Department for Education and Skills Selects Autonomy

Department for Education and Skills Selects Autonomy

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 7/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) a global leader in infrastructure
software for the enterprise, today announced that the Department for
Education and Skills (DfES) has selected Autonomy to support a website and
knowledge portal for its Building Schools for the Future (BSF) program. BSF
is the single biggest school buildings investment venture and aims to rebuild
or renew nearly every secondary school in England over a 10-15 year period,
beginning in 2005-06.



Schools represent the hopes and aspirations of every community. However,
too often they are hampered by buildings that provide a real barrier to
effective teaching. The aim of the BSF program is therefore to provide local
education authorities (LEAs) and schools with significant funds to spend on
improving their secondary school buildings. Autonomy powers a comprehensive
knowledge portal for up to 2000 named users and a public website for Building
Schools for the Future, supporting the management and dissemination of
information. The information resources managed by Autonomy support
decision-makers and stakeholders, enabling them to exchange knowledge,
recognize opportunities and pre-empt potential issues for future building
planning. The website, www.bsf.gov.uk, also provides a wealth of general
information, allowing the public to keep abreast of local and national
developments surrounding the project.



Autonomy's software automatically creates individual profiles based on a
user's interests and delivers relevant documents directly to their PC in
real-time. Users are alerted to critical content instantly as it becomes
available and all aggregated information is clustered automatically, making
it easy to locate and digest. As Autonomy intuitively understands the content
and context of all indexed documents, the software further enables users who
are looking for information on a specific subject to find and retrieve this
data swiftly and accurately.



Schools Minister Stephen Twigg said, "The BSF programme is the biggest
single government investment in improving school buildings for over 50 years.
We are striving to create world-class, 21st-century schools - environments
which will inspire learning for decades to come and provide exceptional
assets for the whole community."



Charlotte Herbert, Global Marketing Manager Autonomy, commented,
"Building Schools for the Future is an exciting and inspirational project of
which we are proud to be a part. As proven by its successful deployment in
countless projects throughout the public sector, Autonomy's software will
allow the DfES to leverage the maximum value from their information assets,
increasing efficiency and delivering instant ROI."



Autonomy's unique Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) integrates
unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple
repositories through an understanding of their content. Autonomy grants
enterprises the flexibility to use advanced information retrieval or
legacy-based approaches. At the heart of Autonomy's software is its ability
to process text, voice and video and identify and rank the main concepts
within them. It then automatically categorizes, links, summarizes,
personalizes and delivers that information. Autonomy's technology also drives
collaboration across the enterprise and enables organizations to effectively
leverage expertise. Autonomy's infrastructure technology is used to automate
operations within enterprise information portals, customer relationship
management, knowledge management, business intelligence and e-business
applications, among others.



About Autonomy



Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) is a global leader in infrastructure
software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications
dependent upon unstructured information including call center, customer
relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise portals, enterprise
resource planning, online publishing and security applications. Autonomy's
customer base includes more than 1,000 global companies including BAE
Systems, Ford, Ericsson, Royal Sun Alliance, Sun Microsystems and public
sector agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S.
Department of Energy. Strategic reseller and OEM partners include leading
companies such as ATG, BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, Computer Associates,
EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Novient, Veritas, Vignette, Supportsoft and
Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.



The Autonomy Group of companies includes: Aungate, a leading supplier of
electronic communications management technology for regulatory compliance in
the enterprise; Audentify, a leading supplier of next-generation contact
center technology; and Virage, a leading provider of rich media communication
and content management software



Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements



With the exception of historical information, the matters set forth in
this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors
include, among others, technology risks, including dependence on core
technology; fluctuations in quarterly results; dependence on new product
development; rapid technological and market change; reliance on sales by
others; management of growth; dependence on key personnel; rapid expansion;
growth of the Internet; financial risk management; and future growth subject
to risks. These factors and other factors, which could cause actual results
to differ materially are also discussed in the company's filings with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Autonomy's Annual
Report on Form 20-F and Registration Statements on Form F-1.



Source: Autonomy Corporation UK

Charlotte Herbert, Autonomy Corporation plc, +44-(0)-1223-448-000 charlotteh@autonomy.com Michelle Parkinson, Outcast Communications, +415/392-8282 contact@outcastpr.com Jane Houghton, DfES Press Office, +44-(0)-20-7925-5261 jane.houghton@dfes.gsi.gov.uk Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics, +44-207-831-3113 edward.bridges@fd.com


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