Autonomy dominates the worldwide data search and discovery
market, according to a report from analyst IDC.
IDC says Autonomy holds a commanding share of the market that is
nearly double that of Google and more than four times that of
Microsoft.
IDC says Autonomy has a 15.5% market share in data search and
discovery. Google has 8.5%,
Fast Search & Transfer (now owned by Microsoft) holds 5.7%,
and Microsoft is on 3.6%.
IDC said the search and discovery software market grew to £1.1bn
in 2007, a growth rate of 28%.
The report found that businesses have become more dependent on
finding and using their information as that information
proliferates, and the organisation ceases to depend on keepers of
central files.
In addition, unifying access to both structured and unstructured
information is slowly being recognised as a new enterprise
requirement, said IDC.
This trend is driven by the need to understand the customer from
information held in e-mails, voicemails, blogs, wikis and customer
relationship management systems.