Autonomy's IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search Product Selected as "2007 Trendsetter" by KMWorld Magazine

Aug. 23, 2007

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO , California, August 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that its IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search technology has been selected by KMWorld magazine as a "2007 Trendsetter." IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search provides integrated conceptual search capability on both the desktop and within the enterprise.

Hugh McKellar, KMWorld's editor in chief, said, "More than 650 individual products were considered by our team of editors, analysts, integrators and users. Each and every company whose products were chosen for this year's list of Trend-Setting Products is being acknowledged for its willingness to listen and serve its customers in useful and innovative ways."

Autonomy IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search runs on any PC in order to make the corporate desktop entirely searchable. A secure, enterprise version of desktop search, this Autonomy product can integrate with all other Autonomy modules, making content from secure corporate networks, intranets, local data sources, the Web as well as information on the desktop, such as email, office documents readily and easily accessible.

"We're honored that KMWorld recognized the IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search technology for its unique ability to use implicit query to form an understanding of the information on a user's screen, and proactively link users to related information on their secured corporate network, on the web or their local machine, entirely automatically," said Stouffer Egan, CEO of Autonomy, Inc. "As unstructured data continue to grow rapidly, enterprise desktop search becomes a critical business technology for organizations of all sizes."

For more information on Autonomy's IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search product, please visit http://www.autonomy.com.

About KMWorld

The leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market, KMWorld covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management and informs more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes and subsequent success stories that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, information risk management solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.

Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 400 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. The company has offices worldwide.

The Autonomy Group includes: ZANTAZ, the leader in the archiving, e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets; Cardiff , a leading provider of Intelligent Document solutions; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products and Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology.

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: Winifred Shum Autonomy (US) +1-408-542-2363 [email protected] Runi Krishnamurty Bite Communications (US) +1-212-857-9395 [email protected] Edward Bridges Financial Dynamics (UK) +44-207-831-3113 [email protected] Ali Merifield Bite Communications (UK) +44-(0)20-8834-3441 +44-(0)20-8741-1123 [email protected]

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