The rollout builds on an earlier sale, in December 1999, in which Ericsson implemented Autonomy’s technology to power the first phase of its enterprise information initiative. The technology behind the system is Autonomy’s Portal-in-a-Box(TM), including the i-WAP product that brings Autonomy’s intelligence to mobile applications, and the Active Knowledge(TM) product that reads along with users and automatically delivers conceptually related material.
Autonomy’s technology will enable Ericsson to automatically aggregate, categorize, hypertext link, personalize and deliver information across the enterprise, to PCs, mobile telephones and PDAs. The information, which will be used to support business-critical decisions, will be drawn from multiple sources, including office documents, e-mails, the Web, intranet content, and newsfeeds, amongst others.
Dr Mike Lynch, founder and Group CEO of Autonomy, commented: What we are seeing with many Autonomy sales now is the all-important rollout stage, which is an outright demonstration not only of the technology’s robustness and effectiveness, but also of its inherent scalability. We believe our technology is unrivalled in this respect, and we are pleased that Ericsson has validated this belief by its decision to expand its Autonomy user base.
At the heart of Autonomy’s software is its ability to analyze text and voice (in any language) and identify and rank the main concepts within it. It can then automatically categorize, link, personalize and deliver that information. The technology is used to automate these operations within enterprise information portals, customer relationship management, knowledge management and e-business applications.
