Autonomy Corp., Plc

摘要

"We were way ahead of the rest of the market, in terms of looking at this broader area of unstructured data," boasts Nicole Eagan, CMO for Autonomy, Corp., speaking of the company's place in the enterprise search marketplace. In 1996, the company got its start when founder and CEO Sir Michael Lynch, Ph.D., Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, took what he learned about how humans process information while studying at Cambridge University and decided to apply it to computers. So was born what Autonomy calls "meaning-based computing." To move beyond structured databases and "old-fashioned" computing, Autonomy "came at the market quite differently," Eagan says. "We saw there could be good information in any unstructured data." With this in mind, Eagan says, Autonomy wondered, "What if we just let people index, search, and process it all to get value out of it?"