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AUTONOMY AUTOMATES COMPLIANCE GUIDANCE AND ENFORCEMENT WITH AUNGATE

New Aungate Module Helps Companies Meet Regulatory Requirements and Employee Behavior Policies

Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, Calif. - Dec. 6, 2006 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced a world first in automating processes that guide employees to meet behavior policies and enforce compliance, with the introduction of the Aungate Compliance Guidance and Enforcement Module.

The new module performs real-time conceptual analyses of enterprise information repositories using Autonomy's renowned IDOL-based Implicit Query technology. These analyses are performed on any form of information - including email, instant messages (IM), documents and voice - in order to make granular assessments of whether a user is in danger of violating an external regulation or enterprise policy and a behavioral threshold is about to be reached. The new Aungate module will then automatically launch processes to guide the employee through correct procedures and, depending on enterprise requirements, dynamically point to relevant training material in real-time. Unique to Autonomy, this is a key development for organizations grappling to balance the value and/or risk of an ever-growing amount of unstructured data, while having to set and follow consistent policies and threshold levels to protect the integrity of the business.

Powered by the leading platform for processing unstructured information, Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), and leveraging Cardiff's Intelligent Document technology, the new module performs a wide spectrum of key functions, including:

• Transparency of Content Sources. The system aggregates information from more than 250 repositories in any format, including email, word processing, spreadsheet, audio, video and presentation formats, as well as paper documents. In addition, the system is language independent.
• Real-Time Analysis of Information. The system intelligently identifies conceptually- related content within email, IM and voice traffic without having to rely on pre-defined meta-headers, tags or labels to identify meaning. The analysis is performed in real-time without having to access pre-defined rules and across 100% of the available content.
• Flags High Risk Content, Identifies Conflicting Behaviors and Triggers Guidance and Compliance Processes Automatically in Real-Time. An enterprise can automatically analyze, evaluate, provide guidance to employees and enforce policies by ensuring that users are alerted to potential content and behavior threshold violations.
• Automatically Supports the Design of Processes that Guide and Enforce Compliance. Process design capabilities allow businesses to logically map the flow of virtually any compliance process with little or no coding required. This enables business users to easily define and design processes that involve human and automated tasks, paper and electronic documents, as well as automated notifications and more.
• Automatically Creates an Audit Trail. The system automatically re-routes tasks, sends alerts and transparently tracks the status of a process, the time associated with completing each task, and all approvals, reviews and edits. This capability helps to assure auditors, shareholders and regulatory agencies that the proper controls are in place to document and follow processes, and eliminate undocumented exceptions from ever reaching the general ledger.

"This new module addresses a very real and acute problem faced by enterprises today - how to enable employees to access and distribute the data they need to work effectively, while protecting the company from regulatory risks. This issue goes beyond just email monitoring, however. Organizations require a comprehensive method of monitoring all types of information – be it email, IM, phone conversations or basic documents – and systems that understand the nuances and grey areas within that data, and assess how employees are using it in context so as to be able to make granular assessments of its potential risks in real-time," commented Ian Black, managing director, Aungate.

About Aungate

Autonomy's Aungate suite of products enables enterprises to achieve Real-Time Enterprise Governance by automatically understanding the content and interrelationships of all enterprise communications including email, voice and Instant Messaging. Aungate's unique technology powers real-time monitoring, alerting, policy management, electronic discovery, guidance and enforcement operations while proactively engaging behavioral change processes required to achieve best practice.

Aungate has quickly built a prestigious customer list, including the world's leading regulators and stock exchanges such as the U.S. SEC and NYSE as well as premier banks, litigation management companies and compliance publishers. Aungate's ability to identify both known and unknown relationships in all enterprise communications is premised on Autonomy's distinguished history in the intelligence community which Autonomy has been serving since the company's foundation, culminating in the award of "single supplier" status to the US government. Autonomy's history in the compliance market extends to the company's founding in 1996, and includes serving financial institutions globally.

About Cardiff

Cardiff (www.cardiff.com) is a leading provider of software for intelligent document solutions that unify people, paper and process. Cardiff enables organizations to capture information from paper and electronic sources and to manage the process behind the form by embedding intelligence and enabling better visibility and control. As a result, businesses reduce operational costs, provide a rich customer experience and ensure compliance to organization and government regulation. Cardiff serves more than 8,000 customers worldwide, including many in the financial services, pharmaceutical, healthcare, education, government and manufacturing industries. Cardiff is an Autonomy Group company.

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.

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