Autonomy puts SharePoint users in control of multimedia
Autonomy puts SharePoint users in control of multimedia
February 26, 2009: ControlPoint for Multimedia is a new solution from Autonomy to the challenge of controlling multimedia files on SharePoint.
It uses an advanced conceptual approach to analyse and retrieve the rich media content within MOSS, without relying solely on the manual tagging of metadata. Users are presented with the most relevant content, both textual and non-textual, that is conceptually related to the selected rich media file in an intuitive interface.
The exponential growth of rich media content, such as online videos, podcasts and VoIP recordings, has led to the proliferation of unstructured information in the enterprise. The proper management of these valuable yet unwieldy assets requires a sophisticated multimedia technology that can analyse the content beyond keywords and metadata.
Autonomy's solution is aimed at aiding knowledge management and eDiscovery by offering the ability to de-duplicate, cluster, and retrieve rich media content in an automated fashion.
"Rich media has become a critical information resource for the enterprise," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy.
"With Autonomy's ControlPoint for Multimedia, organisations can rein-in control of MOSS' rich media content and comply with eDiscovery regulations using automated, advanced analytics while at the same time avoiding the costly and protracted labour of addingmetatags . By enabling full multimedia search and analysis for unified messaging, information management and eDiscovery, Autonomy enables organisations to transform the Microsoft system into a multimedia content management system."
Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia is compatible with rich media formats, such as those used in broadcast, video conferencing, VOIP, CCTV, and customer service interactions. Using Autonomy's patented speaker independent technology, Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia enables live or recorded speech to be processed, edited, searched, and hyperlinked as freely as text.
Users have the ability to combine conceptual ideas and search phrases with metadata such as date, speaker, inbound/outbound, duration and emotion to quickly cull the most likely content for further processing. A wide range ofvisualization tools help users categorise files and discern the range of subjects covered by rich media files. Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia recognises speakers in rich media files, thus empowering users to quickly contextualise the relevancy and the importance of the files.
Autonomy ControlPoint for Multimedia integrates with MOSS to deliver:* Encoding and indexing of rich media content, automatically creating insightful metadata, and the ability to manage, repurpose and archive digital assets;* Audio, video, email and chat to be indexed, searched and cross-referenced alongside other data formats;* Automatic clustering functionality for identifying duplicate and near-duplicate rich media files.* Ability to understand words in context and retrieval of information according to its meaning, thereby distinguishing homophones;* Use of both phonetic and conceptual approaches to offer unique high-level functions, including automatic categorization;* High end analytical tools for scene analysis, speaker and audio segmentation, speaker recognition and classification, and audio/text synchronization;* Robust workflow for managing rich media content;Support of a wide range of languages, including those that require multi-byte encoding capabilities, such as Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Russian, as well as single-byte European languages such as English, French and Spanish.