Active Navigation

www.activenavigation.com

HQ: Southampton, UK

Initially founded under the name Multicosm Ltd, Active Navigation has its roots in the research carried out at the University of Southampton into the structure of navigation, innovative models of hypertext, and the thematic analysis of text using linguistic and statistical techniques. The company is privately owned.

Arikus

www.arikus.com

HQ: Toronto, Canada

Arikus was set up in 1997 as an information management consultancy. The core of the Arikus products is the Arikus Information Refinery Engine, AIRE. The software is priced very competitively, with an enterprise licence for up to 3 million documents being priced at $19,995. There is also a developer version for incorporation into specific enterprise applications.

Atomz (ESR)

www.websidestory.com

HQ: San Diego, California, USA

Atomz was the trading name of Avivo corporation, which was founded in 1996 with the objective of offering outsourced content management solutions. It moved into search solutions and in February 2005. was acquired by WebSideStory. The revenues of WebSideStory are around $70m.

Autonomy Corporation (ESR)

www.autonomy.com

HQ: Cambridge, UK

Autonomy was founded by Dr Michael Lynch OBE and Richard Gaunt in 1996 as a means of commercializing the work that they had carried out on the use of Bayesian statistics to underpin pattern recognition as a search technology. In 2005 the company acquired Verity Inc. for $502m, and in so doing became the largest search-specific software vendor. Autonomy had ready acquired etalk Corp. Autonomy is continuing to support all current versions of K2, as well as developing the latest and future generations of K2, to be known as IDOL K2. The company has stated that it intends to continue support of K2, and that the first release (K2 IDOL 7) will be usable by customers at their discretion, either as a standalone product or in a new mode running as a part of the IDOL infrastructure.