Thursday, January 08, 2009

Autonomy and Unstructured Data

More information about Autonomy in InFocus: Autonomy Corp., PLC bt Teresa Cramer, Enterprise Search (Dec 1, 2008)

Nicole Eagan, CMO for Autonomy, Corp., spoke about Autonomy's place in the enterprise search marketplace.

To modify an old slogan, it's mainly because of the unstructured data.

"By "applying very advanced algorithms" to information, Eagan says Autonomy makes "understanding the meaning of human-friendly information" a reality for computers. Autonomy’s approach centers on what it calls "meaning-based computing"—the ability to form an understanding of all information, whether it be structured, semistructured, or unstructured, and recognize the relationships that exist within it."

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"It is a commonly referenced statistic that about 80% of a company’s information is unstructured. Autonomy tackled this challenge from the start, with its early focus on turning information that computers could not understand into searchable and more readily usable data. "

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