For most who follow the ECM market, the news of Autonomy buying Interwoven comes as a surprise. While analysts have been talking about further consolidation in the ECM space for quite a while, few, if any, predicted this pairing.
For anyone who might need a refresher:
Autonomy leads the enterprise search market in discovering data found in telephone conversations, voicemails, emails, word documents, paper documents, images, web pages, video and hundreds of additional formats.
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Interwoven, is an ECM vendor with two primary, but somewhat separate, product lines:
- Interwoven Worksite, a Document Management technology used by my numerous legal firms, universities, and corporations
- Interwoven Teamsite, a Web Content Management technology that manages content across all internally facing and externally facing Web-based business applications-portals, intranets, Websites, extranets, and self-service applications
What does the Autonomy+Interwoven package deliver?
The combination of Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing technologies (IDOL) (with its ability to understand content) with Interwoven's suite of products (focused on managing the interactions of people and content) will create a new set of technologies, updating and enhancing Interwoven's products by significantly reducing the levels of manual effort now required. These technologies are ready to address the new need for manage-in-place and extend Autonomy's reach into a new customer base. Interwoven's products know what the customer interactions are, and Autonomy's IDOL will allow them to know what they mean. (source: Autonomy's Press Release)
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