Analysts estimate that 80% of information stored in the enterprise is unstructured, including email, IMs, Web pages, conversations and videos. Employees are hard-pressed to find the right information from a multitude of different repositories, and within very tight time constraints. In order to provide employees with a highly rewarding user experience, forward-thinking organizations rely on technology that locates data in an accurate and nuisance-free manner, thus enabling employees to focus on their more strategic responsibilities. These revolutionary technologies simultaneously search content from a number of different sources, automatically analyze and relate that content to other valuable information or people, and alert employees to relevant files as soon as they appear, whether they are on the Internet or within the firewalls of the organization.

For an employee, a first-class user experience entails being able to get the job done well, efficiently and stress-free. The enterprise can realize genuine ROI from sparing valuable man-hours otherwise dedicated to prolonged enterprise search. Employees never again have to face the challenge of needing to find a specific document hidden somewhere in the organization’s numerous repositories; they no longer need to worry about knowing everything on a specific topic. Next-generation technologies locate sought-after content instantaneously and feed employees relevant interest-specific information as they work, ensuring first-class user experience.

Autonomy’s ability to process all forms of digital information on a single platform offers a unique solution to a growing number of applications and devices that are increasingly dependent on utilizing unstructured information. Autonomy employs a unique combination of technologies to enable computers to form a contextual understanding of digital content. By automating key processes on unstructured information, Autonomy’s technology enables the automation of business operations previously only performed manually. This represents substantial savings for every type of organization and industry, as evidenced by the significant penetration of Autonomy’s technology in a diversity of vertical markets. 

At the heart of Autonomy’s infrastructure software is the Intelligent Data Operating Layer™ (IDOL).  IDOL sits above an organization’s data and serves as a platform for the conceptual and contextual understanding of information in an enterprise. This complete infrastructure layer allows for the automatic categorization, tagging, linking, retrieval and profiling of all forms of unstructured information in real-time regardless of repository.  It automatically analyzes any piece of information from 1,000 different content formats, including text, voice or video and delivers over 500 functions including hyperlinking, agents, summarization, taxonomy generation, retrieval, channels, clustering, eduction, profiling, collaboration and alerting.

Autonomy is therefore able to power any application dependent upon unstructured information including: