The Leader in Meaning Based Computing
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EECS 441
2/15/12
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What is Autonomy?
Develop enterprise searching softwareMeaning based computing
Information connectivityAccessing unstructured information
Documents Web pages Videos Phone conversations
Financials
Market cap of $7 billionRevenue for 2010 $870 million
Net income $217 millionUK’s largest software companyHP acquisition October 3, 2011
Sold for $11 billion Largest software transaction
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Origins
Founded 1996 using tech from Cambridge University Dr. Michael Lynch Richard Gaunt
Research was in computer based finger print recognition
“Britain’s Bill Gates”
Company Affiliations
Many leading software companies embed Autonomy products in their own solutions
Acquired litigation companies
IDOL Platform
Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Make all electronic data discoverable Don’t have to play the search engine Understand users and document meaning
Cluster data Results of related info
Assist in legal process from firms to clientsFile Filtering
Aurasma
Augmented reality appProviding infrastructure to recognize real
world placesBayesian probability for recognition
Likelihood of deformationPoor reviews so far
SLOOOW
Secrets of Success
R&D is the lifeblood of the company (20% of revenue)
Not constrained to “one type” of searching NLP (e.g. saw the dog. It was funny) PageRank Weighting
Unifying information All relevant types of data
Scalability
The Future?
They are gonna go farInnovated enterprise searchingGetting feet wet in mobile