Autonomy to Enhance Knowledge Network Portal for the Development and Promotion of Italy's Agri-Food Industry
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO , October 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that the Societa' Parmense per gli Insediamenti Produttivi SpA (SPIP), has selected Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) as the software infrastructure for the PARMa (Parma Agrifood Research Management) Knowledge Network project (PKN), a global network of leading professionals from academia, industry and the public sector. Funded by the City of Parma and other corporate and public stakeholders, its main aim is to build value for society through the development of cutting-edge research, educational and service activities in the food and agribusiness management area.
SPIP, a not-for-profit company that manages the development of industrial areas within Italy's Parma region, needed a reliable information access solution to automatically aggregate and easily retrieve more than five million documents in Italian and English, from both internal repositories and the web. SPIP will leverage Autonomy's Meaning-based Computing functionalities including Agents, Automatic Query Guidance, Categorisation, Clustering, Hyperlinking, Conceptual Retrieval and Summarisation, to power PKN's "Agri-food portal", enabling collaboration and expertise sharing among researchers, universities and food companies alike, throughout the entire food sector.
"We needed a comprehensive technological solution that could leverage a vast amount of data, and bring the necessary relevant information to our users," commented Pietro Gandolfi, managing director of SPIP. "Only Autonomy can provide that high level of efficiency and reliability whilst allowing us access to advanced functionality."
"We are pleased to be part of a project that promotes and encourages the development of Italy's agri-food industry, connecting organizations to each other and information that is critical to their mission," said Mike Lynch , CEO of Autonomy. "Autonomy's Meaning-based Computing technology has helped hundreds of private and public organizations around the world to effectively improve their business efficiency and productivity."
About SPIP SpA
Societa Parmense per gli Insediamenti Produttivi SpA (SPIP) is a regional development corporation, majority owned by the City of Parma; minority participations held by the Association of Industrial Activities, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Province of Parma. SPIP, according to its mandate, carries on projects aimed at attracting resources and investments in the territory and promoting development of the regional economy.
SPIP acts on three main strategic streams:
- Real estate Asset management: scouting, purchase and management of land and building for industrial purpose
- Industrial Eco Park services: management of a large Industrial Area with advanced environmental standards
- Special Projects: direct management of leading edge initiatives aimed at attracting knowledge and financial resources in the territory
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.
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