Autonomy News & Articles

A recent IDC research report shows Autonomy (news, site) is leading the search and discovery market in terms of both revenues and market share.

Imagine a combination of SaaS CMS, Web analytics, A/B and MVT testing, and optimization of landing pages -- sounds like a novel idea? Hardly.

Although every vendor wants to make us believe they are the first ever to step on the surface of the hosted Web CMS/analytics Moon, we know that others have approached this endearing to marketers subject before.

Nevertheless, here’s Autonomy’s (news, site) announcement about a new product designed to enamor marketers and allow them to build and test website landing pages in a hosted environment. The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page offering comes hot on the heels of Webtrends’ newest version 9 release. It sure is a hot summer for the web analytics industry.

Since my old company, Document Sciences, was bought by EMC, I have been following the Enterprise Content Management market closely; The Fortune 500 have invested billions of dollars in databases and ERP technologies leading to multi-billion dollar franchises such as Oracle, SAP, etc. focused on the structured data world.

However, the next frontier of productivity will come from the unstructured data that includes your emails, you-tube videos, word document, power point presentations, pictures, etc.

eCopy (news, site) has released a new solution today that should help improve your productivity when working with a mix of electronic and paper-based information. The solution, called eCopy PaperWorks, lets you scan your paper documents and then merge electronic documents into a single PDF. And that's only the beginning.

It's always good to get recognition from the analyst firms because many organizations pay attention to what these guys say. In the ever evolving area of records management, this recognition can help a lot.

According to the report: The Forrester Wave(TM): Records Management, Q2 2009, a number of key enterprise content management vendors lead the wave for records management including Open Text, IBM, EMC and Oracle. Autonomy and CA are also leaders, with Interwoven and HP noted as strong performers.

We took a closer look at what features brought some of these vendors to the top of the pile.

As we said earlier today, it’s a non-stop flow of news from Autonomy (news, site) so what’s one more?

This post’s news hails from the Meaning Based Marketing side of things. Introduced earlier this week, the new module is called Autonomy Interwoven Multichanel Optimization, and reportedly combines the capabilities of Web content management, contact center, and advanced analytics.

According to the company release, the new module provides organizations with three primary capabilities: active “listening” across all customer interactions, testing across all formats of customer interactions and delivery of a targeted customer experience based on understanding. Autonomy claims this translates to organizations being able to respond to all forms of customer interactions across multiple channels including social media, the Web, contact center, email and in-store.

The module comes after a report by Forrester Research, which found U.S. online consumers who move from channel to channel are largely dissatisfied with their experiences.

“Regardless of which pairs they start with, customer experience professionals need to design experiences that provide users with the three C's: choice, consistency, and continuity,” Adele Sage, Forrester analyst and author of the report wrote.

Will Autonomy’s new module provide the missing link? Follow our coverage closely here and tell us what you think.

It's a non-stop flow of news from Autonomy (news, site) these days. Most recently, the company announced the integration of its document management product, iManage WorkSite, with Autonomy's workflow.

It doesn't come as a surprise that the new module -- iManage Workflow Manager -- is built on Autonomy's meaning-based technology.

Competition in the Web CMS market is cutthroat. Not a single weakness goes unnoticed. Not a single slip goes unattacked. But it’s just business as usual, right? We all seize opportunities, especially in tight times.

FatWire (news, site) is no exception. Demonstrating as much, the web content management vendor has launched a "rescue program" for Interwoven and Vignette customers who are apparently plagued by their recent acquisitions by Autonomy and Open Text respectively.

What is FatWire offering as bait? Free licenses and "proven migration tools" valid until the end of September. Should you consider?

Are you a lawyer, always on the go, needing to work on documents with remote teams when you aren't in the office? You probably aren't alone. And that's likely why Autonomy (news, site) has come out with a document management solution for the iPhone.

Autonomy is all about getting meaning out of something, anything. So it's really not surprising that Autonomy Interwoven (news, site) has announced a new solution that provides analytics for social media solutions -- meaning based analytics that is.

Autonomy reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2009. According to the company, these (unaudited) numbers represent the highest Q1 revenues and profits in Autonomy's history.

One of Q1 2009 highlights is, of course, the completed acquisition of Interwoven, Inc. with “integration ahead of plan” and cash flowing in as well as out.

Want a peak at the new innovations for Intewoven products? Autonomy (news, site) will provide them during the GearUp 2009 Executive Briefing Roadshow.

The Executive Briefing Roadshow is a series of one day events happening around the globe. These events will showcase both the Interwoven product innovations, which include the new IDOLized Interwoven Teamsite, and Autonomy's iManage solution.

Now that the earlier announced acquisition intent is a done deal, and the planned layoffs are (as we hear) underway -- what would be a better move for Autonomy and Interwoven than to release a new product based on mutual strengths?

And so they did. One of the products from the company now called Autonomy Interwoven -- the web content management system Interwoven TeamSite -- has been integrated with Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform.

The IDOL-based TeamSite 6.7.2 will allow customers to use IDOL functionalities like (supposedly) faster search, increased scalability, advanced conceptual content technologies, including customer profiling based on a combination of modes of customer interaction (e.g. e-mail, phone, messaging, web browsing behaviors, etc.)

According to Anthony Bettencourt, CEO of Autonomy Interwoven, the goal of this “injection” is to “enable marketers to derive meaning from all forms of digital information -- both structured and unstructured, text audio and video -- on a single platform.”

It won’t be long until we hear from Autonomy Interwoven again. In the meantime, it would be interesting to see how customers are reacting to the new, IDOLized TeamSite. 

Enterprise content management is always a hot topic. It gets even hotter when you start talking about mergers and acquisitions. This is why the Autonomy / Interwoven deal got so much attention in January. One of the biggest ECM vendors is snapped up by one of the biggest Search vendors -- and in the name of eDiscovery and compliance.

Is this acquisition a sign that we can no longer look at these three areas as separate and individual? That the tools are converging and perhaps becoming secondary to the mindshare that sits behind that technology?

Each year KMWorld publishes the top 100 knowledge management companies "with attitude." Relying on feedback from colleagues, analysts, system integrators and the vendors themselves, the annual list spotlights organizations that demonstrate a commitment to customer-driven innovation and exceptional market agility.

Below, a shortlist of industry standouts -- and why they made it this year.