PHILIPS CHOOSES AUTONOMY TO POWER WORLDWIDE E-BUSINESS OPERATIONS.

Autonomy has announced that Europe's largest electronics company, Philips International BV ("Philips"), has adopted Autonomy's technology to power a global e-commerce initiative across multiple areas. Autonomy will also become a Philips preferred supplier, enabling future rollout of Autonomy across the company.

Dr. Mike Lynch, founder and Group CEO of Autonomy, commented: "This is an excellent development for Autonomy. Philips has many divisions, including Consumer Electronics, Domestic Appliances, Lighting, Research, Medical Systems and Components, and Autonomy's newly-acquired status as a Philips preferred supplier means that rollout of Autonomy across Philips can take place rapidly and with minimal need for administration. We have demonstrated that we can integrate seamlessly with Philips' existing systems to provide a completely automated e-commerce infrastructure."

At the heart of Autonomy's software is its ability to analyze text and voice (in any language) and identify and rank the main concepts within it. It can then automatically categorize, link, personalize and deliver that information. The technology is used to automate these operations within enterprise information portals, customer relationship management, knowledge management and e-business applications.

Autonomy's infrastructure technology enables computers to understand a piece of text, Web pages, e-mails, voice, documents, video and people. Because of this unique ability, Autonomy's technology automates business operations on unstructured information, such as categorizing, linking, personalizing and delivering operations, which, to date, have been completely manual. Autonomy's technology powers any application dependent upon unstructured information including e-commerce, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise information portals and online publishing.