Autonomy Announces Collaboration Solution For Enterprise Knowledge And Competitive Advantage
New Module Offers Advanced Methods to Capture and Use Employee Expertise
San Francisco, Calif. - October 15, 2002 - Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; LSE: AU., Nasdaq Europe: AUTN), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced the release of Autonomy's Collaboration and Expertise Networks (CEN). CEN makes it possible for organizations of any size and complexity to capture, visualize and manage employee expertise and make knowledge available throughout the enterprise regardless of location. Companies can maintain a competitive edge by giving employees the ability to collaborate on projects, as well as share information and develop best practices.
Commenting on identifying expertise and driving collaboration, Daniel Rasmus, vice president at Giga Information Group said the Autonomy suite of products is being used to bring a new level of personalization to the employee. "Autonomy builds dynamic profiles of staff member interactions with information sources and maintains them over time, reflecting a historical context, but one that is also weighted toward more recent information."
Previously, organizations had to deploy legacy collaboration systems that relied on employees filling out forms or using a list of pre-defined keywords to describe their areas of interest. These approaches fail for a variety of reasons. The legacy systems generate additional work for employees by requiring them to fill out forms and update them. The systems fail to capture the employees' areas of expertise because employees either misrepresent their areas of expertise or do not continually update their profile as their projects and interests change. In addition, by relying on keywords, the collaboration tools do not match up experts because they may have selected different words to describe themselves or they could not find the most relevant tag for their profile.
Autonomy's software eliminates the manual efforts by automatically generating profiles implicitly and explicitly. As users interact with content, the system understands the concepts within the content and automatically develops a profile or adjusts it as the users work projects change. In addition, because Autonomy understands conceptually user profiles and content, it will link together employees that are working on similar projects even though it may not sound like they are doing related work. For example, at a pharmaceutical company an employee researching medicines for depression will be linked to an employee in another R&D department who is working on medicines to treat eating disorders, because both are working with similar drugs.
CEN allows enterprises to get an overview of what information they have, who is working on or using that information, and who the experts are on particular topics within the organization. With this knowledge, organizations can plug holes in their knowledge base or determine where duplication of work may be occurring. CEN's ability to profile network traffic through "mapping and visualization" (color-coded views of where information is located and how much is there) delivers enterprises a clear picture of their activities on a daily basis.
"In addition to the number of experts across diverse fields within BAE SYSTEMS, we have an incredible amount of information available to our employees, so it became increasingly apparent that we needed an efficient way to manage this knowledge," said Richard West, head of organizational and e-learning at BAE SYSTEMS. "Autonomy's technology give us incredible insight into what we know as a company and the ability to leverage that knowledge across the enterprise."
"Autonomy continues to develop and leverage its core IDOL technology for use in unique and efficient solutions for managing unstructured information," said Mike Lynch, CEO and cofounder of Autonomy. "CEN gives organizations incredible insight into what they know and the ability to leverage existing expertise to ultimately create competitive advantage in the marketplace."
CEN Functionality
Personalization: Automated explicit and implicit user profiling, cross-device profiling
Expertise Networks: Expertise location, communities of practice, free-text expertise assignment
Alerting through e-mail, Internet, SMS, handheld devices
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN; LSE: AU.) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including e-commerce, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise information portals, enterprise resource planning and online publishing. Autonomy's customer base includes more than 550 global companies, including Hutchison 3G, Channel 4, Deutsche Bank, AT&T, AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, Ford, Ericsson, General Motors, Lucent, Royal Sun Alliance, Sun Microsystems and public sector agencies including the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry, NASA, the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Energy. Strategic reseller and OEM partners include leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Computer Associates, Hewlett Packard, IBM Global Services, Oracle, Vignette and Sybase. The company has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia and is on the Web at www.autonomy.com.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
With the exception of historical information, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, technology risks, including dependence on core technology; fluctuations in quarterly results; dependence on new product development; rapid technological and market change; reliance on sales by others; management of growth; dependence on key personnel; rapid expansion; growth of the Internet; financial risk management; and future growth subject to risks. These factors and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially are also discussed in the company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Autonomy's Annual Report on Form 20-F and Registration Statements on Form F-1.
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