Autonomy Announces Industry's First FRCP-Compliant Pan-Enterprise Search Platform

Autonomy Announces Industry's First FRCP-Compliant Pan-Enterprise Search
Platform
Delivers CIOs and General Counsels a Single Platform for Information Access
and eDiscovery of All Data Sources

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced the industry's
first pan-enterprise search platform for legal eDiscovery and information
access, simultaneously meeting an organization's litigation and knowledge
management requirements. Autonomy's proven algorithms search across all
sources of electronically stored information (ESI) including text, data,
voice and video, finding relevant information for litigation with auditable
and repeatable results, and applying a litigation hold function to preserve
data from normally scheduled or ad hoc deletion.
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments render all
relevant ESI discoverable, regardless of format or location, with
non-compliance penalties that could run into the millions. This has
drastically changed the way information officers, knowledge officers, and
corporate librarians manage and store their ESI, and how they must use
pan-enterprise search to collaborate with corporate counsels. The Autonomy
pan-enterprise search platform automates the retrieval, processing, and
management of all information throughout a global organization irrespective
of languages, operating systems, and file types, avoiding non-FRCP compliant
search techniques.
"Today, enterprise search and eDiscovery are viewed by CIOs and General
Counsel as completely separate markets with different vendors," said Dr. Mike
Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "However, the fundamental problems of dealing with
huge amounts of unstructured information pose a challenge to both parties and
as a result, we expect that it will drive a convergence of these markets over
the next few years. Autonomy is in a unique position being at the forefront
of this market convergence."
The Autonomy platform supports both pan-enterprise search and FRCP
compliance with its ability to:
- Search all categories of information repositories in an organization by
supporting more than a 1,000 different data formats, including
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, located across 400
different content repositories

- Provide a vendor neutral approach by searching across highly
distributed systems, running on multiple operating systems such as
Unix, Linux and Windows NT

- Produce auditable results

- Pass results to a hold function to ensure relevant ESI is preserved and
not altered in any way or deleted

- Avoid "jump out" techniques or indexing that compromises important
metadata

- Provide a meaning-based conceptual search method as an preferred
approach over federated search

- Deliver a fault-tolerant architecture using load balancing and
mirroring, with high scalability and security, and a sub-second
performance on billions of files

- Seamlessly support an end-to-end eDiscovery suite including
investigation and early case assessment, legal hold, real-time policy
management, data archiving, EDD, on-line review, and production
management

Most of the other search engines available in the market today miss
relevant information because of their performance enhancing shortcuts that
are designed to improve the response time and relevancy of information access
requests from employees. These shortcuts include 'jump out' which misses
respondent documents as it stops looking across an index for potentially
relevant information once it estimates a document is unlikely to make the top
of section of the results list, and partial indexing which only indexes a
subset of a document. For example, if a document contained 500 pages of
information, the search engine may only index the first five pages to
determine relevancy. Federated search can also present risks as it often
involves out-dated, end-of-life search products that rarely search all
information in the repository. While these methods might make sense for
employees trying to find relevant information contained within an enterprise,
they guarantee that information will be skipped and missed which is not
acceptable for legal search.
"Other enterprise search platforms completely miss the mark with only
basic keyword search, or lack the architecture or tools to support critical
FRCP requirements," continued Lynch. "Autonomy's pan-enterprise search
transcends company divisions, operating systems, language-barriers and file
types to ensure all information can be searched for both legal and business
purposes while respecting security."
Autonomy will be showcasing its FRCP-compliant pan-enterprise search
platform at the Enterprise Search Summit to be held from May 20 to 21, 2008
at the Hilton New York Hotel, New York, NY. For more information, please
visit http://www.autonomy.com.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the
meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual
and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including
unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's
software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications
including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions,
rich media management, information risk management solutions and security
applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in
enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companies
and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg,
Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson,
Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange,
Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 400 VARs and
Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business
Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase, Symantec,
TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy Group includes: Autonomy ZANTAZ, the leader in the
archiving, e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM)
markets; Autonomy Cardiff, a leading provider of Intelligent Document
solutions; Autonomy etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact
center products, Autonomy Virage, a visionary in rich media management and
security and surveillance technology and Autonomy Meridio, a leading provider
of records management software.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Autonomy Editorial Contacts:

Winifred Shum Tania Kempf
Autonomy (US) Cohn & Wolfe (US)
+1-408-771-6668 +1-650-281-7556
wshum@autonomy.com Tania_Kempf@sfo.cohnwolfe.com

Edward Bridges Clare Gayner
Financial Dynamics (UK) Bite Communications (UK)
+44(0)207-831-3113 +44(0)20-8834-3454
edward.bridges@fd.com Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com

SOURCE Autonomy Corporation plc

Autonomy Editorial Contacts: Winifred Shum, Autonomy (US), +1-408-771-6668,
wshum@autonomy.com; Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics (UK),
+44(0)207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com; Tania Kempf, Cohn & Wolfe (US),
+1-650-281-7556, Tania_Kempf@sfo.cohnwolfe.com; Clare Gayner, Bite
Communications (UK), +44(0)20-8834-3454, Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com