Organize your e-mess...with Autonomy

Ómar Örn Jónsson

Íslandsvefir ehf.

Presentation at Nord I&D 2001

www.autonomy.com

Íslandsvefir

• Founded in march 2000• Specilized in artificial intelligence• Value added resellers of Autonomy software• Extensive Autonomy experience

• Search engine at ha.is

• News archive solutions for mbl.is

• Community on the web at hugi.is

• Online phone directory at simaskra.is

• Various intranet projects amongts others

• Co-operating with Autonomy world wideÍslandsvefir ehf.

Ingólfsstræti 5101 Reykjavík

Tel : +354 552 6300www.islandsvefir.is

omar@islandsvefir.is

Autonomy a global software company

San FranciscoNew York

Washington

Cambridge

Paris

Boston

Chicago

+Sydney

Frankfurt

Oslo

Amsterdam

Brussels

Milan

Madrid

Zurich

Rome

Munich

Dallas

Stockholm

+ Reykjavik

USA Europe

Autonomy provides the

software infrastructure that automates the processing of unstructured information in any digital domain

Value proposition

Autonomy infrastructure

Web Client

Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI)Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI)

Application Tier

Active Client Wireless Client TV Client

News Feeds

Email Products Internet Database FilesDocument

Management XML Audio/ MediaLotusNotes

-10 Years

Database

The Internet

Today

Unstructured Informationemail / Word / HTML / PDF / etc

Semi-structured InformationDoc Mgt / XML

A fundamental shift

• Today, 80% of business is conducted on unstructured information

Gartner Group

• Unstructured data doubles every three months

Gartner Group

• 7 million web pages are added every day

Gartner Group

• 340 million internet users world-wide

Andersen Consulting

The issue is getting worse...

Now

Other forms of Unstructured Information

Affecting every Industry Sector

Video

+Voice

Multiple Devices

+

Issues

Knowledge Management refers to the collating of disparate data and knowledge held by

staff to improve working practices and information sharing.

Expected Knowledge Management benefits

0 20% 40% 60% 80%

Better decision making

Reduced costs

Faster response time

Improved productivity

Shared best practice

Source: Harris/2000

The manual approaches

Keyword Search Manual Tagging/XML Linguistic / SemanticApproaches

Collaborative Filtering / Forms

Costly Defocused Inaccurate

• Automatic• Language Independent• Fast• Scalable• Accurate• Patented

A unique combination of technologies

=

Bayesian Inference

Information Theory

+

An automated infrastructure...

Autonomy applied to….

Knowledge Management / Enterprise PortalsConnecting people and knowledge automatically

• Reduce labor expenses• Increase the productivity of employees• Avoid duplication of effort and time wasted

New Media Publishing / Vertical Portals / E-CommerceFully automating and personalizing new media and e-commerce sites

• Reduce production and running costs• Leverage content • Differentiation from competing websites• Turn one-time visitors into regular users/customers

OEMs & Technology Partners Adding intelligence to any software applications • Gain competitive advantage through a more complete product offering,

handling unstructured information

Global solutions in every industry

Automotive Media Federal/Govt Finance Technology

Pharmaceutical

Services Telecom E-commerce New Media

Powered By Autonomy Internet Sites

Selected OEMs and Technology partners

Integrated with AutonomyAutonomy OEMs - 40 worldwide

Aggregation and Retrieval

“With Autonomy, we can save time and costs that we used to spend on maintenance and information retrieval. Additionally we can support our users with personalised interfaces.”

Peter Rasmussen, Project Director, Danske Bank

Danske Bank

• Developing a smart intranet with subscription services for the users based on explicit interest and implicit profiles.

• Global intranet - local intranet - personal intranet• Automatic aggregation and leveraging of content from defined

internal and external information sources.• Content from Notes, MS Office, HTML, E-mail, PDF, Oracle,

SQL, a.o.• Multiple language versions.• Automatic hypertext linking, categorization, summarization,

highlighting, relevance match and auto suggest.

Personalization

“Autonomy's technology gives us the ability to empower the expertise within our worldwide operations. They can even have information pushed to their hand-held digital devices whilst they are on the move.”

Lars Östlund, Ericsson

Ericsson

• Automated Business Intelligent Centre for 100.000 employees with personalization features.

• Focus on scalability in relation to functionality and size.• Personalization through agents and profiling - explicit and

implicit information retrieval.• Advanced community functions for individual agents and

profiles.• Sharing of best practices and expertise.• Corporate Portal accessible by WAP.• Ericsson’s most visited internal site and Product of the Year

2000.

