Integration of Technology With Business Processes

Seabrook Technology Group specialises in system analysis, design and integration of technology with your existing business processes. Our emphasis is on finding solutions for your business problems and improving your workflows, communication and overall management. If the addition of technology will leverage that solution for significantly greater benefit, then we are eminently qualified to recommend appropriate technology.

One such area Seabrook focuses on is the use of technology in Meaning Based Computing. We recently partnered with Autonomy, a global leader in infrastructure software that helps organisations to derive meaning and value from their information, as well as mitigate the risks associated with those same assets. Autonomy's position as the market leader is widely recognized by leading industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester Research, IDC and Ovum.

AUTONOMY AND MEANING BASED COMPUTING

Autonomy was founded upon a vision to dramatically change the way in which we interact with information and computers, ensuring that computers map to our world, rather than the other way round.

Human-friendly or unstructured information is not naturally found in the rows and columns of a database, but in documents, presentations, videos, phone conversations, emails and IMs. We are facing an increasing deluge of unstructured information, with 80% now falling into this category and, according to Gartner, the volume of this data doubling every month. As the amount of unstructured information multiplies, the challenge for the modern enterprise is trying to understand and extract the value that lies within this vast sea of data.

"The essence of Autonomy's software lies in its ability to extract the core concepts of unstructured data. The way in which it achieves this is arguably some way ahead of any rival product."

Peter Whiting, UBS, 2007

Many companies believe that access to information is the answer to dealing with the unstoppable spread of information of all forms – if people can find information, they can process it themselves. Autonomy believes that although access to information is important, there is far greater value in forming an understanding of data and automatically processing it, freeing up people to focus on higher-value activities that computers are unable to do.

Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, proactive Information Risk Management, information governance, eDiscovery, consolidated archiving, call center solutions, rich media management, security applications, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Knowledge Management (KM) and BPM. Autonomy addresses the challenges of information within any vertical market or application.

A Rich Broad Vertical Customer Base

Our technology and expertise is truly horizontal, applicable across verticals, with products found across multiple sectors.

Education – Over 1,000 education providers globally, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton and Oxford, use Autonomy products to improve information retrieval for staff and students, power advanced forms management and optimize website design to promote learning.

Energy & Utilities – Leading global energy and utilities providers such as Shell, Schlumberger, BP, Halliburton, ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton leverage the power of Autonomy to seamlessly link customer communications through all touchpoints, promote green and environmental responsibility via the website and improve R&D and engineering collaboration across globally dispersed workforces.

Financial Services – In the post-recession world financial services companies are facing unprecedented change and challenges in the form of heightened regulation and stricter compliance requirements. 10 of the top 10 global banks and 19 of the Financial Times' top 25 financial institutions trust Autonomy to securely archive sensitive information, apply the correct risk management and compliance policies, and, in case of litigation, perform the industry's only fully FRCP compliant eDiscovery search over all ESI.

Government – More than 30 federal agencies in the US, the UK MOD, Home Office and Cabinet Office, the European Commission and many other European and Global government agencies rely on Autonomy's solutions to provide market leading information and records management, document lifecycle management and website optimization solutions to improve interaction with citizens and ensure that private data is kept private.

Healthcare – The healthcare industry is undergoing dramatic changes worldwide, with increasing regulation and stricter cost containment policies, healthcare and insurance companies are being pushed to streamline and modernize business process, manage information overload and introduce tighter controls for patient privacy. Autonomy helps global healthcare institutions such as the U.K. National Health Service and Isabel to stay at the forefront of this life-saving sector.

Investigative – Investigative agencies use Autonomy across a broad range of disciplines from military and state intelligence, the fight against terrorism, police and law enforcement as well as financial investigations. Autonomy has a rich history of working with investigative agencies on both pre- and post-event analysis, supporting 75% of western intelligence agencies, defense agencies and police forces.

Legal – 77 of the top 100 Global Law Firms and 87 of the Fortune 100 use Autonomy's legal solutions to empower their lawyers and respond in a timely and accurate manner in case of litigation. Autonomy supports the entire legal lifecycle, from document creation through to disposition, including automatic policy application, legal hold, early case assessment, eDiscovery and production. Autonomy also offers leading matter-management and collaboration tools, and the world's largest secure archive, hosting over 14 petabytes of data.

Manufacturing – 9 of the top 10 global manufacturers use Autonomy, including Agilent, BAE, Ford, Johnson Controls and Toshiba. Autonomy's meaning-based technology helps manufacturers address the challenges of increased global regulation, reduced spending and increasingly discerning customers. It also helps to improve product quality, reduce costs, and deliver new products faster by bringing a deeper understanding of customer interactions, enabling unsurpassed collaboration between experts, and mitigating the risks endemic to data proliferation.

Media – The Financial Times, Belga Press Agency, NewsMarket, Wall Street on Demand, Aegis Media, VMS, Channel 4 and the BBC all leverage the power of Autonomy's format agnostic software to enable unrivalled multimedia processing, detect copyright infringement in other media and drive up website visit and conversion rates.

Pharmaceutical – 9 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squib, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Pfizer, rely on Autonomy's technology for knowledge management for new product development, regulatory information governance, and litigation preparedness and response.

Professional Services / Consulting – Autonomy solutions are used by more than 1,800 professional services firms of all sizes worldwide, including the Big Four accounting firms. Autonomy is the only company that can provide a seamlessly connected, comprehensive set of information management and governance tools for documents, email, records, audio, video and all other forms of ESI. This functionality is further enhanced with solutions for workflow, compliance, enterprise search, archiving, and eDiscovery which are all built on a single platform.

Retail & Consumer – The world's largest retail and ecommerce companies including Tesco, Avis, Virgin Mobile, Macy's, Safeway, Costco, Northwest Airlines, Office Depot, GAME, John Lewis and LOVEFiLM, all use Autonomy to enable seamless multichannel interaction with customers, social media analysis, advanced rich media management and website optimization and content management.

Technology – As a leader in the field of technology, Autonomy understands well that it is not enough for technology companies to merely keep up with the latest changes, they must create those transformations themselves and nimbly adapt to a rapidly changing business climate. As a result, 10 of the top 10 high tech companies use Autonomy software, and over 400 companies OEM Autonomy's technology, to power advanced search and retrieval on all types of information, business process management and automated content management.

Telecommunications – AT&T, Qwest, Avaya, Telecom Italia and Alcatel Lucent use Autonomy solutions to promote intelligent collaboration and expertise networks among developers and engineers, to enable rich media management of over 1,000 file types, and to seamlessly link all customer touchpoints such as the call center and the website to allow advanced multichannel analytics.