IDOL K2

Autonomy is committed to the continued support of K2 and to providing K2 customers with seamless access to IDOL's wide spectrum of automated operations. IDOL K2 launched in early 2006, grants full access to IDOL functionality including video and audio capabilities while faithfully maintaining established and award-winning K2 functionality such as Topics, VQL, K2 Taxonomies and K2 vector-based categories to name but a few.

IDOL K2 builds on Autonomy's IDOL server version 5.0, which was inherently designed to operate in K2 emulation mode and which successfully supported existing Verity customers who needed to safeguard their investment in K2 technology. IDOL K2 takes this established and proven capability a step further by offering an upgrade path to an unparalleled combination of features building on K2's excellent track record in advanced word-based and tunable approaches while providing the advanced pattern technologies for which Autonomy has won global acclaim.

IDOL K2 offers the most complete range of end-user access tools encompassing K2's renowned parametric selection, relational taxonomies, federated search and faceted navigation. But by engaging IDOL's automated processing functionality administrators will now also be able to further extend this tool-set to achieve both semi-automated and fully-automated functions in each of these operations.

For example:

• Faceted Navigation
• Relational Taxonomies
• Parametric
• Federated
• Fuzzy
• Thematic Mapping
• Adaptive Ranking
• Expert Location

Finally, IDOL K2 further advances K2's popular exploitation of social networks by representing disparate entities such as users, documents and queries and deducing relationships between them in semi-automatic and fully automatic mode. By employing IDOL's pioneering development of implicit querying together with IDOL's powerful interpretative visualization techniques, IDOL K2 delivers another world-first: the ability to extract relevant relationships (implicit links and hyperlinks) and to exploit the value of identifying and measuring both enterprise information and the users of such information by highlighting and ranking the interrelationships between them in real-time.

IDOL K2 safeguards existing K2 technology investments, while delivering an unrivalled combination of information processing options for customers who wish to continue to maximize their existing K2 implementations. Low cost of ownership and an irresistible choice of manual, semi and fully automated operations enables IDOL K2 to set the standard for all enterprise information operations.