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FRANCE 24 Selects Autonomy to Enhance Video Archive

FRANCE 24 selected Autonomy's fast, scalable and language independent technology to improve employees' efficiency and productivity, whilst ensuring that data assets are fully leveraged. The new system will assist the broadcaster's Document Specialists by automatically indexing content to make it more easily accessible on internal and external sites.FRANCE 24's journalists will also benefit from an improved user experience with increased speed and search relevancy on all file formats within the archive, including text, audio and video.

"Autonomy's state-of-the-art Meaning-based Computing technology will ensure that our video archive is fully maximized, enabling our staff members to capitalize on our data assets, ultimately producing better quality programs for our viewers," commented Frederic Brochard, CIO atFRANCE 24.

Autonomy was selected byFRANCE 24 as the only technology able to offer advanced functionality to manage, as well as restore, their extensive video archive, including Conceptual & Keyword Retrieval, Summarization, Dynamic Hyperlinking, Dynamic Thesaurus, Virage VS Video Logger (with scene detection, OCR, speech recognition) and Virage VS Archive. Autonomy's Rich Media Management solution is the world's first technology to automatically capture, encode and index television, video and audio content from any source, dynamically. By automatically generating a comprehensive range of metadata, Autonomy's Virage products ensure that rich media is immediately fully searchable and accessible by any user.

"Autonomy has a large global media customer base with leading broadcasters and publishers relying on Autonomy to locate, access and keep up-to-date with the latest news around the world," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "I am delighted that Autonomy's technologies will be used byFRANCE 24 to improve its employees' productivity, and deliver better, higher quality programs to viewers."

For more information on Autonomy's Media solutions, please visit http://www.autonomy.com/media-verticals.

AboutFRANCE 24

FRANCE 24 is the leading French international news channel that offers a French perspective on world events.FRANCE 24 broadcasts on a 24/7 basis on three channels, in French, English and Arabic, inEurope, theMiddle East, Africa and on the East Coast ofthe United States.FRANCE 24 can be accessed by all media platforms: cable, satellite and DSL. The website, FRANCE24.com , is available in 3 languages (English, French, and Arabic).

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 allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming 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, pan-enterprise search, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery and archiving, records management, business process management, customer interaction solutions, and video and audio analysis, 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. More than 350 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including BEA, Citrix, EDS, H-P, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO, and the company has over 400 VARs and Systems Integrators. The company has offices worldwide.

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

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