Partnership to Further Help Global Organizations to Comply with Company Best Practices and Government Regulations
Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, Calif. - Nov. 29, 2006 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Verdasys, the leader in business process integrity solutions for information risk management, has signed an OEM agreement with Autonomy to integrate the company's Extractor, Profiler and IDOL technologies into Verdasys' flagship product, Digital Guardian.
Verdasys has integrated Autonomy's IDOL platform, as well as its Extractor and Profiler technologies into Digital Guardian's new module, Adaptive Content Inspection. The Autonomy products allow Verdasys to extend Digital Guardian's data protection and business process integrity management capabilities by enabling its Verdasys' customers to search across more than 250 file formats. It also enables authorized agents to search for entities such as names, addresses, phone numbers, as well as critical keywords. With the Autonomy products, Verdasys' customers can also train the system to recognize highly sensitive information, such as corporate contracts and employee information, and then apply that to Verdasys' context-based data policy which monitor and control data security and business process integrity.
Verdasys solutions protect proprietary and sensitive data and the integrity of the business processes essential to successfully conducting business on a global basis. The Digital Guardian platform creates a secure virtual perimeter to assure that data is controlled by policy and monitored for accountability, establishing a community of trust between the data user, data owner and data provider.
"Verdasys sought to find the most robust and mature technology in the market to extend the tagging and classification capabilities of our Digital Guardian product to also include flexible and customizable entity extraction, keyword matching, multi-lingual and document similarity capabilities," said Nick Stamos, president of Verdasys. "Autonomy met our technical requirements, in addition to being the market leader by far, was the obvious choice."
"The risk posed by unauthorized distribution of data to and from an enterprise must be managed effectively," said Stouffer Egan, chief executive officer of Autonomy, Inc. - US. "We are pleased that our products have become critical components of the Verdasys' data security solution."
About Verdasys, Inc.
Verdasys' Digital Guardian is the only product platform that delivers the fundamental elements of Business Process Integrity under a scalable architecture with customer proven technology. Business Process Integrity protects information, applications and processes essential to maintaining the market value, proprietary assets, intellectual property, reputation & process integrity of a global enterprise. The Digital Guardian platform is in use by government agencies, and by leaders in financial, pharmaceutical, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment, and other industries around the world. Verdasys customers use Digital Guardian to comprehensively protect data wherever it's used. Verdasys is headquartered in Waltham, MA. For more information, please visit www.verdasys.com.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, compliance and litigation solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including: ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Hutchison 3G, Kraft Foods, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Nomura, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Stellent, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO and Vignette. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy divisions include: Aungate, specialist in real-time enterprise governance; Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products and Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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