Portal-in-a-Box™

Comprehensive and fully automated Information Portal Infrastructure for content-rich Internet and Intranet sites

Just as Web portals have transformed how consumers access Internet content, shopping, and services, Corporate portals promise to do the same for the Enterprise. By providing a single entry-point to the wealth of information, resources, and expertise within an organization, Corporate portals enable the level of productivity, efficiency and cost savings on which E-Business success depends.

The promise of Web and Enterprise portals is that of a single application that can negotiate between who you are and what you need to know. The fundamental failing of portal implementations is that the processes required to make them work are all manual. They require editors to categorize, link, and alert users to new content, and require users to explicitly state what they think they need to know through on-line forms and pick lists. As the volume of content swells and user populations explode, this will simply not work. Your portal needs to provide significant scalability and a highly personalized user experience and it needs to do both automatically.

The Solution

Autonomy Portal-in-a-Box™ delivers the most comprehensive and automated Information Portal for both inside and outside the firewall in one easy to use package. Based on Autonomy's unique pattern-recognition technology that automatically analyzes information based on its content, Autonomy Portal-in-a-Box™ is the only portal solution able to automate the most critical processes including categorization, personalization, hypertext link management, and highly personalized information delivery.

Features & Benefits

Automated Content Aggregation and Management

Leverage content from any information source, structured or unstructured to save processing costs
Leaverage existing infrastructure and can be integrated with any system in place
Full support for existing security models and systems in major repositories

Intelligent Navigation and Presentation

Reducing management and maintaining costs as well as providing users with an easy to navigate interface and personalized content:

Hierarchical Categories

Directories populated automatically, enabling companies to easily maintain the kind of category structure that makes portals easy to navigate.

Autonomy can provide:

7000 pre-defined web channels
500 pre-defined news channels
Channels are populated automatically with new documents, without manual intervention or pre-tagging

Automatic Hyperlinking

Automatically generates dynamic hypertext links to content

Automatic related content display, live and in real-time

Automatic Summarization

Automatically generates conceptual and contextual summary

Retrieval

Allows users to find what they need quickly, using full natural language, conceptual or keyword search
"More Like This" feature
Intuitive refinement by example

Personalization

Automatic User Profiling
Automatically builds user profiles based on their browsing and content consumption. Eliminate production costs while enhancing the user experience without forms, questionnaires or privacy concerns.
Personalized Splash Pages
Automatic content recommendations based on users' profiles.
Agents
Monitors a customer-configurable list of Internet and Intranet sites, as well as newsfeeds, chat streams and internal repositories.
- The interest is submitted by the user in plain language
- Automatically creates a personalized report or newspaper, informing individual users of developments that are relevant to their specific roles and interests
- Automatic alerting to new content based on user's interests via email
Community and Collaboration
Creates virtual communities by matching users' interest profiles, allowing users with similar interests to find each other.

Information Delivery

Automatic delivery of personalized information using any type of delivery mechanism.

Interface

Interface Customization
Leverage a consistent look and feel while delivering an ideal user environment
- User customizable through user selectable Portlets (plug-ins)
- Communication between user interface and backend component using Autonomy ACI API
- Easily customizable HTML and JSP templates
- Compatible with all common browsers
User Access
- Single sign-on against LDAP compliant, Notes, NT, Novell, UNIX, Exchange or built-in user directories

Internationalization/Globalization

Language independent technology supporting over 65 languages, including Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and double byte languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean
Cross-link to and from content in any language

Extensibility

Extend your portal with a host of additional products to provide enhanced functionality

Automatic Alerting to new content based on user's interests via SMS and SMTP (email)
Automatic Categorization: Automatically categorizes documents. All that is required is to identify examples of documents within specified categories. Autonomy Categorizer will determine how and where new documents will best fit and then categorize them accordingly. All of this is done automatically and in real time. Users can navigate through the portal's hierarchical category structure, viewing results of particular interest
Automatic Extensible Markup Language (XML) Tagging: automatically adds the requisite XML tags
Visualizer: a JAVA Applet that allows users to graphicaly navigate through the information domain contained in the portal
Active Service: a plug-in module such as Active Knowledge™ or Active Windows Extension™ that conducts real-time analysis of the content of the current user task in open window from any Windows desktop application (email, Office documents). It provides automatic hypertext links to related information, including news, web content, enterprise knowledge, online discussion boards, etc
Distributed Search: distributes all Autonomy navigation and personalization features across multiple indices or load balance to allow linear scaling of a portal, seamlessly and automatically
Fully integrated with other Autonomy products and partners' solutions for a fully automated E-Business

Customization

Portal-in-a-Box™ provides an extensive customization of look and feel for user interface:

User-configurable display and retrieval options
Intuitive "Portlets" metaphor (window within the web page displaying a particular feature)
General background color/image control
Button scheme selection: choose from a number of button schemes

Portlet List

Portlets available are based on licensed functionality:

