Autonomy Awarded Agreement for Digital Archive & Preservation Solutions for UK Public Services

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- National Procurement Partner for all UK Public Services Awards Autonomy a Place on Digital Continuity Framework Agreement

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced it has been awarded a place to provide Digital Archiving Solutions through Lot 7 of the recently-launched framework agreement for Digital Continuity by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for all UK public services. Buying Solutions aims to facilitate public sector buying processes by maintaining a shortlist of proven suppliers and their products and services, and is part of the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Group.

This agreement certifies Autonomy as a key partner in enabling e-government and helping to maximize value for government departments and across the wider public sector through efficient procurement.

Autonomy successfully responded to a competitive tender process for Digital Archiving Solutions. A key factor in the selection was Autonomy's unique meaning-based technology, which automatically recognizes concepts and patterns across all data types, languages and repositories. Additionally, the Autonomy Consolidated Archive (ACA), which provides a single platform for Enterprise Digital Information Capture, Records Management and Digital Archive and Preservation, ensures security, reliability, and compliance.

Based on Autonomy's cornerstone technology, IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), the Autonomy Consolidated Archive not only ensures regulatory compliance with both national and EU legislation, but enables government entities to control and access structured, semi-structured and unstructured content on a single, centrally-managed system. In order to ensure appropriate preservation and disposal management, the solution also offers transparent collaboration, version control, retention management and automated workflow processes, as well as the ability to retrieve contents easily and intuitively, based on the concepts found within all archived content.

"This agreement demonstrates Autonomy's long-term commitment to the UK government in the drive for increased efficiency and economic streamlining in the public sector," said Glenn Perachio, VP Autonomy Protect solutions EMEA. "The Buying Solutions framework agreement for Digital Continuity represents true innovation for the government, allowing public sector organizations at all levels access to an effective programme to support the procurement and deployment of our award-winning records management solutions. We look forward to collaborating with organizations across the public sector to help them reduce costs, improve efficiency and stay agile in the years ahead."

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. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. 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, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, 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 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.

About Buying Solutions

Buying Solutions is the national procurement partner for all UK public services and is part of the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Group.

Its role is to maximise value for money for government departments and organisations across the wider public sector through the efficient procurement and supply of vital goods and services.

Buying Solutions delivers best value by aggregating demand, managing the OJEU procurement process and providing ongoing management of framework agreements and other procurement arrangements thereby saving you time, money and effort.

Serving customers in Central Government, the Health sector, Local Government and the wider public sector, Buying Solutions provides access to trusted, EU-compliant framework agreements and other sustainable procurement solutions.

    
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