Meaning Based Applications

Until recently most Enterprise Applications, either bespoke or off-the-shelf, would sit in front of a Relational Database (RDBMS).

And what do you find in these systems? Well, not much of the useful human friendly information already in your business that’s for sure; Documents, Emails and the like.

The future lies in the ability to bring together all of the information in your business into a single point of focus, regardless of its format or location. One that uniquely provides a means to create new products and services or finds new ways to operate more efficiently by reducing manual effort.

Today customers who understand the potential of Autonomy IDOL as an infrastructure platform are seeing that this new powerful type of application can create value from the information already in the Enterprise, all by understanding its meaning.

All you need is to index the relevant content into Autonomy IDOL and the rest is up to your imagination. Applications can be rapidly developed as mashups or extensions of existing tools.

The fascinating thing about this is that each business uniquely has an opportunity to create something of specific value which can potentially massively differentiate from the competition. More efficient business processes, new products and services.

This is driving the next generation of business IT. Search based Applications (SBA’s) have been gaining ground as the next generation of Enterprise Application and becoming increasingly popular.

But this is not just about search.

Autonomy IDOL provides a means to go beyond the definition of SBA’s into the development of Meaning Based Applications (MBA’s). Here instead of information retrieval being based upon a search-based model using search terms and keywords to process and bring together disparate Enterprise content, it is extended to also include a Meaning Based model where this information is automatically connected to content based on its Meaning.

What kinds of functions can MBA’s deliver?

How about a consumer-oriented Global Pan-Enterprise Search solution? Connect your users to all of the information and people in your Global business?

Or perhaps a means to automatically help automate a Risk model based on past and real-time data and events without a human needing to search for and process all of that information manually.

Or it might be a portal which maps out projects in the business geospatially and then automatically links information to local news and statistics in those locations in real time.

Or maybe just the ability to manage your market position and exposure better by reacting more effectively to relevant information; automatically having all of that information where you need it and when you need it.

Ultimately the power of Meaning Based Computing coupled with the ability to acquire any and all of that information, means that you can automate business processes, helping drive top line revenue and bottom line savings.

If you haven’t already thought about how Autonomy IDOL-powered Meaning Based Applications can help your business, please contact us, we’d love to enlighten you.