ACI (Autonomy Content Infrastructure)The Autonomy Content Infrastructure is a technology layer that automates operations on unstructured information for cross enterprise applications, thus enabling an automated and compatible businessto-business, peer-to-peer infrastructure. The ACI allows enterprise applications to understand and process content that exists in unstructured formats, such as e-mail, Web pages, office documents, and Lotus Notes.
APPOL (Application Operating Layers)Application Operating Layers are interfaces or applications to Autonomy's technology. They include Autonomy's own products as well as applications from our Technology Partners and OEMs, such as BEA, Business Objects, Corechange, Sybase, Vignette and so on.AXE (Autonomy XML Engine)The Autonomy XML Engine enables you to enhance the DRE's functionality by allowing you to input, output and process XML. It provides an infrastructure for complete automatic interoperability between applications using different tagging schemes, based on a conceptual understanding of XML documents, rather than on the tags themselves, and combines this with all other Autonomy functions.CEN (Collaboration and Enterprise Network)The Collaboration and Enterprise Network provides an integrated solution that allows network users to give feed back on the usefulness of information implicitly and explicitly. By forming a contextual understanding of people's interests and on-going interaction with any type of information (regardless of format, location or device), CEN enables organizations to accurately understand the implicit and explicit interests and activities of every individual automatically.
ConnectorA Connector is an Autonomy fetching solution (for example HTTPFetch, Oracle Fetch, AutoIndexer and so on) that allows you to retrieve information from any type of local or remote repository (for example, a database or a web site). It imports the fetched documents into IDX or XML file format and indexes them into a DRE from where you can retrieve them (for example by sending queries to the DRE)
DIH (Distributed Index Handler)The Distributed Index Handler allows you to efficiently split and index extremely large quantities of data into multiple DREs in order to create a completely scalable solution that delivers high performance and high availability. It provides a flexible way of transparently batching, routing and categorizing the indexing of internal and external content into the DRE.DiSH (Distributed Service Handler)The Distributed Service Handler provides the crucial maintenance, administration, control and monitoring functionality of the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL). DiSH delivers a unified way to communicate with all Autonomy services such as DREs, Connectors, DIH or DQH from a centralized location.DQH (Distributed Query Handler)The Distributed Query Handler provides scalability enhancements to an Autonomy infrastructure allowing organizations to manage multiple DRE installations. This optimizes the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), thus reducing the query time and index time for each DRE. If each DRE is located on a different machine the load per machine is also minimized.DRE (Dynamic Reasoning Engine)The Dynamic Reasoning Engine is a scalable, multithreaded process which is based on advanced pattern-matching technology that exploits high-performance probabilistic modeling techniques. The DRE contains databases into which you can index information using a Connector, the DRE Administration tool or an indexing command. You can then access this information through a front end or by sending query commands to the DRE.IAS (Intellectual Asset Protection System)The Intellectual Asset Protection System provides an integrated security solution to protect your data. At the front end, authentication checks that users are allowed to access the system on which result data is displayed. At the back end, entitlement checking and authentication combine to ensure that query results only comprise documents that the user is allowed to see, from repositories that the user is allowed to access.IDXApart from XML files only files that are in IDX format can be indexed into a DRE. You can use a Connector to import files into this format or manually create IDX files (please refer to the DRE 4 / AXE manual for details).
LCM (Legacy Compatibility Module)The Legacy Compatibility Module provides an integrated legacy solution that allows you to import legacy topic sets, category structures and rules, which you can retain or convert to conceptual terms and weights.QueryYou can submit a natural language query to the DRE which analyzes the concept of the query and returns documents that are conceptually similar to the query's concept. You can also submit Boolean,bracketed Boolean and keyword searches to the DRE.