Autonomy Technology Helps Leading Network Services Company To Create Online "Brains Trusts"
Automatic knowledge management puts intranet users in touch with one another's expertise
August 24, 1999 - Autonomy Systems Ltd. has concluded a licensing agreement with market-leading corporate intranet provider CNS, further developing a two-year relationship which has already seen the successful integration of Autonomy's technology into mission-critical CNS solutions for Government use.
Under the terms of the new agreement, CNS's Active Intranet product will embed Autonomy's unique pattern recognition technology to provide up-to-the-minute business intelligence information, by automatically categorizing and relating documents from numerous corporate sources, including corporate networks, intranets, and the World Wide Web.
Because of its ability to analyse any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of labour-intensive tasks. These range from categorising information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested.
CNS will use this technology to "cluster" information use, so that users interested in particular topics can participate in knowledge forums - essentially, a collection of online "Brains Trusts." In these forums, ideas and sources can not only be shared, but questions can actually be asked ("Who knows anything about hi-tech IPOs in European markets?") and problems posed. In response, the software will suggest other users whose fields of expertise, based on the documents they have previously produced and the enquiries they have previously carried out, could enable them to solve the problem or answer the question.
"Autonomy's technology is taking CNS to where we really want to go," commented Steve Brown, director of the Internet division at CNS. "It will enable CNS's customers not to have to worry about how to structure the information on their intranets and will also associate people with knowledge." CNS's current customers include blue-chip organizations such as Kingfisher, Scottish Power, KPMG and Invensys - the leading electronics and engineering group.
Autonomy and CNS are organizing a UK seminar later this year to demonstrate the user benefits of the combined technologies. This will take place at the Hilton National Hotel, Edinburgh, on 12th October, from 9.30am to 2.30pm.
CNS will also resell selected other Autonomy solutions, increasing the penetration of the latter's technology into the corporate Intranet portal and knowledge management markets.
About Autonomy
Autonomy develops software that automatically organizes large, unstructured volumes of information into personally relevant channels to help corporate intranets and commercial websites serve the changing needs and interests of users.
The intelligent pattern recognition technology that fuels Autonomy's software was originally developed by Autonomy's sister company, Neurodynamics, for use in British intelligence and defense applications.
Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, California and Cambridge, England. Autonomy customers include News Corp., Macmillan Publishing, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, Reed Elsevier, Shell International, The Royal Mail and Unilever. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ exchange, achieving a valuation of $165 million and raising $35 million.
About CNS
CNS specializes in providing products and services for commercial IT users, including business consultancy, infrastructure and network services, systems integration (covering e-Business, process and knowledge management), plus corporate intranets, where they have their own product, Active-Intranet. Based in Harrogate, UK, CNS was established 16 years ago and now has major blue-chip clients including ScottishPower, Cussons International, Littlewoods Pools and Invensys.
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