Type | Public (LSE: AU.) |
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Industry | Information Technology |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | Joint Headquarters: San Francisco, USA & Cambridge, UK |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Dr Michael Richard Lynch, OBE, Founder and CEO Sushovan Hussain, CFO |
Products | Search engine for unstructured Information |
Revenue | US$739.7 million (2009)[1] |
Operating income | US$272.2 million (2009)[1] |
Net income | US$191.6 million (2009)[1] |
Employees | circa 1,200 |
Website | www.autonomy.com |
Autonomy Corporation PLC (LSE: AU.) is an enterprise software company with joint headquarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and San Francisco, USA. The company uses a combination of technologies born out of research at the University of Cambridge. It develops a variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on Bayesian inference in conjunction with traditional methods. In March 2009, it acquired the enterprise content management firm Interwoven, now Autonomy Interwoven and Autonomy iManage.
It is currently listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.[2]
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History
Autonomy was founded in Cambridge, England by Dr Michael Lynch and Richard Gaunt in 1996 as a spin-off from Cambridge Neurodynamics.[3]
Autonomy floated in 1998 on the Easdaq exchange at a share price of approximately 30p. At the height of the "dot com bubble", the peak share price was £30.[4]
In December 2005 Autonomy acquired Verity, Inc., one of its main competitors, for approximately $500m.[5]
In May 2007 after exercising an option to buy a stake of technology start up, Blinkx Inc, and combining it with its consumer division, Autonomy floated Blinkx on a valuation of $250m.[6]
In July 2007 it acquired Zantaz, an email archiving and litigation support company, for $375M.[7]
In January 2009, it acquired Interwoven, a niche provider of enterprise content management software, for $775m.[8]
In June 2010, the company announced that it was to acquire the Information Governance business of CA Technologies. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.[9]
On 8 July 2010, Tottenham Hotspur FC announced a two year sponsorship deal with Autonomy for their Premier League kit [10]
Products
The main technology, Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), allows search and processing of text, audio, video, and structured information. The processing of such information by IDOL is referred to by Autonomy as Meaning-Based Computing.[11]
Autonomy's technology attempts to understand any form of unstructured information, whether text, voice, or video, and based on that understanding perform automatic operations on the information.
Customers
Autonomy also has over 400 OEM partners and more than 400 vendors and integrators, numbering among them are companies such as Citrix, EDS, Novell and Symantec.[12]
Offices
Autonomy has major offices in the US, the UK, Canada, France, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Germany and smaller offices throughout Europe and Latin America.
Senior management
The Company's Board includes:
- Dr Michael Richard Lynch
- Richard Gaunt
- Sushovan Hussain
- Barry Ariko
- John McMonigall
- Richard Perle
References
- ^ a b c Preliminary Results 2009
- ^ Fresnillo, Inmarsat, Autonomy, Stagecoach enter ftse 100 reshuffle
- ^ The Kindness of Strangers VNU Net
- ^ "What that £10k is worth now", 31st Dec 2001, zdnet.co.uk
- ^ "Autonomy buys Verity", Information World Review
- ^ Blinkx IPO goes ahead
- ^ Autonomy buys Zantaz
- ^ Autonomy to buy Interwoven for $775m
- ^ Autonomy to Acquire CA's Information Governance Business News article from InfoGrok
- ^ Tottenham reveal new pounds 20m shirt sponsors
- ^ What is meaning-based computing
- ^ autonomy.com customer list
External links
- Company site
- "The Quest for Meaning" WIRED
- What Is Meaning-Based Computing?
- Michael Lynch On Meaning-Based Computing
- Virage
- etalk
- Cardiff
- ZANTAZ
- Meridio