Autonomy News & Articles

There is growing product-based evidence that vendors are either designing or adapting software for specific tasks and verticals. Today’s release of Auminence by Autonomy (news, site) and the application of IDOL to the healthcare vertical is a case in point.

Autonomy (news, site) has spruced-up its consolidated archive again, this time with mobile functionality, upgraded cloud connect features and additional connectors that makes the archive compatible with over 400 repositories.

One of the challenges with SharePoint is tooling for both farm recovery and granular recovery, and one company is aiming to solve the problem.

Autonomy, in the meantime, publishes strong Q3 results with GRC at their center.

Following the market trading of October 6th, there has been some concern about the fate of Autonomy (news, site) when its shares plummeted by 16%, raising speculation that it would fall prey to one of the many predators out on the market at this time.

However, with the release of its Q3 figures, which show a rise of 10% in revenues, compared to the same quarter last year, to US$ 211 million and confirmation that a major acquisition will be announced this fall, the future looks brighter than some analysts were predicting earlier this month.

This week from a GRC perspective was always going to be about announcements from the International Legal Technology Association’s (ILTA) conference in Las Vegas that runs until tomorrow. Nearly everyone is there including Autonomy, Open Text, IBM and Recommind. But there are others too and we’ll catch up with them next week.

It’s probably no surprise that a recent IDC (news, site) report identified Autonomy as the biggest search and e-Discovery vendor in the market at the moment. No surprise, that is, because it just keeps adding to ways it provides companies with e-Discovery capabilities. The most recent is the introduction of its new Meaning Based Coding of e-Discovery.

This week is dominated by e-Discovery with the release of new software from Autonomy that the company says will dramatically cut times and costs in legal review, while IBM and PSS Systems integrate for better legal hold. Social media and compliance is also the target of a new release from LiveOffice.

Moving from Autonomy (news, site) Worksite 8.x to Worksite 8.5 is no small matter. With so many changes to this 8.5 release, you may wonder why it wasn't called 9.0. 

You could never accuse Autonomy (news, site) of letting the grass grow under its feet. Only a month after it announced it was buying CA’s (news, site) information governance business, it has closed the deal despite indications at the time that this would take some months. And it has already integrated its IDOL search platform into what was CA’s Message Manager.

We’ve been exploring Web Engagement Management (WEM) perspectives lately. This time we look at the role that Digital Asset Management (DAM) plays in engagement. And based on my experiences, I'll put a stake in the ground and say that most organizations and DAM vendors are missing out on the potential DAM+WEM love.

The jump from previous Autonomy (news, site) WorkSite 8.x builds to Autonomy Worksite 8.5 is huge. With the initial release of 8.5 and a series of updates, including a service pack, the product has undergone many important changes. In fact, there are so many changes in this release that it really begs a more appropriate version, i.e. 9.0.

This week there has been a whole spate of new releases in the world of GRC, most of which -- unsurprisingly -- have been focused on better security. There have also been a couple of acquisitions as well as increasing interest in services and cloud computing.

The recent release of annual figures from Autonomy (news, site)  indicated that company was in the market for more acquisitions. No surprise then that it has just announced it is buying CA’s information governance business, including CA Records Manager and CA Message Manager.

With industry talks about social media policies and governance abound, Autonomy (news, site) released a new product called Autonomy Social Media Governance built to monitor and govern enterprise information on social media channels.

Social media was and will always create compliance headaches unless there is a way of monitoring its use. Autonomy has come up with a solution to do just that, while Laserfiche produces a governance framework for public sector workers.