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Hyperwave Partners With Autonomy to Strengthen Corporate Portal
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Autonomy's leading technology will make Hyperwave eKnowledge Portal more intuitive and collaborative
October. 11, 1999
Hyperwave Information Management, Inc. (www.hyperwave.com), today
announced it will embed Autonomy's (www.autonomy.com) technology
within its Hyperwave eKnowledge Portal (HIP), a new corporate portal
designed to be the central workspace of the enterprise. Because
Autonomy's technology can automatically identify the main ideas
in any text, it can automate many of the labor-intensive tasks involved
in building a corporate portal. These include categorizing information
by subject matter, inserting hypertext links to related information,
profiling users' expertise and interests based on what they contribute
and routing information to those most likely to be interested.
"We believe that for a corporate portal to be effective, it has
to be a place where you not only access knowledge, but also share
knowledge," said Gary McGrath, general manager of Hyperwave. "Autonomy's
ability to put new documents in the right place as they're added,
automatically insert hypertext links to related information, and
create user profiles based on what people are contributing, will
help make Hyperwave eKnowledge Portal one of the most collaborative
portal solutions on the market.
Adding Autonomy technology into the portal will make it easier
for people to publish and find information based on not just keywords
but concepts, and to find colleagues who have more information."
"By using our technology to automate some of the more cumbersome
tasks associated with building a corporate portal, Hyperwave customers
will be able to add depth and breadth of information to their enterprise
portals without having to waste time manually sorting, tagging and
linking information," said Autonomy CEO Dr. Michael Lynch. "Best
of all, because we can also profile employees' expertise by analyzing
the main ideas in the documents they contribute, employees can easily
identify the right brain to pick or cast the perfect team for a
new project."
In addition to creating a collaborative environment, HIP aggregates
content from various sources and formats, making it convenient to
find and utilize intellectual capital. It also creates time by eliminating
the administrative nightmare of finding and fixing broken links
between documents. This is made possible by the award-winning Hyperwave
Information Server, on which HIP is built. The server extracts and
manages hyperlinks between documents on its own, freeing Webmasters
from the task of eliminating dead ends surfaced through the portal.
The result is significant savings in administrative time and costs,
as well as reduction of user frustration.
Other benefits of HIP include self-publishing capabilities - another
time saver for administrators - role-based interfaces, multiple
server architecture, collaboration tools and much more.
About Autonomy
Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalized systems
for knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing
and electronic commerce. Because of its ability to analyze any piece
of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and
rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of labor
intensive tasks. These range from categorizing information by subject
matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling
users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering
information to those most likely to be interested.
Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco,
New York, Atlanta and Boston, in the United States as well as in
Cambridge, England and Oslo, Norway. Among its 150-plus customers
are Alcatel, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Aerospace,
Clorox, News Corp., Procter & Gamble, Lucent Technologies, Merrill
Lynch, SF Gate, Semi-tech, The Royal Mail and Xoom.com. In addition,
several software companies are licensing Autonomy's technology to
add intelligence to their online publishing, knowledge management,
email routing and document management applications, including FutureTense,
Intraspect, Verge, Aeneid, Global Recall, Insight and Nexor. On
July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ exchange (EASDAQ:AUTN).
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