The compliance imperative

Designed to provide complete compliance management for enterprise e-mail, instant messaging, voice mail and litigation support, Aungate, a new division of Autonomy, is said to offer the first automated solution for enterprise compliance and litigation support. Autonomy says Aungate is founded on its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), providing a technology platform that integrates with enterprise communications technologies to power real-time analysis of telephone calls, e-mails and instant messages.

Autonomy further explains that Aungate's technology has been tailored to specifically help facilitate compliance and governance discovery and analysis processes, which are being now legislated by procedures such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Basel II Accord. Aungate technology will also help to address the challenges faced within the 80% of financial institutions that do not yet meet existing SEC compliance regulations, says the company.

Aungate's Total Compliance Solution encompasses the following areas:

investigation manager--automatically monitors employee-to-employee communications and provides analysis tools to enable management to understand what communications have taken place.

voice compliance--automated call understanding, clustering of contact trends and automatic alerting of non-compliant calls.

e-mail and IM compliance--accurate monitoring and detection of e-mail and instant messaging content and automatic routing of non-compliant content.

Web and spam filtering--enterprise-class network protection through automatic filtering and detection of unwanted content.

In other Autonomy news, the company has announced a strategic alliance with Appian, a provider of real-time, enterprise Web solutions. Autonomy and Appian will work together to help state and federal government customers, as well as those in the commercial sector, better manage information and collaborate to increase the quality and speed of decision-making, the companies claim.

The agreement allows Appian to recommend Autonomy technology and include it in enterprise solutions for prospective and existing customers. The two companies say they will also serve as joint marketing partners and solution providers to help customers manage information.