How does autonomy idol work

Autonomy stores information in its private cloud on behalf of enterprises for its Protect and Promote businesses. With its recent purchase of Iron Mountain Digital, it picked up additional cloud capabilities and significant volumes of data under management. Such clients are still evaluating issues of technical readiness and business-related issues regarding risk and cost. It will be a boon for HP services.

But far from the integrated and complete EIM solution that HP laid out for investors, Autonomy represents a pile of technology that HP will need to make sense of. Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email. Categories enterprise architecture. Subscribe to updates. By checking this box, you are subscribing to our insights newsletter and agree to receive survey invitations and marketing communications. Sign Up. Thanks for signing up. Stay tuned for updates from the Forrester blogs.

Download our Predictions Guide. Get The Guide. Jacob Morgan 1 day ago. Achim Granzen 6 days ago. Investments in smart infrastructure will boom in Find out why in our predictions. We use cookies to enable website functionality and to tailor content to your interests. HP is hoping that enterprise developers use the service to embed IDOL functionality into their own applications.

HP announced the initiative in December and plans to formally launch the service in April or May. In preview mode, the company already offers a number of services on a trial basis, such as barcode reading, language detection, format conversion, entity extraction, face detection, text extraction from images, and sentiment analysis. Over the course of the next few months, HP will add more functions, such as geolocation lookup and API discovery.

IDOL has about functions centered around the searching, filtering and packaging of unstructured data. The PaaS approach provides an easy way for a developer to build a software program without writing all the components from scratch, or importing third-party libraries. For instance, a developer trying to parse a large amount of customer feedback could have the IDOL sentiment analysis function analyze the feedback and return an estimation of how many comments were positive and how many were negative, freeing managers from having to read through all the comments themselves.

HP is first working on building the stateless APIs, where the service request along with the required data is submitted and the results are returned. Over time, the company will also offer stateful services, where users can store their data in an object store hosted by HP.

The company will also introduce a policy manager that will work with these services. HP competitor IBM has a similar idea. This week, IBM announced that it would be offering much of its middleware software portfolio as cloud services. Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register.