"The most immediate result of implementing Autonomy technology has been to reduce the time taken to get information from a hard drive from two to three weeks to three hours."
Josh Ellis, CIO, Serious Fraud Office
"Autonomy has a deep understanding of the unique requirements of the legal technology market"
Robert Meadows, CIO, Bingham McCutchen
"Autonomy's complete platform really helps us take a more proactive and strategic approach to eDiscovery."
Ron Williams, Sr. Corporate Counsel, Head of Litigation Services, McAfee
"Fastest growing full service EDD supplier among the Am Law 200."
ALM Research's ranking of America's top 200 revenue grossing
"World's Hottest Enterprise Software Company"
Information Week
"Control of an organization's information assets is key to its future performance."
Ovum
"Our feeling for Autonomy is, essentially, that it has brilliant technology."
BNP Paribas
"Autonomy enables us to go beyond simple search to the processing of human-friendly content automatically and in real time."
Mark Reisz, CEO, Knipsel Info Service
"Autonomy leads by a wide margin."
Barry Murphy, Forrester Research
"The move most certainly positions Autonomy as the leader in the legal and compliance market."
Jim Murphy, Research Director, AMR Research
"Autonomy in a class of its own....Banks and other companies are now facing increased scrutiny of their electronic records, and are turning to Autonomy's software to ensure they comply."
Management Today
"Scrittura is already reducing the 'paper chase' in our derivatives documentation group."
Manolo Bernardo, Assistant Vice President, Commerzbank
"Developments in the global regulatory and legal environment are compelling many corporations to start taking a unified approach to IT governance, IT compliance and IT risk management..."
Vivian Tero, Research Manager, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC
"Autonomy's ability to enable law firms to seamlessly collaborate with corporate clients may allow us to speed timeframes and reduce costs in eDiscovery"
Michael E. Lackey, Jr., Partner, Mayer Brown, LLP
"Autonomy's platform is enabled to handle the scale, complexity and speed required to succeed in the modern era."
Information Management Magazine

IDOL

At the heart of Autonomy's infrastructure software lays the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server. The IDOL Server analyzes data via connectors and stores it in a proprietary structure, optimized for fast processing and retrieval of data. As the information processing layer, IDOL forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of all content in an enterprise, automatically analyzing any piece of information from over 1,000 different content formats and even people's interests. Over 500 complex information centric operations can be performed on digital content by IDOL, including hyperlinking, agents, summarization, taxonomy generation, clustering, eduction, profiling, alerting and retrieval.

IDOL enables organizations to benefit from automation without losing manual control. This complementary approach allows automatic processing to be combined with a variety of human controllable overrides, offering the best of both worlds and never requiring an "either/or" choice.

IDOL integrates with all known legacy systems, eliminating the need for organizations to rip and replace, or cobble together multiple systems to support their disparate components.

Product Features

Automatic Query Guidance - IDOL’s Automatic Query Guidance (AQG) automatically provides keyword-oriented users with the suggestions they need to find the most relevant information. AQG is unique because the guidance suggestions are created dynamically based on the query and the time of query.
Automatic Clustering - Organizations can analyze large sets of documents and user profiles and automatically identify inherent themes or information clusters. IDOL even clusters the unstructured content exchanged in email, telephone conversations and instant messages.
Automatic Categorization - IDOL’s categorization features allow users to derive precise categories through concepts found within unstructured text. Existing legacy taxonomies can be either maintained or enriched with contextual understanding.
Automatic Taxonomy Generation - By understanding the information in your enterprise, IDOL automatically generates taxonomies and instantly organizes the data into a familiar child/parent taxonomical structure. IDOL automatically identifies, names and creates each node based on an understanding of the concepts within the data set as a whole.
Autonomy Business Console - The Autonomy Business Console (ABC) empowers business users to react quickly to changing usage patterns and provide highly targeted results to end-users without any programming. ABC provides a robust set of widgets, wizards and tools to simplify the management of IDOL functions, including promotions, synonym management and relevance boosting.

Product Benefits

Awareness - Access to the most current information including “What’s Hot” clusters that automatically detect burning topics in an organization’s information assets and “breaking news” clusters that alert users in real time to new areas of information or individual interest
Relevance - Since conceptual search can find information based on words not located in the document, it does not fall prey to the limitations of legacy methods
Accuracy - Confidence that all data is classified in the correct context with the utmost accuracy
Automation - No manual processing to teach, train or configure query guidance
Efficiency - No need for any human intervention, preventing the errors and inconsistency that are frequently associated with manual categorization

Product Differentiators

Conceptual Retrieval - Built on an innovative pattern-recognition technology as demonstrated by over 170 patents, IDOL offers higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts to understand the meaning of content.
FRCP-Compliant Search - The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) render all relevant Electronically Stored Information (ESI) discoverable, regardless of format or location. To uniquely meet FRCP requirements, IDOL searches all content - regardless of formats or location, does not perform "jump-outs", produces auditable results and passes these results to a hold function to ensure that relevant ESI cannot be altered or deleted.
Scalability and Performance - IDOL scales to support the largest enterprise-wide and portal deployments in the world, with presence in virtually every vertical market. IDOL delivers linear scalability through a multi-threaded, multi-instance approach with load-balancing to intelligently distribute the indexing and query workload.
Mapped Security - The biggest single constraint on scalability within enterprise applications is the ability to manage entitlement checks in a scalable manner. IDOL stores security information in its native form directly in the kernel of the engine itself, with automatic updates to keep the security data current. This speeds query response times and ensures accuracy of security information.
Global Language Support - The need to manage content in varied languages has never been more acute for today’s global enterprise. IDOL’s language-independent technology develops a statistical understanding of the patterns of any language using sophisticated probabilistic modeling and pattern-matching techniques, supporting over 150 languages. Autonomy also provides optional language packs to further enhance localization, including stemming, stoplists, transliteration, multiple encoding support and term decomposition.