Automates Real-time Policy Management for IT, Legal, and Compliance by
                  Understanding the Meaning of Information

    CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Autonomy (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software
for enterprise, today introduced Autonomy Information Governance, the
industry's first information governance platform that automates real-time
policy management based on forming a conceptual and contextual
understanding of all enterprise information. Autonomy's unique capability
is a major step forward in reducing risks inherent in information by
applying policy based on understanding what an email, document or phone
recording says instead of relying solely on its metadata.

    In the wake of the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP),
sub-prime mortgage and credit crisis and highly publicized internal fraud
cases, organizations are under increased pressure to consistently implement
information policies for finding, holding and disposing of information in a
timely manner. Although most global 2000 organizations have defined and
updated their information management policies, the complexities of
implementing and enforcing these policies is challenging even the world's
leading companies.

    "Most organizations are under the misconception that their current
technologies are enough; that is until they've had one really bad
experience," said Browning Marean, Partner, DLA Piper US LLP. "With 14,000
separate records retention regulations out there and the complexities and
costs being incurred just trying to comply with legal hold requests, a
company doesn't have the capability to manage this without advanced
technology."

    To automate real-time policy management, Autonomy Information
Governance provides a dynamic and real-time environment to visualize and
control policy-driven information in the organization. This is accomplished
through a vendor-neutral infrastructure using more than 400 out-of-the-box
data repository connectors that allow management in place and retrieval of
email, documents, audio, or video information across the entire enterprise.
Modules include:

    - Compliance - the only software that allows Compliance Officers and
Risk Managers to uncover issues and potential violations proactively, as
they are developing, by understanding the concepts and context of
communications and actions.

    - Enterprise Legal Hold - the only end-to-end software for Legal
Counsel to automate notification, preservation and collection across all
enterprise repositories, desktops and laptops for all data formats,
including voice, email, IM, applications and databases.

    - Disposition Management - the only software that automatically
categorizes information based on the value of the content to the
organization, then applies retention and disposition policies accordingly.
It further ensures that information related to a legal hold or regulatory
matter isn't accidentally deleted.

    "Developments in the global regulatory and legal environment are
compelling many corporations to start taking a unified approach to IT
governance, IT compliance, and IT risk management, which have historically
existed as discrete functional silos within corporations," said Vivian
Tero, Research Manager, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. "Having a unified
and consolidated framework facilitates the mapping of dependencies between
regulations and policies with the appropriate controls and information and
computing assets."

    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, 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, Virage,
a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance
technology and Meridio, a leading provider of records management software.

    Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks
of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.



    Autonomy Editorial Contacts:

    Kathy Kuehne
    Autonomy (US)
    +1-214-981-3221
    kathy.kuehne@autonomy.com

    Sayo Ogundiran
    Cohn & Wolfe (US)
    +1-415-365-8552
    cwna-autonomy@cohnwolfe.com

    Edward Bridges
    Financial Dynamics (UK)
    +44(0)207-831-3113
    edward.bridges@fd.com

    Bite Communications (UK)
    +44(0)20-8834-3518
    autonomy@bitepr.com

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