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Autonomy iManage Accelerates Momentum With Largest Dutch Law Firms

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced a recent upturn in law firm deals in the Netherlands, with a flurry of law firms signing up in recent months, including Boekel De Neree, Poelman van den Broek, Trip Advocaten & Notarissen and Van Benthem & Keulen.

Autonomy iManage is used by 75% of the Global 100 law firms and more than 1,700 law firms and professional services organizations globally. An increasing number of Dutch law firms are standardizing on Autonomy iManage WorkSite due to its unique conceptual capabilities, ease-of-use and the ability to provide a comprehensive set of document management tools on one common platform. The company enjoys an extensive customer base including law firms Houthoff Buruma, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, NautaDutilh, CMS Derks Star Busmann, Stibbe and Van Doorne.

In today's volatile economy, law firms face the increasingly burdensome challenge of managing a growing volume of information efficiently, while seeking to boost collaboration on legal cases across offices to improve client service and maximize each billable hour. Powered by Autonomy's award-winning meaning-based technology, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), iManage WorkSite provides a shared environment for storing business content and a system for tracking updates, milestones and communications. Leveraging massive scalability, unique conceptual capabilities and format and language agnosticism, iManage WorkSite enables lawyers to manage all matter content, regardless of format or location, via a single platform, and share work-product securely with clients via extranets. As lawyers are able to locate sought-after case matter almost instantaneously, IDOL guides them to other pertinent material across the whole organization, helping boost efficiency and effectiveness to realize genuine ROI.

"Autonomy iManage is becoming the clear leader in competitive procurements in the Netherlands and across EMEA," said Glenn Perachio, VP Autonomy Legal solutions EMEA. "Through its conceptual and contextual understanding of content, Autonomy iManage's unique meaning-based platform allows Dutch law firms to process content intelligently and automatically, helping them eliminate duplication of effort, enhance collaboration, and boost productivity and profitability."

Please visit www.autonomy.com/imanage to find out more.

About Autonomy iManage

Autonomy iManage is the leader in information management applications for the legal and professional services market. Building on Autonomy's advanced Meaning Based Computing platform, Autonomy iManage offers the most comprehensive suites of information management applications all on a common platform. Autonomy iManage has over a decade of experience working with law and accounting firms to understand how these professionals interact with information and their need to find, manage and process large volumes of content quickly and intuitively. Organizations from all over the world, including 75 of the top 100 global law firms, are standardizing on Autonomy iManage which uniquely spans the complete EDRM on a single technology platform, including document and email management, information governance, archiving and records management, knowledge management, policy management and eDisclosure, legal hold and review. Autonomy iManage can now link over 1,400 law firms with the data inside over 20,000 corporate clients using powerful, familiar tools, and is the only vendor to offer the ability to access and analyze corporate information in-place for a case, eliminating point solutions and the risky and costly hand-offs of data used for investigations and litigation.

Customers include corporations and law firms such as Allen & Overy, BAE Systems, Bloomberg, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Grupo Santander, LexisNexis, Linklaters, Lloyds TSB, Merrill Lynch, Slaughter and May, UK Law Society, and White & Case. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.

Autonomy Editorial Contacts:

    Assia Svinarova                 David Vindel   
    Autonomy (UK)                   The Red Consultancy  
    +44 1223 448000                 + 44 207 025 6529
    assias@autonomy.com             david.vindel@redconsultancy.com 

    Edward Bridges                  Ian Bain
    Financial Dynamics (UK)         The Red Consultancy (US)
    +44 207 831 3113                +1 415 618 8806
    edward.bridges@fd.com           ian.bain@redconsultancy.com

SOURCE Autonomy Corporation plc