Autonomy's
Product Orientated Drop-in Solution - PODS, seamlessly integrates IDOL
Server functionality directly into the heart of third party
applications such as Siebel and SAP.
PODS deliver an infrastructure solution that
simultaneously integrates at the Application, Data and Interface level,
providing the latest in IDOL Server functionality
Whether connecting people to content, content to
content or even people to people, PODS deliver an infrastructure
solution that simultaneously integrates at the Application, Data and
Interface level, providing the latest in IDOL Server functionality:
- Active Matching
- Agents
- Alerting & Information Delivery
- Automatic Categorization
- Automatic Clustering
- Automatic Contextual Summarization
- Automatic Hyperlinking
- Automatic Profiling
- Collaboration & Expertise Networks
- Dynamic Taxonomy Generation
- Intelligent XML Handling
- Metadata Handling
- Personalization
- Retrieval
- Universal Repository Interfacing
Once in place, Autonomy PODS will enhance the existing
solution, leveraging the existing information assets and allowing users
to make faster and better-informed decisions. Implementing an
enterprise wide or web-facing solution, PODS acts as a catalyst to
improve operational efficiency and reducing the cost of manual overhead
of managing information.
Already Autonomy has extended the IDOL Server
platform to other software vendors such as BEA, Computer Associates,
IBM, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and Sybase. Autonomy PODS delivers a rapidly
deployable path for integrating applications, providing high-end
Autonomy functionality to existing applications or fusing an
Application to IDOL Server.
Benefits
· Add value to existing IT investments
· Enhance application performance through a new range of Autonomy functionality
· Identify the real value of information
· Utilize all information assets in the organization simultaneously
· Make faster and better-informed decisions
· Improve operational efficiency
· Reduce the manual overhead of managing information
A Fully Integrated Solution
Autonomy PODS is a completely customizable
solution that simultaneously integrates at the Application, Data and
Interface level, providing the latest in IDOL Server functionality.
PODS comprises the following components:
Autonomy Portlets
Depending on the desired IDOL Server
functionality, Autonomy PODS automatically install the relevant
Portlet/ Applet directly into the front-end interface of the third
party application, providing new features and functionality to the end
user.
IDOL Server Functionality
IDOL Server is a comprehensive software
infrastructure solution that delivers a wide choice of functionality.
At the heart of PODS lies Autonomy's sophisticated pattern-matching
techniques to enable applications to understand information in context.
For the first time, applications can go beyond keywords and metadata to
identify concepts within the text itself to determine which are the
most important and to automate the processing of this content,
regardless of its format, location, language, application it's been
created with or stored in.
This key understanding of content enables
Autonomy to provide powerful business functionality ranging from the
latest in personalization solutions to proactive collaboration
functionality and highly accurate and relevant information retrieval
and delivery. The choice of functionality is entirely up to you.
Universal Repository Interfacing
Using Autonomy Connectors, IDOL Server integrates
at the application's data storage level, leveraging unstructured,
semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories
through an understanding of the content, delivering a real time
environment in which operations across applications and content are
automated, removing all the manual processes involved in getting the
right information, to the right people at the right time. IDOL makes
enterprise systems "data-agnostic", therefore providing automated
efficiencies never experienced before.
Extending the Boundaries of Information
In addition to optimizing the use of any single
application, PODS can also be linked into wider deployments to further
leverage the value of content lying in separate applications and
repositories using some or all IDOL's functionality.
Enterprises looking to exploit content must be
able to simultaneously access a wide range of data sources, including
unstructured data such as HTML pages, word processing documents,
spreadsheets, electronic mail, as well as semi-structured data (XML)
and structured data such as Oracle, Lotus Notes and ODBC compliant
content, in addition to multimedia data including audio and video
content.
Autonomy solutions are not reliant on any single
file or data format. Autonomy handles all types of information and
provides a range of highly scalable Connectors that automatically
aggregate more than 200 different content formats, from the most
comprehensive range of repositories. Facilitating a unified solution
across multiple data sources, Autonomy supports the following data
repositories:
- Document Management Repositories
- Relational Database Management Systems
- Local File Systems
- Internet Servers
- E-mail Servers
- News Feed Servers
- Legacy Systems
Through Autonomy's wide support of data repositories,
PODS can make use of all information assets in the organization,
returning results from the integrated POD application and other
solutions simultaneously, whilst respecting all security settings.