Categorization

“Reuters Group PLC supplies the global financial markets and the news media with a wide range of information and news products including real-time financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures.

The Company reaches over 521,000 users in 52,800 locations and extensively uses Internet technologies for wider distribution of information and news.”

Reuters

• Automatically aggregate and categorize 1,3 million news stories and postings.

• In 23 different languages.• Deliver accurate and timely content to Reuters’ customers.• Provide real-time U.S. equities market data to more than 40,000

professionals at banks, brokerage houses and other financial institutions.

• Deliver 15.000 news stories to Ericsson every day.• Reuters has drastically reduced production costs!

Any Questions?

www.autonomy.com

Awards

Portal-in-a-Box™ Winner of "Product of Year 2000" award, Paris, IDT - May 2000

Portal-in-a-Box™ Winner of "Internet Product of the Year 2000" , Oslo, Kapital Data - February 2000

Autonomy Suite Winner of "1999 Internet World Annual Industry Award -Workgroup Software Category" at Spring Internet World 1999 - April 1999

Autonomy Server™ Winner of Crossroads 2000 A-List Award, Finding and Reusing Knowledge Category. Sponsored by Open Systems Advisors - November 1999.

Portal-in-a-Box™ Winner of "Product of the Year award ” at The Information Management Awards 1999. Sponsored by Information Age - December 1999

Autonomy Winner of "Top 100 Emerging Companies" at Computerworld Business Awards 2000 - December 1999

Market Analysts Quotes

‘Autonomy has produced one of the most complete applications of concept based techniques yet to reach the market’

’Autonomy have one of the best combinations of technologies needed to make sense of the junk out on the Web, and it seems to be low maintenance from the user standpoint.’

‘Autonomy is leading the way in providing a solution to the problem of manually tagging and indexing information. Autonomy Suite automates these processes entirely.’

‘We are particularly impressed with the simplicity and sophistication of Autonomy Update.’

‘As application providers look for solutions to manage unstructured content, they should consider Autonomy Content Infrastructure for integrating, sharing and routing unstructured content across enterprise applications.’

‘Autonomy has the potential to become the backbone for almost every important area of Internet software. It solves the problem of categorizing and sorting unstructured data. The technology has countless applications.’

‘Advanced personalization requires in-depth understanding of the content...use Autonomy to automate the process for larger volumes.‘

Customers & Partners Quotes

Klaus Voss, Scientific Director - ‘We decided on Portal-in-a-Box because it is the only solution available on the market that supports the automatic construction of Internet portals, and that is capable of responding to the challenging demands of our research and community functions.’

John Coate, General Manager - ‘I could have never offered this depth or breadth without Autonomy's technology, even if I'd been able to hire scores of staff dedicated solely to categorizing, tagging and inserting hypertext links"

Lars Östlund - ‘Autonomy's technology gives us the ability to empower the expertise within our worldwide operations, as well as share information so that every employee in every department is kept fully informed of the developments which will impact on their business. They can even have this information pushed to their hand-held digital devices whilst they are on the move.’

Doug McGowan, general manager E-services Solutions- ‘We chose Autonomy's exceptional technology because it automates the most costly tasks associated with maintaining a portal solution. Our combined offering will not only save HP customers time and money, but also enhance employee productivity by delivering the relevant, personalized information people need to make better informed decisions.’

Duncan Fyfe, Director of Informatics, Product Strategy and Licensing- ‘The growing volume of unstructured information in any enterprise is threatening to overwhelm the users of that information. By using Autonomy, we can ensure that the right material reaches the right person at the right time.’

Press Quotes

‘No other company provides the full smorgasbord of technologies and capabilities that Autonomy does in a single product.’

‘Autonomy is one of the country's best technology firms that is well on course to shape the future. ‘

‘Autonomy’s software is helping create the foundations for the next generation of computing.’

‘Autonomy's technology is at least a year ahead than any of its rivals, including competitors from Silicon Valley. Bill Gates has publicly acknowledged that the theory behind Autonomy's know-how - a process called Bayesian Inference - will be the foundation of the next generation of computers.’

‘Autonomy's technology is currently found in several other portal applications, in addition to products from content management, knowledge management and commerce software vendors. Autonomy's technology adds key functionality to larger, integrated products that have a range of features.’

"What Autonomy has is so important, it doesn't just belong "in-a-box", it belongs everywhere."