Autonomy is to to acquire CA Technologies Information Governance business, including CA Records Manager and CA Message Manage. CA Records Manager does not have a major footprint in Australasia, although in 2009 the New Zealand Treasury became the first local client.

The NZ Treasury installed and configured CA Records Manager itself, integrating it with its iManage document management system and migrating data about both electronic and physical records from its previous records management system.

Autonomy has announced it intends to integrate the two products into the its IDOL information processing platform. It claims this will significantly reduce the levels of manual effort from that previously required and extend connectivity for life cycle management across more than 400 content sources and 1,000 file types.

Customers will also have the option to leverage both offerings hosted in Autonomy's secure private cloud, which currently hosts over 14 petabytes of data. Autonomy is continuing the support and enhancement of both CA Records Manager and CA Message Manager.
Neil Araujo, CEO of Autonomy iManage, said: "The combination of Autonomy with CA Technologies Information Governance business will further strengthen Autonomy's solutions for the legal, regulatory and investigative markets."

Forrester analyst Brian Hill commented that "Given overlaps in the vendors' offerings, I see this as a somewhat surprising move and suggest that customers keep a close watch on how this plays out.

"From its prior acquisitions of Interwoven in 2009 and Meridio in 2007, Autonomy has two existing records management applications. Largely leveraging its 2007 purchase of ZANTAZ, Autonomy also currently markets several message archiving solutions including Digital Safe (cloud-based archiving solution), Enterprise Archive Solution (on-premise archiving software), Arcpliance (on-premise archiving appliance), and more. After it completes the acquisition of CA Technologies’ Information Governance business, Autonomy will have three distinct offerings for records management and over four for message archiving," noted Hill.