Natois to use Autonomy'sIntelligent Data
Operating Layer(IDOL) technology to analyse news and
data relevant to protecting its 28 member nations.
More than 300 Nato intelligence analysts are using
Cambridge-based Autonomy's technology daily to access, retrieve,
process and analyse open source information from different news
agencies and websites. This number is likely to grow, Nato
said.
Nato system manager Bernard Frala said Nato needed to index all
the external content coming from several repositories and make that
information easily available to its experts.
Nato chose IDOL for its ability to form an understanding from
unstructured information and to identify patterns between disparate
pieces of information. Features such as categorisation, clustering,
and hyperlinking provided real-time analysis of breaking news.
Its language-independence played a decisive role in keeping Nato
officials abreast of developments and breaking stories across the
world, Frala said.
Autonomy's regional manager for northern Europe, Victor Cohen,
said several national security agencies had been using IDOL for
years.