Autonomy releases peer-to-peer query handler

With the introduction of Autonomy’s Personal Distributed Query Handler (PDQH) multiple networked PCs can work as one seamless system, enabling team members to harness the combined processing and storage capacity of their personal computers with the information they own.

The company reports its PDQH unites resources with information from all locations, categorizing, tagging, linking and delivering documents stored on an individual’s hard drive and corporate file servers.

PDQH provides a single point of access for all intellectual property in an organization. Actual processing is evenly distributed across all networked machines creating a highly scalable information exchange.

Autonomy adds that its software enables computers to form an understanding of text, Web pages, e-mails, voice, documents and people’s areas of expertise, thereby automating the process of categorizing, managing, personalizing and delivering unstructured information. In a peer-to-peer environment, this enables access to both published and unpublished work without having to know who specifically is working on it. For example, an employee researching market conditions in Asia for an upcoming product launch would automatically be provided with a report that a co-worker in Hong Kong is researching the manufacturing industry in China.

PDQH is available for Windows, NT, Linux and most versions of Unix in both product and OEM format.