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