Comments on: Autonomy buys Interwoven

By: John Fermant

John Fermant — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:53:53 +0000

I could not see one search vendor using anothers technology in one of their products, irrespective of the level of commitment. Having seen Auotnomy’s offerings its rare they ever use third party offerings.

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:03:15 +0000

I think this is v interesting. I don’t see how Velocity can be sidelined. At a recent product roadmap demo I saw, Velocity was going to replace ALL search in ALL Interwoven products, the WCM products too. I think there’s been too much commitment to making Velocity work, and too much good feedback from the client base for Autonomy (or Verity…) to be considered.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:57:12 +0000

Perhaps I ought to edit the post!!

Another interesting peice is Autonomy bought Verity in 2005 which was the original pre WorkSite 8.3 indexer.

Back to Verity with 8.5 then?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:26:39 +0000

Actually reading some of the press release (http://is.gd/gOMt) in more detail makes me think this could be good for legal.

e.g. some quotes from it:
“The Acquisition will strengthen Autonomy’s access to the worldwide legal and compliance industry through Interwoven’s significant sales force with industry expertise”

“Interwoven Company Highlights: De facto standard for Legal Document Management”

“The combination of the two companies will redefine how global 2000 corporations, leading law firms…”

“customers already in place, including Bank of America, Bayer, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Shell, Tesco and White & Case.”

That’s a lot of comment on what you could consider a small vertical market. So maybe the legal market will get a lot more of the new companies focus?