledge Server 2.0 helps companies:
Automate the accurate categorization of large volumes of both internal and external information, including word processing documents, Lotus Notes files, email messages, PDF files and information from news feeds and Web sites.
Automatically insert hypertext links to related information whenever an employee retrieves a document, email message or web page using Autonomy's Knowledge Server 2.0. Because links are created at the time of retrieval, they are always kept up to date. If an employee retrieves a 6-month old presentation, he will still get a real-time link to a relevant email message sent that morning.
Automatically profile the expertise of all employees by analyzing the documents they produce as well as the information they research online.
Make it easy for employees to find information they need by suggesting relevant sources, including email messages, word processing files, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, Lotus Notes archives, intranet file servers, SQL/ODBC databases, live chat/IRC, newsfeeds and even the contact information of colleagues with relevant experience.
Provide an easy-to-navigate visual interface, that presents a unified view of disparate information sources and shows employees how the information is related. (Visualizer Module)
Autonomy's Knowledge Update eliminates the need for employees to surf the Internet and Intranet just to stay-up-to-speed on developments that are relevant to their jobs. In conjunction with the Live Alert module, it monitors hundreds of specified internal and external sources, creates a personalized report with information relevant to the individual's specific job and alerts the user as soon as the information appears.
Availability for Autonomy's Knowledge Management Suite
Autonomy's Knowledge Management Suite 2.0 is scheduled to ship this spring and runs on Windows NT and most versions of Unix.
About Autonomy:
Autonomy (www.autonomy.com) develops software that automatically organizes large, unstructured volumes of information into personally relevant communications to help corporate Intranets and commercial Web sites serve the changing needs and interests of users. That's because Autonomy's technology is capable of analyzing any piece of text and extracting (and ranking) the main ideas. Autonomy's products for knowledge management and new media publishing save time, labor and money by automatically and precisely categorizing, linking, personalizing and searching large volumes of information. The intelligent pattern recognition technology that fuels Autonomy's software was originally developed by Autonomy's sister company, Neurodynamics, for use in intelligence and defense applications. That technology is at the heart of the British police force's Holmes2 system, named after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. The Holmes2 system helps the police solve crimes by matching fingerprints or by finding similarities and connections in disparate crime witness statements or police reports. The same technology is now being used to find connections in commercial data.
Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, England. Autonomy customers include News Corp., MacMillan Publishing, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, Shell International, Semi-Tech, Clorox, British Aerospace, Procter & Gamble, XOOM, Reuters, Merrill Lynch, SF Gate, The Royal Mail and Unilever. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ exchange. The company's current valuation is over $300 million.
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