LEADING NATIONAL DATA CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER CHOOSES AUTONOMY TO POWER PIONEERING RESEARCH PORTAL
Mimas Embraces Meaning-Based Computing to Provide the Academic Community with Unprecedented Access to Millions of Documents
Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, Calif. - February 10, 2008 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise today announced that Mimas, a leading national data centre providing the UK Higher Education, Further Education and research community with access to key information resources, has selected Autonomy’s Meaning Based technology to power its search and discovery infrastructure for use by academic and research communities. Based at the largest single-site university in the UK, University of Manchester, Mimas is supported by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Mimas’s services enable users from the academic community to benefit from free instant access to vast amounts of content supporting teaching, learning and research across a wide range of disciplines. Autonomy was selected after a competitive procurement thanks to its unique conceptual capabilities, unparalleled scalability and advanced analytics.
"There is a wealth of academic, educational and research information stored in a wide range of systems across the UK," commented Vic Lyte, Head of Technology Services at Mimas. "Legacy search is increasingly becoming an obsolete tool for content-hungry academic and research communities striving to locate all pertinent content across distributed environments and within tight timeframes. Autonomy’s unique pattern-matching technology allows Mimas to take a huge step forward in its aim of powering world class research and learning as it suggests pertinent content automatically and in real-time, guiding users to relevant information they didn’t know they didn’t know," elaborated Lyte. "This ability offered by IDOL is really revolutionary for the academic sector. The benefits of speeding up the time and relevance of information discovery for researchers can only have a benefit on related innovations. It is the only way to ensure comprehensive research in the age of information overload."
Maintaining superior user-experience is a key factor in driving traffic, boosting collaboration, and enhancing efficiency to ultimately revolutionize academic research. Powered by IDOL, Mimas services and projects such as www.intute.ac.uk/irs, enable users to:
cross-search and access an extensive range of constantly updated repositories of millions of key academic sources both within Mimas and across the UK
view search results clustered around related conceptual themes and find more information of a similar nature
benefit from customized recommendations based on a user’s implicit and explicit search history
navigate results by areas of interest or specific content type using guided navigation
identify at a glance hot topics currently being investigated by fellow academics, students and researchers in the community
Future plans include the extension of this world-leading ability to enhance the user experience of a plethora of key information resources supported by Mimas across the UK with the ultimate goal of creating the most comprehensive national information service for learning and academic research. Users will benefit from fully interactive research and text-mining services and unique features such as Researcher-to-Researcher collaboration, virtual teaming, automatic classification and metadata generation to ensure consistency across any distributed environment.
"We are delighted that Mimas has selected Autonomy in its initiative to modernize research and extend the reach of this leading national data centre," said Ian Black, Head of Global Operations at Autonomy.
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement and was recently ranked by IDC as the clear market share leader in enterprise search with market share nearly double that of its nearest competitor. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming 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, pan-enterprise search, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery and archiving, records management, business process management, customer interaction solutions, and video and audio analysis, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 17,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, 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. More than 350 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including BEA, Citrix, EDS, H-P, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO, and the company has over 400 VARs and Systems Integrators. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com for more information on Autonomy.
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