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With its acquisition of Verity — a pioneer in the enterprise search market — Autonomy established de facto market share leadership in enterprise search platforms in 2005. Autonomy's IDOL platform compares well in most major categories we evaluated, offering the broadest array of tightly integrated capabilities. IDOL also has the most complete API for processing unstructured information — text, video, audio, images, and multimedia formats — into a central index for storage and retrieval. Technologically, Autonomy's key differentiators include conceptual search, security, and scalability. Weaknesses include limited on-board reporting capabilities and a missing query-processing rules engine for overriding default full-text search behaviors. Additionally, customers complain that the heritage Verity K2 product is difficult to work with and say they want Autonomy to modernize its capabilities. Despite its strong market presence, Autonomy will struggle to retain Verity customers who are hoping to see improvements to the K2 and Ultraseek products.

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