Autonomy Zantaz Announces Compliance With the Newly Released EDRM XML Standard for Electronic Discovery

Feb. 6, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, England and PLEASANTON, California, February 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company and the leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets, (LSE: AU. or AU.L), today announced that ZANTAZ Introspect is compliant with EDRM's Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, EDRM XML 1.0. Autonomy ZANTAZ Introspect is one of the first e-discovery products to achieve compliance with the newly released XML standard, which was designed to improve interoperability and the transfer of electronically stored information (ESI) between applications involved in the discovery process.

The EDRM XML compliant ZANTAZ Introspect provides the following benefits:

- Lower labor costs: IT departments, legal teams and service providers can significantly reduce the amount of manual effort spent transferring ESI from system to system

- Fewer errors: Organizations can focus their efforts on a single standard schema, versus multiple schemas, to transfer ESI from system to system, reducing errors

- Faster e-discovery: The ability to efficiently transfer data leads to a faster, streamlined end-to-end e-discovery process

- Greater flexibility: Organizations have the freedom to choose "best-of-breed" products that offer interoperability, versus inferior products that must be pieced together

"The development of the EDRM XML standard shows a changing of the tides in the world of e-discovery best practices," said George J. Socha, principal analyst with Socha Consulting and co-founder of the EDRM Project. "By implementing a standard way of managing the collaboration between technologies, EDRM has capitalized on the industry's readiness to work together and move the entire industry forward."

Autonomy ZANTAZ, a co-leader in the EDRM XML standards initiative, donated the initial draft of the XML schema to the advisory committee, which was heavily leveraged in the standards draft and ratification. Autonomy is committed to supporting this schema across all of the company's Information Risk Management (IRM) products and services. In addition to the market leading eDiscovery review tool, Introspect, this includes media restoration, consolidated archiving, advanced electronic data discovery, production, real-time policy management and analytics.

"This certification is an important affirmation of our commitment to provide organizations the most comprehensive IRM platform on the market," said Mike Lynch , CEO of Autonomy. "As the only vendor delivering a single platform for organizations to proactively manage their data through the entire discovery process, Autonomy ZANTAZ reduces chain-of-custody risks and gives companies confidence in consistent and accurate data production."

To find out more about Autonomy ZANTAZ' Proactive Information Risk Management solutions, please visit http://www.ZANTAZ.com.

About Autonomy ZANTAZ

ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company, is the leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets. It is the only vendor that offers an entire spectrum of Proactive Information Risk Management solutions ranging from consolidated archiving of all information sources including email, IM, enterprise systems, voice and video, to discovery and review, advanced eDiscovery, real-time policy management and analytics - all based on a common platform, IDOL. ZANTAZ solutions, which support more than 100 languages, are available as on-site software applications or on-demand software services (SaaS), or a combination of both. ZANTAZ customers include 9 of the 10 top global law firms, 11 of the Fortune 25 and 14 of the top 20 financial securities firms. Customers include Abbott Laboratories, Capital One, JMP Securities, Johnson & Johnson, Liberty Mutual, Linklaters, Philip Morris International and the U.S. Department of Interior. For more information, visit http://www.ZANTAZ.com or call +1-800-636-0095.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU)(LSE: 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, 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 ZANTAZ Editorial Contacts: Kathy Kuehne Autonomy (US) +1-214-981-3221 [email protected] Edward Bridges Financial Dynamics (UK) +44-207-831-3113 [email protected] Eric Doyle Cohn & Wolfe (US) +1-415-365-8526 [email protected] Ali Merifield Bite Communications (UK) +44(0)20-8834-3441 +44(0)20-8741-1123 [email protected]

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