Agents - Agents can be created/edited/retrained to bring back personalized information
Breaking News - Classification Server Portlet alerting users to new areas of information within the organization
Bookmark - Store a list of favorite web links
Calendar - Organize tasks using the calendar pane
Channels - Navigation with N-tier hierarchy
Community - Community of agents that bring together users with similar interests
Content Authoring - Author text into a specified Database
2D Cluster Map - Classification Server Portlet visually identifying conceptual similarities and differences between clusters
Document Management - Adds document management functionality including security, access-rights, and revision history
Expert Search - Enables employees to find experts within the organization based on their profiles
Hot News - Classification Server Portlet identifying the key areas of information in the organization
My Picture - Upload an image
Notepad - Allows users to store memos and text
Personalizer - Dynamic update of information relevant for individual users
PDA Module - A plug-in to Portal-in-a-Box™ that allows users of AvantGo to access Portal-in-a-Box™ features through their mobile device
Retrieval - Search with natural language querying
Similar People - Similar people listed based on matching number of profiles or agents
Spectrograph - Classification Server Portlet visually displaying the relationship between clusters on successive periods and sets of data
Visualizer - Allows users to graphically navigate through the information domain contained in the portal
Whiteboard - Message board for site
Web Site - View another URL within the Pane (IE4+compatible only)

Technical Specifications

Standard Functionality

Automated Content Aggregation, Navigation & Presentation

Web Spider

Simultaneous retrieval of multiple remote/local web pages/intranet sites
Conditional retrieval based on date ranges and configurable date formats
Conditional retrieval based on configurable inclusive and exclusive wild card lists, optionally checked in the URL, header and body
HTTP authentication, HTML forms, login, and HTML cookie authentication supported
Meta tags for import/aggregation processes
Insertion of original reference to allow viewing of retrieved pages
Support for Proxy Servers and Firewalls
Support for SSL

Import module

Support for XML, HTML, SGML and plain text.
Intelligent selection of filter formats
Configurable extraction of field data from documents

Content Retrieval and Hyperlink Query Engine

Natural language, Boolean, Parametric searches, Proximity, Agent, Wildcard, Fuzzy and concept querying
Fast query speeds
Query on date information
Support for configurable structured field
Boolean field restricted query options
Parametric Searching
Simple socket-based interface to query engine, allowing use in custom applications from the widest range of applications
Multiple Autonomy Concept databases/product catalogues per engine
Automatic summarization of information based on key concepts
Automatic suggestion of related content

Aggregator

Automatic extraction of key concepts from documents
High aggregation speed
Automatic elimination of duplicates by content or reference on aggregation
Remote administration of aggregation processes, management of databases
Optional aggregation of additional field information
Optional storage of original content
Open index file format allowing for simple development of new information feeds
Configurable aggregation options

Autoindexer

Configurable directory polling or file polling mechanism with automatic recursion
Filtering of content based on file extensions and dates
Batch processing
Support for multiple jobs performing different actions

Channels

Easy-to-navigate directories enabling companies to easily create and maintain the kind of directory structure that makes sites easy to navigate.

Add new title Moreover Fetch

Download news articles from the online live information feed supplied by moreover.com
Filtering of content based on file extensions, source, topics and dates
HTML rendering of various data formats
Batch processing
Configurable import parameters (restrict file size etc.)

Interface Customization

User Interface

Communication between user interface and backend component using ActiveX
Easily customizable HTML and JSP templates.
Configurable display and retrieval options.
Optional summary information with URL links.
Compatible with all common browsers
Based on HTML and JSP templates

User Access

User identification through login, LDAP or cookie authentication

Personalization

Agent Management
Creation/Modification/Deletion of users and user agents
Persistent storage of user information, agent information, training and retraining in encrypted server files
Agents retrainable from any retrieved documents or by example
Full administration capabilities per user and per agent
Administrator facility to share pre-trained agents with users

Community

Querying for similar users and agents
User and administrator queriable profile server based upon implicit or explicit agent creation
Reporting and analysis tools for interest clustering

User Profiling

Automatic creation of profiles based on user navigation and content read
Resulting profiles form part of user's agents for community and alerting purposes
Automatic creation of profiles based on user interests
Querying of profiles against other databases for recommendation purposes
Profiles encrypted at the server

Mailer

Automatic scheduled email of user agent query results
Efficient batch operation for large user base
Configurable email presentation

Administration

Remote browser-based configuration.
User management using browser.
Agent analysis through browser.

Content Delivery (Optional)

Alerting - Autonomy Alert™ module monitors information feeds in order to alert users of new content that is of interest to them.
Unified Messaging - Unified Messaging allows users to receive messages by Email, Fax or Voice. Messages are stored in UMML* format.

Extended Aggregation

Autonomy's range of Connectors enable automatic content aggregation, facilitating a unified solution across multiple data sources. Enterprises using Autonomy can simultaneously access a wide range of data sources, including unstructured data such as HTML pages, word processing documents, spreadsheets, electronic mail, as well as semi-structured data (XML) and structured data such as Oracle, Lotus Notes and ODBC compliant content, in addition to multimedia data including audio and video content.

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