Autonomy Ships Portal-In-A-Box, an Automated Solution for Creating Personalized Portals.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- Autonomy, Inc. today announced that it has shipped its Portal-In-A-Box(TM) software, which eliminates the need for costly manual labor in the creation and maintenance of personalized portal See personal portal. sites. Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box(TM) software automates the tasks of categorizing, tagging, linking and personalizing information for new media and enterprise information portals. Portal-In-A-Box(TM) makes it easy for companies to automatically create and update easy-to-navigate portals with well-organized information from thousands of internal and external sources. In addition to adding depth and breadth of information, these companies also are able to provide advanced personalization features. Among the 150-plus companies using Autonomy's software to create corporate portals/knowledge management systems and consumer-oriented new media portals, are the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Barclays Bank, British Aerospace British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft and defence systems manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. History The company was formed as a statutory corporation on April 29, 1977 as a result the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act. , Clorox, Chronicle Publishing's SF Gate, Unilever, the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Department of Defense and Xoom.com. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Autonomy CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dr. Michael Lynch Michael Lynch or Mike Lynch may mean or refer to:
The U.S. Department of Defense is using Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box(TM) to make personalized portals available to all of their personnel. "We're using Portal-In-A-Box(TM) to help all military personnel stay up to speed on developments related to their jobs," said William Vass, director of technical services for the U.S. Department of Defense. "These portals will automatically draw information from thousands of Internet and intranet sites and create personalized sites for each individual. All users have to do when they register for the first time is use plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences. to describe the subjects they are interested in. Autonomy's software does the rest." SF Gate is using Portal-In-A-Box(TM) to automatically aggregate, categorize and hyperlink thousands of articles from the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , Chronicle Books, the Associated Press, KRON-TV, and Bay TV Cable Channel 35. According to SFGate General Manager John Coate, Autonomy will help him add depth and breadth of information and make the site easier to navigate, without requiring additional work from his staff. "Before we had Autonomy's technology, my editorial staff spent too much time tagging and linking content, which was a waste of their valuable time and talent." Because Autonomy's technology inserts hypertext links automatically at the time of retrieval, the links are always kept up to date and can even point the SF Gate visitor to more recent information. "For example, a visitor reading a Bay Area Backroads travel feature from last month's episode on KRON-TV will automatically get a link to a brand new San Francisco Chronicle review of a nearby bed and breakfast," said Coate. In addition, site visitors will be able to easily navigate between local coverage of a particular story and worldwide coverage from the Associated Press. "I could have never offered this depth or breadth without Autonomy's technology, even if I'd been able to hire scores of staff dedicated solely to categorizing, tagging and inserting hypertext links," said Coate. About Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box(TM): Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box(TM) is for anyone who wants to create a portal site, from online publishers creating vertical industry portals to intranet developers or knowledge managers putting together enterprise portals that offer employees the best of the Web and their company's internal sources of information. Portal-In-A-Box(TM) features everything that is required to automatically create and maintain an easy-to-navigate portal with well-organized information from thousands of internal and external sources. It also enables companies to provide advanced personalization features, including personalized splash pages, news reports and alerts. By automating the categorization, hypertext linking, tagging and personalization of information, Portal-In-A-Box(TM) eliminates the need for costly and time-consuming manual labor. Pricing: Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box(TM) runs on Windows NT and most versions of Unix. Pricing for Portal-In-A-Box(TM) is expected to start at $100,000. About Autonomy: Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalized systems for knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing and electronic commerce. Because of its ability to analyze any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars tasks. These range from categorizing information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested. Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Atlanta and Boston, in the United States as well as in Cambridge, England and Oslo, Norway. Among its 150-plus customers are Alcatel, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Aerospace, Clorox, News Corp., Procter & Gamble, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, SF Gate, Semi-tech, The Royal Mail, Unilever and Xoom.com. In addition, several software companies are licensing Autonomy's technology to add intelligence to their online publishing, knowledge management, email routing and document management applications, including FutureTense, Intraspect, Verge, Aeneid, Global Recall, Insight and Nexor. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. exchange. For further information, please contact Autonomy at 415/243-9955 or visit the company's website at http://www.autonomy.com. Press and analysts may contact Marivi Lerdo or Kris Marubio at Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , ph: 415/433-5381. |
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