Autonomy News & Articles

Leaving aside any irritation about the timing of the announcement -- why Friday? --   the news that Symantec (news, site) has agreed to buy Clearwell for US$ 390 million has to be the deal of the week on all kinds of levels.

This week, SAP brings business analytics to GRC, researchers in Germany say they have identified a security hole in Android, Autonomy has bought the digital assets of Iron Mountain, VMWare has been on the acquisition trail and Compliance 360 releases Universal Assessments.

Autonomy (news, site) announced today that it is acquiring Iron Mountain’s archiving, e-discovery and online backup business for US$ 380 million in cash. This acquisition makes Autonomy big. How big? According to company statistics, Autonomy is now responsible for 25 petabytes of customer data and over 25,000 customers, who will now have Autonomy's advanced  technology for information governance in private clouds.

This week, Microsoft finally gave the world a look at Office 365 in beta, Oracle pulls the plug on commercial ambitions for OpenOffice, Nuxeo adds a Google Search Appliance connector, Autonomy extends its reach in the health sector and there are two releases from AuraPortal and Visioneer.

As our month's focus on enterprise collaboration draws to a close, we know now that collaboration is the act of working together towards a common goal and enterprise collaboration is a group of people working to achieve the goals agreed upon by those in an enterprise. Over the past couple of years, we have seen a large number of Enterprise CMS vendors develop software products to help people in the enterprise do just that.

Each year KMWorld (news, site) publishes a list of the cream of the crop in knowledge management. "100 companies That Matter" includes favorites from practitioners, analysts, theorists and customers, recognizing orgs whose innovations have had significant impact on the constituency chain as a whole. 

This week has seen a considerable amount of cloud action among vendors including Modulo, which has taken its risk manager into the cloud; Iron Mountain, which offers medical records access in the cloud; and Compliance 360 has added flexible reporting to its platform. Autonomy, meanwhile, offers e-Discovery across social media.

Autonomy (news, site) has just closed a very good year with the release of its final figures for 2010. While CEO Dr. Mike Lynch might be smiling, those of us in the media waiting for an announcement on Autonomy’s acquisition target are slightly less happy -- Lynch indicated that there would be delay in the deal because of changes at the target company.

First week of the New Year and already there are updates for SharePoint 2010. This time they comes from KnowledgeLake (news, site) who have announced that they have added FAST search technology support to their Imaging for SharePoint software.

We are now quickly heading towards the end of the year. It’s time to look back before leaping forward. Here are the major Enterprise CMS highlights of 2010.

Hyland Software (news, site), which recently made it into the leader’s quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant ECM report, has just announced the release of v10.0 of OnBase. This time around, Hyland has focused firmly on developing case management capabilities through the introduction of a new client.

Last February Microsoft (news, site) announced that it was discontinuing mainstream and extended UNIX and Linux support for its FAST search technology. There was some speculation that in doing so it hoped that it could drag Linux and UNIX users into its Windows stable. However, Autonomy (news, site) has been quick to see and seize the opportunity this decision provided.

It seems as if Autonomy’s (news, site) acquisition of a major US company, which has been under discussion since at least last February when it raised US$ 910.9 million on the money markets, will not be announced this month as expected.

Last week Gartner published its Magic Quadrant for the enterprise content management market. In our analysis of the report we examined the companies that had made it into the leader’s quadrant. Outside of the leader’s quadrant, though, there are three other quadrants: visionaries, challengers and niche players. Let's have a look.