CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, September 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that industry
analyst group Gartner, Inc. has positioned Autonomy in the Leaders Quadrant
of its 2009 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant Report.[1] The
evaluation is based on Autonomy's "Completeness of Vision" and "Ability to
Execute."
"We appreciate Gartner's recognition of Autonomy, which we believe is for
our strong vision for the Information Access market," said Stouffer Egan, CEO
of Autonomy Inc. "Autonomy takes a completely different approach to
computing, which enables businesses to harness the full richness of
unstructured information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding
of any piece of electronic information. With over 170 patents and the largest
R&D investment in the industry, we continue to deliver innovations that cover
a wide spectrum of strategic business applications. As a result, leading
corporations from every industry continue to standardize on the Autonomy
platform in order to strengthen customer engagement, manage costs and risks,
and accelerate top-line growth."
"We are pleased with Gartner's acknowledgement of Autonomy's IDOL in the
area of Information Access and will continue to build on our success in the
key area of going beyond just access and on into the actual automated
processing of unstructured information," concluded Egan.
[1] Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, September 2, 2009,
Whit Andrews, Gartner
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused
with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis
of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as
defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to
select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic
Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a
specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or
implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based
Computing movement. It was recently ranked by IDC as the clear leader in
enterprise search revenues, with market share nearly double that of its
nearest competitor. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the
full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual
understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured
information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's
software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications
including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information
governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business
process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media
management and video and audio analysis.
Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global
companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC,
Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA
Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, NASA, Nestle, the
New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department
of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology,
including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company
has offices worldwide. Please visit http://www.autonomy.com to find out more.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Autonomy Editorial Contacts:
Assia Svinarova David Vindel
Autonomy (UK) The Red Consultancy (UK)
+44-1223-448000 +44-207-025-6529
assias@autonomy.com david.vindel@redconsultancy.com
Edward Bridges Ian Bain
Financial Dynamics (UK) The Red Consultancy (US)
+44-207-831-3113 +1-415-618-8806
edward.bridges@fd.com ian.bain@redconsultancy.com
