Autonomy Unveils New Platform for Applications Using Unstructured Data; Leading Software Companies Adopt Autonomy's Cross Enterprise Infrastructure.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 Autonomy, Inc. today announced the Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative ), a new technology that automates operations on unstructured information for cross enterprise applications. The Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI) allows leading enterprise applications to understand and route the business critical content that exists in unstructured formats, such as email, Web pages, office documents, and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . The ACI utilizes Autonomy's core technology, which is capable of analyzing any text (in any language) and identifying and ranking the main ideas. This ability enables ACI to automatically conduct complex operations on unstructured information. More than 30 leading software companies are incorporating Autonomy's technology into the next version of their enterprise applications for customer relationship management, e-business, customer care, email routing and security, content delivery and client-server systems. Vendors delivering ACI-compliant applications include OpenMarket, Oracle, Octane, Delano, Nexor and Intraspect. ACI automates the process of understanding and routing all of a company's unstructured information between applications such as enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. , knowledge management systems, corporate portals, customer relationship planning and email routing. For example, if a customer sent an email message to a company's technical support center about a product defect, the email routing system would first use Autonomy's technology to analyze the message. The customer relationship management system would then route it to the right technical expert for a response and alert the salesperson responsible for that account. Meanwhile, the knowledge management system might insert hypertext links to background information on the defect before passing the email message along to the product team responsible for developing the next version of the product. By using the ACI, all types of software providers will be able to deliver the scalability, operating efficiencies and immediate responsiveness that drive today's e-business by operating on unstructured information. ACI does not require complex programming, extensive integration, business rules, or middleware. It also does not require information to be manually tagged, linked or categorized. ACI-compliant applications are immediately compatible through their common understanding of unstructured information. 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. Mike Lynch explained that traditional businesses were built on a foundation of structured information and database technologies that helped companies process and operate on vast amounts of raw data to automate transaction oriented systems like payroll, accounting, and inventory management. &uot;Today's e-business requires extraordinary operating efficiencies and relies on content and unstructured information such as Web pages, news and email,&uot; said Lynch. &uot;Our Application Content Infrastructure delivers a platform that enables enterprise applications to first understand, than act without human intervention based solely upon the content within unstructured information -- seamlessly and transparently. ACI delivers a platform which enables businesses to effectively make the shift from traditional business to e-business.&uot; 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. IDC analyst Gerry Murray, organizations must increasingly incorporate unstructured content into all of their information technology investments in order to remain competitive. &uot;Sales systems, enterprise resource planning applications, help desks, call centers, inventory management, shipping, finance, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and others all contain information that is critical for individuals outside their primary user base,&uot; said Murray. &uot;Integrating content across these architectural silos requires an automated, context sensitive infrastructure like Autonomy's.&uot; Autonomy (EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. :AUTN AUTN Autonomy (stock symbol) AUTN Authentication Token (3GPP) AUTN Authentication Token for Network ) was founded in 1996 and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , 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 and Washington, D.C in 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. as well as offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cambridge (England), Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Sydney. Among its 200-plus customers are Alcatel, 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, 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 Open Market, Aeneid, CoreChange, Delano, FutureTense, Hyperwave, Insight, Intraspect, KnowledgeTrack, Global Recall, Nexor, Sagemaker and Verge. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ 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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