Collaboration Networks

Autonomy's Collaboration Networks overcome business process myopia and focuses the organization on building communities of expertise, fuelling collaboration and bringing employees together into discussion forums to realize goal congruence, the reduction of duplicated effort and increasing productivity levels.

• Drive Collaboration
• Clearly understand the knowledge community
• Bring employees together into discussion forums
• Eliminate duplicated effort and increase productivity levels

Through IDOL's ability to automatically store a concurrent, accurate and multifaceted understanding of every user based on powerful automatic profiling operations, Autonomy automatically builds an entire Collaboration Network that matches users with common explicit interest agents, similar implicit profile agents or even expertise assignments based on existing metadata.

Collaboration Network features include:

Communities of Practice

Sustained competitive advantage can be further maintained through the proactive participation and contribution of experts within any community.

Virtual Libraries

Through the use of Autonomy Connectors, Autonomy enables organizations to exploit their existing information assets providing unified operations across the information regardless of source, format or media.

However, in most instances not all the data within the organizations' information assets will play a significant role in making key business decisions. The main issue here is to use existing information that is totally in context and vital to these objectives. Relying on constructive "Collaborative Feedback", Autonomy enables Virtual Libraries to be set up that ensure that only the most highly regarded information is biased from information that is of less significance:

Document Rating

Users are able to positively or negatively rate content that exists within the organizations' information assets allowing the most widely used information to appear higher in ranking within the Virtual Library.

Free Text Document Rating

IDOL forms an understanding of the actual content of any type of information, text or voice-based, unstructured or structured, regardless of where it is stored, format it has been created with or applications associated with the data. Using these inherent features, Autonomy provides experts with the facility to rate the value of any information using natural language descriptions. This allows users to add value when a tick box or questionnaire does not provide the option they require. Autonomy utilizes the context of these descriptions to rate the information within the Virtual Library.

Document Scaling

Alternatively, Autonomy delivers the tools required to enable users to rate the usefulness of information using a sliding scale. Autonomy ascertains the relevance of this data through the combined Collaborative Feedback of the experts.