The Canadian Department of National Defence Selects Autonomy's Meaning Based
Computing Platform
Autonomy IDOL to Help Enhance Information Discovery Capabilities at the
Department of National Defence
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the
enterprise, today announced that the Canadian Department of National Defence has
selected Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing platform, IDOL, as a key part of its
Information Management and Collaboration initiative. With Autonomy, the
Department of National Defence will be able to enhance its information discovery
capabilities.
Autonomy IDOL performs conceptual and contextual analysis and probability
matching on information to find the meaning within and the inter-relationships
between disparate pieces of content. This unique approach allows employees at
global organizations to find and access the most pertinent content, irrespective
of languages, operating systems, and file types. By supporting more than 1,000
different data formats, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured
data, across 400 different content repositories, Autonomy can search all
categories of information in an organization. IDOL is fault-tolerant using load
balancing and mirroring, highly scalable, secure, and has sub-second performance
on billions of files.
"Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing platform is used by many government agencies
around the world to understand the meaning of their content and identify patterns
between distinct pieces of information," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "Our
technologies help them to better meet regulatory compliance, while realizing cost
savings and improvements in service delivery to their citizens. We are pleased to
help the Canadian Department of National Defence to effectively leverage its
information assets."
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the
enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. Its suite of
meaning-based products provide the platform upon which industry leading financial
services companies are building and consolidating their most critical systems.
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, such as text, email, web
pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of
mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search,
customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery,
records management, archiving, business process management, web content
management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis.
Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies,
financial institutions and insurance agencies including: AOL, Banco de Espana,
BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche
Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, NASA,
Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, 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 400 companies OEM Autonomy
technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The
company has offices worldwide. Please visit autonomy.com to find out
more.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Autonomy Editorial Contacts:
Winifred ShumLouise Kehoe
Autonomy (US)Ogilvy PR (US)
+1 408 771 6668+1 415 677 2739
wshum@autonomy.comlouise.kehoe@ogilvypr.com
Edward BridgesDavid Vindel
Financial Dynamics (UK)The Red Consultancy (UK)
+44 207 831 3113+44 207 0256529
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