Autonomy Product Orientated Drop-in Solutions (PODS) & Portlets
Autonomy's Product Orientated Drop-in Solution - PODS, seamlessly integrates IDOL Server functionality directly into the heart of third party applications such as Siebel and SAP.
PODS, enable organizations to automatically add value to their existing IT investments. By effortlessly embedding IDOL Server functionality such as Automatic Personalization, Collaboration, Categorization into the epicentre of third party applications, without the complex integration effort required from other software vendors, Autonomy allows organizations to identify the real value of information, tapping into business critical content regardless of where the information resides.
PODS deliver an infrastructure solution that simultaneously integrates at the Application, Data and Interface level, providing the latest in IDOL Server functionality
Whether connecting people to content, content to content or even people to people, PODS deliver an infrastructure solution that simultaneously integrates at the Application, Data and Interface level, providing the latest in IDOL Server functionality:
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Once in place, Autonomy PODS will enhance the existing solution, leveraging the existing information assets and allowing users to make faster and better-informed decisions. Implementing an enterprise wide or web-facing solution, PODS acts as a catalyst to improve operational efficiency and reducing the cost of manual overhead of managing information.
Already Autonomy has extended the IDOL Server platform to other software vendors such as BEA, Computer Associates, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and Sybase. Autonomy PODS delivers a rapidly deployable path for integrating applications, providing high-end Autonomy functionality to existing applications or fusing an Application to IDOL Server.
Benefits
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A Fully Integrated Solution
Autonomy PODS is a completely customizable solution that simultaneously integrates at the Application, Data and Interface level, providing the latest in IDOL Server functionality. PODS comprises the following components:
Autonomy Portlets
Depending on the desired IDOL Server functionality, Autonomy PODS automatically install the relevant Portlet/ Applet directly into the front-end interface of the third party application, providing new features and functionality to the end user.
IDOL Server Functionality
IDOL Server is a comprehensive software infrastructure solution that delivers a wide choice of functionality. At the heart of PODS lies Autonomy's sophisticated pattern-matching techniques to enable applications to understand information in context. For the first time, applications can go beyond keywords and metadata to identify concepts within the text itself to determine which are the most important and to automate the processing of this content, regardless of its format, location, language, application it's been created with or stored in.
This key understanding of content enables Autonomy to provide powerful business functionality ranging from the latest in personalization solutions to proactive collaboration functionality and highly accurate and relevant information retrieval and delivery. The choice of functionality is entirely up to you.
Universal Repository Interfacing
Using Autonomy Connectors, IDOL Server integrates at the application's data storage level, leveraging unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories through an understanding of the content, delivering a real time environment in which operations across applications and content are automated, removing all the manual processes involved in getting the right information, to the right people at the right time. IDOL makes enterprise systems "data-agnostic", therefore providing automated efficiencies never experienced before.
Extending the Boundaries of Information
In addition to optimizing the use of any single application, PODS can also be linked into wider deployments to further leverage the value of content lying in separate applications and repositories using some or all IDOL's functionality.
Enterprises looking to exploit content must be able to simultaneously access a wide range of data sources, including unstructured data such as HTML pages, word processing documents, spreadsheets, electronic mail, as well as semi-structured data (XML) and structured data such as Oracle, Lotus Notes and ODBC compliant content, in addition to multimedia data including audio and video content.
Autonomy solutions are not reliant on any single file or data format. Autonomy handles all types of information and provides a range of highly scalable Connectors that automatically aggregate more than 200 different content formats, from the most comprehensive range of repositories. Facilitating a unified solution across multiple data sources, Autonomy supports the following data repositories:
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Through Autonomy's wide support of data repositories, PODS can make use of all information assets in the organization, returning results from the integrated POD application and other solutions simultaneously, whilst respecting all security settings.