Autonomy is the acknowledged leader in pan-enterprise search. Enterprise search platforms automate the retrieval, processing, and management of information throughout a global organization, transcending company divisions, operating systems, language-barriers and file types; provide unrivalled performance, scalability and fault tolerance; and are fully FRCP compliant.
Access to ALL data sources and file types: 80% of information within the enterprise is now unstructured, consisting of text, audio and video. This must be processed for regulatory reasons and to harness its true value
Language independence: Enterprises today have operations across the globe conducting business in numerous languages
Compatibility with all Operating Systems in the enterprise: Enterprise search platforms need to be completely neutral within the enterprise and be able to work with any operating system
FRCP compliance: The FRCP render all relevant Electronically Stored Information (ESI) discoverable, regardless of format or location. To be FRCP compliant, enterprise search platforms:
Need to search ALL repositories
Cannot perform jump out - a sleight of hand used to feign performance where the search engine stops looking across an index as soon as it is believed a large enough group of results has been assembled
Need to produce auditable results - hence ALL data needs to be searched fully
Need to be able to pass results to a hold function - ensuring that relevant ESI is preserved, not altered in any way or deleted
Distribution and Fault Tolerance: For organizations that are geographically distributed, local replicas should be automatically created and utilized where possible. Remote copies should only be used when a local system fails, thereby building fault tolerance, the benefits of local performance and a reduction of resource overhead into a single, seamless service
Load Balancing: Data should automatically be replicated across multiple servers and user requests should be load balanced across these replicas, guaranteeing performance, reducing latency and improving user-experience.
Mirroring/Failover: Automatically generated replicas should be used to provide a pool of servers. The primary resource should be automatically selected and the system should switch to secondary systems if it fails so that service continues uninterrupted.
"People who are serious about search - those who have really done their homework - are going with the enterprise search specialists such as Autonomy"
Royce Bell, CEO of Accenture Information Management Services, 2007
IDOL Retina is a simple enterprise search solution that provides a full spectrum of retrieval methods, from simple keyword search to advanced conceptual matching, in one easy-to-use solution. The out-of-the box suite of Autonomy's most commonly used IDOL functions ensures that administrators can configure IDOL Retina with minimal effort, while the user-friendly interface and conversational search experience guarantees high user adoption.
IDOL Retina
For enterprises that require an information access solution with simple setup and quick deployment, IDOL Retina offers the market's most powerful technology wrapped in a simple interface. The system can be configured and administered by virtue of GUI-based interfaces with drag-and-drop functionality. Through an intuitive web interface, administrators can easily control and monitor all of Autonomy's modules and services, whether they are running locally or remotely.
Features
Mapped Security
User Identification and Authentication through login, with optional integration with LDAP, SSL LDAP and NT authentication (IIS compatible only)
The comprehensive administrative interface provides administrators with a single platform from which they can modify the IDOL Retina's retrieval features, determine the content and style of the IDOL Retina user interface, administer IDOL Retina functionality and maintain IDOL Retina components.
Using IDOL Retina's administration interface, the administrator can:
Enable / disable functionality
Configure field display
Hyperlink fields
Enable / disable field searchability
Configure component connections
Enable / disable retrieval features
Customize IDOL Retina's display style
Customize query handling
Create Query Logic rules for queries
View query statistics for all user, roles or individuals
Configure the Autonomy HTTP Connector
Integrate Autonomy or third-party portlets into IDOL Retina
IDOL Retina users and administrators can access the IDOL Retina help system directly from each IDOL Retina page, automatically opening the help system at the relevant help page. IDOL Retina administrators can choose to hide or show the help system.
IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search is a new module from Autonomy that runs on any PC in order to make the corporate desktop entirely searchable. A secure, enterprise version of desktop search, IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search integrates with all other IDOL modules making content from secure corporate networks, intranets, local data sources, the Web, as well as information on the desktop, such as email and office documents, readily and easily accessible.
Enterprise Desktop Search
IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search is a world first from Autonomy providing integrated conceptual search on both the desktop and within the enterprise.
IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search uses implicit query to form an understanding of the information on a user's screen and proactively link users to related information on their secured corporate network, on the Web or their local machine, entirely automatically.
Active folders manage and organize content proactively without the need for any manual intervention. Using contextual matching, active folders understand the themes within any set of data and then automatically populate the folder with related information, regardless of its storage location, as soon as it becomes available.
SSL encryption protects the security and confidentiality of all corporate assets, including internal and external communications
Automatic verification against user, group and role-level entitlement
Advanced user authentication including the facility for an administrator to disable a remote active folder if authentication is not received, for example, in the case of a lost or stolen laptop
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Summary: ...deleted. • Distribution and Fault Tolerance: For organizations that are geographically distributed, local replicas should be automatically created and utilized where possible. Remote copies should only be used when a local system fails, thereby building fault tolerance, the benefits of local performance...
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